Kleiner Perkins

Overview

• 2026-07-20: Co-led cuspai $450M Series B with NEA (cuspai-450m-series-b-bezos-sovereign-ai)

Kleiner Perkins is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and one of the most active AI investors in the 2026 funding cycle. Partner Leigh Marie Braswell leads several frontier AI bets.

Recent Developments

• 2026-06-10: Led poetic’s $50MSeriesAat$500M valuation — doubling down from seed (2026-06-10-poetic-kleiner-perkins-perspective)
• Recently raised $3.5B across two new funds, cementing AI investment capacity
• Braswell backed Poetic personally before product existed at seed stage

Investment Thesis on Poetic

Conviction that deterministic, near-tokenless enterprise execution complements frontier LLM infrastructure. Team pedigree cited: Palantir, UiPath, Ramp, Scale, Retool alumni.

Related

• cuspai-450m-series-b-bezos-sovereign-ai

• cuspai

• poetic

• markie-wagner

• venture-capital

• ai-investment-trends

• openai

Sources

• 2026-06-10-poetic-kleiner-perkins-perspective
• 2026-06-10-poetic-series-a-prnewswire