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Kleiner Perkins Being Sued By Ellen Pao
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers is one of the most prominent venture capital companies in Silicon Valley. The company is being sued by Ellen Pao, an investment partner at the company. The complaint has been filed on May 10th at the San Francisco Superior Court. Pao said that she has been sexually harassed by Ajit Nazre, a former KPCB partner that left the company late last year.
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DreamBox Learning Raises $11 Million From Reed Hastings, John Doerr, Deborah Quazzo, and GSV Capital
DreamBox Learning is an e-learning company for students that has raised $11 million in a new round of funding. netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr, Deborah Quazzo, and GSV Capital Corp. is participating in this round of funding. DreamBox has raised a total of $18 million in funding.
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Categories Deborah Quazzo, DreamBox Learning, GSV Capital, John Doerr, Netflix, Reed Hastings
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Startup Erly Combines Hulu Cred with Kleiner Perkins Funding
Kleiner Perkins partners Chi-Hua Chien and John Doerr are backing fellow-Kleiner Perkins partner Eric Feng’s new startup Erly. Feng, the founding CTO of Hulu, is starting Erly with two other former Hulu-ers. AllThingsD reports that the company’s purpose is being kept a mystery right now, but the tagline has been revealed: “your life, simply interesting.”
Categories Chi-Hua Chien, Eric Feng, Erly, John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin Wanted To Hire Steve Jobs Back In 2000 As CEO
Back in 2000, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to hire Apple CEO Steve Jobs as their company CEO. Around then, Google’s investors said that their company needed some adult supervision through with an experienced CEO. John Doerr arranged interviews between Page and Brin with Andy Grove (Intel) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com). “…they would only consider one person: Steve Jobs,” wrote Wired senior writer Steven Levy. Jobs was too busy running Apple at the time and was gearing up to launch the first iPod. Eventually Doerr convinced the two to hire Novell CEO Eric Schmidt. [CultOfMac]
Categories Andy Grove, Eric Schmidt, Google, Jeff Bezos, John Doerr, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs
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Photo Of Silicon Valley Tech Titans and President Obama
The White House has uploaded some images on Flickr of President Barack Obama’s meeting with the tech titans of Silicon Valley. This photo symbolizes how the meeting went. The meeting was about how these executives plan to support entrepreneurship, increase exports, and strengthen the economy. The executives in this picture includes:
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Categories Art Levinson, Barack Obama, Carol Bartz, Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems Inc., Dick Costolo, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Genentech, Google, John Chambers, John Doerr, John Hennessy, Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, Oracle Corporation, Reed Hastings, Stanford University, Steve Westly, Twitter, Westly Group, Yahoo!
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President Obama Meeting With Major Silicon Valley CEOs Today
President Barack Obama is making a trip to Silicon Valley today and is meeting with some major tech CEOs. The names of the executives that he is meeting was revealed by the L.A. Times. The meeting will be about supporting entrepreneurship, increasing exports, strengthening the economy, etc. Below is the list of people that he is meeting:
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Categories Art Levinson, Barack Obama, Carol Bartz, Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems Inc., Dick Costolo, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Genentech, Google, John Chambers, John Doerr, John Hennessy, Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, Oracle Corporation, Reed Hastings, Stanford University, Steve Westly, Twitter, Westly Group, Yahoo!
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Kleiner Perkins Rejected Zynga Twice Before Investing
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers almost missed out on investing in Zynga. It turns out that KPCB rejected investments in Zynga… twice. Now KP partner John Doerr said “Zynga is the largest, most rapidly growing, most profitable company, with the most happy customers that Kleiner’s ever invested in over it’s life.”
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Kleiner Perkins Ups Apple Development Fund (iFund) To $200 Million
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner John Doerr hosted an event today at the Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California to announce their involvement with the Apple iPad. Kleiner Perkins announced that the venture capital’s iFund will go from $100 million to $200 million.
Kleiner Perkins first introduced the iFund in March 2008 in order to encourage start-ups to make iPhone apps. Some of the companies that received funding from the iFund include Booyah, Shazam, Pinger, and ngmoco.
The companies that have funding in the iFund have seem about a total of 100 million downloads according to Doerr. Those companies themselves are expected to make about $100 million in revenues this year. [TechCrunch]
V-Vehicle Raises $62.25 Million From Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins
V-Vehicle is an automotive startup company based in San Diego, California. The vehicle company has raised $62.25 million and plans to raise an additional $4 million. The companies involved in the $62.25 million are Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. V-Vehicle will be building cars in the northeastern region of Louisiana.
V-Vehicle raised a previous round from T. Boone Pickens and has former Mazda design chief Tom Matano on their staff. V-Vehicle recently procured a facility that was owned by Guide Corporation. And Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was at the announcement ceremony of the plant opening. Jindal offered V-Vehicle $67 million as part ofa startup incentive package. Local governments provided an additional $15 million. V-Vehicle is aiming to raise about $50 million between equity and loans.
David Drummond, Google’s SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer is listed as one of the Board of Directors at V-Vehicle. Former Oracle executive and founding CEO of V-Vehicle Frank Varasano had invested $100 million of his own money into the company.
Kleiner Perkins partners John Doerr and Ray Lane also have board seats in V-Vehicle. James Davison, a trucking company leader is also listed as an investor.
In Louisiana, the company plans on developing a “green” car. Tesla should beware, they’re not the only ones in the electric car game.
[via Xconomy/alarm:clock]