Trick Dog, a bar in the Mission District that opened in January, is backed by Tony Conrad, a partner at True Ventures, and Digg Inc. co-founder and Google Ventures venture capitalist Kevin Rose, among others.
The portfolio of projects, financed by debt and equity including an undisclosed, significant investment by Google in a venture formed by KKR, SunTap Energy, will include four solar photovoltaic facilities.
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Google Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the round.
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In defense of its latest venture, Google, led by Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , has maintained its intentions are to "make millions of books easier for people to find and buy, " by cataloguing them online.
Early investors also included Google, which was an early customer, with the help of Chris Sacca, the current venture investor who was at Google at the time.
And while Microsoft and Google battle it out, venture capital-backed start-ups are pouring resources into creating ever slicker online applications.
For venture capitalists, Google had a comparable return in foreshortened time.
He is now a venture capitalist with Google Ventures.
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Media executives who have talked to Google say details of the newsstand venture and its timing remain vague.
For Apple's Steve Jobs, Google's Eric Schmidt and venture capitalists connected to Al Gore, these could well be the best of times.
It is even conceivable that some Big Auto company might step up to an initiative like Google Fiber Redux or the Big Venture Play.
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His speech so galvanised the gathered titans that he now has the backing of Sun Microsystems, Google and several big Silicon Valley venture-capital funds and investors.
The Wilderness Downtown, a new creative and technical venture by way of Google, Arcade Fire and Chris Milk, is an impressive leap in music video production.
So why is Google so invested in this type of venture fund?
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This venture has not been successful for Google or its partners.
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More generally, the credit crisis has made IPOs all but impossible for small start-ups and has chilled venture capitalists' enthusiasm for young potential Google-killers.
Google Ventures (GV) is not a typical venture capital firm.
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For example, Idealab sold one of its companies, a photo software firm named Picasa , to Google, and several of its companies have secured venture rounds from top venture capitalists (VCs).
The decision is a huge win for the motley collection of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and tech companies such as Google who have been pushing to make wireless networks more like the Internet.
Yet, when considering the legendary successes of venture capital investments in IT Google, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Atari, Amazon one inevitably wonders: where are the Googles, Oracles, and Amazons of clean energy?
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The decision is a huge win for the motley collection of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and tech companies such as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) who have been pushing to make wireless networks more like the Internet.
Whether Google should use its cash pile to become a technology venture fund is an entirely different question of course.
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Finally, Web startups hoping to be Google or Apple acquisition targets had a harder time getting venture capital this past quarter.
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At the same time, Kleiner Perkins, one of the most famous venture capital firms with investments in companies like Google and Amazon, has a track record of hiring many women partners.
To prove his good intentions Rogers has made repeated pilgrimages to Silicon Valley, where he's met with people like Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr and Larry Brilliant of Google.org, the search giant's do-gooder arm.
Many of the world's greatest companies, from Google to Amazon.com to Intel, grew up on venture capital money.
Google Entrepreneurs is not an incubator, an accelerator or a venture fund.
And while doing that he found the time to push global warming way up the political agenda, advise Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and join Kleiner Perkins as a venture capitalist.
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Other paupers in the Tesla venture include or have included Daimler, Fidelity Investments, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Hyatt heir Nick Pritzker, and former eBay president Jeff Skoll.
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