# Kleiner Perkins American venture capital firm co-founded by [[wiki/Eugene Kleiner|Eugene Kleiner]] (one of the [[wiki/Traitorous Eight|Traitorous Eight]]) and Tom Perkins in 1972. Kleiner Perkins funded Google, Amazon, and dozens of other defining technology companies, making it a primary vector through which [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] genealogical influence reached the modern technology ecosystem through venture capital rather than direct corporate succession. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].