Matt Murphy is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; he joined in 1999. Matt manages the iFund at KPCB, a collaborative initiative with Apple focused on funding and building defining applications on the iPhone OS platform and the mobile internet. His expertise is in network communications, compute infrastructure, and mobile applications. Matt is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of Booyah!, GOGII, Pelago, Shazam, shopkick, Kodiak Networks, RGB Networks, Stoke, Aerohive Networks, and Puppet Labs. Previously, Matt was a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO) , led KP's investment in Autonavi (NASDAQ: AMAP '10), and was a Director at Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell '10), Peakstream (acquired by Google '08), Dash Navigation (acquired by RIM '09).
Prior to KPCB, Matt led product management at a semiconductor start-up (Netboost acquired by Intel) and worked at Sun Microsystems where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a Product Line Manager for networking platforms. He also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and Accenture. Matt holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
E-mail: mattm@kpcb.com
Recent Press
Keeping iPhone On Top (Forbes)
iPhone apps: For fun and profit? (Fortune)
GOGII debuts (Venture Beat)
The iPhone Gold Rush (New York Times)
Smartphone Start-Ups Have a Friend in This Fund (New York Times)
Kleiner Perkins’ iFund Invests In Five Startups; All To Go Public In Seven To Eight Years (mocoNews)
Multimedia
Matt Murphy discusses the mobile apps market (Bloomberg)
iFund Keynote by Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy on CNBC (CNBC Video)
Prior to KPCB, Matt led product management at a semiconductor start-up (Netboost acquired by Intel) and worked at Sun Microsystems where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a Product Line Manager for networking platforms. He also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and Accenture. Matt holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
E-mail: mattm@kpcb.com
Recent Press
Keeping iPhone On Top (Forbes)
iPhone apps: For fun and profit? (Fortune)
GOGII debuts (Venture Beat)
The iPhone Gold Rush (New York Times)
Smartphone Start-Ups Have a Friend in This Fund (New York Times)
Kleiner Perkins’ iFund Invests In Five Startups; All To Go Public In Seven To Eight Years (mocoNews)
Multimedia
Matt Murphy discusses the mobile apps market (Bloomberg)
iFund Keynote by Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy on CNBC (CNBC Video)