As a result Kleiner, once the undisputed king, is now just one of a half-dozen top-tier VC firms that include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners.

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Backed by Benchmark Capital and Greylock Partners, Picarro has sold analyzers to climate scientists and governments in China and California, which are creating networks of the machines to detect the source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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So far, it is running on cash from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital, two venture capitalists based in Silicon Valley.

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