KP Monthly Recap: August
This summer has been an incredible one for our Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program , led by our Director of Technical Recruiting Dana Schafer-Smith . Since joining KP earlier this year, Dana has heard story after story from Fellows and alumni about how this network has shaped their careers.
Over the course of three summer months, our KP Fellows made meaningful contributions at companies like Harvey , Nooks , and Figma . Just as inspiring was for us to see friendships and mentorships take shape through the community. It’s a powerful reflection of what the program was built to foster.
The summer wrapped with our Fellows Founder Summit, featuring fireside chats with founders from Motive and Handshake and conversations with the KP investing team. The goal was simple: to create an event for Fellows to celebrate, connect, learn, and (hopefully) leave with insights and relationships that will last well beyond the program.
Thank you to everyone who made this evening possible. And to our Fellows, past and present, for inspiring us with your talent and drive.
Here’s a quick summary of what else we’ve been up to:
KP Portfolio News
- Fortune: Profound raises $35M as Sequoia backs its ambitious bid to become the Salesforce of AI search.
- Axios: Convoke raises $8.6M seed for AI biopharma tool.
- CNBC: Applied Intuition Founder & CEO Qasar Younis joins ‘Closing Bell Overtime’ to talk about where its self-driving AI is being incorporated in the private and public sectors.
- TBPN: Stord CEO Sean Henry joined TBPN to discuss recent tariff changes.
- Forbes: Browserbase listed on the Next Billion Dollar Startups list
- Fierce Healthcare: OpenEvidence AI scores 100% on USMLE as company launches free explanation model for medical students.
- Lenny’s Podcast: Handshake’s CEO Garrett Lord joined Lenny Rachitsky on his podcast.
- The Information’s TITV: Harvey’s CEO Winston Weinberg joined The Information’s TITV to discuss the future of AI.
- Dwarkesh Podcast: NewLimit’s Jacob Kimmel joined Dwarkesh to talk about why drug discovery has been getting exponentially harder, and what a new platform for biological understanding to speed up progress would look like.
Jobs In Our Portfolio
- Nooks has 27 open roles including Head of Growth Marketing, Product Manager, and Machine Learning Engineer.
- Traversal has 11 open roles including Sales Engineer, Account Executive, and AI Researcher.
- Synthesia has 49 open roles including Business Systems Engineer, Sales Development Manager, and Lead Brand Designer.
Full list of available jobs: https://jobs.kleinerperkins.com/jobs
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