Menlo Park, Calif.-based Draper Fisher Jurveston's past investments
include electric-car maker Tesla Motors, algae biofuel firm Synthetic
Genomics, thermal solar firm BrightSource Energy, as well as dot-com
classics such as Hotmail
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and Baidu.com
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The firm has also taken stakes in information-technology power specialist SeaMicro, building-software maker Scientific Conservation Inc., and Power Assure Inc., which helps manage electricity at data centers.
Now Jurvestson, who serves as a managing director of the firm, is about to close Draper Fisher Jurvetson's 10th venture capital fund, which will partly take aim at opportunities to curb the roughly 3% of U.S. electricity output that goes toward running information-technology systems.
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