Bucky Moore

Partner at Kleiner Perkins

Bucky Moore

Bucky Moore is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies. He works with founders who are pushing the frontiers of innovation in computing, AI, and cybersecurity.2

Notable Investments

Some of Bucky's notable investments and board positions include:

Together AI4
Bun4
Netlify1 4
Teleport1 4
Labelbox1 4
RudderStack1 4
PlanetScale4
Tecton3 4
Materialize1 4
Prisma1 4
CodeSandbox1 4
Open Raven1 4

Investment Focus Areas

Bucky focuses on investing in companies in the following areas:

Infrastructure
Security
Software
AI
Developer Tools
Analytics
Cloud Infrastructure
SaaS
Enterprise3

Background

Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins in 2018, Bucky was a Principal at Costanoa Ventures from 2014-2017.4 He also spent time at Battery Ventures in 2014 and was part of Cisco's Corporate Development team from 2011-2014, where he executed M&A, investment, and partnership deals for Cisco's Data Center and Cloud Business Units.1

Bucky holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Southern California.1 4 He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Venture Capital in 2017.4

Highlights

Oct 15 · twitter

Big things ahead @HarryStebbings. Congratulations!

Sep 12 · twitter

In a world of many cloud/app/data siloes, products like @glean (search), @wiz_io (vuln mgmt) and @goteleport (access) are essential to masking the complexity of such fragmentation for key enterprise workflows.

Three inevitabilities: a) this shape of company will produce many large outcomes b) hard for cloud providers compete given their value lies in platform neutrality c) hard for cloud providers to get regulatory approval to acquire them

Jun 8 · bloomberg.com

Bucky Moore: AI Doomers, Optimists Need to Come Together