Mamoon Hamid is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins. He has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Figma, Box and Rippling. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mamoon was a co-founder of Social Capital. He started his venture career in 2005 at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) where he eventually became Partner. Mamoon came to Silicon Valley in 1997 to join Xilinx, a Kleiner Perkins company, where he spent six years, initially as an engineer and later in product and marketing roles.

Mamoon was born in Pakistan and spent most of his life through high school in Frankfurt, Germany. He earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He also has an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus areas

— Enterprise software

— Consumer technology

— Healthcare

— Fintech