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Khosla Ventures Raises $1 Billion for Cleantech
Khosla Ventures, one of the most active venture capital firms that invests in cleantech companies, raised a $1.05 billion fund for further investments. The Khosla Ventures IV fund will invest in cleantech, IT, mobile, and Internet technology in roughly the same ratio as previous funds. “We have identified the ‘Clean Dozen’ companies in cleantech that can achieve unsubsidized [...]
Vinod Khosla Discusses Cleantech
Vinod Khosla appeared at San Francisco City Hall at an AlwaysOn GoingGreen Event today. He gave his pronouncements on innovation and his portfolio firms: If you’re not afraid of failure, it frees you up to succeed. Khosla Ventures’ portfolio firm KiOR started with a call from Belgium during which the caller told him that “everything [...]
My Working Model: Oil to Solar
It’s been a couple of years since Ilast watched Vinod Khosla talk about biofuels. During the second halfof 2006 he cruised around the country giving a big pep talk on thepromise of corn ethanol. This was during the news-cycle lead-up toPresident Bush’s early 2007 SOTUS, and the advent of US ethanolmandates. Also at that time [...]