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In 1972, the firm now known as Kleiner Perkins was the first venture capital firm to open an office on Sand Hill Road. The stellar performance of Kleiner Perkins's first $8 million fund quickly attracted other similar firms to the Menlo Park area, resulting in "the most important cluster of venture capital firms in the world", an author later ...
Mayfield, also known as Mayfield Fund, is a US-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage to growth-stage investments in enterprise and consumer technology companies. Founded in 1969 and based in Menlo Park, California, it is one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture capital firms. [5]
Below is a list of notable venture capital firms: Assets under management. Shown below are the largest venture capital firms ranked by Assets Under Management. [1]
GGV Capital, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has become the latest big investor to break up its US and China operations into separate companies as tensions between the two ...
Reid Hoffman, the cofounder of LinkedIn and one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capitalists, is on the firm’s advisory council and has worked with the fund since the beginning.
The firm was described by Dealbook in 2009 as "one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital providers", [13] and The Wall Street Journal in 2010 called it one of the "largest and most established" venture capital firms. [12] By 2019 it had raised around $9 billion in 19 venture capital funds [8] and four growth funds. [3]
But even the ability of legacy Silicon Valley venture firms to corner the hottest deals is eroding, with Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital elbowing its way to the front of the recent OpenAI ...
Silicon Valley is home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of more than 30 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. Silicon Valley also accounts for one-third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States, which has helped it to become a leading hub and ...