Dunn was concerned that everyone Perkins proposed had ties to Kleiner Perkins or to Perkins himself.
Kleiner Perkins partner Ray Lane stepped in as interim CEO, and Next revised its application.
Kleiner Perkins has previously created the iFund for iPhone apps and the sFund for social startups.
Kleiner Perkins, for its part, says Pao is still an employee of the firm.
The site launched in beta in August and received Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins today.
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Meanwhile Galli was being wooed by Kleiner Perkins venture star John Doerr to join Amazon.
Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Foundry Group, Avalon Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures.
In 2005, Reeves joined Zazzle, a Kleiner Perkins funded start-up based in Silicon Valley.
Its investors include Kleiner Perkins, Caufield Byers, Venrock, Oracle Investment Management and Deerfield Capital.
"There's been a dearth of innovation around infectious disease, " said Kleiner Perkins partner Brook Byers.
Cyriac founded Shopkick in 2009, while an entrepreneur-in-residence at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
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VentureSource counts more than 60 companies engaged in "clean tech" that have received investments from Kleiner Perkins.
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Other participants in the round include previous investors Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital and Foundation Capital.
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Hearst had some high tech business experience (and the scars to prove it) before he joined Kleiner Perkins.
Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr noted that that's more than four times the amount originally invested in Google.
Venture capital firms, such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and the Mayfield Fund, began to sprout like poppies.
Big venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is backing one such firm, Gen110.
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Kleiner Perkins did not respond to a request from the Journal for comment.
After missing out on an early investment in Facebook, Kleiner Perkins' venture into Web 2.0 has had mixed results.
What's Vinod Khosla, the former Kleiner Perkins partner and now a green-energy visionary, doing investing in a coal-gas plant?
Kleiner Perkins faced a lot of skepticism for some time after funding Google.
Al Gore and Colin Powell quietly helped Kleiner Perkins secure a much coveted lead investment in energy efficiency outfit OPower.
That is precisely the bet being made by the giant venture capital fund Kleiner Perkins with its billion-dollar-plus green fund.
Before joining Kleiner Perkins in 2008, Gordon spent a decade working as the chief creative officer for game publisher Electronic Arts.
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On Monday, the judge tentatively ruled that Kleiner Perkins could not force Ellen Pao to resolve the case in arbitration.
Dare one ask whether Friedman, who is rich from his best sellers, is an investor in the Kleiner Perkins green fund?
Here is VC alpha dog John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, speaking at the TED Conference in March.
Another company in this space is newer entrant, Kleiner Perkins-backed Stipple.
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Was the process for Fisker (also backed by Kleiner Perkins) the same?
Murphy expects that Kempel will use that execution machine to give Kleiner Perkins and the other SimpliVity investors another big investment win.
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