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The PodShow Press Room » Blog Archive » PodShow Receives $8.85M from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, ... PodShow Receives $8.85M from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Sherpalo Ventures PodShow is the breakthrough business that is at the epicenter of the podcasting revolution, providing directories, community, technology and content programming that have helped to make podcasting the most explosive media innovation since the introduction of the web browser. One Response to “PodShow Receives $8.85M from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Sherpalo Ventures” pressroom.podshow.com /2005/08/16/podshow-receives-885m-from-kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers-sequoia-capital-and-sherpalo-ventures   (1065 words)

Tom Perkins '53 When he formed Kleiner Perkins in 1972, it was one of the few venture capital firms in the world." An astute investor, Perkins helped ignite the boom in the high-tech and biotech industries—and then pitched in to help manage the companies he funded. Perkins jokes that when he moors the boat, he's going to fly a series of nautical flags spelling out this message: "Rarely does one have the privilege to witness vulgar ostentation on such a grand scale." But perhaps he's not joking. Perkins is especially proud of his work with Genentech, which was founded in 1976 and sparked the development of the biotechnology industry. alum.mit.edu /ne/noteworthy/profiles/perkins.html   (1345 words)

VC Ratings: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Archives Kleiner Perkins is also very interested in voice applications such as the one it invested in via TellMe Networks. Kleiner Perkins' success is based, in part, on its willingness to bet early and heavy on sectors that have panned out. Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers' John Doerr participated in a $10 million fourth round of funding for Purkinje, an on-demand software and services startup targeted at physicians. vcratings.thedealblogs.com /companies/kleiner_perkins_caufield_byers   (4393 words)

Kleiner Perkins invests in Linuxcare | CNET News.com Venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins has taken a stake in Linuxcare, a company that provides training and technical support for the Linux operating system. In addition Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers general partner Ted Schlein will become a member of the Kleiner Perkins is one of more powerful and influential VC firms in technology. news.com.com /2100-1001-225300.html   (347 words)

Colin Powell Joins Venture Capital Firm - New York Times The answer, several Kleiner Perkins partners said, is that he will serve as a coach to its entrepreneurs and an in-house expert on international affairs, a valuable skill when even fledgling technology companies are increasingly international, employing programmers abroad and sell into overseas markets. Powell, Kleiner Perkins has added five new partners since the start of the year, pointing to a resurgence in venture investing, which serves as the lifeblood for technology-oriented start-ups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Powell would provide details about his financial arrangement with the firm, though it is common knowledge in the venture capital world that Kleiner Perkins partners divide 30 percent of profits before passing on the rest to investors. www.nytimes.com /2005/07/13/business/13venture.html?ex=1278907200&en=f4037a74ae2e9e65&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (1189 words)

USATODAY.com - Silicon Valley pioneer Eugene Kleiner dies at 80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) Kleiner died of heart failure Nov. 20 at his Los Altos Hills home, where he had lived the past 42 years, according to a family statement issued Monday. Kleiner later reconnected with Noyce and Moore to become an early investor in Santa Clara-based Intel, now one of the most world's most valuable companies with a market value of about $220 billion. Although he remained a partner emeritus at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers until his death, Kleiner stepped down from a day-to-day role at the firm in the mid-1980s, his son said. www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2003-11-25-kleiner-obit_x.htm   (656 words)

Silicon Valley pioneer Eugene Kleiner dead at 80 - smh.com.au Kleiner died of heart failure last Thursday (November 20) at his Los Altos Hills, California, home, according to a family statement issued yesterday announcing his death. Kleiner later reconnected with Noyce and Moore to become an early investor in Santa Clara-based Intel, now one of the most world's most valuable companies with a market value of about $US220 billion ($A307.09 billion). Kleiner, Perkins issued a short statement hailing its co-founder as a visionary who "virtually invented modern venture capital". www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/26/1069522641048.html   (593 words)

VC Ratings: Kleiner Perkins' green keiretsu Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers provided more information about its green technology initiative. Citing the power of prizes such as the Nobel Prize and the Pritzker Prize, Kleiner general partner John Doerr said for the first time the firm would fund a $100,000 annual prize for the greatest innovator around green technology. Doerr said that nine of the firm's 19 partners are involved in the firm's green initiative. vcratings.thedealblogs.com /2006/05/kleiner_perkins_back_ethanol_p.php   (387 words)

Kleiner Perkins signs former Excite chair - May 10, 2000 NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers announced Wednesday that Tom Jermoluk, former Excite At Home chief executive, has joined the Menlo Park, Calif. venture capital firm as a general partner. Both Jermoluk and Clark have also had a long and fruitful relationship with Kleiner Perkins through their several ventures in the Silicon Valley. Kleiner Perkins, which helped launch America Online Inc. (AOL: Research, Estimates) Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN: Research, Estimates) and Juniper Networks (JNPR: Research, Estimates), also backed Netscape Communications, another company founded by Clark. money.cnn.com /2000/05/10/electronic/kleiner   (404 words)

Triple Pundit: Kleiner Perkins Starts Green Innovation Award From this weeks SF Business Journal, VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers will offer an annual $100,000 prize to promote green technology. Citing the "enormous power in prizes", the firm expects green innovation to be the among biggest economic opportunities of the new century. Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers said Thursday that it will establish a $100,000 annual prize to promote technology or policy innovation in green technology. www.triplepundit.com /pages/kleiner-perkins-starts-green-i-002146.php   (251 words)

SiliconBeat: Q&A with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers John Doerr, Brook Byers and Ray Lane are partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms. If you can say Kleiner or Sequoia funded me, hey, that's a statement to the world, but this rarely offsets the advantage of remaining stealth. Yet Kleiner Perkins is standing on the starting line. www.siliconbeat.com /entries/2004/11/13/qa_with_kleiner_perkins_caufield_byers.html   (860 words)

Kleiner Perkins, PARC warm to clean tech | Tech News on ZDNet Venture capital investment firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said Thursday that it has created a $100 million fund dedicated to green technologies, also called clean tech. Disruptive innovations are possible because of recent advances in chemistry, genetics and material science," said John Doerr, a partner in Kleiner Perkins. Kleiner Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's most well-known venture investment companies, having funded technology giants Sun Microsystems, Google and Amazon.com. news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-6041141.html   (616 words)

Jeff Clavier's Software Only: Kleiner Perkins investment criterias for software startups: Consumer ? Enterprise ? Both! A few days ago, Don Dodge reported on a panel he did at TiECon East with KP's Ajit Nazre, during which Ajit mentioned the 7 rules that enterprise software startups must meet in order to be considered for an investment: Friend Jeff Nolan reminded me that these rules were actually introduced by Ray Lane, a Kleiner Perkins Partner, during his keynote of MR Rangaswami's conference, Software 2006. Jeff Clavier points us to Kleiner Perkins investment criterias for software startups. blog.softtechvc.com /2006/06/kleiner_perkins.html   (819 words)

SiliconBeat: Bill Joy joins Kleiner Perkins Here's the announcement by Kleiner Perkins, posted on its Web site today. Kleiner has invested in nanotechnology, but Kleiner Perkins partner Vinod Khosla has criticized what he sees as too much hype in the sector. Any investments he makes, Joy clarified, will be on behalf of Kleiner Perkins, and so he'll not be making the sort of co-investments that some so-called venture partners make using their own money. www.siliconbeat.com /entries/2005/01/18/bill_joy_joins_kleiner_perkins.html   (571 words)

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mercury News interview Kleiner Perkins Caufield andamp; Byers Mercury News interview Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Mercury News interview Matt Marshall of the San Jose Mercury News recently visited venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers to interview partners John Doerr, Brook Byers and Ray Lane. www.niallkennedy.com /blog/archives/2004/11/kleiner_perkins.html   (180 words)

Former secretary of state joining venture capitalists / Kleiner, Perkins recruits Powell as limited partner Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers -- early backers of AOL, Genentech and Google and one of the valley's most successful venture shops -- has signed Powell as a strategic limited partner, the firm is set to announce today. Powell, 68, will serve as a part-time adviser to Kleiner, Perkins in decisions about what young companies to fund. He will represent Kleiner, Perkins during his frequent trips to Asia and elsewhere on the lecture circuit. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/13/BUG16DMSV41.DTL   (900 words)

VentureBeat » Q&A with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers John Doerr, Brook Byers and Ray Lane are partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms. Kleiner invested in Google, which has a social-networking company called Orkut. As to business-networking, the venture industry would better keep an eye on the things like this linkedin.com Max Levchin is nursing with… In my opinion - THAT is the next stage of business-networking, particularly usefull for ’stealth’ companies, you won’t even *know about their existence* soon. venturebeat.com /2004/11/13/qa-with-kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers   (1978 words)

Elance: Kleiner Perkins Invests in Elance Elance also announced that John Doerr and Joe Lacob, general partners at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB), have taken seats on the company's board of directors, joining Ram Shriram and Elance co-founders, Beerud Sheth and Srini Anumolu. Kleiner Perkins' investment follows Elance's successful angel round of financing from industry luminaries including Ram Shriram, former vice president of business development at Amazon.com; Sanjiv Ahuja, president of Bellcore; Pehong Chen, CEO of Broadvision; Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail; Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy and others. "Elance is leading a worldwide move to a new, networked and more entrepreneurial economy," said John Doerr, partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. www.elance.com /c/static/main/displayhtml.pl?&file=kleiner_invests.html   (678 words)

KPCB - News Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers Awards First "KPCB Prize for Greentech Innovation" Thomas Monath, M.D. To Join Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers to Advance Innovation in Infectious Diseases with the New KPCB Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Forms $600 Million KPCB XII Fund -- Announces $100 Million Greentech Initiative www.kpcb.com /news   (197 words)

Energy TechNet: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers Program description: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is committed to helping entrepreneurs build sustainable technology businesses. For 30 years, the firm has invested in hundreds of market-defining ventures. That's why Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers' partners put all of their efforts behind strong entrepreneurs who turn concepts into companies. www.eere.energy.gov /inventions/energytechnet/resources/resultdetails/2213/print=yes   (107 words)

Sarbanes Oxley : Pelosi, Kleiner Perkins Push for Overhaul of Sarbanes-Oxley Law Nancy Pelosi, the leader of newly empowered House Democrats, received more campaign money this year from partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital firm that helped launch Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., than she got from Democrats' traditional friend, the AFL-CIO labor federation. She in turn has already identified revising the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law as a top priority when she becomes House speaker in January. Venture-capital firms have been lobbying the White House, Washington lawmakers and regulators for months to water down the law, arguing that higher auditing and legal fees are driving companies to take initial public offerings overseas. feeds.feedburner.com /~r/InsideSarbanesOxley/~3/48878751/pelosi-kleiner-perkins-push-for.asp   (532 words)

Jeff Clavier's Software Only: Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia to start a podshow soon ? There is little that gets Valley girls and boys as hot and bothered as when an Internet company gets funded by both Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. I knew it would not be long before this happened. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. blog.softtechvc.com /2005/08/kleiner_perkins.html   (668 words)

Former Oracle Exec Joins Kleiner Perkins - Technology News by TechWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) Former president Ray Lane has been tapped as a new partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Menlo Park, Calif., the company said. In the move to Kleiner Perkins, Lane heads to a firm that has invested in such companies as Compaq, Sun Microsystems (stock: SUN), Netscape, and AOL (stock: AOL). Lane is also not the first former tech exec to go to work for the firm. www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20000824S0010   (454 words)

VentureBeat » Tit for tat at Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Endforce was originally named SmartPipes, and aimed to solve the problems businesses have in hooking up their private networks with the public Internet. It won backing from big-name venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, Jim Clark, co-founder of Netscape, and Tom Jermoluk, of Excite and SGI fame, and generated a lot of ink (see here, for example). No big deal for Kleiner, though, because cross-street rival, venture firm Sequoia Capital, is reportedly seeing one of its companies founder too at least if you believe the Wag. venturebeat.com /2007/01/19/tit-for-tat-for-at-kleiner-perkins-sequoia   (516 words)

Powell joins Kleiner, Perkins in mentor role   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) of State Colin Powell will join venture capitalist firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers as "strategic limited partner," a title that reveals both his investor status and his real job as entrepreneur mentor. Kleiner partner Brook Byers said in a conference call, according to the Mercury: ``The real role he's going to play for us is mentorship.'' The Times quotes Ray Lane, Kleiner partern and ex president of Oracle, on Powell's international expertise: "General Powell has a global perspective. The Times quotes Paul Kedrosky, a professor at the University of California San Diego and a specialist in venture capital, who thinks that Kleiner wanted him for the usual reasons former government bigshots are wooed by the private sector - access. www.siliconvalleywatcher.com /mt/archives/2005/07/powell_joins_kl.php   (1930 words)

Kleiner Perkins Jumps for Joy Bill Joy, co-founder and former chief scientist at Sun Microsystems (SUNW), has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a partner. Since starting at Kleiner Perkins two weeks ago, Joy has already heard three presentations from entrepreneurs on materials and energy. Joy's relationship with Kleiner Perkins stretches back to 1982, when the firm provided startup funding for Sun. www.businessweek.com /technology/content/jan2005/tc20050119_3376.htm   (839 words)

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Kleiner Perkins 7 rules for software start-ups Ajit Nazare at Kleiner Perkins has 7 rules for software start-ups they consider funding. I was on a "future of software" panel at TiECon East yesterday with Ajit Nazre, partner at Kleiner Perkins. However simple the rules may be, they are important to consider in formulating your product vision. dondodge.typepad.com /the_next_big_thing/2006/06/kleiner_perkins.html   (590 words)

Kleiner Perkins | Digital Media Wire Washington -- Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State, has become a limited partner of Silicon Valley-based Kleiner Perkins, one of the most successful and storied venture capital firms in the country. Powell, who will be a "strategic limited partner" at the firm, is expected to focus much of his energy on international opportunities. Since its founding in 1972, Kleiner Perkins has backed hundreds of successful technology companies, including AOL, Amazon.com, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Sun Microsystems, and Verisign. www.dmwmedia.com /tags/kleiner-perkins   (747 words)

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