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Corthera Closes a $23 Million Financing Round

In this series C funding, new investor Caxton Advantage Life Sciences Fund, a fund focused on development-stage public and private companies in the life sciences field, joined existing top-tier investors more...
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Al Gore, the Venture Capitalist

Nobel Prize (shared) winner Al Gore has joined Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park as a partner. He will focus on funding in the area of - well, what else - CleanTech. Interesting to see how the VC firm now more...
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Web 2.0 On The Ropes. . . Kleiner Perkins Halts Investments

Tom Foremski writes that Kleiner Perkins has stopped investing in Web 2.0 and that the word now has negative vibes in the VC community. "We have absolutely no interest in funding Web 2.0 companies," says more...
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Start-up aims to develop solar tech

Ausra, a well-funded startup aims to use Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector technology to develop solar solutions. Top names like Khosla Ventures are on board. more...
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