MMCandyCheng

Excited to announce our latest funding round at an $11B valuation led by GIC and @sequoia with participation from @a16z, @coatuemgmt, @conviction, @eladgil, @EvanticCapital, and @kleinerperkins. Thank you to our customers, team, investors, and everyone else who has helped along the way.

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will "never forget" nor "forgive" Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (@cookie / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/emi… #a260324p10" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260324/p10#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Excited to announce that @hbarra , @alcor and I are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs with the entire @Dreamer team today. The last few months have been extraordinary: we built Dreamer, put the beta in the world just a month ago, and saw magic come to life for real people. Since then, thousands of people have used Dreamer to build personal, intelligent software with our Sidekick in the world’s newest and most popular programming language: English! They're building and sharing agents to manage email, calendar, and to-do’s, create learning tools for their kids, learn new languages, plan trips with friends, become better cooks, help them with work, achieve their health goals, or simply to creatively express themselves—all sorts of surprising and uniquely personal needs. These are agents as unique as the people building them, because they're built exactly the way each person wants them to be. We’ve captured some of our favorites at dreamer.com/community-lett…. What matters most here isn’t the early momentum; it’s what Dreamer has enabled people to do. People are building things they’ve wanted for years. They’re solving real, important problems no traditional software company would ever prioritize, because they’re too niche, too bespoke, too personal. What company would ever build for an “n of 1”? Our bet from the beginning has been that software should be personal, malleable, and shaped by the person using it. The constraint was never people’s imagination. It was the fact that building software is out of reach for most people. This early chapter gives us conviction that the idea resonates, the need is real, and the moment is now. @alexandr_wang was helpful to us from the very beginning, and when we showed Dreamer to Mark Zuckerberg and @natfriedman earlier this year, it was clear right away that we share the same vision of the future: one where billions of people have the power to create software that makes their lives better. We’re thrilled to accelerate this mission by joining Meta Superintelligence Labs and licensing our technology to Meta. Read more at meta.com/superintellige…. Deeply grateful to our investors @jillchase124 and @ninaachadjian for supporting our vision for a more personal, creative, and intelligent future for software. Thank you for the trust, the thought partnership, and for being in our corner at every step. To everyone in our community who built with us: thank you. You've taught us what's possible, and you're the proof this works. We're so grateful, and we're just getting started!

Today @kleinerperkins announces KP22, our twenty-second venture fund with $1 billion to back early stage companies, alongside $2.5 billion in growth funds to back high-inflection, category-defining businesses. Together, these new funds total $3.5 billion and reflect our conviction that this is one of the most important company-building periods in our firm's 54-year history. We are at a breakthrough moment. The best founders are putting down roots right now, and building enduring companies. kleinerperkins.com

We’re thrilled to highlight our new collaboration with @harvey, the leading AI platform for legal and professional services. Harvey uses Parallel’s accurate, relevant, and fresh web search across their platform to retrieve valuable public context for their legal AI workflows. Together, we’re helping Harvey expand its best-in-class AI legal platform to over 60+ countries by collaborating on a specialized index of hard-to-reach international legal domains, built on our custom web search infrastructure. To learn more about Harvey and Parallel, read our blog: parallel.ai/blog/case-stud…

Today, @tryprofound is excited to announce our $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by @lightspeedvp with participation from @sequoia, @kleinerperkins, @mattevantic, @saga_ventures and @southpkcommons. When we started Profound 18 months ago, we had two fundamental beliefs about where marketing is heading: 1. Every company will care deeply about how AI talks about their brand. 2. Every marketer will use AI Agents to do their best work, faster. Those beliefs are becoming reality faster than we imagined. Now, we serve more than 10% of the Fortune 500 and are the number 1 leader on the G2 grid for AEO. To double down on that momentum, we’re taking two big swings: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: AI workers that take marketing teams from concept to execution. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆: certifications and cohort-based learning for marketers who want stay at the forefront of AI marketing. Reply with 𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧 for free access to one of our most popular agents. No account required and no strings attached.

Psyched to share my conversation w/ @MMCandyCheng - Head of Content Identity @kleinerperkins. Candy has spent years inside newsrooms at Bloomberg and CNBC, where she's seen hundreds of founders learn how to tell their stories in real time. Today, she works closely with early-stage founders at Kleiner Perkins, helping them shape their narrative from day zero. We spoke about: - why storytelling went from a nice-to-have to a core founder responsibility - common failure modes when it comes to founder-led marketing - the difference between shiny launch videos and content that actually compounds - why getting started matters more than seeking perfection