Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE participated in the round.
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About three-and-a-half years ago, Kinnier joined Khosla Ventures, first as an entrepreneur-in-residence, then becoming a partner.
The company is backed by Charles River Ventures, Jesselson Capital, Khosla Ventures and ZG Ventures.
Khosla Ventures recently added former Square COO Keith Rabois as a venture capitalist.
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Khosla Ventures has invested in a variety of information technology and clean technology companies.
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Khosla Ventures has been more active than most of the other Silicon Valley firms in this sector.
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His network includes eight or nine VCs including Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, Crosslink, DAG, and Khosla Ventures.
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Then, early last week, Blue River Technology raised 3.1 million dollars in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures.
Khosla Ventures recently invested in the company to help it build a manufacturing facility in Fargo, North Dakota.
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McBride notes Khosla Ventures has invested in several companies with leaders over 45.
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Thiel and Schmidt were joined in the Series A round by Khosla ventures, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and others.
Keith Rabois, the former COO of Square, has joined Khosla Ventures in a major move in the venture capital industry.
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His Khosla Ventures was a big backer of biofuel producers Kior and Gevo, both of which went public in 2011.
Khosla's venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, hasn't even invested in corn-ethanol companies.
Khosla Ventures is the largest shareholder of Gevo, with a 28% stake.
Gevo, which listed its shares on Nasdaq in February, is backed by Khosla Ventures, the venture capital firm run by billionaire Vinod Khosla.
He denied the charges and was later hired by Khosla Ventures.
Samir Kaul, a founding general partner at Khosla Ventures, one of the premier cleantech venture firms, says investors likely will have done their homework out of necessity.
Chairman Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures, a Menlo Park, Calif.
EcoMotors, a Detroit area startup backed by Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates, is one of several American companies bankrolled by Silicon Valley venture capitalists that are developing opposed piston engines.
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Take the example of one hotly-pursued internet entrepreneur who told me that several top tier VC firms were interested in funding his startup, including Accel, Khosla Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
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As a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, former partner at Kleiner Perkins, and founder at Khosla Ventures, Khosla shared some of his insights into how successful startups should approach their work.
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Both Range and LanzaTech are Khosla Ventures portfolio companies.
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Being so widely diversified has insulated Khosla Ventures and other funds that have taken this approach, while traditional clean tech investors, who concentrated in solar, wind, or batteries alone, have generally not fared as well.
So how well has Khosla Ventures done?
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Khosla Ventures run by uber venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the Founders Fund from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Innovation Endeavors from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt contributed to the round.
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YuMe investors include Accel Partners, BV Capital, DAG Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Intel (INTC) Capital lets publishers earn profits on their professional video content while delivering advertising campaigns for major brands and their agencies.
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From the beginning, Khosla Ventures has had an investing strategy around main tech, not around the conventional interpretation of clean tech representing our philosophy of supporting a broader set of clean tech technologies that have main tech economics.
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