Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers News

RepairPal,the leading destination for auto repair and maintenance information, today announced the completion of its $4 million Series A financing.

Pain and suffering are in the business headlines a lot lately. However, it's not usually in the context of sought-after investments.

At the "To Be or Not To Be" business summit at Hamlet's Castle over the weekend, one French executive joked about not trusting a business that was less than 150 years old .

The smart grid networking company looks to add new products, grow its headcount, and continue its global expansion with the fresh funds.

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, the most famous of all the Silicon Valley venture capital firms, got off to a rocky start, according to co-founder Tom Perkins in his book Valley Boy.

Since taking office, the Obama Administration has touted geothermal as a clean and limitless source of energy, but tapping into the heat of the earth by drilling down to bedrock and turning water into steam using the natural processes of the planet has resulted in specific problems in a demonstration project in California, causing it to be ...

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commerical use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool on any article or visit www.djreprints.com The Silicon Valley start-up that aims to shake up the mutual-fund industry is expected to announce on ...

Close December 10, 2009, 10:19 AM ET By Scott Austin This morning's roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web: Art by Mike Lucas So Long Ol' Friendster - The Friendster saga is over for three venture firms who stuck by one of the early social networking sites and helped transform it from a failure in the U.S. to a ...

The owners of MySpace and Facebook's downtrodden predecessor Friendster -- still big in Asia! -- finally found a buyer to take it off their hands: Malaysian company MOL Global Pte.

GOGII , the company behind the popular iPhone applicaiton textPlus , announced today that they have raised an $8.2 million Series B led by Matrix Partners , with existing investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also participating in the round.

If you think patents protect plucky innovators and their groundbreaking inventions, you haven't been paying attention.

Epizyme, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company translating key discoveries in the field of epigenetics into novel pharmaceutical agents, announced today the participation of New Enterprise Associates in its Series B, bringing the total financing to $40M. Epizyme initially announced a $32M round led by Bay City Capital in September of this year.

Private, limited-time sale sites have become one of the most popular ways to shop online, as I write about in Monday's Times .

San Francisco-based Working Equity Inc., a financial services company that helps homeowners lock in the value of their home equity, raised $5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers .

Crescendo Bioscience , developer of tests that take a closer look at autoimmune and inflammatory diseases affecting joints, has raised $5 million more in a second round of venture funding, bringing its total to $20 million, according to Dow Jones VentureWire.

Covestor Investment Management and kaChing are online ventures that seek to challenge traditional mutual funds.

Online game maker Zynga could be worth $1 billion if it decides to sell stock publicly in 2010, Bloomberg quoted a stock analyst saying.

TechNet , a bi-partisan political group of top Silicon Valley executives, named Rey Ramsey as its new chief executive.

The smart grid promises to be in some ways similar to and even bigger than the Internet, according to a veteran venture capitalist investing in the sector.

Chegg.com, the No. 1 online textbook rental company, announced today that it has successfully closed $57 million Series D equity funding, led by Insight Venture Partners.