Mamoon Hamid
VCPartner, Kleiner Perkins
Enterprise AI and SaaS partner at Kleiner Perkins
Background
Mamoon Hamid is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins who joined in 2017 and co-led the firm's refocus on early-stage Series A investing. He led Kleiner's investments in Figma (Series B), Slack, Rippling (Series A), and Glean. Before KP, he co-founded Social Capital and was a Partner at USVP. He holds a BS from Purdue, MS from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard Business School.
Investment Thesis
Focus on enterprise SaaS, applied AI, and autonomous agents; bets on category-defining software that reshapes how people work.
Investment Focus
Stages
Typical check: $2M–$50M
Sectors
Based in: San Francisco Bay Area, USA (North America)
Notable Investments
Figma
Led Series B
Slack
Early investor across first three rounds
Rippling
Led Series A
Glean
Early investor
Box
Early investor
Anthropic
KP portfolio company
Moveworks
Led KP's Series B participation ($75M, 2019); acquired by ServiceNow
Handshake
KP led Series A; career platform connecting students with employers