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Three buyers vying for solar thermal company Ausra

Posted Nov 14th 2009 6:31PM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Private Equity, Technology, Green Stocks, PG and E Corporation (PCG)

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 majority stake in the company to 100% of it, and the back-and-forth going on is at a "very aggressive level."

The businesses looking to pick up Ausra are said to be global power generation conglomerates but haven't been named yet. So, the clean energy company would be a way for one of them to diversify.

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Kleiner Perkins takes a piece of Shazam, fingers crossed for an IPO

Posted Oct 16th 2009 10:30AM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Private Equity, iPhone, Initial Public Offerings, Technology

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 could have a liquidity event coming, according to the Financial Times, which caught Kleiner Perkins' attention. So, the VC company has decided to take a stake in Shazam.