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Frank J. Caufield (1939 – November, 2019) was a co-founder and named partner of the
venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which h ...
firm
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneur ...
, based in
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.Frank Caufield Profile - Forbes.com
/ref> From 1973 to 1978, Caufield was a general partner and manager of Oak Grove Ventures, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. He was a past president of both the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and the National Venture Capital Association. Caufield served on the boards of
Quantum Corporation Quantum Corporation is a data storage, management, and protection company that provides technology to store, manage, archive, and protect video and unstructured data throughout the data lifecycle. Their products are used by enterprises, media and ...
, Caremark Inc., AOL Inc., Megabios,
VeriFone Verifone is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida. Verifone provides technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale. Verifone sells merchant-operated, consu ...
Inc., Wyse Technology, Quickturn Corporation and
Time Warner Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States. It was originally established in 1972 by ...
. He was a director of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund,
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, was a board member of the
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, an advisor to the European venture capital fund HealthCap and served as chairman of the Child Abuse Prevention Society of
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. Caufield graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1962 and completed an
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from the
Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
in 1968.


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Frank Caufield bio at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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