Kleiner Perkins Invests in Seed Company as It Sees Food Shortage
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the U.S. venture capital firm that provided startup financing to Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc., is investing in a seed company as it forecasts food will become a “global problem of huge dimensions” over the next decade.
“We just invested in a seed company that is essentially collecting seeds from around the world,” Randy Komisar, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, said in an interview from Lisbon today.