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Not So Square Anymore: Dorsey’s Payment Startup Gets $100M, Valued At $1Bn

By Ingrid Lunden Jun. 29, 2011, 10:46am Comments Off

The game is on for mobile payments. Square has announced that it has picked up $100 million in a third round of funding, which now values th… Read More »

Kleiner Perkins Becomes A Facebook Shareholder

By Joseph Tartakoff Feb. 14, 2011, 10:48pm Comments Off

Kleiner Perkins, which has backed some of the biggest names in tech, including Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), AOL (NYSE: AOL), and Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read More »

Updated: Path Picks Up $8.65 Million; Reaches Two Million “Moments”

By Ingrid Lunden Feb. 2, 2011, 9:03pm Comments Off

Photo sharing app Path has secured a Series A round of financing worth $8.65 million, with investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,… Read More »

Social Media Measurement Firm Klout Raises $8.5 Million

By David Kaplan Jan. 10, 2011, 8:45pm Comments Off

Klout, a company that markets online influence measurement services, has raised $8.5 million as social media ad spending is expected to be i… Read More »

Twitter Raises $200 Million In Funding Round Led By Kleiner Perkins

By Joseph Tartakoff Dec. 16, 2010, 2:28am Comments Off

Twitter has raised a massive new round of funding led by new investor Kleiner Perkins, as it continues its speedy growth. Kara Swisher at Al… Read More »

Mary Meeker Is Leaving Wall St. For Silicon Valley

By David Kaplan Nov. 30, 2010, 2:25am Comments Off

Morgan Stanley tech analyst Mary Meeker is leaving her post as one of Wall Street’s top internet observers to join VC firm Kleiner Perkins C… Read More »

Jive Software Raises $30 Million From Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia

By Joseph Tartakoff Jul. 21, 2010, 8:59am Comments Off

Fast-growing Jive Software, which provides social networking tools that companies use to communicate internally and to build online communit… Read More »

Shopkick Raises $15 Million For Its Location-Based Shopping App

By Joseph Tartakoff Jul. 15, 2010, 4:40am Comments Off

Shopkick, which is behind a highly-anticipated mobile app that will send offers to shoppers when they are near a store, has raised $15 milli… Read More »

Mobile Ad Network InMobi Raises $8 Million To Face Apple, Google

By Tricia Duryee Jul. 13, 2010, 5:00pm Comments Off

InMobi, the mobile advertising network that started in India three years ago and has expanded globally, has raised $8 million in a second ro… Read More »

Hulu CTO Feng Leaving For Kleiner Perkins, Will Advise Gore On Green Tech

By Staci D. Kramer Jun. 12, 2010, 5:12am 1 Comment

The first big leadership change in Hulu’s young career: Eric Feng, the founding CTO and SVP of audience recruited by CEO Jason Kilar from Be… Read More »

Booyah Gets $20 Million For Its Check-In App

By Joseph Tartakoff May. 17, 2010, 12:44pm Comments Off

Booyah, a startup battling rivals Gowalla and FourSquare in the very hot location-based mobile app market, has raised $20 million. Like Gowa… Read More »

Kleiner Perkins Bets The iPad Is ‘Magic’; Doubles iFund To $200 Million

By Tricia Duryee Mar. 31, 2010, 11:00pm Comments Off

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the iPhone’s biggest and earliest supporters, is doubling the size of its iFund to $200 million. Th… Read More »

Mobile Gaming Firm Ngmoco Gets $25 Million, Buys iPhone Game-Maker Freeverse

Zynga Adds $15.1 Million More In Funding

Sellinger Leaves CBS Mobile; Joins Roeding On His New Startup

Roeding’s New Startup Raises $2.5 Million from KPCB, Hoffman; Raising More

Browser App Provider Cooliris Raises $15 Million Second Round