Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

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private partnership venture capital firm

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Kleiner Perkins	16
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers canonical	9
Eugene Kleiner co-founded Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm	1
KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)	1
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2150184 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Context triple: [Arielle Zuckerberg, employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers]

A. Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
B. Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
C. Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
D. Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
E. Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing ambitious, transformative technology companies at early and growth stages.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Target entity description: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.

A. Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
B. Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
C. Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
D. Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
E. Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing ambitious, transformative technology companies at early and growth stages.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	private partnership ⓘ venture capital firm ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	KPCB ⓘ Kleiner Perkins ⓘ linked to: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
focusesOnSector	clean technology ⓘ life sciences ⓘ technology ⓘ
foundedBy	Brook Byers ⓘ Eugene Kleiner ⓘ Frank J. Caufield ⓘ Tom Perkins ⓘ
foundedIn	1972 ⓘ
hasOffice	Beijing, China ⓘ linked to: Beijing Menlo Park, California ⓘ San Francisco, California ⓘ linked to: San Francisco Shanghai, China ⓘ linked to: Shanghai
hasPartner	Brook Byers ⓘ John Doerr ⓘ Mary Meeker ⓘ Randy Komisar ⓘ Ted Schlein ⓘ
hasProgram	Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program ⓘ linked to: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
headquartersLocation	Menlo Park, California ⓘ
industry	private equity ⓘ venture capital ⓘ
investmentStage	early stage ⓘ growth stage ⓘ
knownFor	backing major Silicon Valley startups ⓘ early-stage technology investments ⓘ
locatedIn	Silicon Valley ⓘ
notableInvestment	Amazon ⓘ Genentech ⓘ Google ⓘ Netscape ⓘ linked to: Netscape Communications Corporation Snap ⓘ Spotify ⓘ Sun Microsystems ⓘ Twitter ⓘ linked to: Twitter, Inc. Uber ⓘ
partOfEcosystem	Silicon Valley startup ecosystem ⓘ
portfolioFocus	consumer internet ⓘ digital health ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ green technology ⓘ
region	California ⓘ linked to: California, United States
regionServed	global ⓘ
typeOfOwnership	privately held ⓘ

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Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arielle Zuckerberg → employer → Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ⓘ

Fairchild Eight → notableMemberFounded → Eugene Kleiner co-founded Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm ⓘ