Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B

Re:Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B by throwaway6497 on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:02PM (#12005753)

Top 5 in Cachet in no particular are probably Benchmark, Andreessen, Sequoia, Greylock, Accel. KP comes after them. It used to be number one. Not anymore. There are so many angels, good old/new VCs (YC, LightSpeed, FirstRound, Union Square, SocialCapital etc) that calling out KP for prestige doesn't make sense anymore.

Getting funded by KP now means => You raised money from a good VC firm. Nothing more. Years ago, it was more like - "Wow, you guys raised money from KP? You must me special"

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Re:Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B by Moto7451 on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:23PM (#12005829)

So what's the effective difference between raising money with KP and someone you have more respect for? Connections? Mentors?

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Re:Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B by cft on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:32PM (#12005854)

Means that even if the company completely fails, preferred stock will be paid to some extent, eg. Meebo, Slide, Loopt, etc

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Re:Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B by aswanson on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @10:41PM (#12006252)

Wouldn't Founders Fund $ signal better than Accel money?

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Re:Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B by swampthinker on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:23PM (#12005826)

Would throw NEA in there too.

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Re:Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B by genericpseudo on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @11:09PM (#12006327)

Bessemer, GV, Balderton too.

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Re:Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4B by argonaut on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:12AM (#12006518)

One of those does not belong.

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