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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is a venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. ''The Wall Street Journal'' and other media have called it one of the "largest and most established" venture capital firms and by ''Dealbook'' as "one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers." KPCB specializes in investments in incubation and early stage companies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Bloomberg Businessweek )〕 Since its founding in 1972, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has backed entrepreneurs in more than 500 ventures including AOL, Amazon.com, Navigenics, Citrix, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Genomic Health, Geron Corporation, Google, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Nebula, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Verisign, WebMD and Zynga. KPCB focuses its global investments in three practice areas – digital, clean tech and life sciences.〔(KPCB Portfolio Companies )〕 == Firm == KPCB was formed in 1972. It has traditionally focused on early-stage investments, but also does later-stage investments.〔(KPCB Information Technology )〕 The firm was named after its four founding partners: Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers. Other notable members of the firm include partners John Doerr and Raymond J. Lane, as well as high-profile individuals such as Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy (who joined as partner in January 2005), former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (who joined in July 2005 in the newly created position of "strategic limited partner"), Vinod Khosla and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who joined as partner in November 2007〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greentech Initiative )〕 as part of a collaboration between KPCB and Gore's firm Generation Investment Management (GIM) to promote green technology, business and policy solutions. In addition to Menlo Park headquarters the company has offices in Shanghai, China and in Beijing, China.〔(KPCB Offices )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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