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Harvest Power Lands $51.7M Series BHarvest Power, a company developing renewable energy and fertilizer products from organic waste, has closed on a whopping $51.7 million in Series B financing. London-based Generation Investment Management led the round. Other investors included DAG Ventures, Keating Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, publicly traded Waste Management, Munich Venture Partners and TriplePoint Capital. The company’s technology is designed to process various kinds of organic waste, including food scraps, yard trimmings, scrap wood and other organics. Harvest Power, which says it is profitable, recently broke ground on its first commercial-scale facility in North America. The new money will help Harvest expand its facilities and technologies.
- Egnyte Closes on $10M from Kleiner Perkins
Mountain View, Calif.-based Egnyte, which provides cloud file server technology, has raised $10 million in Series B financing. Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers led the round, which included participation from existing shareholders Floodgate and Polaris. Egnyte said it would use the cash infusion to expand into international markets and increase domestic engineering, sales and marketing efforts.
- Top VC Firms, Deals for January 2011
Kleiner Perkins leads the list of most active deal makers in January with seven deals
- Insight Venture Partners Raises $1B
The firm, which has a stake in Twitter, pulls in the money for two funds
- Kleiner Perkins Buying $38M Stake in Facebook -- Report
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is buying $38 million worth of Facebook stock on the secondary market at a $52 billion valuation, Venture Wire reported Monday https://www.fis.dowjones.com/WebBlogs.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020110214e72e0005l&ProductIDFromApplication=&r=wsjblog&s=djfvw KP is making the investment from its $750 million digital growth fund and made at least half the investment, VW reported, sourcing "two prospective investors."
- peHUB First Read
Signs of a Bubble: JPMorgan launches http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/jpmorgan-to-start-social-media-fund/ social media fund Dealing: Echostar Corp. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/14/hughes-echostar-idUSL3E7DE0TR20110214 plans Hughes Communications buy Shares: U.S. futures http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/02/14/premarkets-signal-early-hesitation/ mixed Looting: Egyptian Museum of Cairo http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/13/egypt.museum/index.html artifacts, including a statue of King Tut, go missing