Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital company that secured $2 billion in fresh capital across  two funds. The VC firm plans to use this fund on startups leveraging AI for growth. The company plans  to use the fund in various sectors including digital healthcare startups, fintech startups, consumer facing firms, and other startups working with AI technologies or semiconductors.  

The firm will analyze how the startup leverages Artificial intelligence, before investing in them. The  partner Ilya Fushman highlighted that AI is the biggest accelerant that can open a huge economic  opportunity for tech startups and companies. This funding round came as a light for VC companies as  the VC firms have seen a huge decline in fundraising this year. Kleiner Perkins is an early investor in  various tech companies including Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Compaq Computer Corp, and tech  giant Aazon.com Inc. The firm recently invested in Airbnb, Rippling, and DoorDash to expand its  presence in the tech market. 

The VC firm mentioned in a blog post about investing in software, enterprise, consumer, healthcare,  and fintech startups and making these sectors more efficient using artificial intelligence. The firm  already backed various AI-driven startups including AI assistant for wayers, application search tool  Glean, and Harvey. The firm has invested over 10 billion USD in companies including leading pioneers  like Google and Amazon. This fundraising came amid the challenges faced by various Venture Capital  firms in securing funds. Kleiner Capital has backed many startups and this initiative to boost AI-focused  startups will help the firm positively. 

This Silicon Valley-based company specializes in investing in early-stage and growth companies. The  firm competes with other prominent firms including Andreessen Horowitz which secured $7.2 billion.  Andreessen Horowitz also invested in Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI and led the series B funding round.  Another VC firm, General Catalyst secured $6 billion in fundraising. General Catalyst is a Silicon Valley based VC fund that announced an investment of $1 billion to acquire early-stage India-focused venture  Highway to strengthen its Indian presence.  

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The Venture Capital fund Kleiner Perkins secured $2 billion in fresh capital across two funds. The VC  firm has invested in various global tech giants including Amazon, Google, and Airbnb to date. The  company plans to use this fund on startups leveraging AI for growth. The fund will be used in sectors  including digital healthcare startups, fintech startups, consumer-facing firms, and other startups  working with AI technologies or semiconductors. Before investing in the startups, the VC firm will  analyze how the startup leverages Artificial intelligence. The firm recently invested in Airbnb, Rippling,  and DoorDash to expand its presence in the tech market. Kleiner Perkins will invest in software,  consumer, healthcare, and fintech startups while making these sectors more efficient using artificial  intelligence. This fundraising came amid the challenges faced by various Venture Capital firms in  securing funds. Kleiner Capital has backed many startups and this initiative to boost AI-focused  startups will help the firm positively.