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.
