Amit Chowdhry | October 18, 2011 | 331 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Horizons Ventures, Jason Wong, John Malloy, Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, KPCB iFund, Li Ka-Shing, Mary Meeker, Waze

Waze is a social navigation company that has raised $30 million in funding. Investors in this round include Horizons Ventures Hong Kong (Li Ka-shing’s private venture investments), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and the iFund. Waze has raised a total of over $55 million thus far.

Amit Chowdhry | November 29, 2010 | 1,201 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has hired Mary Meeker, a well-known Morgan Stanley tech analyst. Every year Meeker had released a report that has to do with the .com industry. She recently released a report about how the Internet ad industry will hit $50 billion.

Amit Chowdhry | November 16, 2010 | 1,098 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Marc Andreessen, Mary Meeker

Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker said that Internet advertising is expected to reach $50 billion and that mobile commerce is expected to outpace e-commerce. Meeker was called the “Queen of the Net” by Barron’s in 1998.
