Another Kleiner investor has just raised her own fund

She might not have the name acknowledgment of previous partner Beth Seidenberg, yet Lynne Chou-O'Keefe, who has spent the last five or more years putting resources into medicinal services for the endeavor firm Kleiner Perkins, is raising her very own introduction finance.

As indicated by a recently prepared SEC documenting, the firm is called Define Ventures, and it has just secured down $50 million capital responsibilities from a bunch of speculators. (The recording says it is focusing on $65 million.)

Chou-O'Keefe had joined Kleiner Perkins in 2013 as an accomplice in its little life sciences gathering, to center around computerized wellbeing and associated gadgets.

Prior to turning into a VC, she put in six years with Abbott Vascular, a division of the human services monster Abbott, first as a worldwide item administrator and later as a worldwide promoting chief. She additionally logged a few years with Guidant (or, in other words Boston Scientific and Abbott Labs) and before that, worked in endeavor with Apax Partners.

Chou-O'Keefe's store goes ahead the foot sole areas of that of Seidenberg, who joined Kleiner Perkins in 2005 and left not long ago with the end goal to help establish her own, L.A.- based endeavor firm, Westlake Village BioPartners. Seidenberg's firm has since shut its introduction support with $320 million in capital responsibilities.

Characterize Ventures looks a piece of a proceeding with pattern of Kleiner financial specialists making their very own organizations, actually. Prior contributing accomplices Aileen Lee and Trae Vassallo have proceeded to make Cowboy Ventures and Defy Ventures, individually.

Other previous Kleiner Perkins financial specialists to steerage their own assets incorporate Chi-Hua Chien, who today runs the purchaser tech centered endeavor firm Goodwater Capital; Brook Porter, David Mount, Benjamin Kortlang and Daniel Oros, who together dealt with Kleiner's Green Growth Fund and have since propelled a firm considered G2VP that is centered around distributed computing, machine learning, PC vision and versatility; and star adventure speculator Mary Meeker, who declared a month ago that she, as well, is leaving Kleiner Perkins, alongside her group (Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf and Juliet de Baubigny) to make another store that will authoritatively dispatch right on time one year from now.

Notably, in a Bloomberg piece about Meeker's takeoff, Chou-O'Keefe was named as Kleiner Perkins' final female speculator. Following what we expect will be a lessened change out of the firm (these things dependably require some investment, at any rate on paper), that never again seems to be the situation.