Its venture capital backers include the Sequoia Fund, Bain Capital and Greylock Partners.

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Last year the Sequoia Fund, where Lowenstein has been a Director for the last twelve years, decided to divest its heavy holding of Berkshire Hathaway stock.

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Venture capital firms, such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and the Mayfield Fund, began to sprout like poppies.

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Out in Silicon Valley, new venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates and the Mayfield Fund wrote smallish, six-figure checks to obscure grad students chasing "small" ideas: electrons, photons or genes.

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Rather than see public-sector investors release information, Sequoia, a Silicon Valley group, barred the Universities of California and Michigan from its newest fund and told them to sell their stakes in other funds.

ECONOMIST: Private equity