US$200 million capital fund
TheiFund is aUS$ 200 million capital fund. Developers may enter into equity deals for the creation of applications, services, and components forApple Inc. 'siPhone ,iPod Touch andiPad platform. It is being offered and managed byventure capital companyKleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB).[ 1]
The iFund was announced by KPCB partnerJohn Doerr at the same time as theiPhone OS SDK , at Apple's iPhone Roadmap event on March 6, 2008 inCupertino, California .[ 1] [ 2] Matt Murphy in collaboration with partnersChi-Hua Chien , John Doerr,Bill Joy ,Randy Komisar ,Ellen Pao , andTed Schlein . Apple provides KPCB with market insight and support.[ 3]
On September 15, 2008, KPCB launched ablog to share perspectives on the iFund.
In December 2008 the confidential iFund application data was accidentally published on the web byKleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ’ former hosting provider, Meteora Technologies Group, in adatabase dump file. The file was indexed byGoogle and coincidentally discovered by afruux staffer. The file contained Applications from 588 companies including detailed information from each of these companies, like founder bios, financial ratios and business models.[ 4] [ 5]
Portfolio companies [ edit ] ^a b Olsen, Stefanie (March 6, 2008)."Kleiner's iFund to invest in 'Apple entrepreneurs' .CNET . Archived fromthe original on January 29, 2013. RetrievedMay 26, 2018 . ^ "Apple March 6 Event" .Apple Inc. March 6, 2008. RetrievedMarch 9, 2008 .^ "iFund Initiative" .Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers . Archived fromthe original on March 10, 2008. RetrievedMarch 24, 2008 .^ Arrington, Michael (December 3, 2008)."588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web" .TechCrunch . RetrievedMay 26, 2018 . ^ "588 Kleiner Perkins iFund developers accidentally leaked to Web" .ZDNet . Archived fromthe original on December 6, 2008. RetrievedDecember 5, 2008 .^ Empson, Rip (July 13, 2011)."Crittercism Raises $1.2 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Google Ventures For App Support" .TechCrunch . RetrievedJuly 13, 2011 . ^ Gannes, Liz (July 12, 2011)."The Google Start-Up Network: Google Ventures Invests in AngelPad Companies" . AllThingsDigital=2011-07-12.
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