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Friday, February 17

VC's attack health

by Richard McKinnon on February 16, 2006 06:47PM (PST)

Kleiner Perkins have been one of the hottest and most astute Venture Capital companies in Silicon Valley. Today, they announced a 200 million dollar fund to invest in fighting pandemics, like bird flu. SARS, Bird Flu, Ebola are the new disease fronts of the 21st century. Moving aggressive VC money into play offers the fastest possible way of attacking the virus problem. This will be the start of serious money being thrown into the problem to attract the best brains. An important step towards powerful health outcomes and better disease solutions

Keywords: BirdFlu

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