American venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins, with landmark investments in Amazon, Google, Genentech, Sun Microsystems, and Netscape.
Pioneered biotech venture investing alongside technology — the Genentech investment — and co-led Google's Series A with Sequoia in a deal structure where both firms invested simultaneously, establishing the template for large co-investment in transformative companies.
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