Aditya Naganath

Partner at Kleiner Perkins

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
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Board Observer
May 2025
Profound is the GenAI marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands win in the age of AI-driven discovery. We help enterprise brands understand and optimize how they show up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI platforms where hundreds of millions of consumers now discover products. Our platform provides real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and actionable insights across the entire GenAI ecosystem - enabling marketing teams to turn AI-driven discovery into their competitive advantage.
Series A Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2025
Traversal is building an AI site reliability engineer that troubleshoots, remediates, and even prevents production issues in complex software systems – always on call, so engineers don’t have to be. Already deployed in some of the world’s largest enterprises, Traversal improves the resilience of mission-critical systems — reducing MTTD and MTTR by up to 90% and supporting services that reach millions globally. We’re a team of top-tier AI researchers and engineers. To learn more about Traversal or apply for open roles, visit: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/traversal
Seed Investor
Jul 2024
Maxima AI is the most advanced AI platform for enterprise accounting. Trusted by companies like Rippling, Scale AI, SpotOn, Glean, and Bilt Rewards, Maximas AI agents do more than just coordinate the work. They pull data from your finance stack, transform transactions to accounting entries, post journal entries with source data, reconcile to the general ledger, detect anomalies, and generate variance explanations to deliver SOX compliant, real-time close Our team brings together top fintech engineers from Google, Apple, Robinhood, Bolt, and Meta with former accountants and auditors from EY, PwC to solve a decades-old problem with agent prepared, human reviewed accounting.
Board Observer
Apr 2024
Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, purpose-built for AI engineers and researchers with a full suite of tooling across inference, model shaping, and pre-training. AI natives can use Together AI as a full-stack AI platform — from a high- performance inference engine built for reliable and fast scaling to on-demand GPU clusters and massive-scale AI factories. Together AI continuously pushes the frontier forward by productizing cutting-edge research from our world-leading AI systems research team. By combining research velocity with production-grade infrastructure, we enable companies to reliably scale AI-native applications as fast as the field evolves. Trusted by leading AI natives like Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, and Cartesia, as well as SaaS innovators such as Salesforce, Zoom, and Zomato, Together AI powers the next generation of AI-native applications.
Board Observer
Aug 2022
Work AI for all. The Work AI platform connected to all your data. Find, create, and automate anything.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
Materialize is a real-time data integration platform for creating up-to-date, trustworthy views into any aspect of your business using just SQL. Build and adapt live, composable data products in minutes—with the team you already have. Use Materialize to power data-intensive UIs, deliver fresh context for AI/ML pipelines, and enable real-time process optimization. Trusted by General Mills, Ryder, and Fubo.tv to solve their most pressing real-time data challenges.
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2025
Partner
Nov 2025
For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas and make history across consumer, enterprise, health care, financial services, and hardtech. Our portfolio includes Google, Amazon, Figma, Glean, Harvey, Rippling, TogetherAI, OpenEvidence, Waymo, and Anthropic. For more information, visit http://www.kleinerperkins.com and follow us @kleinerperkins.
Board Observer
May 2025
Profound is the GenAI marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands win in the age of AI-driven discovery. We help enterprise brands understand and optimize how they show up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI platforms where hundreds of millions of consumers now discover products. Our platform provides real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and actionable insights across the entire GenAI ecosystem - enabling marketing teams to turn AI-driven discovery into their competitive advantage.
Series A Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2025
Traversal is building an AI site reliability engineer that troubleshoots, remediates, and even prevents production issues in complex software systems – always on call, so engineers don’t have to be. Already deployed in some of the world’s largest enterprises, Traversal improves the resilience of mission-critical systems — reducing MTTD and MTTR by up to 90% and supporting services that reach millions globally. We’re a team of top-tier AI researchers and engineers. To learn more about Traversal or apply for open roles, visit: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/traversal
2024
Seed Investor
Jul 2024
Maxima AI is the most advanced AI platform for enterprise accounting. Trusted by companies like Rippling, Scale AI, SpotOn, Glean, and Bilt Rewards, Maximas AI agents do more than just coordinate the work. They pull data from your finance stack, transform transactions to accounting entries, post journal entries with source data, reconcile to the general ledger, detect anomalies, and generate variance explanations to deliver SOX compliant, real-time close Our team brings together top fintech engineers from Google, Apple, Robinhood, Bolt, and Meta with former accountants and auditors from EY, PwC to solve a decades-old problem with agent prepared, human reviewed accounting.
Board Observer
Apr 2024
Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, purpose-built for AI engineers and researchers with a full suite of tooling across inference, model shaping, and pre-training. AI natives can use Together AI as a full-stack AI platform — from a high- performance inference engine built for reliable and fast scaling to on-demand GPU clusters and massive-scale AI factories. Together AI continuously pushes the frontier forward by productizing cutting-edge research from our world-leading AI systems research team. By combining research velocity with production-grade infrastructure, we enable companies to reliably scale AI-native applications as fast as the field evolves. Trusted by leading AI natives like Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, and Cartesia, as well as SaaS innovators such as Salesforce, Zoom, and Zomato, Together AI powers the next generation of AI-native applications.
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