After Kleiner Perkins
- 21%Joined a startup16
- 9%Joined a big company7
- 70%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Kleiner Perkins most often go to Coursera, Palantir Technologies and Stripe. 21% go small
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Kleiner Perkins's headcount: 88 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 112 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 880.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 78% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8192% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –only 4 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from
Put Kleiner Perkins side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Coursera (5% of recorded departures).
18 of 79 recorded arrivals shown, 61 more from 56 other companies15 of 78 recorded departures shown, 63 more to 55 other companies
How long people stay
50%<1y
25%1-2y
25%2-4y
0%4-7y
0%7y+
4 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
2213
4314
3315
6516
8917
8818
7619
121220
8621
191522
4523
4424
3325
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 89 joined, 82 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 88 scored99
Titles held here
- Engineering Fellow49
- Kpcb Engineering Fellow8
- Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow6
- Kp Engineering Fellow5
- Fellow4
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 10%Exceptional9 people
- 43%Strong38 people
- 41%Solid36 people
- 6%Emerging or unproven5 people
88 of the 88 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 47 of the 88 people here with a read sit in them, 53%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
6%Titles that rose4 of 63 classified people
- 6%Rose4 people
- 63%Stayed level40 people
- 30%Fell19 people
63 of the 88 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first; for someone who recorded one title here and then left, it is measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 63 of the 88 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley21.6%
- Stanford13.6%
- Brown8.0%
- Penn8.0%
- MIT6.8%
- UCLA6.8%
- Columbia5.7%
- Rice4.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 88 people here with a school on file.
Of the 88 people here with a school on file, 19 list UC Berkeley, 12 list Stanford and 7 list Brown. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
44%have a public GitHub account on their profile
39 of the 88 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
63% of the people who have worked at Kleiner Perkins and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Kleiner Perkins
Everyone on the map
- 63%SF Bay Area55 · map 47%
- 32%New York28 · map 33%
- 3%Los Angeles3 · map 6%
All 88 people who worked at Kleiner Perkins list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Kleiner Perkins: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Kleiner Perkins, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 88 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Kleiner Perkins: 7 are there now and 81 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Kleiner Perkins is Coursera (4 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Palantir Technologies and Stripe.
- The most common previous employer before Kleiner Perkins is Google (6 people), followed by Airbnb and Amazon.
- Of those who moved on from Kleiner Perkins, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 9% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Kleiner Perkins is 87 on the 0 to 99 scale (88 scored).
- The most common title held at Kleiner Perkins is Engineering Fellow, then Kpcb Engineering Fellow.
- Of the 88 people here with a school on file, 19 list UC Berkeley (21.6%), then Stanford (12). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 63% of the 88 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 44% of the 88 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 63 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 4 rose, 40 stayed level and 19 fell.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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