# Mamoon Hamid
**Mamoon Hamid** is a venture capitalist, born in Pakistan, who has been a partner at [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.edgepedia.org/kleiner-perkins) since 2017, where he has been an early investor in and board member of enterprise software companies including Figma, Slack, Rippling, Glean, OpenEvidence, and Box.[1](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/mamoon-hamid/) Before joining Kleiner Perkins he worked as an engineer at Xilinx, became a partner at U.S. Venture Partners, and co-founded Social Capital in 2011.[1](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/mamoon-hamid/) His best-known outcomes include Slack, sold to [Salesforce](https://www.edgepedia.org/salesforce) for $27.7 billion in 2021, and Figma, which went public in July 2025.[2](https://www.forbes.com/profile/mamoon-hamid/)
## Early life and education
Hamid was born in Pakistan and grew up first in [Frankfurt](https://www.edgepedia.org/frankfurt), Germany, then in Pakistan until age 13. Fortune reports that his family's circumstances changed when his father's salary shifted from German deutsche marks to Pakistani rupees.[3](https://fortune.com/2026/01/31/inside-vc-firm-kleiner-perkins-turnaround-mamoon-hamid/) He first came to the United States for a national Future Business Leaders of America competition in Washington, D.C.[2](https://www.forbes.com/profile/mamoon-hamid/)
He earned a BS in electrical engineering from [Purdue University](https://www.edgepedia.org/purdue-university) in 1997.[4](https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Alums/OECE/2020/mamoon-hamid) He holds an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from [Harvard Business School](https://www.edgepedia.org/harvard-business-school); Fortune reports he applied only to Harvard because Kleiner Perkins partner [John Doerr](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-doerr) had gone there.[1](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/mamoon-hamid/) He is multilingual in German, Urdu, and Hindi, according to the Kauffman Fellows directory, of which he is a Class 11 member.[5](https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/fellows/mamoon-hamid)
## From Xilinx to U.S. Venture Partners
Hamid came to [Silicon Valley](https://www.edgepedia.org/silicon-valley) in 1997 to join Xilinx, a Kleiner Perkins-backed company, where he spent six years in engineering and marketing roles.[4](https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Alums/OECE/2020/mamoon-hamid) He started his venture career in 2005 at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), where he eventually became a partner.[5](https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/fellows/mamoon-hamid)
At USVP he led an investment in Yammer and took a board seat; Yammer sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion in cash.[6](https://www.newcomer.co/p/kleiner-perkins-is-back-with-mamoon) He also invested in Box, which went public in 2015; Forbes credits these two investments with placing him on its Midas List three times.[2](https://www.forbes.com/profile/mamoon-hamid/)
## Social Capital and the Slack investment
In 2011 Hamid co-founded Social Capital with [Chamath Palihapitiya](https://www.edgepedia.org/chamath-palihapitiya). There he emerged as the first outside investor in Slack and an early backer of software companies [Greenhouse](https://www.edgepedia.org/greenhouse) and Intercom.[7](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/04/mamoon-hamid-joins-kleiner-perkins-to-restore-venture-glory/) He led the firm's investment in Slack and took a board seat; Slack later sold to Salesforce for $27.7 billion.[6](https://www.newcomer.co/p/kleiner-perkins-is-back-with-mamoon)
In a 2026 interview he described the sequence as a compounding of learning: "Box led to Yammer, Yammer led to Slack." He invested in Slack in 2014, when it was a 10-person company.[8](https://ritholtz.com/2026/07/transcript-mamoon-hamid/)
## Kleiner Perkins: the 2017 arrival and the firm's rebuilding
In August 2017 Hamid announced he was joining Kleiner Perkins as a general partner and managing member focused on the firm's venture practice.[7](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/04/mamoon-hamid-joins-kleiner-perkins-to-restore-venture-glory/) Ted Schlein had begun courting him for the job while Hamid was still at Social Capital, meeting him for months at the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park; Hamid had earlier worked for Schlein's father at USVP.[3](https://fortune.com/2026/01/31/inside-vc-firm-kleiner-perkins-turnaround-mamoon-hamid/) Schlein described the hire as capping a five- to six-year transition to refocus the firm's coverage, personnel, and outlook.[7](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/04/mamoon-hamid-joins-kleiner-perkins-to-restore-venture-glory/)
With Ilya Fushman, whom he had first crossed paths with as a child in Frankfurt, Hamid co-led what he calls the refounding of Kleiner Perkins in 2017 and 2018, refocusing the firm on early-stage Series A investing with a small partnership.[8](https://ritholtz.com/2026/07/transcript-mamoon-hamid/) The pair rebuilt the culture with firm-wide offsites and an open office plan; Fortune reports that [Mary Meeker](https://www.edgepedia.org/mary-meeker), the firm's late-stage investor in Facebook and Uber, bristled at the newcomers' approach and left to found Bond Capital.[3](https://fortune.com/2026/01/31/inside-vc-firm-kleiner-perkins-turnaround-mamoon-hamid/) The firm stayed deliberately small: Fortune reported five partners in January 2026, versus ten right before Hamid joined,[3](https://fortune.com/2026/01/31/inside-vc-firm-kleiner-perkins-turnaround-mamoon-hamid/) and Hamid himself described six partners plus three more investment professionals as of mid-2026, with [TechCrunch](https://www.edgepedia.org/techcrunch) reporting total firm headcount in the low 50s as of early 2024.[8](https://ritholtz.com/2026/07/transcript-mamoon-hamid/)
## Notable investments and outcomes
**Figma.** In his first deal at Kleiner Perkins, Hamid led Figma's Series B. Fortune and TechCrunch report the round at $25 million led in 2018,[3](https://fortune.com/2026/01/31/inside-vc-firm-kleiner-perkins-turnaround-mamoon-hamid/) while Newcomer reports a $16 million Series B check written in December 2017; the two accounts have not been reconciled.[6](https://www.newcomer.co/p/kleiner-perkins-is-back-with-mamoon) He has said the depth of engagement with the software attracted him to the design platform.[9](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTBHp6IDCr8) Figma's planned $20 billion sale to Adobe was abandoned, after which TechCrunch reported its valuation halved to $10 billion;[10](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/03/mamoon-hamid-and-ilya-fushman-of-kleiner-perkins-more-than-80-of-pitches-now-involve-ai/) Newcomer estimated the Adobe deal would have netted Kleiner Perkins about $2.1 billion.[6](https://www.newcomer.co/p/kleiner-perkins-is-back-with-mamoon) Figma instead went public in July 2025: Forbes reports it closed at a $56 billion valuation on IPO day and later traded at an $11 billion market cap,[2](https://www.forbes.com/profile/mamoon-hamid/) while Fortune reported it went public at a $19.3 billion valuation.[3](https://fortune.com/2026/01/31/inside-vc-firm-kleiner-perkins-turnaround-mamoon-hamid/) In May 2026, the fund holding the position, KPCB XVII, distributed 5,809,800 Figma Class A shares to its limited partners for no consideration, with Hamid among the four managing members exercising shared voting control; a Form 4 reports him as both a director and a 10% owner of Figma.[11](https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/FIG/form-4-figma-inc-insider-trading-activity-04419c7fc373.html)
**Rippling.** Kleiner Perkins led Rippling's Series A in 2019 with a $25 million check, at that point the largest early-stage investment the firm had ever made;[1](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/mamoon-hamid/) Hamid and Fushman were the Series A investors,[6](https://www.newcomer.co/p/kleiner-perkins-is-back-with-mamoon) and TechCrunch reported the company valued at more than $11 billion.[10](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/03/mamoon-hamid-and-ilya-fushman-of-kleiner-perkins-more-than-80-of-pitches-now-involve-ai/) Other outcomes include Loom, acquired by [Atlassian](https://www.edgepedia.org/atlassian) for just under $1 billion,[10](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/03/mamoon-hamid-and-ilya-fushman-of-kleiner-perkins-more-than-80-of-pitches-now-involve-ai/) and Windsurf, acqui-hired by Google in summer 2025, which reportedly produced a decent return for the firm.[12](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/with-3-5b-in-fresh-capital-kleiner-perkins-is-going-all-in-on-ai/)
## By the numbers
Kleiner Perkins' early-stage funds have held almost exactly 35 companies per fund for the last 15 years, which the firm calls the right number of shots on goal; first checks run roughly $5 million to $30 million, with up to about $40 million per company including pro rata.[8](https://ritholtz.com/2026/07/transcript-mamoon-hamid/) In 2026 the firm raised its twenty-second venture fund, KP22, a $1 billion early-stage fund, alongside $2.5 billion in growth funds, for $3.5 billion in new capital.[13](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/our-new-funds-kp22-select-iv-flex/)
Reported outcomes across his career include Yammer at $1.2 billion, Box's 2015 IPO, Slack at $27.7 billion, and Figma's 2025 IPO.[2](https://www.forbes.com/profile/mamoon-hamid/)
## AI-era investing
In February 2024 Hamid said that, by his estimate, more than 80% of the pitches the firm sees involve AI, comparing the moment to the internet's early days: "if you were building a company in 1996 and you didn't mention the internet, you'd be out of your mind."[10](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/03/mamoon-hamid-and-ilya-fushman-of-kleiner-perkins-more-than-80-of-pitches-now-involve-ai/) The firm's 2026 fund announcement states an early-stage strategy of investing broadly across the AI landscape and selective growth investing in sectors including professional services, healthcare, autonomy, security, financial services, productivity, and the physical economy.[13](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/our-new-funds-kp22-select-iv-flex/) On the growth side, Hamid said the firm's growth fund invested in the last [Anthropic](https://www.edgepedia.org/anthropic) round at a $900 billion valuation.[8](https://ritholtz.com/2026/07/transcript-mamoon-hamid/)
## References
1. [Mamoon Hamid | Kleiner Perkins](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/mamoon-hamid/)
2. [Mamoon Hamid, Forbes profile (Midas List)](https://www.forbes.com/profile/mamoon-hamid/)
3. [Silicon Valley legend Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up, Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/01/31/inside-vc-firm-kleiner-perkins-turnaround-mamoon-hamid/)
4. [Mamoon Hamid, Purdue Elmore Family School of ECE](https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Alums/OECE/2020/mamoon-hamid)
5. [Mamoon Hamid | Kauffman Fellows Directory](https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/fellows/mamoon-hamid)
6. [Kleiner Perkins Is Back With Mamoon Hamid Carrying It On His Shoulders, Newcomer](https://www.newcomer.co/p/kleiner-perkins-is-back-with-mamoon)
7. [Slack Investor Mamoon Hamid's Mission At Kleiner Perkins, Forbes, 2017](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/04/mamoon-hamid-joins-kleiner-perkins-to-restore-venture-glory/)
8. [Transcript: Mamoon Hamid, Kleiner Perkins, Masters in Business](https://ritholtz.com/2026/07/transcript-mamoon-hamid/)
9. [Figma and Backers Raise $1.2 billion in IPO, Bloomberg Television](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTBHp6IDCr8)
10. [Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins: 'More than 80%' of pitches now involve AI, TechCrunch, 2024](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/03/mamoon-hamid-and-ilya-fushman-of-kleiner-perkins-more-than-80-of-pitches-now-involve-ai/)
11. [Figma director reports fund share distributions | SEC Form 4 via StockTitan](https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/FIG/form-4-figma-inc-insider-trading-activity-04419c7fc373.html)
12. [With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI, TechCrunch, 2026](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/with-3-5b-in-fresh-capital-kleiner-perkins-is-going-all-in-on-ai/)
13. [Our New Funds: KP22 and KP Select IV | Kleiner Perkins](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/our-new-funds-kp22-select-iv-flex/)
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