Tameka Kee
Oct 16, 2009 5:53 PM
Mobile app-developer Pelago is partnering with Collective Bias, the social media arm of The Mars Agency, to create a location-aware mobile marketing app that will combine friend recommendations with coupons and discounts. Pelago is backed by the Kleiner Perkins iFund; the new mobile marketing app will be integrated into its…
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Matt Kapko
Dec 3, 2008 3:41 PM
If you or your company submitted your information to Kleiner Perkins to be considered for an investment from the VC firm’s $100 million iFund, you might want to see if your information has been leaked. Names, phone numbers, email addresses, business plans and bios from 588 applicants were accidentally published…
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Matt Kapko
Aug 22, 2008 3:23 PM
The $100 million iFund investment pool, created by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested in five iPhone start-ups, NYT reports in a profile piece on Matt Murphy who heads up the endeavor. Pelago, the parent of mobile location-based service Whrrl, received an investment from KPCB before the iFund was…
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