Alastair Goldfisher
Pete Curley, co-founder of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based HipChat, told me he likes to drink beer and chat about his company. Since I like to drink beer and hear about startups, Pete (pictured) and I met last month near the Ferry Building in San Francisco over Coronas and limes. I was dressed in jeans and a buttoned […]
Four acquisitions of virtual software and cloud-based companies this week have fueled speculation that there will be more to come. At the VMworld conference this week, the buzz has mostly been about the bidding war over 3Par, which Hewlett-Packard won today with its $2.4 billion offer. (As we previously reported, a few VC firms stand […]
If you blinked a few weeks ago, you might’ve missed a press release by VC-backed Hotspur Technologies. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which makes catheters for kidney dialysis and other medical devices in the vascular space, quietly announced that it received FDA clearance for the first three of its commercial products. The approval process took […]
It’s said that good things come to those who wait. Such will no doubt be the case for the three venture firms that are at least 5% shareholders in 3PAR Inc. The Mountain View, Calif.-based storage vendor is at the center of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The latest offer of $30 a […]
In an homage to computer company Apple, Si Shen and Wenjie Qian decided to also name their company after a piece of fruit. The pair also wanted to make great products like Apple does, says Shen, CEO of PapayaMobile, a Beijing-based mobile gaming company. Plus, Shen and Qian found that the name was easy to […]
VC-backed Box.net yesterday hired tech veteran Dan Levin as COO in, perhaps, what is another sign that the startup is headed for more growth. Levin, who was already a member of the board, was previously with Intuit. He joins the Box staff with a mission to keep the company’s growth headed in the right direction, […]
Since he bought the Golden State Warriors earlier this month, Joe Lacob, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, says that he’s constantly asked what kind of owner he will be. For instance, will he be like Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, whose loud mouth and outspoken activities has resulted in the […]
Tuesday night, something unusual began to happen to my Twitter feed. It began to go crazy with mentions of Flipboard. The Aspen, Colo.-based startup at midnight announced it raised $10.5 million in A Series A round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures and several angel investors, including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder […]
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, which famously co-invested in Google Inc. some years back, announced today that they are investing $30 million in a Series C round in Jive Software Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of social networking software and technology for the enterprise. This isn’t the first time Kleiner Perkins […]
Joe Lacob will soon have to swap his green Boston Celtics jersey for an Orange "We Believe" T-Shirt.
Lacob, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and part of the ownership group that bought the Celts in 2002, has become the primary owner of the Golden State Warriors, according to various NBA-related news reports. Lacob is joining with Peter Guber of Mandalay Entertainment to buy the Warriors for reportedly $450 million, a record amount for an NBA franchise.
Many Warriors fans were hoping that Oracle boss Larry Ellison, who has made offers to buy the team in the past, would fork over the winning bid. Apparently the price was too steep for a team mireed in recent disappointments.