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Kleiner Perkins launches $100m 'iFund'Apple has passed over its original backers, Sequoia Capital and Venrock, and selected Kleiner Perkins to lead the company’s first product-focussed venture fund.
- Talent agency teams with venture firms
Hollywood agency William Morris has partnered with venture capital firms Accel and Venrock to invest in web-based companies.
- VC firms invest $12m in telecoms group(2)
XConnect Global Networks, a service provider to the telecommunications industry, has received $12 million of funding from a venture capital consortium led by Accel Partners and Venrock Associates.
- Venrock closes $600m fund(2)
Venrock, the venture capital firm originally established by the Rockefeller family, has closed a new fund on $600 million and hired David Siminoff as a general partner.
- VC firms invest $12m in telecoms group
XConnect Global Networks, a service provider to the telecommunications industry, has received $12 million of funding from a venture capital consortium led by Accel Partners and Venrock Associates.
- Venrock closes $600m fund
Venrock, the venture capital firm originally established by the Rockefeller family, has closed a new fund on $600 million and hired David Siminoff as a general partner.
- What happened to Whitney?
One of America's oldest private investment institutions, Whitney grew from a venerable boutique into a globe-spanning franchise with ambitions to become the Goldman Sachs of alternative assets. But in the middle of 2000, Whitney began an excruciating contraction under the guise of “back-to-basics”. The firm's dramatic ups and downs can be attributed to unfortunate market timing, but also to its charismatic and aggressive chairman and CEO, Peter Castleman. David Snow investigates