John Doerr

“Volantis, a SF-based inference semiconductor company, raised $88m in Series A funding. Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures led, joined by John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic, Susa Ventures, Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao, and Sholto Douglas.”

“Volantis, which develops optical interconnects that use laser light to link AI processors with memory chips, raised an $88M round co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic, Susa Ventures, Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao, and Sholto Douglas also investing.”

“Hopscotch Primary Care, a Chicago-based provider of primary care for rural communities, raised $53m in Series D funding.”

“The maxim is attributed to legendary venture capitalist John Doerr, who was seeking to accentuate the overlapping nature of startup investing. Now it might become fodder for the Justice Department.”

“Antora Energy raised $550m in Series C funding. G2 Venture Partners and Eclipse led, joined by Ribbit Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Activate Capital, John Doerr, Westly Group, StepStone Group, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures and insiders Decarbonization Partners, Impact Science Ventures, Trust Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Lowercarbon Capital.”

“CuspAI...raised a $450 million Series B round at a $2.6 billion post-money valuation. The deal was led by Kleiner Perkins.”

“CuspAI, a U.K.-based materials discovery startup, raised $450M in Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with participation from Jeff Bezos and John Doerr.”

“The scale of the round and the caliber of investors signals that AI-powered materials science is graduating from niche to mainstream investment theme — sitting at the intersection of AI and physical-world application (energy, manufacturing, defense).”

“If you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center. It puts out a Bloom box powering the data center, the waste heat providing the cooling for the data center, and it being connected to nothing else. For me, the period between 2001 and now, the 25 years, was never a question of if. It was a question of when and how soon.”

“If you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center.”

“Isometric raised $40M Series A... AVP was the deal lead, with John Doerr and Walter Kortschak as well as previous investors Plural and Lowercarbon Capital also stepping up.”

“"This initiative is coming at the most perfect time because the priorities they have are literally the same priorities that you're hearing from communities." — Ryan Panchadsaram”

“Gridcare, a two-year-old startup based in Redwood City, CA, that uses physics-based AI to identify unused electrical grid capacity and accelerate power connections for data centers and AI infrastructure, raised a $64 million Series A round led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with John Doerr, National Grid Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Emerson Collective, and Stanford University... also piling on.”

“Panthalassa…builds autonomous ocean-based systems to generate wave power and run AI computing at sea, raised $140 million in a Series B round led by Peter Thiel, with John Doerr, TIME Ventures, SciFi Ventures…Founders Fund [and others] also piling on.”

“A well-funded opposition coalition — including John Doerr, Eric Schmidt, Michael Moritz, and Chris Larsen — is sponsoring multiple ballot initiatives to cancel it out, including one that would 'bar any future wealth taxes.'”

“We have raised $450 million in the Series A. So it's enough capital. And with that, we're attacking the problem now. People like Vinod Khosla, but also people like John Doerr, people like Bill Gates. These are all people that have all invested in the company.”