http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/report-khosla-to-launch-1b-in-new-vc-funds/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:47:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/report-khosla-to-launch-1b-in-new-vc-funds/#comment-25055 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:27:31 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37384#comment-25055 [...] According to a Forbes report from July, Khosla is doing something unusual with Fund III: He’s set up a way to help protect investors against risk in the form of a conflicts committee that will review investments. Forbes suggested that Khosla likely set this up to allay investors’ fears that there would be too many follow-on deals from his previous investments in the later-stage fund. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/report-khosla-to-launch-1b-in-new-vc-funds/#comment-25054 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:08:03 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37384#comment-25054 [...] Forbes and others were reporting earlier this year is now official: This morning famed cleantech investor Vinod Khosla has officially raised $1 [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/report-khosla-to-launch-1b-in-new-vc-funds/#comment-25053 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:52:25 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37384#comment-25053 [...] Reports emerged last month that Vinod Khosla, the high-profile green venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder, was finally turning to outside investors to create two new funds that together would raise $1 billion to primarily back cleantech startups. Hard evidence has now surfaced about one of those funds in a June document (hat tip to peHUB) from CalPERS. The California pension fund has committed to invest $60 million into what it describes as a fund that will focus on early-stage clean technology opportunities. The new fund, which according to the doc is now closed at $250 million, will also put some 25 percent toward information technology-focused startups. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/report-khosla-to-launch-1b-in-new-vc-funds/#comment-25052 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:02:12 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37384#comment-25052 [...] Reports emerged last month that Vinod Khosla, the high-profile green venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder, was finally turning to outside investors to create two new funds that together would raise $1 billion to primarily back cleantech startups. Hard evidence has now surfaced about one of those funds in a June document (hat tip to peHUB) from CalPERS. The California pension fund has committed to invest $60 million into what it describes as a fund that will focus on early-stage clean technology opportunities. The new fund, which according to the doc is now closed at $250 million, will also put some 25 percent toward information technology-focused startups. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/report-khosla-to-launch-1b-in-new-vc-funds/#comment-25051 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:23:22 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37384#comment-25051 Its painful to watch, at least its not my money!

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/report-khosla-to-launch-1b-in-new-vc-funds/#comment-25050 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:45:19 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37384#comment-25050 [...] this somehow: Vinod Khosla is apparently planning two new clean-tech funds worth $1 billion, at [...]

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