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Article: Gore joins top shelf VC firm: November 26, 2007.(THIS WEEK)(Al Gore and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers venture capital)(Generation Investment Management LLP)
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- November 26, 2007
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the Silicon Valley venture capital firm famous for bankrolling such high-tech success stories as Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computer and Google, trotted out Al Gore as its newest partner. In his part time role at the firm, Gore will focus on finding, funding and advising alternative-energy start-ups while counseling the firm on greening its other investments. The firm's decision to tap Gore underscores the prominence of alternative energy (increasingly known within the sector as "cleantech," short for clean technology) as the so-called "new, new thing" to high-flying venture capitalists.
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