Key Takeaways
- • Mary Meeker leads BOND's $5.9 billion global portfolio, according to Forbes' profile of the investor.
- • Meeker shaped Kleiner Perkins' growth practice from 2010 to 2019, where she backed Facebook, Spotify and Ring.
- • Canva, her marquee bet from 2019, was valued at $42 billion as of August 2025.
- • Recent investments include AlphaSense ($4 billion valuation) and KoBold Metals, a Bill Gates-backed mining startup valued at $2.96 billion.
- • Ranked #59 on Forbes' 2026 Midas List of top tech investors, Meeker revived her Internet Trends report in 2024.
Summary
Mary Meeker, a general partner at BOND, leads the firm's $5.9 billion global portfolio, according to Forbes. Before joining BOND, she spent the period from 2010 to 2019 shaping Kleiner Perkins' growth practice, where she backed companies that later became major technology platforms, including Facebook, Spotify and Ring. A former Morgan Stanley analyst, she has since built a reputation as one of the leading venture capitalists in the industry.
Her most prominent holding is design platform Canva, which she backed in 2019 and which was valued at $42 billion as of August 2025. Her more recent bets include AI-powered search engine AlphaSense, valued at $4 billion, and KoBold Metals, a mining startup backed by Bill Gates with a reported valuation of $2.96 billion. Meeker also serves on the boards of avatar fashion startup Genies, payments company Block and AI health company OpenEvidence. Forbes lists her notable deal as OpenAI.
Meeker is widely known as the "Queen of the Internet" for her Internet Trends reports, which began in 1995 and were credited with anticipating the rise of Apple, Google and the broader digital economy. She revived the series in 2024. Forbes ranked her #59 on its 2026 Midas List of top tech investors, and she has previously appeared on the Midas List and on Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.
The profile's portfolio figures and valuations reflect data from 2025 and later, and should be read as current as of those dates rather than as of the story's 2016 date.
Her most prominent holding is design platform Canva, which she backed in 2019 and which was valued at $42 billion as of August 2025. Her more recent bets include AI-powered search engine AlphaSense, valued at $4 billion, and KoBold Metals, a mining startup backed by Bill Gates with a reported valuation of $2.96 billion. Meeker also serves on the boards of avatar fashion startup Genies, payments company Block and AI health company OpenEvidence. Forbes lists her notable deal as OpenAI.
Meeker is widely known as the "Queen of the Internet" for her Internet Trends reports, which began in 1995 and were credited with anticipating the rise of Apple, Google and the broader digital economy. She revived the series in 2024. Forbes ranked her #59 on its 2026 Midas List of top tech investors, and she has previously appeared on the Midas List and on Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.
The profile's portfolio figures and valuations reflect data from 2025 and later, and should be read as current as of those dates rather than as of the story's 2016 date.
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