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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is making an offer to limited partners who are upset that the firm has been sued by one of its partners for gender discrimination: If you want out, we'll let you out.

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You could practically hear the collective gasp across Silicon Valley Tuesday morning as people awakened to the news that Ellen Pao , a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is suing the esteemed firm , claiming that she suffered years of harassment and discrimination and that when she complained, she faced retaliation in the form of stifled ... (more)

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers investment partner Ellen Pao, a former Cravath, Swaine & Moore associate, is suing the Silicon Valleybased venture capital firm for gender discrimination and retaliation.

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Even as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers focuses its attention on a new early-stage fund and pursuesA more consumer and enterprise technologies, the firm's vast clean-technology portfolio continues to need money.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is being sued for alleged discriminating against its women partners , but Sequoia Capital partner Greg McAdoo insists that the industry is still a meritocracy.

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Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has been sued by one of its own partners, Ellen Pao, for gender discrimination and retaliation.

GreatPoint Energy has raised funding of $1.25 billion from China Wanxiang Holdings to finance and construct the first phase of a one trillion cubic feet per year coal to natural gas production facility.

After fits and starts, iPierian Inc. will focus on developing monoclonal antibodies targeting Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, the company said Monday.

The newly public Facebook says it is buying Karma, a mobile social gifting app. The news was released via Karma's blog .