Kleiner Perkins tops rankings of VCs by iOS app and game downloads

Venture capitalists like to keep score, and app marketing agency Sensor Tower has come up with a new way to rank, based on the number of downloads for companies in a VC’s portfolio. And the winner is … Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, based on the popularity of the apps Snapchat, Spotify, and Uber.

Sensor Tower counted 265 million downloads for apps that were backed by the top VCs in 2015 in the U.S. iOS app store. The agency then created a chart (below) with the top 20 VCs based on mobile download estimates from its Store Intelligence platform, which tracks all apps, including the top 1,000 most-installed iOS apps.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.