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Kleiner Perkins takes a piece of Shazam, fingers crossed for an IPO
When you smell an IPO coming, look for Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. The Sand Hill Road institution has a knack for sniffing out high-potential deals and putting its venture capital coffers to work. Mobile phone music discovery service Shazam ...
Will President-Elect Gore make green at Kleiner Perkins?
2007 Nobel Prize Winner and 2000 Presidential election winner Al Gore has another notch on his belt -- partner at Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm -- Kleiner Perkins. (Thanks to the Supreme Court, Gore -- who won the 2000 ...
Al Gore sees VC green
Not long ago, Al Gore seemed like a has-been. Then he snagged both an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace prize.
Will these accolades persuade him to run for president again?
Perhaps not. Perhaps there are more effective ways to enact sweeping ...
Aerohive buzzes with $20 million
One of the hottest IPOs of the year is Aruba Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), which is up 82.5% since its debut in late March. The company builds technologies to secure large corporate wireless networks. With the proliferation of devices – such as ...
Venture capital bucks the trend, up 3% in Q2
Venture capital-backed IPOs are nonexistent lately (there were zero in Q2). The M&A market has been soft for VC-backed deals. And the economy is slowing. All in all, this is the recipe for big-time problems in the VC space. Yet, according to a ...
Cleantech VC funding up in Q3
Venture capital investment in clean technology grew 10% from the second quarter to the third this year. According to a report by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte, 134 companies received investments of $1.59 billion – up from $1.2 billion in the ...
Three buyers vying for solar thermal company Ausra
Sunny skies are here for Ausra, the solar thermal company backed by Kleiner Perkins and Khosla Ventures. The company is looking for a buyer, and it's already talking to three, according to a report by Reuters. Everything is up for grabs, from a ...
Tom Perkins regrets quitting HP board
Sometimes leaving something is hard to do -- and regrets happen later down the road. Tom Perkins, co-founder of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers left the board of directors at Hewlett-Packard Corp. (NYSE: HPQ), and is now ...
Shazam: iPhone startup gets a slug of funding
In the online music world, there is a trail of dead companies. But, some have somehow found ways to not only survive -- but thrive. One is Shazam, which builds applications for mobile phones. This week, the firm hit 50 million users. And, it was ...
Al Gore to cleanup with a new startup?
With a lagging IPO market and a grinding global recession, it's been brutal for startup companies. Simply put, many VCs have been holding back.
But there is one area that remains hopeful: cleantech.
In fact, today, Hara, a new company in the space ...
Zynga scores $29 million in venture capital
The smart money continues to pour into social networking deals. The latest comes from a tier-one VC: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Today, the firm announced a $29 million round for Zynga Game Network. Essentially, the company combines two hot ...
Jobless claims hit nine-month low; sales rise.
Good news! The Labor Department reported that initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 33,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis to 521,000, the lowest level since January. The four week moving average of new claims fell 9,000 to 539,750 ...
Friendster's Extreme Makeover to Attract MySpace?
The world of social-networking mimics the dating world. Things can move fast.
After all, just a few years ago, Friendster was the ultimate social networking site. But, of course, it lost its mojo and MySpace surged ahead to become the most ...
The coming revival in venture capital: 'Clean tech' will lead the way
The last three decades have oscillated between private equity and venture capital. Right now, VCs are down and private equity is up. But 'clean tech' -- technologies that save energy and otherwise allow for a cleaner, greener world -- could revive ...
Death of VC is greatly exaggerated
I talk to lots of VCs. However, lately they have been fairly glum.
It's been a long drought since the dot-com implosion.
But, there are signs that things are improving. An example is Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) buyout of Tellme.
According to a ...
Entrepreneur's Journal: Want to get a piece of the Buffett/Goldman honeypot?
The week in preview: No turkey earnings from Tyson, Hormel, Cracker Barrel ...
Comfort Zone Investing: Intel is saying something ... can you hear it?
