Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Matt Murphy joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999. Matt focuses on multi-stage investments across mobile and cloud infrastructure technologies.

Matt is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of AppDynamics, Drawbridge, Egnyte, Insidesales.com, InstartLogic, PernixData, Puppet Labs, SessionM, Shazam, and Simplivity.

Previously, Matt was a Board Observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO), launched the iFund in ’08 (a collaborative initiative with Apple to build the defining applications on the iOS platform), and led KPCB’s investments in AutoNavi (Nasdaq: AMAP, 2010) and Aerohive Networks (Nasdaq: HIVE, 2014).

Matt also served as a Director at Shopkick (acquired by SK Planet 2014), Pelago (acquired by Groupon in 2011), Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell in 2010), Dash Navigation (acquired by RIM in 2009) and Peakstream (acquired by Google in 2008).

Before joining KPCB, Matt led product management at semiconductor startup 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.

Matt also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture.

Matt holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.