Alexander Haislip
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers may be running out of money. The firm has registered a 13th investment fund in the state of Delaware in February and is likely fundraising for that vehicle now. Details of the fund size are not immediately available and a spokesperson for says the firm has no comment at this […]
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has hired at least one executive from Goldman Sachs to help run what one source says will be a more than $400 million growth fund focused on cleantech. The full story, all 900+ words of it, is available for free on PEWNews.com, sister publication to PEHub.
I found myself in the PE Week archives on Friday, digging through some of my colleagues’ great stories, and came across Dan’s piece on Mayfield’s 12th fund, written almost three years ago. I remember reading the story when I worked for another news outlet and desperately trying to play catch up. The short version is […]
The founding partner of a newly-minted VC firm was thinking through his firm’s messaging one afternoon and started looking at what other, well known firms had written on their sites. He cut and pasted several “about us” sections into a blank document, XXX’ed out the telling names and tried to guess which firm each description […]
With all the news on Sequoia’s hedge fund and speculation that it will be moving to an asset manager investment model, I thought it would be a good time to see what the firm has been investing in. The firm cut checks to 31 companies so far this year, passing out more than $180 million […]
Early stage investing maverick Mike Maples Jr. raised $33 million for his second fund and signed on several high-profile limited partners, according to a regulatory filing. The $33 million second fund, called Maples Investments II, includes Horsley Bridge, The University of Chicago and Weathergage Venture Capital as investors. Limited partners in Maples’ first fund, called […]
Every startup has problems. Flashy startups, such as Tesla Motors, have more public problems. The company swapped out its PR and Marketing team in early 2007, then “transitioned” cofounder-CEO Martin Eberhard to an advisory role in favor of interim CEO Michael Marks. Then Tesla suffered a series of transmission troubles and delays during 2007 before […]
Sequoia Capital may be looking to raise $750 million for its first hedge fund, according to a knowledgeable source in the hedge fund industry. The firm has been looking to hire investors with hedge fund backgrounds since late fall 2007 the source says. No word yet on where the money for the new fund will […]
Friends You Know is beta testing its LGBT social network after raising $350,000 from a cadre of Illinois-based investors, regulatory filings show. Funding comes from CEO Matthew Small, the Eugene B. Shapiro Revocable Trust, the Vicki Lehrner Adams Revocable Trust and the Daniel T. Zagorin Trust, according to the filings. The company has targeted $4 […]
An entrepreneur in Europe writes to me today asking for advice on where to find funding for his startup, which is focused on building an online digital video network. The company is looking to work with specific brands and content providers to build value-added video channels. The CEO is a super innovative guy with one […]