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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is a well known Silicon Valley venture capital firm, due in large part to their past success. They were early investors in many significant companies, including Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems.

The name of the firm comes from the four founding partners: Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers.

In March 2008, KPCB announced the iFund, a $100M investment initiative focused on ideas and products related to the iPhone.

Milestones

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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Navigenics. (2/4/10)
  Posted 2/4/10 at 12:14pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Juvaris BioTherapeutics. (1/27/10)
  Posted 1/27/10 at 9:57pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Harvest Power. (1/25/10)
  Posted 1/25/10 at 9:53pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in FloDesign Wind Turbine. (1/19/10)
  Posted 1/20/10 at 9:17pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Nodality. (1/17/10)
  Posted 1/19/10 at 10:34pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Fisker. (1/16/10)
  Posted 1/19/10 at 9:26pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Nodality. (1/13/10)
  Posted 1/14/10 at 11:12pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Aggregate Knowledge. (1/6/10)
  Posted 1/6/10 at 5:33am
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Verdiem. (1/4/10)
  Posted 1/4/10 at 2:33pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Pixtronix. (12/28/09)
  Posted 12/28/09 at 12:26pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Silver Spring Networks. (12/15/09)
  Posted 12/15/09 at 9:24pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in SuVolta. (12/14/09)
  Posted 12/10/09 at 5:03pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in GOGII. (12/9/09)
  Posted 12/10/09 at 11:45am
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in One Kings Lane. (12/6/09)
  Posted 12/6/09 at 8:07pm
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Working Equity. (11/30/09)
  Posted 11/30/09 at 11:58am
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  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested in Tethys BioScience. (11/9/09)
  Posted 11/10/09 at 2:31am

Investments

Videos

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1. AltAssets (altassets.com) [edit]
2. Juvaris BioTherapeutics Completes Second Close on $25M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
3. Harvest Power Raises Venture Capital Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. FloDesign lands $35M Series B funds, names new CEO (masshightech.com) [edit]
5. Nodality, Inc.: Series C $3.5M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
6. Fisker Automotive Secures Additional Funding for Plug-in Hybrid Cars (finsmes.com) [edit]
7. Nodality lands $10M to treat malignancies and autoimmune disease (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
8. Aggregate Knowledge Raises $9 Million For Online Ad Optimization Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
10. Pixtronix pulls in $19M in new funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
11. Silver Spring Networks Raises Another $100M (earth2tech.com) [edit]
12. Suvolta takes $3M for low-power semiconductor tech. (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
13. GOGII Raises $8.2 Million Series B For Free iPhone Texting, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. NYTimes (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
15. PEHub (pehub.com) [edit]
16. Tethys picks up $25M for diabetes diagnostic (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
17. Spinal Modulation raises $27M to treat spinal pain (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
18. RecycleBank Adds $28M, Joins Up With Kashless (earth2tech.com) [edit]
19. Crescendo tacks on $5M more for autoimmune disease testing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
20. Epizyme pulls in $32M in VC capital, new investors (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
21. XDx, Inc.: Series G $14.4M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
22. Pacific Biosciences, Inc.: Series E $68M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
23. Amyris Closes in on $60M Round for Synthetic Diesel (earth2tech.com) [edit]
24. Shazam Draws Investment, Is Already Profitable (businessinsider.com) [edit]
25. Juvaris completes $25M close of series B (fiercevaccines.com) [edit]
26. Demand Response Software Developer Hara Raises $14M (cleantechbrief.com) [edit]
27. Cap Funding Report [edit]
28. Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc.: Series A $18.6M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
29. XDx raises $14.4M new funding (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
30. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Kleiner makes splash with inaugural water investment (green.venturebeat.com) [edit]
32. Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B [edit]
33. iControl Gets $23M for Home Security, Home Energy Management (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
34. Roeding’s New Startup Raises $2.5 Million from KPCB, Hoffman; Raising More (moconews.net) [edit]
35. Kovio raises $20 million for chip-printing technology for tiniest radios and sensors (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
36. 3-V Biosciences, Inc. Secures $30 Million in Series B Funding, Welcomes New Members to Board of Directors (3vbio.com) [edit]
37. iZumi Bio and Pierian Merge to Form iPierian to Advance Cellular Reprogramming (biocetera.com) [edit]
38. Spiracur, Inc.: Series B $20.3M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
39. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.: Series B $17M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
40. Industry Leader Sights Set on Further Developing Best-of-Breed Interception and Surveillance Solutions (ss8.com) [edit]
41. Capital Report Index [edit]
42. Xsigo raises funds for wireless data centers (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
43. AUSRA ANNOUNCES NEW FUNDING FACILITY (solarindustrymag.com) [edit]
44. Citation Needed [add]
45. iZumi Bio Raises $20 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
46. Browser App Provider Cooliris Raises $15 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
47. $90K Electric Car Fisker Karma Raises $85M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
48. Lilliputian Systems Adds $28 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
49. CVCA (cvca.com.cn) [edit]
50. Fuel-cell maker Bloom stores away $17M (green.venturebeat.com) [edit]
51. iPhone Game Publisher Raises $10 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
52. AOptix nabs $12.9M for eye-recognition (venturebeat.com) [edit]
53. Silver Spring Nabs $15M More (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
54. Ocarina Networks Secures $20 Million in Series B Financing to Grow Leadership in Thriving Online Storage Optimization Market (marketwatch.com) [edit]
55. HX Diagnostics, Inc.: Series A $3.1M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
56. $9 Million Investment for MapmyIndia (asmmag.com) [edit]
57. Chiral Quest Receives Series B Financing of $13 m from Infinity I-China (chiralquest.com) [edit]
58. Video ad service SpotMixer lands $9M, gets in with Google (venturebeat.com) [edit]
59. Luca Technologies Raises $76M for Coal Biotech (earth2tech.com) [edit]
60. Confirmed: Kleiner Perkins Gets Into Textbook Rentals As Chegg Raises $25 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. Cap Funding Report [edit]
62. Indian renewables startup Kotak Urja raises $8M from Kleiner Perkins, Sherpalo (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
63. Press release (rpxcorp.com) [edit]
64. alarm:clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
65. Ausra raises $24.5 million (bizjournals.com) [edit]
66. techcrunch.com []
67. earth2tech.com [edit]
68. techcrunch.com []
69. MEVIO Secures $15 Million in Funding to Support Rapid Growth and Move Into Vertical Entertainment Networks (marketwatch.com) [edit]
70. Miasolé secures "significant" funding round (businessgreen.com) [edit]
71. Capital Funding Report [edit]
72. INDEX VENTURES AND KLEINER PERKINS CAUFIELD & BYERS LEAD $34.5 MILLION INVESTMENT IN LEHIGH TECHNOLOGIES (pehub.com) [edit]
73. pr.com [edit]
74. Mascoma Corporation Raises $61 Million in Third Round of Funding (findarticles.com) [edit]
75. Segway ups third funding to $35M — have you bought yours yet? (venturebeat.com) [edit]
76. PayMate raises $9m in round B (paynet-recruitment.com) [edit]
77. Booyah Raises $4.5 Million from Kleiner Perkins (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
78. EdeniQ quietly raises $33 million for cellulosic ethanol (venturebeat.com) [edit]
79. SpikeSource launches software platform, gets $10M from Intel (venturebeat.com) [edit]
80. IControl, a home security service, raises $15.5 million from Kleiner Perkins (venturebeat.com) [edit]
81. RGB Networks raises $20 milllion for video processing chips (venturebeat.com) [edit]
82. Breathe Tech raises $15M for respiratory disease (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
83. OptiMedica Secures $16 Million in Series C Funding (optimedica.com) [edit]
84. eASIC (easic.com) [edit]
85. RecycleBank Secures $30 Million in Series B Funding from Top Venture Capital Firms (corporate.recyclebank.com) [edit]
86. Akimbo, failed video distribution company, tries again, raises $8M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
87. TechCrunch [edit]
88. Autonomic Technologies raises $3M for neurostimulators (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
89. Fisker Automotive Receives Major Investment From Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. (highbeam.com) [edit]
90. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
91. thealarmclock.com [edit]
92. Citation Needed [add]
93. Corthera Closes $23 Million Financing Round (basmedical.com) [edit]
94. Jamdat co-founders Resurface as Gogii (fiercemobilecontent.com) [edit]
95. Agami Systems Raising $50 Million Funding (venturedeal.com) [edit]
96. Navigenics raises more than $25M for personal genetics (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
97. Bit9 Raises $10 Million in Third Round of Venture Funding (prweb.com) [edit]
98. techcrunch.com [edit]
99. N BRIEF: Miasolé; Snags $50M, VCs Dump $1.1B into Greentech in 1H (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
100. Amyris Announces $70 Million Series B Round (amyris.com) [edit]
101. Kovio raises $19.4M for printed electronics (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
102. ausra.com [edit]
103. SEC D Amended (sec.gov) [edit]
104. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
105. topix.net [edit]
106. techcrunch.com [edit]
107. Vertica Systems Raises $23.5 Million in Financing (redorbit.com) [edit]
108. dash.net [edit]
109. techcrunch.com [edit]
110. DNA health company Pacific Biosciences raises $50M from Kleiner, others (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
111. Cancer vaccine developer Juvaris raises $7.53M, led by Kleiner Perkins (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
112. venturebeat.com [edit]
113. Mascoma gets $30M for cellulosic ethanol — in bid to replace gasoline (venturebeat.com) [edit]
114. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
115. Another $35M for Miasole (cleantech.com) [edit]
116. Amyris gets $20M from high-profile investors to find alternative fuel (venturebeat.com) [edit]
117. 3VR Security, a provider of video surveillance technology, raises $9M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
118. Peakstream gets $17M more from Foundation, Sequoia, Kleiner (venturebeat.com) [edit]
119. SpikeSource raises $24M in Series B (blogs.the451group.com) [edit]
120. news.com []
121. Video Processing Technology Firm RGB Networks Raises $20 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
122. One True Media Gets $5M Funding for Consumer Generated Media Services (webknowhow.net) [edit]
123. techcrunch.com [edit]
124. paidcontent.org [edit]
125. hosting.mansellgroup.net [edit]
126. paidcontent.org [edit]
127. Dash gets more VC cash (gigaom.com) [edit]
128. Indian travel site Cleartrip raises $8M from DAG Ventures — because DAG can react within 48 hours (venturebeat.com) [edit]
129. Voice start-ups -- jingling loudly (siliconbeat.com) [edit]
130. eASIC (easic.com) [edit]
131. techcrunch.com [edit]
132. Kodiak Networks Calls in $15M in Series B (siliconindia.com) [edit]
133. Citation Needed [add]
134. zazzle.com [edit]
135. SpikeSource raises $24M in Series B (blogs.the451group.com) [edit]
136. eASIC (easic.com) [edit]
137. razorgator.com [edit]
138. findarticles.com [edit]
139. eASIC (easic.com) [edit]
140. Citation Needed [add]
141. Citation Needed []
142. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
143. google.com []
144. Segway gets $10M more — to shun white elephant status (venturebeat.com) [edit]