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- EcoMotors Adds CFO, Director
Patrick S. Aubry will join EcoMotors International, the Michigan-based automotive engine developer, as Chief Financial Officer and will add Jennifer Holmgren to its board of directors. Holmgren also serves as CEO of LanzaTech, a bioenergy tech firm, and holds multiple patents. EcoMotors is backed by Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates.
- Kleiner Perkins Leads $27 Mln Financing Round for Awarepoint
Awarepoint Corp. said Wednesday that it has closed $27 million in Series F financing. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round while Top Tier Capital Partners also invested. Existing investors Cardinal Partners, Venrock, and Jafco Ventures also participated. Awarepoint, of San Diego, provides real-time location systems for U.S. hospitals.
- peHUB First Read
Wearing White Kim Kardashian to wed at home of KPCB’s Frank Caufield http://www.greatnewmovies.com/2011/08/19/kim-kardashian-kris-humphries-to-marry-at-frank-caufields-estate/ The Fear creeps back in, we face yet another global selloff http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576517841725180636.html?mod=markets_data Friday Now I have firsthand knowledge of kids from DC acting up, but this is just plain embarrassing http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_US_BASKETBALL_BRAWL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-18-17-51-31 For Serious? Liberty just opts for a small investment http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/liberty-buys-a-stake-in-barnes-noble-for-204-million/ in Barnes & Noble instead
- Xiu.Com Gets KPCB, Warburg Pincus Backing
U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will jointly invest $100 million in China fashion shopping website operator Xiu.com, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
- Poll Results: John Doerr Is Ready for Reality TV
I hope John Doerr has an agent. The Kleiner Perkins partner emerged the winner of yesterday's poll. Thirty-seven percent of voters picked Doerr as the most deserving to get his own reality TV show. Mark Leder, Sun Capital's co-CEO, placed a close second with 31.3%. The biggest surprise? Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone's chairman and CEO, who ran a very distant fourth for much of the day only to rally late Thursday (at one point Schwarzman was running neck-in-neck with Doerr for the lead). But Schwarzman didn't prevail. He ended up a respectable third with 25.4%. DFJ Esprit's Simon Cook, meanwhile, came in last with 6% (sorry Simon!).