Mamoon Hamid

Mamoon Hamid is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he backs founders building the next generation of transformative technology companies. Over the past two decades, he has been an early investor in and served on the boards of category-defining companies including Figma, Slack, Rippling, Glean, OpenEvidence, Netskope and Box.

He began his career as an engineer at Xilinx, a Kleiner Perkins-backed company, before moving into venture capital in 2005 at USVP, where he became a Partner. In 2011, he co-founded Social Capital, and in 2017, he joined Kleiner Perkins to lead its next generation.

Mamoon grew up in Frankfurt, Germany and moved to the United States to attend Purdue University, earning a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.