Kleiner Perkins
Coverage of Kleiner Perkins in the Nexus archive.
- The new place to advertise your celeb-filled Series A funding round is ... a NYC bodega?
Phia, a fashion-meets-AI startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is advertising its $35.5 million Series A funding round at a NYC bodega on Kenmare Street. The ad features celebrity investors like Khloe Kardashian, Ice Spice, and Jessica Alba, though the bodega itself sells everyday items like sandwiches and cigarettes.
- Exclusive: A former Apple engineer thinks AI infrastructure is built for the wrong future. Investors just gave him $80 million to fix it
Neil Movva, a former Apple engineer, co-founded Sail Research, which has raised $80 million to develop AI infrastructure optimized for long-running agents. The startup aims to reduce costs for enterprises by improving efficiency in AI workflows that require extended autonomous operation. Investors include Kleiner Perkins and others.
- Exclusive: Crypto analytics startup Allium raises $40 million to tame blockchain data for Wall Street
Allium, a New York-based crypto analytics startup, raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures. The company provides blockchain data analytics to institutional clients like Visa and the U.S. Federal Reserve, positioning itself to capitalize on growing institutional interest in crypto and AI-driven financial transactions.
- Tech giants back new data center climate initiative
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are partnering with nonprofit Elemental Impact to develop climate-friendly technologies for data centers, focusing on advanced cooling, energy storage, and low-carbon materials. The initiative aims to use AI infrastructure expansion as a testbed for sustainability innovations, with funding from tech companies and philanthropies like Breakthrough Energy.