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Silver Spring Networks Raises $75 MillionSilver Spring Networks, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of smart grid technology solutions, has raised $75 million in new VC funding. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round, and was joined by return backers Foundation Capital, JVB Properties and Northgate Capital. A portion of the $75 million has been reserved for “strategic partners.” The company had previously raised over $90 million.
- Week in deals, Oct. 6, 2008
News and notes for tech companies and other businesses that raised financing in North America in the past week
CMEA has growing interest in cleantechSilicon Valley venture firm is mulling a $500M growth fund to invest in cleantech, following a similar move by Kleiner Perkins
- Can DAG nab it?
Strategy of co-investing with top-tier venture funds could help DAG Ventures raise $600M for its fourth fund
- Darwin drafts off of KP
Fund of funds with close ties to Kleiner Perkins is raising $100M
- VCs bet on OS war for phones
Developers of apps for Google's Android phone and Apple's iPhone, among others, are attracting the attention of investors
- 5 questions with Matt Murphy
Q&A with Matt Murphy, who runs Kleiner Perkins' $100M iFund
- Harvard Tell-All Author Bags On Draper, Kleiner Perkins
Harvard Business School spun itself into a tizzy after reading Philip Delves Broughton’s account of his two years at the school in the recently published “Ahead of the Curve.” Delves Broughton’s criticisms of the school itself are minor (only professors with experience running companies should teach entrepreneurship, grades should be abolished, etc…). His real beef is with the capitalistic strivings of the school’s graduates who can’t seem to hold their marriages together, call their children “strangers” and work 100 hour weeks with regularity. Harvard Business School is a “factory for unhappy people,” Broughton writes, albeit an efficient and well run factory. As an insider’s view inside an American institution, the book delivers and may be entertaining to any graduate of the school. There are several amusing vignettes in the book, ranging from an account of cross-dressing at the annual Pricilla Ball (recent grads better scrub those pics out of their Facebook profiles, ahem.), the labyrinthine hiring process at Google and the barrage of personality tests the school encouraged students to take. Venture capitalists will likely chuckle on hearing of Delves Broughton’s Harvard-sponsored trip to Silicon Valley. First there is the careful and sympathetic recounting of a meeting with KP’s Russell Seligman [sic: That’s Russ Siegelman (HBS’89), for the detail oriented]. The investor spoke to HBSers about how many people saw VC as a fast track route to riches, but how it wasn’t really.
- NanoH2O Raises $15 Million
NanoH2O Inc., a Los Angeles-based developer of reverse osmosis membranes for water desalination and reuse, has raised $15.05 million in Series B funding from Oak Investment Partners and return backer Khosla Ventures.
- Hope Springs Eternal: BitTorrent Raises Another $17 Million
Peer-to-peer content delivery system BitTorrent has raised a whopping $17 million more in a third round from its venture backers on Sand Hill Road, DCM and Accel Partners, according to a new regulatory filing. The money brings the 7-year-old’s total funding to $46.4 million. DAG Ventures, a firm known for marking up the later-stage deals of influential firms like Kleiner Perkins and Accel, is also an investor in BitTorrent’s Series C. (DAG has teamed up with Kleiner on at least 51 rounds for 30 companies, according to Thomson Reuters data; it has teamed up with Accel on at least 30 rounds for 15 companies.) I hope it's not a case of good money chasing bad. Though BitTorrent today signed up two game developers that will use its technology to stream their massively multiplayer online games to customers (Aeria and IAHGames), the company is still struggling to shed its reputation as a way for people to illegally share music and video over the Web. Though it wants to be a legitimate technology through which media companies can stream videos over the Internet, its ideal business partners