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Physical AI is moving quickly, with advances in models, hardware, and computing opening up new possibilities for robotics and autonomous systems. In our latest episode of Builders, Josh Coyne and "Leigh Marie" Braswell sit down with RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of Rivian and Mind Robotics, and Rivian SVP Vidya Rajagopalan. RJ shares why he started Mind Robotics to bring more capable robots into manufacturing, building on years of experience scaling Rivian. The conversation covers the challenges of building hardware at scale, the importance of vertical integration, and what it will take for physical AI to deliver real value. Watch the full conversation ⬇️
Kleiner Perkins14,005 просмотров • 5 дней назад
The models we use every day are brilliant strangers. They forget your organization the moment a chat ends, then relearn it on the next query. Engram fixes that. It learns your world once and reuses that memory, matching frontier systems on 1-10% of the tokens. Microsoft, Notion, and Harvey are already testing it within their organizations. Congratulations to the team, and hear directly from Dan Biderman (CEO and co-founder) and Sabri Eyuboglu (CTO and co-founder) with "Leigh Marie" Braswell ⬇️
Kleiner Perkins39,018 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Everyone's building AI agents. Almost nobody's solved the part where the agent knows what it's not allowed to see. Rippling has. We spent the day at both their San Francisco and New York offices with Parker Conrad, Matt MacInnis, Albert Strasheim, Adam Swiecicki, and the team building Rippling AI as part of our "History in the Making" film series.
Kleiner Perkins10,801 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Since our 1999 investment in Google, Kleiner Perkins has long partnered with teams building the web’s core infrastructure. Today, we are co-leading Parallel’s $100M Series A with Index Ventures. Founded by Parag Agrawal, Parallel Web Systems is building the web for agents. The platform provides a native search API and index that can retrieve, organize, and rank tokens—not blue links—so AI systems can access and reason over accurate, current context. As part of the round, Mamoon Hamid will join Parallel’s board. As Parag Agrawal puts it: “Agents aren’t issuing keywords. They declare intent and receive high-signal tokens.” Watch Mamoon’s conversation with Parag ⬇️
Kleiner Perkins44,915 просмотров • 1 год назад
Celebrating Profound's rapid growth from A to D in ~14 months.
Kleiner Perkins11,081 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
The front door of the internet used to be a search bar. Now it's AI. Our video series "History in the Making" is back, featuring more of the companies building the future at Kleiner Perkins. First up: Profound. We spent the whole day with the team in their growing New York office, watching them answer the question every brand is now asking. How does AI talk about us?
Kleiner Perkins20,305 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
We're excited to back Sail Research, the inference platform built for long-horizon, asynchronous agents. The next wave of AI isn't a person typing into a box. It's agents running for minutes or hours, burning orders of magnitude more tokens per task. At that scale, cost and capacity beat raw latency, and teams are already hitting budget caps. Neil Movva and Samir Menon are solving this full-stack, from CUDA kernels to the API. Hear Neil and Aditya Naganath on why inference is being rebuilt for the age of agents.
Kleiner Perkins17,495 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Next up in our "History in the Making" series: a film about Glean. We wanted to capture a few of the company's "magic moments," so we spent the day with the team at their San Francisco office to see how they build, what the product means for customers, and the culture driving it all.
Kleiner Perkins14,510 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Introducing Builders, a new video series from Kleiner Perkins, hosted by Josh Coyne and "Leigh Marie" Braswell. Filmed around our kitchen table in San Francisco, each episode is a focused conversation with founders and operators building category-defining companies. The first two episodes coming up feature Adam Swiecicki (Rippling), Michael Miao (Glean), Aatish Nayak (Harvey) and Sachi Shah (Sierra). Check out our show trailer ⬇️Full episodes dropping later this month.
Kleiner Perkins26,677 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад
The next generation of semiconductors, batteries, clean energy systems, and advanced manufacturing will depend on materials that have yet to be discovered. CuspAI is building the infrastructure to find them. Today, the company launched its AI Materials Foundry, a global network of data, labs, compute, and scientific expertise designed to accelerate the development of new materials. We’re excited to co-lead CuspAI’s $450 million Series B alongside NEA and partner with Chad Edwards, Max Welling, and the @CuspAI team as they expand across the United States, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. Hear more from Josh Coyne , Chad and Max ⬇️
Kleiner Perkins11,536 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
TerraFirma started with a question: when SpaceX gets to Mars, who builds the city? Noah Schochet and Noah McGuinness worked on programs including Starlink, Starshield, and Starship. They saw that even at SpaceX, physical infrastructure was often the bottleneck. Now they’re building the answer with TerraFirma: a new kind of robotics construction company already deployed on job sites in Texas. The long-term ambition goes much further. Watch Josh Coyne sit down with Noah Schochet to talk about Series A, and the future of construction on Earth and beyond. Read more about our investment:
Kleiner Perkins10,913 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Manifest OS is building an AI-first law firm, starting with immigration. Founded by Dan Mishin, Manifest OS has built an AI-native law firm model that replaces the billable hour with fixed-fee and outcomes-based pricing, making the document-heavy area of law faster and more transparent. Excited to partner with Dan and the Manifest team.
Kleiner Perkins15,411 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
Most engineering teams are stuck patching vulnerabilities. Chainguard ⛓️ provides them with secure OSS, continuously rebuilt from source. ☑️1,400+ hardened container images ☑️98% fewer CVEs than standard OSS ☑️Production-ready by default We sat down with CEO Dan Lorenc in our SF office to talk about the risks in today’s open source software, and their $356M Series D.
Kleiner Perkins30,025 просмотров • 1 год назад
Episode 2 of Builders is out now. This time, Josh Coyne and "Leigh Marie" Braswell sit down with Aatish Nayak (Harvey) and Sachi Shah (Sierra) to talk about the new product management rules that come with AI. They dig into why context-complete workflows matter more than raw model capability, and how forward deployed teams + tight feedback loops turn AI into something customers can rely on every day. Full episode:
Kleiner Perkins14,943 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад