Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is a leading venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley. The firm invests primarily in the areas of greentech, information technology, life sciences, and pandemic and biodefense.
Over the past thirty five years, KPCB has been an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms, including: Amazon.com, America Online, Brio Technology, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, and Google.
Silver Spring Networks has created technology, software and services that aim to enable utilities to transmit and receive information from any point on the grid - also known as the Smart Grid. Per the company, their patented technology allows its customers to enhance the reliability and quality of their services while also aiming to provide them the capability to bett...
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Silver Spring Networks has created technology, software and services that aim to enable utilities to transmit and receive information from any point on the grid - also known as the Smart Grid. Per the company, their patented technology allows its customers to enhance the reliability and quality of their services while also aiming to provide them the capability to better monitor their power generating capacity, reduce carbon emissions and improve operating efficiency.
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RecycleBank works with municipalities and haulers to measure and reward residents for recycling. Based on the amount residents recycle, they accrue more RecycleBank points which are then redeemable online and can be used with local and national merchants.
Bloom Energy (formerly known as Ion America) is developing solid oxide regenerative fuel cells (SORFC) - renewable electrical energy generated from hydrogen and the oxygen in ambient air. The company has deveped the Bloom Box, a domestic fuel cell system that per the company will be simple and cheap to run when it's available in the next 10 years. Within this timefr...
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Bloom Energy (formerly known as Ion America) is developing solid oxide regenerative fuel cells (SORFC) - renewable electrical energy generated from hydrogen and the oxygen in ambient air. The company has deveped the Bloom Box, a domestic fuel cell system that per the company will be simple and cheap to run when it's available in the next 10 years. Within this timeframe, Bloom Energy expects that the Bloom Box will be available for less than $3000.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company's founders believe the Bloom box, a brick-sized device, could power at least one home and the company suggests that Bloom Boxes could eventually replace the electricity grid altogether. Technologically, the Bloom Box's catalytic plates consist of a stack of ceramic plates injected with an unidentified metal alloy. The company believes that versus other similar cells that require expensive metals such as platinum, this is a competitive and technological advantage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per Bloom Energy, the Bloom Box can run on any fuel including fossil fuels to biomass which are combined with oxygen to create electricity, with carbon dioxide and water as byproducts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of early 2010, the company offers larger-scale versions of the Bloom Box - costing upwards of $700,000 - with customers such as eBay and Google who use the Bloom Boxes in their company datacenters. Per Bloom Energy, their boxes are already saving these customers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Fisker Automotive is developing a high efficiency (electric) premium sports car. It is developing a plug-in hybrid high performance sportscar which it expects to selling in the summer of 2010. The car is dubbed the Fisker Karma. Fisker Automotive is a joint venture between Fisker Coachbuild, LLC and Quantum Technologies. The JV was announced in September 2007. Fis...
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Fisker Automotive is developing a high efficiency (electric) premium sports car. It is developing a plug-in hybrid high performance sportscar which it expects to selling in the summer of 2010. The car is dubbed the Fisker Karma. Fisker Automotive is a joint venture between Fisker Coachbuild, LLC and Quantum Technologies. The JV was announced in September 2007. Fisker Coachbuild will provide exclusive design services for Fisker Automotive while Quantum Technologies (QTWW - a publicly traded company) will provide technological guidance. Per the company, each car will feature cutting-edge plug-in hybrid penned as Q DRIVE exclusively for all Fisker Automotive vehicles.
Initial production is anticipated to be 15,000 vehicles annually with pricing to start at $87,900.
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Presto was founded in 2004 to help families and friends stay better connected by making it easier to share digital content between those with different technology skills. Presto's first consumer solution launched in November 2006: the Presto Printing Mailbox (jointly developed with HP) coupled with Presto computerless email service, which delivers email, photos, PDF d...
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Presto was founded in 2004 to help families and friends stay better connected by making it easier to share digital content between those with different technology skills. Presto's first consumer solution launched in November 2006: the Presto Printing Mailbox (jointly developed with HP) coupled with Presto computerless email service, which delivers email, photos, PDF documents and ad-free subscription content from publishing partners Meredith Corporation and Tribune Media Services. In 2008, Presto launched the PrestoConnect, a suite of caregiving tools allowing Presto subscribers to help their elder loved ones age in place. With Elder 411 and Elder 911, Presto continues to provide solutions for family caregivers.
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GreatPoint Energy, founded in 2004, is commercializing a new process to produce low cost substitute natural gas from coal. The company is developing an advanced catalytic gasification technology to convert low grade sub-bituminous and lignite coals to a high value pipeline grade gas. In addition to lower cost, GPE aims to provide a domestically sourced fuel gas with s...
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GreatPoint Energy, founded in 2004, is commercializing a new process to produce low cost substitute natural gas from coal. The company is developing an advanced catalytic gasification technology to convert low grade sub-bituminous and lignite coals to a high value pipeline grade gas. In addition to lower cost, GPE aims to provide a domestically sourced fuel gas with substantially less price volatility than natural gas and a similarly clean environmental profile. The goal of the company is to build, own and operate gas production facilities and to sell substitute natural gas to distressed natural gas power plant operators and large industrial users.
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Dash Networks is generating accurate and comprehensive traffic information for metropolitan regions with unique freeway and arterial roadway coverage. The data is integrated with an in-vehicle navigation platform to inform drivers of the quickest route, estimated travel time, and cautions around safety vehicles, whether on their way to a client meeting, a field-servic...
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Dash Networks is generating accurate and comprehensive traffic information for metropolitan regions with unique freeway and arterial roadway coverage. The data is integrated with an in-vehicle navigation platform to inform drivers of the quickest route, estimated travel time, and cautions around safety vehicles, whether on their way to a client meeting, a field-service call, or a long-haul commute. Circumnav services leverage an in-vehicle navigation system with GPS to self-generate optimized roadway traffic, incident, and map data from users as "floating car" probes, and patented Wi-Fi-based networking capabilities. Circumnav provides the only traffic data solution with accurate and comprehensive coverage on freeways and arterial roadways.
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