89 posts and columns on Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Gender Discrimination Over Sexual Harassment

in News on May 22 at 9:24 am PT

KPCB partner Ellen Pao has filed a lawsuit against her employer, alleging sexual harassment and a continuing pattern of gender discrimination against her and other women at the firm.
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News Byte

“Cross-Device” Ad Tracker Drawbridge Rounds Up $6.5 Million From Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins

in Media on May 10 at 9:30 am PT

Drawbridge, an ad tech start-up founded by AdMob engineer Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, has raised $6.5 million from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer. Drawbridge says it can help marketers target potential customers by tracking them as they move around from device to device — like from a laptop to an iPhone. Sivaramakrishnan put in six months at Google after it acquired AdMob, before starting her own company.

CEO and Pregnant: Piazza’s Pooja Sankar and Yapp’s Maria Seidman

in News on May 10 at 3:00 am PT

“Were there days that I was so nauseous and exhausted that I wanted to lie under the desk? Yeah. But I’m committed to the product.”
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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

in News on May 7 at 1:37 pm PT

There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
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Kleiner Perkins Leads $7M Funding for Payments Upstart Gumroad

in Commerce on May 7 at 10:05 am PT

Former Twitter engineering head Mike Abbott — now a partner at Kleiner Perkins — has made his first investment: Leading a $7 million round for payments start-up Gumroad.
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“Use a Bear, if Possible.” Viral Video Tips From the Dollar Shave Club Dude.

in Media on April 19 at 11:30 am PT

Odds are you can’t make a viral video to launch your start-up. Still, here are some tips that can improve your odds.
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Stanford Professors Launch Coursera With $16M From Kleiner Perkins and NEA

in News on April 18 at 2:00 am PT

There seems to be something in the water at Stanford University that’s making faculty members leave their more-than-perfectly-good jobs and go online.
Coursera co-founders Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller

More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!

in D10 on April 9 at 2:49 pm PT

Speakers? We got your D10 speakers.
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Turf War in SOMA: Klout vs. Kred

in Social on March 21 at 1:49 pm PT

Klout and Kred, which both measure social influence, have a lot in common — including the location of their offices in the same old shoe warehouse in San Francisco’s trendy tech district.
The Klout and PeopleBrowsr offices are in the same double-wide former shoe warehouse on Bryant St. in SOMA.

Karma: A Social Shopping App That’s Actually Social

in Commerce on February 28 at 12:00 am PT

Breakout commerce sites like Fab.com seem to be about personal splurges. What about extending that serendipitous shopping to gifting? That’s what Karma, a new app for iOS and Android, is doing.
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Klout Confirms Mega Funding Round

in Social, January 3, 2012 at 1:56 pm PT

Sequoia Grabs Googler to Head New Comms Role Aimed at Helping Entrepreneurs

in News, December 29, 2011 at 12:22 pm PT

Former Palm and Twitter Techie Mike Abbott Jumps From EIR at Benchmark to Kleiner Partner

in News, December 1, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Roadshow: CEO Pincus Not Selling Shares in Upcoming Zynga IPO

in News, November 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm PT

A Year Later, Google Joins Kleiner Perkins sFund

Google Buys Automated Friend Manager Katango

The Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now

in AsiaD, October 18, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT

Mary Meeker: 81 Percent of Users of Top Web Sites Are Outside the U.S.

in News, October 18, 2011 at 2:40 pm PT

Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple’s Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore

in News, October 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm PT

Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close (And Not for the Interim, Either)

in News, September 22, 2011 at 8:46 am PT

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Being Considered for HP CEO Job to Replace Apotheker

in Enterprise, September 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT

Chegg Buys Zinch in Another Move Toward a “Social Education Platform”

in Commerce, September 15, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Exclusive: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Joins Amazon Board

in News, September 7, 2011 at 9:47 pm PT

CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

in Media, September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT

Geek-tastic! Twitter Queen Kim Kardashian Reportedly to Wed at Eric Schmidt’s SoCal Estate (Or at Kleiner Partner’s Luxe Crib).

in Media, August 17, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT