Bucky Moore

Bucky Moore

Partner

Education B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California
Prior Experience Costanoa Ventures, Battery Ventures, Corporate Development at Cisco

Bucky Moore is a partner at Kleiner Perkins where he works with founders who are pushing the frontiers of innovation in computing, AI, and cybersecurity. He is a board member and early investor in companies including Netlify, Teleport, Labelbox, Rudderstack, Planetscale, and Tecton. Prior to entering the venture capital business in 2014, Bucky was a member of Cisco’s Corporate Development team, where he helped spearhead various acquisitions, investments, and partnerships. Bucky holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus areas

— Infrastructure

— Security

— Software

Current

Alumni

Effx (Acquired by Figma)

Trace Data (Acquired by Netskope)

Jask (Acquired by Sumo Logic)

Opstrace (Acquired by GitLab)

Visly (Acquired by Figma)

Prior

Elevate Security

Infrastructure in '23

For the third year, Bucky More shares what he believes to be the most dynamic and important areas of innovation in infrastructure.

Tecton: Bringing machine learning to the masses

Tecton has pioneered the ML feature management category, and build a product that serves as the foundation for the machine learning efforts of Fortune 500 companies.

Announcing KP 20 & KP Select II

We’re excited to announce KP20, $800 million for our twentieth early stage venture fund, and $1 billion for our second select fund for high inflection investments, KP Select II. With these two new funds we are excited to start backing the next 50 years of history-making founders.

Computing and data infrastructure in '22

Bucky Moore synthesizes the most impactful ideas from conversations over the past year, and their influence on his go-forward thinking as an investor.

Finally, a database worth loving

The combination of horizontal scalability, support for serverless, and a consumer-grade user experience brings PlanetScale as close to the “holy grail” of database platforms as we have seen.

Investing in Rudderstack

We're proud to partner with RudderStack on their journey to provide developers with the open, flexible tools they need to deliver value to the business with customer data.

Announcing Kleiner Perkins Select

Announcing Kleiner Perkins Select ー a new $750M fund that extends our core investment strategy to focus on high inflection investments in enterprise, consumer, hardtech, fintech, and healthcare companies.

Calixa: the customer operations platform

Calixa is poised to play an important role in providing the system of action to the modern, data-driven software business.

Looking ahead to the future of computing and data infrastructure

Bucky Moore shares a synthesis of impactful ideas from conversations over the past year, and their influence on our go-forward thinking.

The streaming SQL database

As more business data moves to streaming, we see Materialize’s ability to democratize access to it as the foundation upon which they will build the industry’s next major data platform.

Data Security for the Digital Age

Announcing our $15m Series A in Open Raven. Open Raven is building the foundational data security platform for enterprises in the cloud-first world.

Networking our multi-cloud world

Alkira is empowering companies to connect and operate multi-cloud networks with the support they need, like integrated services, visibility and governance.

Announcing KP19

We're excited to announce our nineteenth venture fund, KP19! -- $700M to focus on early-stage investments. Our mission remains the same — to be the first call for founders who want to change the world and make history.

Gravitational pulling us toward an open and multi-cloud future

Silicon Valley Business Journal

VC Bucky Moore on why he joined Kleiner Perkins, enterprise cloud prospects he likes

Silicon Valley Business Journal

The New Guard at Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, the firm that helped to establish Sand Hill Road as a global venture capital hub over the past five decades, is going “Back to the Future" with a slate of new leaders and a stronger focus on what it does best.

Checking In With Kleiner Perkins As It "Goes Back To The Future"

There was a time when Kleiner Perkins, an early investor in Google and Amazon, let its portfolio do the talking. But times have changed, and the well-known firm, with a fresh $600 million early-stage fund, is looking to open a "new chapter" aimed at going "back to the future."

A.I. Uses Expected to Expand as U.S. Consumers Warm Up to Trading Data for Convenience

Artificial intelligence is a hot investment for venture capital firms. And as the use of the technology expands, some investors expect consumers to...

11 Big Ideas From SV's Most Storied Investment Firm

CodeSandbox.com

CodeSandbox Raises $2.4M Seed Round led by Kleiner Perkins

CodeSandbox is an online code editor that allows you to create a new web application in a single click. We handle setting up the development environment, the tooling and the provisioning for you.

Back to the future

We're thrilled to announce that we've raised Kleiner Perkins' 18th venture fund to focus on early stage investing.

Welcome Netlify

Netlify announced the close of its $30m Series B financing led by Kleiner Perkins.

Prisma raises $4.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins

Prisma, a Berlin and San Francisco startup that is betting big on GraphQL — the data query language originally developed by Facebook to make it eas...

Our Investment in Prisma

As software eats the world, the rise in products and services we are now accustomed to consuming digitally is impossible to overstate. Businesses a...

Current

Alumni

Effx (Acquired by Figma)

Trace Data (Acquired by Netskope)

Jask (Acquired by Sumo Logic)

Opstrace (Acquired by GitLab)

Visly (Acquired by Figma)

Prior

Elevate Security