Kleiner Perkins raises $500 million for new greentech fund
Posted May 2nd 2008 10:00AM by Tech Confidential
Filed under: Raising money
Following a
trend in new fund formation that has seen the rich get richer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Thursday announced that it has hit up eager limited partners for $1.2 billion, closing two new funds.
The blue-chip Sand Hill Road firm launched its 13th general interest fund, KPCB XIII, garnering $700 million for investment across all the firm's investment sectors of energy and environmental technologies ("which it terms greentech"), information technology and life sciences ventures. It also raised a $500 million Green Growth Fund, which will support later stage greentech companies.
The greentech fund is a tacit acknowledgment that as an industrial sector, much of the new energy and environmental development being funded is fundamentally
different from traditional venture areas such as life sciences and information technology. While ideally built on breakthrough technologies, greentech companies are typically more capital intensive in later-stage development, requiring more flexible funding models than traditional venture capital.
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