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2 unusual facts about Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers


Consolidated Business Interests

With close ties to venture capital firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, CBI was instrumental in the success of many of the technology companies that launched during those years.

Zaarly

The company has secured $14.1M in Series A financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sands Capital Ventures, following a $1M angel investment.


Brook Byers

Brook Byers is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers and Atlanta, Georgia engineering entrepreneur Ken Byers.

Cerent Corporation

It was founded in 1997 as Fiberlane Communications with funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Vinod Khosla as the managing VC.

Clovis E. Byers

The I Corps headquarters staff moved to Brisbane by air in August 1942, travelling on the same aircraft as former United States Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Peter Fraser.

I Corps headquarters remained at Rockhampton, Queensland in the training role until March 1944, when it moved to Goodenough Island, where it prepared and staged for Horace R. Byers

Byers joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1940, eventually helping establish the Department of Meteorology.

Omaha City Council

It was composed of A. D. Jones, who resigned March 23, 1857; T. G. Goodwill, who died May 18, 1857; G. C. Bove, H. H. Visscher, Thomas Davis, William N. Byers, William W. Wyman, Thomas O'Connor, C. H. Downs, J. H. Kellom, for whom Kellom School was later named; and John Creighton, whom Creighton University was later named for.


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