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Today we’re excited to announce our twenty first venture fund, KP21, an $825M fund to back early stage companies, and our third select fund, KP Select III, a $1.2 billion fund to back high inflection investments. We are deeply thankful to all the founders who have partnered with us on this journey so far and and couldn’t be more excited for the future. Read more 👇

To all brilliant product makers, to all of you obsessed with creating truly extraordinary products: We have rearchitected our Product Management Platform from the ground up and added completely new and unique capabilities. All of this goodness will be available in just a couple of weeks for all of you to witness. Here is a sneak peek of what is coming. And yes, we have some (really big) surprises coming as well! 🚀

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve recently completed a Series D funding round backed by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital, and Sapphire Ventures! This round of funding will launch us into new global markets, add more disruptive products to our platform, and further ensure that Huntress remains an independent company of consequence. Put simply—we’ll reach more businesses before hackers do. Thank you to our customers, partners, investors, and of course, the elite legends who work at Huntress. This isn’t the finish line, folks; it’s only the beginning. https://bit.ly/3xqvNUz

Over the last few years of building Fizz the learnings, stories, and the amount of people that helped us are countless. What has remained, is an outsized ambition to create a world where every young adult has a transparent and reliable partner on their individual journey to financial independence. Tens of thousands of adults in my generation already trust Fizz to be that partner. Todays TechCrunch anouncement of our 14 million fundraise led by Kleiner Perkins allows us to serve millions more, and to continue building accessible and delightful financial products. None of our goals are achievable without the resilience, intelligence, and hard work of our team. I have the privilege to learn from Jason W., Alejandro Fischer, Christopher Kinyua, Zoe Pagonis, Natasha Jahchan, Andy Lebowitz, Lisa Phan, Justin Peroff, Kat Machin, Princeton Gailliot Graham, Hashim Hayat, Ben Baak, and my dearest cofounder Scott Smith every day. As part of this round, we are thrilled to welcome Ilya Fushman to our team as Board Director. Further I am grateful for the trust, patience, and guidance our investors and partners tirelessly offer to us: Marc McCabe, SV Angel, Shoaib Makani, Beth Turner, Steven Lee, Garrett Lord, Dalton Caldwell, Moritz Pail, Moritz Stephan, Liquid 2 Ventures,Mike Mahlkow, Erick Rabin, Patrick Elyas, Bastian Lehmann, Cherry Ventures, Mahdi R., Carter Steffes, Gaingels, Mubarik Imam, FS Vector, Mana Ventures, Lead To decades of building a generational company, to enabling economic mobility, and to our amazing team. Let’s go.

The next era of AI apps will be defined by systems that act and do work on our behalf. Browserbase has emerged as a key enabler of these new products. Kleiner Perkins is thrilled to lead their seed and partner with Paul Klein IV and team. Give it a try! https://browserbase.com

Today I’m thrilled to share some exciting updates to the Glean Platform. 🚀 Glean Apps: Everyday users can create no-code custom generative AI agents and assistants. Glean Apps are configured with natural language, can be constrained to work with data from specified knowledge sources, and are capable of a wide range of information gathering and analysis, content synthesis and generation, and task automation capabilities. 🚀 Glean Actions: Enable Glean Assistant and Glean Apps to take action (like writing emails or filing Atlassian Jira tickets) on a user’s behalf inside connected applications. 🚀 Glean APIs: For developers, Glean offers two APIs – Chat API and Search API – that enable businesses to quickly build custom generative AI experiences, leveraging the secure connectivity, retrieval, and analysis capabilities of the Glean Platform. 🚀 Expanded LLM options: Glean Platform now supports Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock and Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro on Vertex AI, joining the existing support for OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 and 4 models. We’re committed to ensuring our customers have access to the most advanced models. We built and will continue to build on the Glean Platform for our customers, and I can’t wait to see the apps and experiences our customers build on the Glean Platform as well I’m extremely proud of the entire Glean team for building solutions that enable our customers to leverage the power of Glean’s retrieval and indexing foundations to build domain-specific solutions of their own—all without compromising on privacy, security, or speed. https://bit.ly/3yJPaZc 

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It was a pleasure to join Joubin Mirzadegan on Kleiner Perkins Grit Podcast to talk about the team and culture we're trying to build at Watershed. https://lnkd.in/gdQst-MS

Exciting news! My breakout session, “Redefining Success Beyond Growth-At-All-Cost” with Mamoon Hamid, Partner at Kleiner Perkins, is a #TCDisrupt2024 Audience Choice finalist! We’re eager to discuss redefining what start up success looks like through a shifted focus on profitability and business sustainability. We need your vote to take the stage – we’d love your support. Cast your vote here 👉 https://bit.ly/4bqJJwa

🎙️ Dive into the entrepreneurial spirit of Mark Cuban on the latest #GritPodcast episode! From disrupting the pharma industry with Cost Plus Drugs to his candid thoughts on AI's transformative future, Mark Cuban doesn't hold back. 🏀💡💊 Podcast: https://lnkd.in/ea9fcKA6 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eeHiKgTv