Kleiner Perkins Considers New Fund for Cloud-Services Startups
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture firm that backed Zynga Inc. and Groupon Inc., is considering starting a new fund focused on startups selling cloud services to corporations.
Kleiner Perkins partners “have talked about it, and are intrigued by the idea,” Matt Murphy, a partner at the Menlo Park, California-based firm, told Bloomberg.com’s Tech Deals blog. Kleiner Perkins could invest $100 million in the market this year, he said. Cloud services, which run on servers located in remote data centers, help companies manage their data.