And now, according to this Fortune story, KPCB has bet the farm on green technology.
And since the time Gore joined KPCB, only two have managed to go public.
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Even so, partner Michael Li, who joined KPCB China in 2007, left this February to sign on with Tsing Capital.
According to a recent KPCB report, the current cycle of tech disruption is significantly faster and broader than previous cycles.
So that takes us to the Glass Collective, Ventures' latest fling -- formed in partnership with VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and KPCB.
AND, these deals were under the watch of TDF Capital, which formed an alliance in 2007 with Kleiner to set up KPCB China.
Other firms with deep pockets, such as NEA and KPCB, seem to be cautiously dabbling, but not really jumping in feet first.
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Then in early August, Feng announced he was leaving KPCB to start Erly.com, a social start-up with two former Hulu colleagues and backing from Kleiner.
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According to VentureSource, of the more than 60 companies that have received KPCB equity backing, only three have been acquired or merged into other companies.
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Kudos to her and KPCB International for putting this online.
You probably don't need a 112 slide PowerPoint presentation from Mary Meeker and the venture capital firm KPCB to tell you this, but the Internet, she's getting bigger.
Since then, KPCB China has staffed up with a few new partners, the most recent one being Victor Leung, who came on board in January 2011 from HSBC Private Equity Asia.
His firm GIM also became a KPCB affiliate.
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The troubles date back to 2008, when the maverick investor Joe Zhou, who was handpicked by Doerr along with Tina Ju to set up KPCB China in April 2007, left to launch his own firm, Keytone Ventures.
Keep in mind that this money was promised before the iPhone App Store was even launched -- so given how that bet paid off, it's not surprising that KPCB's decided to double down on the iPad, which looks like it'll have even higher app prices.
Since joining KPCB, Hearst has taken board seats on companies ranging from pure new media plays--like AllApartments, an online apartment hunting service and Preview Travel, a popular travel service site--to more esoteric high tech companies like Juniper Networks, a networking company and Viewpoint DataLabs, a 3D graphics company.
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