Mary Meeker

Founded

She founded Bond Capital (BOND), a San Francisco venture capital firm, in September 2018. BOND disclosed or announced $1.25 billion for Fund I in 2019, $2 billion for Fund II in 2021 and $2.5 billion for Fund III in 2022. These are vehicle commitments, not Meeker's personal capital or realized proceeds.

Education

Studied at DePauw University (BA, Psychology, 1981) Studied at Cornell University (MBA, Finance, 1986)

Awards

She received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw University in May 2000. She appeared on Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women list. She was named 'one of the ten smartest people in tech' by Fortune magazine in 2010. Institutional Investor reported that Meeker led its Internet category from its 1996 creation through 1999; she fell to second in two subdivided Internet categories in 2000. Rankings reflect client voting, not audited forecasting accuracy. Barron's popularized the 'Queen of the Net' label, Institutional Investor ranked her research, and Forbes and other business lists repeatedly recognized her technology and venture influence. Such lists measure reputation and visibility, not independently audited returns.

Hobbies

She was captain of the golf team at Jay County High School, influenced by her father's love of golf.

Family

She was born in Portland, Indiana to parents Gordon and Mary, and has an older brother named Dick.

More

She created and published the annual Internet Trends Report from 1995 to 2019, and authored BOND's inaugural Trends report on Artificial Intelligence in 2025. Reputable profiles place Meeker's birth in September 1959 and upbringing in Portland, Indiana. The month and place are not supported here by a civil record, so no exact day is asserted. Meeker has described growing up around golf, captaining her high-school team and retaining a lifelong commitment to playing and the sport's growth. Public golf detail is relevant to her PGA Tour service, not evidence about investment skill. BOND dates the widely distributed Internet Trends Reports to 1995. The larger franchise included Internet, advertising, retailing, classified advertising, China and mobile reports produced with co-authors and research teams; Meeker should not receive sole credit for every chart or section. Even a severe 2001 Fortune critique acknowledged that Meeker saw the Internet's scale and commercial impact earlier than most analysts. Her strength was macro pattern recognition and synthesizing adoption data rather than uniformly accurate security selection. The SEC charged Morgan Stanley with research-analyst conflicts and the firm agreed to $25 million disgorgement, $25 million penalties and $75 million for independent research plus structural reforms. The action was against Morgan Stanley; reviewed SEC records do not charge or sanction Meeker personally. Meeker said she had always wanted to invest and chose venture after decades studying technology companies. Kleiner hired her to run or co-lead a $1 billion late-stage technology strategy where mature private companies offered adoption and operating data closer to her analytical background. Fortune reported that the first Digital Growth Fund's investments were valued at 2.4 times cost as of late 2018, based on data Kleiner supplied to investors, outperforming a similar-vintage venture fund. This is an interim gross-style value report, not audited net IRR or Meeker's personal return. Meeker testified that she had not observed gender discrimination and called Kleiner a strong place for women, while acknowledging awareness of a harassment incident. Reporting noted that her own success could not resolve systemic allegations and that documents raised questions about when she received managing-partner status. A jury ultimately rejected Pao's claims; Meeker was a witness, not a defendant. Kleiner and Meeker described the 2018 split as reflecting increasing specialization and divergence between early venture and late-stage growth. Reporting also documented internal tension over collaboration, credit and compensation. Meeker's team continued managing the three legacy Digital Growth Funds after forming BOND. CalPERS reported that its $75 million BOND III commitment had $55.7 million paid in, no cash out, $75.8 million of total value, 26.9% net IRR and 1.4x net multiple as of December 31, 2025. CalPERS warns interim IRRs are not reliable predictors; one LP position cannot establish whole-fund or firm performance. BOND and General Catalyst joined Canva's $70 million 2019 round at a reported $2.5 billion valuation. Meeker cited content, community, commerce, global usage and collaborative design fluency. It was BOND's first announced investment; the round total was not BOND's disclosed check and no Meeker board seat is established. BOND invested through BOND Asia Holdings in 2020 at roughly a $10 billion valuation; Meeker praised the platform's student adoption and founder vision. By 2024 BlackRock and Prosus marked their own Byju's stakes to zero amid missed financial reporting, revenue shortfalls, auditor and director departures and governance disputes. BOND's exact check was reported near $23 million, but its own mark, recovery and Meeker's governance role remain undisclosed. In presenting the 2018 and 2019 reports, Meeker thanked named collaborators and said the decks were meant to be read, reused and improved. The 2025 AI report names Jay Simons, Daegwon Chae and Alexander Krey as co-authors, making sole-author shorthand inaccurate. The 2025 report documents unusually fast global adoption, escalating capital expenditure and cash burn, lower inference cost, model convergence, open-source and Chinese competition, and growing physical-world deployment. It argues for long-term optimism while expressly calling the period dangerous and uncertain. Meeker served on the Defense Innovation Board appointed in 2021 and was named in its 2025 report. In 2026 the department merged that board into a new Science, Technology and Innovation Board; current membership should not be inferred. She also serves on the Stanford Emerging Technology Review advisory board. Meeker has served as an independent Block director since June 2011 and chaired its Compensation Committee in the 2024 proxy. Long tenure provides institutional knowledge but also creates shared accountability for oversight; company performance or misconduct cannot be attributed to her alone.

From Mary's own website — common ground for a warm intro.