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Kleiner Perkins Launches Program For Student DesignersKleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers launched a program to match student designers with its portfolio companies. The Design Fellows Program is a 3-month program intended to give students designers the opportunity to work with Kleiner-funded startups.
Data Report: A Look at the Largest Venture Rounds of the YearKleiner Perkins stands out as an investor in four of the 12 largest deals, year-to-date in 2012
- LightSail Energy Raises $37.3m Series D
LightSail Energy, a developer of energy storage technology, has raised $37.3 million in Series D funding led by San Francisco investor Peter Thiel. Khosla Ventures, which incubated the company and led LightSail’s earlier rounds, Bill Gates, Innovacorp, and several other investors also participated in the round.
- PE & VC Pros Tip off New NBA Season: Slideshow
What have NBA fans got to be happy about this season? Well, for one, it will be a full slate in 2012-13. Also, we won't have David Stern running the NBA forever, we now know. For another, some will be cheering on PE & VC pros' new crown jewels well into the postseason--if they're lucky. Take a look at peHUB's prediction slideshow for investor-run hoops franchises.
Booms & Busts for VCs in Q4 IPOsForget Facebook’s face-plant: its enterprise service firms and semiconductor companies that have institutional investors’ ears at IPO time, now. 2012’s fourth quarter showcased some successful IPOs, so far. PeHUB tracks the latest companies to try to mint VCs millions on public markets with today's slideshow.
Kleiner Perkins Tops Most Active List of VCs in SeptemberThe firm invests $74M in 11 startups during the month; 500 Startups backs 10 companies, while NEA puts money into nine
- peHUB Top 10
What's the latest with peHUB this week? We had scoops on fundraisings, the latest lawsuit news and trends in dealmakers' investing decisions.
Why Kleiner May Have Just Shot Itself in the Foot: UpdatedLongtime Kleiner Perkins partner Ellen Pao may have chosen an odd way to reveal to the world that she’s no longer working at the firm, taking to the social network Quora to announce the development. But from a financial, legal, and public relations’ standpoint, Kleiner Perkins may wind up the big loser in this latest chapter of its ongoing saga with Pao.