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TheFacebook’s first summer house was a sublet in suburban Palo Alto, a fifteen-minute drive from world famous venture capital firms like Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, and walking distance from the Stanford campus, breeding ground of tech legends like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
...months Abrams turned venture capitalists down, but in October 2003 he agreed to raise money from Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers Capital—$13 million, to be exact. Abrams says he might have kept saying no, but at the time, so-called “copycats” were on the rise and the interest in the concept of Friendster was too hot for Abrams to handle...
DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, gentlemanly, Austrian-born Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist; of heart failure; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. In 1957, with $3,500 and seven colleagues, he came up with a way to mass-produce silicon transistors, a discovery that opened the door to developing desktop computers and cell phones and spawned companies like Intel. In 1972, he co-founded Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture-capital firm that helped establish more than 300 companies, including Compaq and Sun Microsystems...
...DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer whose venture-capital firm helped establish Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Amazon.com; in Los Altos Hills, California. Kleiner, who fled his native Austria in 1938, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which developed a technique for mass producing silicon transistors. Fifteen years later, he helped establish the venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which gave seed money to more than 300 companies, including many tech powerhouses...
...prior commitments. "There aren't that many obvious opportunities for individuals to invest in venture capital," says Jeff Gendel, head of U.S. operations for InvestorAccess, a private-equity publishing firm based in London. But that may change fairly soon. Some of the best venture-fund managers, including Benchmark Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mayfield Fund and Sequoia Capital are rumored to be ready for new money. These are institutional managers, though individuals with $5 million to throw in (and commit for as long as 10 years) are generally welcome. Flag Ventures flagventure.com) which runs funds of venture-capital funds, will...