dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

REBELLION / SEQUOIA / CCP TECH BUN

*started as dig into Rebellion Defense, diverged into Big Tech CCP dig

Rough notes still

REBELLION DEFENSE / FOUNDERS FUND

Chris Lynch arrived at the Pentagon as an exotic outsider — the department’s resident hoodie-wearer, as Ash Carter put it. Now he and two co-founders have a defense-software startup with its own exotic aims.

Then-SecDef Carter hired Lynch in 2015 to start up the Defense Digital Service and infuse the Pentagon with some Silicon Valley-style agility and innovation. At DDS, Lynch attacked longstanding bottlenecks with a “SWAT team of hackers” who ran successful bug bounty programs and helped reshape IT policies — including helping DOD leaders to launch the gigantic Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, cloud program.

Now Lynch, who left DDS in April, has launched Rebellion Defense, a D.C.-based firm that seeks to sell software for defense and national security applications. It has financial backing from an array of Silicon Valley stars, including former Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Founders Fund, the venture capital outfit of PayPal founder Peter Thiel and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker.

We talked to Lynch and co-founders Oliver Lewis and Nicole Camarillo about Rebellion’s efforts to make working on Pentagon projects appealing to the Stanford sneaker set.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/09/exclusive-former-dod-hacker-chief-wants-make-defense-software-delightful-use/159861/

FOUNDERS FUND / MICHAEL POLANSKY (LADY GAGA)

Michael Polansky Wiki: Facts About Lady Gaga’s Boyfriend

In recent years, Polansky has worked on investment projects in the science and technology field. His career in that sphere goes back to 2010, when he was a principal at the San Francisco-based Founders Fund venture capital firm.

He was a board member at the tech startup Brigade for four years and the nonprofit Wishbone.org for nine years.

Polansky went on to become a founding member of Able, an investment firm that owns and operates a portfolio of tech companies. He had a similar role in the Economic Investment Group, an organization that helps entrepreneurs and investors develop an economic policy that would benefit the nation.

https://www.earnthenecklace.com/michael-polansky-wiki/

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founders fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. Formed in 2005, Founders Fund had more than $3 billion in aggregate capital under management as of 2016. The firm invests across all stages and sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet, with a portfolio that includes Airbnb, Lyft, Spotify, Stripe, and Oscar Health. Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Palantir Technologies, and one of the earliest investors in Facebook. The firm’s partners, including Peter Thiel, Ken Howery and Brian Singerman, have been founders, early employees and investors at companies including PayPal, Google, Palantir Technologies, and SpaceX.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund

another red flag

Abel venture fund

Lisa Blau

Partner

Lisa has spent the last decade as an active angel investor focused on consumer businesses, often in the health, wellness and active lifestyle space with a particular interest in supporting women-led entrepreneurial ventures. Previously, Lisa co-founded VitalJuice.com, a daily email newsletter on healthy living tips and trends that was acquired by Tasting Table. She also helped build and launch Portero, an online luxury goods auction platform sold to Richemont. She has experience building businesses from the ground up with partners such as AOL, Amazon, Kleiner Perkins and The Pilot Group. Lisa started her career as a producer at CNN. She is a Board Member of The New York Public Library, KIPP New York, and The Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Lisa also sits on the Steering Committee of the Leadership Now Project, a membership organization of business professionals committed to renewing democracy. She has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Lisa lives in New York City with her husband and three children.

**Kleiner Perkins red flag-similar to In-Q-Tel

https://ablepartners.nyc

Haven't checked archives for past digs figured some prelim might get eyes on

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>>10640159

Forgot to mention Richemont connection.

Johann Rupert-IWC-Richemont etc

Connection to Rothschild through wine

control of Africa -1001 club - WWF - Afrikaner

KLEINER PERKINS / JOHN DOERR / ONE.ORG

#10554634 at 2020-09-07 11:16:21 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #13506: Turtle Sinks Eagle Edition

John Doerr of the kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Silicon Valley venture capital firm is linked to technocrats and may have potential connections with Ghislaine Maxwell

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John Doerr (full name Louis John Doerr) joined kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley in 1980 and is its CEO today. Ghislaine Maxwell attended the 2011 KPCB holiday party where attendees from a tightly-controlled guest list knew of her child sex trafficking activities. KPCB also has operations in China to invest in startups in the digital, green tech, and life sciences domains.

Doerr is also co-founder of FWD.US, an immigration and education reform lobbying group which other technocrats such as Gates and Zuckerberg also fund.

Doerr also sits on the Board of ONE (ONE.ORG), an organization aimed at fighting poverty disease with efforts focused in the region of Africa. ONE is linked to Bush's President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) fund which has been linked to corruption. The executive advisor of the Open Society Foundations and former special assistant to Obama also sit on the Board of ONE.

Doerr also co-founded the NewSchools Venture Fund along with KPCB co-founder and Environment Defense Fund's National Concil member Brook Byers and social entrepreneur Kim Smith. The Gates Foundation, The Byers Family (Brook Byers), Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, John & Ann Doerr, and Bezos Family Foundation are some foundations who have donated more than $5M to this fund to date.

Doerr also sits on Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company.

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https://www.rebelnews.com/former_reddit_ceo_ellen_pao_ghislaine_maxwell_allegedly_trafficked_underage_girls

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/S%20Prt%20112-17%20Fraud%20and%20Abuse%20of%20Global%20Fund%20Investments%20at%20Risk%20without%20Greater%20Transparency.pdf

http://kpcb.com/china

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kleiner_Perkins_Caufield_%26_Byers

https://www.edf.org/people/national-council

https://www.globalstrategygroup.com/clients/

https://www.wearesoze.com/#our-clients

https://www1.salary.com/ALPHABET-INC-Executive-Salaries.html

#10554635 at 2020-09-07 11:16:34 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #13506: Turtle Sinks Eagle Edition

>>10554634

John Doerr of the kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Silicon Valley venture capital firm linked to technocrats and may have potential connections with Ghislaine Maxwell

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kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)

KPCB is a large and well-established Silicon Valley venture capital firm who made early investments in over 900 technology and life science companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netscape, Twitter, Uber, and Beyond Meat.
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao is former employee of KPCB. In July 2020, Pao tweeted that the attendees at the 2011 KPCB holiday party knew "about [Ghislaine Maxwell] supplying underage girls for sex" and that the party "managed the tightly controlled guest list".
KPCB also has operations in China that invests in startups in China, focusing on digital, Green tech, and life sciences.

FWD.US

Doerr also co-founded lobbying group FWD.US (www.fwd.us) aimed at immigration reform and improvements to education. Other co-founders of FWD.US included Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder Joe Green, along with other founders. Major funders of FWD.US include executives from tech giants.
Its vendors include the Global Strategy Group (GSG) and the SOZE Agency. GSG clients include Google, Microsoft, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Planned Parenthood, Rockefeller Foundation, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. SOZE Agency's clients include Google, Open Society Foundations, YouTube, Planned Parenthood, Ford Foundation, and Center for American Progress.

ONE (ONE.ORG)

Doerr sits on the Board of ONE. ONE is an organization that aims to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, with efforts focused in Africa. Other Board members include Bono of U2, former UK PM David Cameron, Managing Director, Global Policy & Advocacy Joe Cerrell of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, former Secretary of the Treasury and former Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administraton - Lawrence Summers, Morton Halperin of Open Society Foundations, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, and former special assistant to Obama and former Senior Director for Development and Democracy at the US National Security Council - Gayle Smith'. The CEOs of the Rockefeller Foundation and Skoll Foundation sit on its Global Leadership Circle
(RED) is ONE's sister organization and DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) is ONE's predecessor organization. On DATA's website, it states that "data.org is a platform for partnerships to build the field of data science for social impact. We envision a world that uses the power of data science to tackle society's greatest challenges."
(RED) is partnered with The Gloabl Fund and former POTUS Bush's President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) fund. The Global Fund is linked to corruption where the majority of its holdings sit with the UNDP. The UNDP does not allow its books to be audited by outside entities such as The Global Fund or the World Bank. The US Congress reported in 2011 that the Office of the Inspector General of the Global Fund "analyzed the expenditure of some $3.5 million of the $9.9 million in disbursements and found that approximately $2.7 million had been misappropriated."

NewSchools Venture Fund

Fund was created in 1998 by John Doerr, KPCB co-founder and Environment Defense Fund's National Council member Brook Byers, and social entrepreneur Kim Smith
Doerr sits on the Board of the Fund as "Lifetime Director", along with Brook Byers.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Byers Family (Brook Byers), Carnegie Corporation of New York, Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, John & Ann Doerr, and Bezos Family Foundation are some foundations who have donated more than $5M to this fund to date.
The goal of the Fund is to "support teams of educators and innovators who are reimagining public education to give all students-particularly those from underserved communities-a better opportunity to achieve their most ambitious dreams and plans." This includes creation of new public schools and charter schools, investing in ed tech, and investing in programs that help the "PreK-12 education workforce to mirror the racial demographics of U.S. students".

Google/Alphabet

Doerr also sits on the Board of Directors of Alphabet, Google's parent company

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#1148081 at 2018-04-22 23:11:57 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #1435: Another Wendy?

FROM Q's Link

>Gore and John Doerr via kleiner Perkins

Gore also found himself to be a sought-after star among elite Silicon Valley investors. In late 2007, he became a senior investment partner at one of the world's most successful venture capital firms, kleiner Perkins. He was combining forces with longtime friend John Doerr in a joint mission to spur clean tech.

DOERR CONNECTED TO INDIUM AND LITHIUM ION MINING COMPANIES, RUSSIA, AND ERIC HOLDER

>The missing [i] perhaps?

https:// xyzcase.weebly.com/john-doerr.html

john Doerr and his partners nominated, and placed in power: Steven Chu, Steven Chu's staff, Eric Holder's staff and multiple White House staff.

John Doerr is credited with coming up with the idea for "CleanTech" and the Obama Administration "CleanTech - Steven Chu- Department of Energy Funding Scandal"

As far back as the Afghanistan War, John Doerr and his U.S., and Russian, partners had been acquiring the control of the U.S. market for lithium ion mining exploitation options to be used in Elon Musk projects and other lithium exploitation efforts. Another mineral that was to be mined in the same scheme was called "indium". A company called: Solyndra, that was raided by the FBI, needed the indium. John Doerr's connections to Solyndra and Senator Dianne Feinstein are under deep scrutiny.

Doerr-promoted appointee Steven Chu, the head of the U.S. Department of Energy who was forced to quit in shame, now works for lithium ion business interests.

It has been charged that kleiner Perkins, and a group of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists, created a "cartel" designed to control public policy and steer taxpayer funds, exclusively, to their group in exchange for campaign support.

America for sale. Q was right.

#5559988 at 2019-03-07 19:38:11 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #7109: APPREHEND Edition

>>5559782

Look up kleiner Caufield Perkins Beyer and Sequoia Capital.. they funded the start ups before going public.

Important to evaluate connection with Brin and Stanford .. Anne's father.. Stamper from Carnegie Mellon.

Why would Soviet Union let accomplished mathematics expert ( Lorenz field / scalar / dynamical systems) leave Moscow and emigrate to the west?

Jews were not allowed near advanced math like this for fear of getting nuclear intel and passing to Israel. But both mom and dad allowed to emigrate? Passed thru Warsaw (Wojcicki family came thru there too). Who got dad University if Maryland gig? Who got mom Goddard Space Center gig?

Isn't it convenient that mom had odd genetic disorder that Anne studied with 23andMe before her marriage to Sergei? And her youngest sister studied racial and cultural movements (anthropology) and diseases (epidemiology)?

They do not marry for love.

What prize did Page win? And Sergei's role? Who developed the algorithm? Page? What happened to Page? Eric Schmidt placed in position when public?

KPCB - picked some of the best start-ups to back.. not because they are good or lucky.. because they worked on instructions to fund this venture wherein tech was fronted by cabal using darpa (and others) .. for eventual long term plans. Sometimes compartmentalized so even Brin doesn't have full picture. Overnight billionaires are not in control.. they are figureheads. Follow the attorneys. Unusual Knights of Malta connection.

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SEQUOIA CAPITAL

#11752174 at 2020-11-23 18:52:57 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #15001: This Election Will Determine If We're A Free Nation Edition

History of sequoia Voting Systems,Inc

REPORT OVERVIEW

This report aims to provide background information regarding the fraud-related entities, including sequoia voting systems, Smartmatic, Dominion voting systems and sequoia capital China, and to reveal their complex relationship and connections.

BACKGROUND

Automatic Voting Machine Company or AVM

The Shoup Voting Machine Corporation was an American manufacturer of voting machines, founded in New Jersey in 1905 by Samuel R. Shoup. It changed names and locations over the years, before going out of business as Advanced Voting Solutions, Inc. of Frisco, Texas in 2015.

sequoia Voting Systems

The company's predecessor was a California-based company, and it was one of the largest suppliers of electronic voting systems in the U.S. In 1984, sequoia Pacific Systems acquired the voting machine business of AVM and reorganized it as sequoia Voting Systems, Inc. Under sequoia's ownership, the AVM was certified for use in several states in 1986 and 1987, with sleek new packaging, it went to public in 1990 as sequoia AVC Advantage DRE voting machines.

Smartmatic

On March 8, 2005, sequoia was acquired by Smartmatic, a multi-national technology company which had developed advanced election systems, voting machines included. Since then, Smartmatic has dedicated much of its development and management team to modifying some of sequoia's older, traditional voting machines, and replacing their technology with avant-garde proprietary features and developments, which resulted in new, high-tech products.

Following this acquisition, U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney requested an investigation to determine whether the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had followed correct processes to green-light sale of sequoia to Smartmatic, which was described as having "possible ties to the Venezuelan government" So, in November 2007, following a ruling by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Smartmatic was ordered to sell sequoia Voting Systems.

Dominion Voting Systems

The company was founded in 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by John Poulos and James Hoover. Dominion is the second largest seller of voting machines in the U.S. In 2016, its machines served 70 million voters in 1,600 jurisdictions. In 2019, the state of Georgia selected Dominion Voting Systems to provide its new statewide voting system beginning in 2020.

In June 2010, Dominion acquired sequoia Voting Systems.

Neil Shen and sequoia capital China

https://gnews.org/584415/

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#11752187 at 2020-11-23 18:53:40 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #15001: This Election Will Determine If We're A Free Nation Edition

>>11752174

After the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Dominion either deleted or gave millions of votes that had been cast for President Trump to rival Joe Biden. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, made several assertions about Dominion, including that his Dominion used software developed by rival Smartmatic, which he claimed was actually Dominion's property, and that the software was developed by former Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Ch�vez Biden. The company was founded by Giuliani. Giuliani asserts that the Dominion voting machines sent their voting data abroad to Smartmatic, an "anti-radical leftist" company with ties to antifa. Dennis Montgomery, a Dominion software designer, claimed to have used a government supercomputer program to change the ballots on the voting machines from Trump to Biden. Sidney Powell, a Trump attorney, claims that the Dominion voting system interfered in U.S. elections on a massive scale. "There's a flood of evidence that proves that's true." Powell also claims she has a very strong witness who explains how it all works. His affidavit was attached to a brief filed by attorney Lynn Wood, who filed the lawsuit in Georgia.

Supplemental Article A: Detail Background of Neil Shen:

Neil Shen (???)

Mr. SHEN Nanpeng (aka Neil Shen, Neil Nanpeng Shen)

Global Managing Partner of sequoia capital, Founder and Managing Partner of sequoia capital China, Founder of Ctrip and Home Inns.

Member of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee.?CPPCC?

Vice-Chairman, China Securities Investment Fund Association, Venture capital Fund Committee.

Co-founder and Chairman of the Hong Kong X Technology Startup Platform.

Member of the Advisory Panel on Innovation and Strategic Development for the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR).

Trustee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Education

In 1985, Shen Nanpeng became a student in the first (class of '85) exemption of examinations class of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In 1989, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In 1989, he came to the United States to study, first in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University, and then enrolled in the Yale Business School, where he received his master's degree in 1992.

Overseas Experience

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SEQUOIA CAPITAL / FLEXTRONICS

#11657749 at 2020-11-15 20:20:24 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #14884: Need a Baker Edition

Dominion Voting used Flextronics for manufacturing its ballot scanning devices according to the Voting System Application filed with the State of CA

When Nortel was exiting the manufacturing business, it sold its plants and transferred 2500 staff to Flextronics International, an American Singaporean-domiciled multinational electronics contract manufacturer. Flextronics is now known as Flex Ltd.

Frank Carlucci (deceased), was chairman of Nortel and chairman of The Carlyle Group. He was also the defense secretary under Ronald Reagan.

Later, William Owens, senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense France Carlucci and Dick Cheney, founded Amerilink Telecom Corp who partnered with Huawei Technologies in an effort to win a major contract with Sprint for its multibillion-dollar network upgrade project

Flextronics also received venture capital funding from sequoia capital in 1993.

Moar at >>11006703 (pb)

https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/dominion-voting/part-2.pdf / https://anonfiles.com/75x8dbq0p6/part-2_1_pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_(company)

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SEQUIOA CAPITAL / ZOOM / BYTEDANCE / TIKTOK

Q Research General #13932: High Info Friday Edition

>>10882168 (lb)

>https://aim4truth.org/2020/09/15/zoom-is-a-surveillance-operation/amp/

Zoom may be a surveillance op for China. Here is more regarding sequoia investments. They are tangled up with TikTok, ByteDance, Oracle as well as Zoom.

sequoia, General Atlantic Said To Push Oracle Bid For TikTok - Report

support@smarteranalyst.com (Ben Mahaney)

August 25, 2020

General Atlantic and sequoia capital, two major investors in TikTok's Chinese parent company, are reportedly pushing Oracle's bid to buy the US operations of the popular video-sharing app as it seeks to avoid a ban by the Trump administration.

The investment firms, which own large stakes in Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., are key drivers behind a possible bid for TikTok by a group including Oracle, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Oracle group (ORCL) emerged recently as a possible contender to Microsoft, which is touted as the frontrunner to buy TikTok's operations in the US and three other countries.

Microsoft (MSFT) had said it might ask some US investors to join its bid. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, sequoia and General Atlantic recently grew concerned that they wouldn't be included in a Microsoft deal and looked for another potential tech partner that could give them a piece of the action. They are now backing the potential Oracle bid, which quickly won President Donald Trump's public support.

sequoia and General Atlantic both hold seats on ByteDance's board. sequoia's seat is occupied by its China head, Neil Shen, while its efforts in the US to participate in an acquisition are being led by Global Managing Partner Doug Leone. General Atlantic's effort is led by its CEO, Bill Ford, who represents his firm on ByteDance's board.

ByteDance has been under pressure to reach a deal to sell TikTok's US arm ahead of a 90-day deadline the White House imposed this month for any deal to be completed or for the app to face a ban. The Trump administration has said that the app poses an economic and national-security threat to US interests, if it isn't sold to US buyers.

SEQUOIA CAPITAL / YOUTUBE

The Deal

In 2005, Roelof Botha from Sequoia wrote an investment memo proposing to the investment committee (IC) that they invest in the seed round of a video company. That company was YouTube. Here is the YouTube investment memo by Sequoia

The partners agreed to invest $1 million which was then followed by a $4 million Series A. Google’s acquired YouTube a year later for $1.65 billion, netting Sequoia $500m- 57x its total investment. Not bad.

It would be pretty interesting to read that memo, right?

https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/the-confidential-youtube-investment-memo-by-sequoia-you-were-never-meant-to-see/

The Wall St. Journal (subscription required) was among several sources this morning who reported that an announcement between Google and YouTube could come later today. The WSJ also confirmed an estimate that Sequoia Capital holds roughly 30% of YouTube, something we had previousy speculated on.

One source close to YouTube tells us that founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim each stand to make between $100 and $200 million from the deal. How much will Sequoia take?

Sequoia was among YouTube’s first funders, providing $11.5 million in two rounds. When $25 million more was rumored to have come from parties unknown this April, Michael Arrington wrote that Sequoia likely did whatever it could to maintain it’s equity share in the company. He estimated that share was between 25% and 30%.

https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/sequoia-could-take-480-million-from-googleyoutube-deal/

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SEQUOIA CAPITAL / DROPBOX

#8870407 at 2020-04-21 06:51:33 (UTC+1)

Q Research General 11355: BREAKING: Kim ROcKs ON dition

Dropbox Inc. co-founder/10% owner sold: $12.36m-Apr 16 & 20

Arash Ferdowsi was born October 7, 1985 and is an Iranian-American entrepreneur. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Dropbox.

Arash graduated from high school in 2004 in Kansas. Ferdowsi attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he dropped out in his last year to focus on his business.

Ferdowsi launched Dropbox in June 2007 with his business partner, Drew Houston, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In September 2007 Ferdowsi moved his company to San Francisco and raised venture capital from sequoia capital, Accel Partners, Y Combinator, and a handful of individual investors.

Dropbox underwent an initial public offering, valuing the company at around USD 9.2 billion.

From the company's establishment in June 2007 until October 2016, Ferdowsi served as the chief technology officer (CTO) of Dropbox. He remains a member of Dropbox's management team and board of directors

https://ir.usembassy.gov/arash-ferdowsi/

SEQUOIA CAPITAL / IOWA CAUCUS APP / PACRONYM

#8103547 at 2020-02-11 20:25:48 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #10373: The Hunt is On Edition

>>8103514

Ex-Google Engineer And Silicon Valley Tech Money Tied To Shadow, The App That Brought Chaos To The Iowa Caucus

The smartphone app maker that caused a major delay in reporting results during Iowa's Democratic caucus is connected to Democratic presidential candidates and Silicon Valley veterans anxious to implement cutting-edge election technology to stymie a Trump re-election.

The app that was supposed to count and report caucus results was created by Shadow Inc., a for-profit tech company cofounded in February 2019 by former Google engineer Kirsta Davis and Gerard Niemira, an engineer who worked at San Francisco microlender Kiva.org. Both later worked on Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign. Washington D.C.-based Shadow was acquired last year by Acronym, a nonprofit also based in D.C. and founded in March 2017 by former journalist Tara McGowan to advance "progressive causes through innovative communications, advertising and organizing programs." It has an affiliated political action committee called Pacronym.

Silicon Valley heavyweights make up the liberal-leaning roster of Pacronym's backers. One supporter is billionaire Michael Moritz, a partner at sequoia capital, whose net worth of $4.1 billion stems from his early bets on Google, LinkedIn and PayPal. According to Federal Election Committee data, he gave $1 million to Pacronym, or 12.8% of the $7.8 million that it has raised since early 2019.

Other Silicon Valley backers include Kenneth Duda, chief technology officer of computer networking company Arista Networks, who also gave $1 million to the committee. Jim Swartz, cofounder of venture firm Accel, gave $400,000, while John Fisher, a venture capitalist at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, contributed $100,000 to the committee. Josh Tetrick, founder of troubled food startup Hampton Creek contributed $254 to the committee. CNBC first reported on the PAC's contributors. It is unclear whether these contributions funded Shadow. These donors did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/02/04/the-big-tech-money-behind-shadow-the-app-that-brought-chaos-to-the-iowa-caucus/#5ac5588e63bd

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SEQUOIA CAPITAL / KOBE / JACK MA / VIPKID APP

#7924410 at 2020-01-27 00:34:53 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #10141: Nakers In The Dough Edition

>>7924256 Kobe in China

Kobe Bryant Announces Investment in Chinese Education Company VIPKID

-VIPKID, the leading online education platform for children in China to learn English through teachers in North America, today announced it has received investment from the $100 million fund by Bryant Stibel, the venture capital firm announced by Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel at the NYSE on August 22

Aug. 3, VIPKID announced a $100 million Series C round led jointly by sequoia capital and Jack Ma's Yunfeng capital

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160823005760/en/Kobe-Bryant-Announces-Investment-Chinese-Education-Company

Kobe's investment firm (Bryant Stibel Growth Equity, Bryant Stibel Ventures and Bryant Stibel Value.) - https://www.bryantstibel.com/about/

''Bryant first visited China to host a basketball clinic in 1998. He returned on a promotional tour for Adidas in 2001.

Since then, he has visited China every year from 2006 through 2015 on promotional tours for Nike.''

''He competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and visited China with the Lakers for two exhibition games against the Golden State Warriors in 2013.

He's scheduled to return to China this summer, and it's no wonder Bryant has referred to that nation as his "home away from home."''

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/15184228/eight-reasons-why-retiring-los-angeles-lakers-legend-kobe-bryant-rock-star-china

SEQUOIA CAPITAL / WUHAN / SOROS

#8461312 at 2020-03-18 13:43:34 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #10833: They Will Not Go Quietly Into The Night Edition

to anons working on Soros/WuXi Pharma (all pb) >>8459541, >>8459634, >>8459474, >>8459667, >>8459824, >>8459761, >>8459809, >>8459918, >>8459932, >>8459947, >>8459953, >>8459969, >>8460013 (all pb) Wuhan lab linked to Soros? Anons debate the issue

Don't forget >>8116206 (pb) (not_tabled) Gets into WuXi genomics and connection to 23andMe, Goog Ventures $$$, sequoia capital $$$

This anon found original Soros-WuXi-666 addy connection. Humbled that anons took this dig for action and reached depths I could not have.

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SEQUOIA CAPITAL / 23 &ME

#825339 at 2018-03-29 03:25:49 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #1023: Makes ya go WHEEEEE!! Edition

>>825313

The company was founded by Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza and Anne Wojcicki in 2006 to provide genetic testing and interpretation to individual consumers.[14][15] In 2007, Google invested $3,900,000 in the company, along with Genentech, New Enterprise Associates, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.[16] Wojcicki was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the time.[7]

Cusenza left the company in 2007 and was appointed CEO of Nodal Exchange in 2008.[17] Avey left the company in 2009 and co-founded Curious, Inc. in 2011.[18]

In 2012, 23andMe raised $50 million in a Series D venture round, almost doubling its existing capital of $52.6 million.[19][20][21] In 2015, 23andMe raised $115 million in a Series E offering, increasing its total capital to $241 million.[5][22][23]

The company sponsored the PBS TV series "9 Months That Made You".[24]

Another $250 million of financing was raised in September 2017, led by new investor sequoia capital. sequoia is joined in the financing by new investors Euclidean capital, Altimeter capital and the Wallenberg Foundation.[25]

In 2018, the company initiated a series of advertisements with well-known figures, firstly with Warren Buffett.[26]

Relationship with government regulators[edit]

The new genetic testing service and ability to map significant portions of the genome has raised controversial questions, including whether the results can be interpreted meaningfully and whether they will lead to genetic discrimination.[10][27] The regulatory environment for testing companies has been uncertain, and anticipated risk-based regulation catering for different types of genetic tests has not yet materialized.[28][29][30]

State regulators[edit]

In 2008 the states of New York and California each provided notice to 23andMe and similar companies, that they needed to obtain a CLIA license in order to sell tests in those states.[10][31][32] By August 2008, 23andMe had received licenses that allow them to continue to do business in California.[33]

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe

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GOOGLE / SEQUIOA CAPITAL / KLEINER PERKINS

#5559808 at 2019-03-07 19:26:41 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #7109: APPREHEND Edition

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After Google's incorporation, the company received $25 million in equity funding in 1999 led by Sequoia Capital and kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. According to Homeland Security Today, "A number of Sequoia-bankrolled start-ups have contracted with the Department of Defense, especially after 9/11 when Sequoia's Mark Kvamme met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to discuss the application of emerging technologies to warfighting and intelligence collection." Similarly, kleiner Perkins had developed "a close relationship" with In-Q-Tel, the CIA venture capitalist firm that funds start-ups "to advance 'priority' technologies of value" to the intelligence community.

John Doerr, who led the kleiner Perkins investment in Google obtaining a board position, was a major early investor in Becholshtein's Sun Microsystems at its launch. He and his wife Anne are the main funders behind Rice University's Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL), which in 2009 received $16 million from DARPA for its platform-aware-compilation-environment (PACE) ubiquitous computing R&D program. Doerr also has a close relationship with the Obama administration, which he advised shortly after it took power to ramp up Pentagon funding to the tech industry. In 2013, at the Fortune Brainstorm TECH conference, Doerr applauded "how the DoD's DARPA funded GPS, CAD, most of the major computer science departments, and of course, the Internet."

From inception, in other words, Google was incubated, nurtured and financed by interests that were directly affiliated or closely aligned with the US military intelligence community: many of whom were embedded in the Pentagon Highlands Forum.

Google captures the Pentagon

In 2003, Google began customizing its search engine under special contract with the CIA for its Intelink Management Office, "overseeing top-secret, secret and sensitive but unclassified intranets for CIA and other IC agencies," according to Homeland Security Today. That year, CIA funding was also being "quietly" funneled through the National Science Foundation to projects that might help create "new capabilities to combat terrorism through advanced technology."

The following year, Google bought the firm Keyhole, which had originally been funded by In-Q-Tel. Using Keyhole, Google began developing the advanced satellite mapping software behind Google Earth. Former DARPA director and Highlands Forum co-chair Anita Jones had been on the board of In-Q-Tel at this time, and remains so today.

Then in November 2005, In-Q-Tel issued notices to sell $2.2 million of Google stocks. Google's relationship with US intelligence was further brought to light when an IT contractor told a closed Washington DC conference of intelligence professionals on a not-for-attribution basis that at least one US intelligence agency was working to "leverage Google's [user] data monitoring" capability as part of an effort to acquire data of "national security intelligence interest."

A photo on Flickr dated March 2007 reveals that Google research director and AI expert Peter Norvig attended a Pentagon Highlands Forum meeting that year in Carmel, California. Norvig's intimate connection to the Forum as of that year is also corroborated by his role in guest editing the 2007 Forum reading list.

The photo below shows Norvig in conversation with Lewis Shepherd, who at that time was senior technology officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, responsible for investigating, approving, and architecting "all new hardware/software systems and acquisitions for the Global Defense Intelligence IT Enterprise," including "big data technologies." Shepherd now works at Microsoft. Norvig was a computer research scientist at Stanford University in 1991 before joining Bechtolsheim's Sun Microsystems as senior scientist until 1994, and going on to head up NASA's computer science division.

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KEYSTONE VENTURES

#1778622 at 2018-06-17 03:11:30 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #2239: The Mystery Moustache Vexation Cont. Edition

This keystone started in 2008, the year Hussein was elected, in Illinois, and deals in China

Keytone Ventures | Crunchbase

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/keytone-ventures

Keytone Ventures is a China-focused venture capital firm. Keytone was founded in 2008 when it acquired a portfolio of seven investments from kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Keytone's investment team includes Joe Zhou, former Founding Managing Partner at KPCB China, and Stella Jin, former partner at IDG-Accel China Growth Fund.

Founders: Joe Zhou, Zhixiong Zhou

Founded: 2008

ANDREESSEN

#1987483 at 2018-07-01 21:27:06 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #2506: Bang, Bang.

>>1987123

>>1985062 pb

Andreessen Horowitz not just a "startup company".

One of the granddaddy venture capital firms.

Big $$$. Be extremely suspicious.

>https://www.pehub.com/2011/06/kleiner-perkins-and-andreessen-horowitz-separated-at-birth/

Andresseen Horowitz suddenly has four five GPs, a venture partner, and a very special, special advisor: former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Meanwhile, it has sunk enormous chunks of its capital into Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Kno, Aliph, Skype, RockMelt, Zynga, Fusion-io.

NETSCAPE / ANDREESSEN / KLEINER PERKINS

Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web.[17][18] It was founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins as investors.

MAGELLAN (EXCITE)

In January 1995, Vinod Khosla (a former Stanford student), a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers arranged a US$250,000 "first round" backing for the project, with US$1.5 million provided over a ten-month period. Soon thereafter, Geoff Yang, of Institutional Venture Partners, introduced an additional US$1.5 million in financing and Excite was formally launched in October 1995.[4]

In January 1996, George Bell joined Excite as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Excite also purchased two search engines (Magellan and WebCrawler) and signed exclusive distribution agreements with Netscape, Microsoft and Apple, in addition to other companies. Jim Bellows, then 72, was hired by Excite in 1994 to figure out how to present the content in a journalistic manner.[5] He paid good journalists to write brief reviews of web sites. However, users wanted to get directly to the content and skipped the reviews, so the partnership with Bellows ended in 1998. Excite's original website design was mostly based on the orange color. In 1997 it was redesigned with a black and yellow theme, which mostly continues to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite

CHELSEA CLINTON / KLEINER PERKINS / BIRTH CONTROL

#2111417 at 2018-07-11 03:01:21 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #2662 Nothing Can Hold Q Back!

Chelsea Clinton, kleiner Perkins throw support behind Nurx, the 'Uber for birth control'

Telemedicine startup Nurx, which provides direct-to-consumer birth control and daily HIV prevention medication (PrEP) to patients whether or not they have health insurance, has raised $36 million in a Series B led by kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The round values the company at $100 million, per PitchBook data.

Dubbed the "Uber for birth control" in the media, Nurx offers a HIPAA-compliant platform that delivers contraceptives directly to customers' doorsteps and allows women to skip physical doctor's appointments, offering online access to a network of doctors and pharmacies that have partnered with the company. It's a business plan that's also drawn the support of Chelsea Clinton, who will join Nurx's board as part of the new funding.

News of the funding comes a day after US President Donald Trump announced conservative federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, igniting a conversation around the future of women's healthcare. A majority-conservative court could reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that made it illegal for states to ban abortion.

If the court does overturn Roe V. Wade, control over abortion regulations would return to each individual state. It's likely that 22 states would ban abortion without federal laws, according to a recent estimate from the Center for Reproductive Rights.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chelsea-clinton-kpcb-throw-support-050000667.html

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MAXWELL FAMILY / COMMTOUCH / INFORMATION ON DEMAND / MAGELLAN / ISREAL

Aside from her father’s own ties to Israeli intelligence, it is worth noting that Isabel’s own history – up to the point she joined CommTouch – involved her working for the Israeli intelligence front company used by her father to sell bugged PROMIS software in the U.S., Information on Demand, and subsequently the search engine Magellan, of which she shared ownership with her sister Christine (whose ties to U.S. intelligence will be explored in Part IV) and her sister Ghislaine, a sexual blackmailer and sex trafficker operating on behalf of U.S. and Israeli intelligence. Isabel’s past with both Magellan and Information on Demand were clearly known to CommTouch at the time of Isabel’s hiring. It also worth noting that, on several occasions, Isabel credits CommTouch’s success with the ties of all of its Israeli employeesto the Israeli military and military intelligence, resulting in – per Isabel – a “dogged work ethic” and a “trained mind-set” among its Israeli workforce.

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It’s not exactly clear why Paul Allen came to the rescue of CommTouch’s IPO and what he expected to gain from his investment. However, it is worth pointing out that Allen was among the members of an exclusive online community of elites set up in 2004 called “Small World,” whose membership also included Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein-linked figures like Lynn Forester de Rothschild and Naomi Campbell, as well as Petrina Khashoggi, the daughter of Adnan Khashoggi, a former client of Epstein’s. Small World’s largest shareholder was Harvey Weinstein, the now-disgraced media mogul who was a business partner of Epstein and was since accused by a number of women of sexual abuse.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/07/investigative-reports/isabel-maxwell-israels-back-door-into-silicon-valley/

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INSITUTUTIONAL VENTURE PARTNERS (IVP)

Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a US-based private equity investment firm focusing on later-stage venture capital and growth equity investments. IVP is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1980.

While Reid W. Dennis was an analyst at the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company starting in 1952, he started an informal network of screened individual investors (now called angel investors). In 1974, Dennis founded Institutional Venture Associates (IVA), funded by six institutions such as American Express.[1] Burton J. McMurtry and David Marquardt, who had been involved with IVA, left and founded Technology Venture Investors, the first investor in Microsoft.[2]:236 These were some of the first venture capital firms located on Sand Hill Road near Stanford University, within Silicon Valley. With his personal wealth and that of other partners, Dennis founded Institutional Venture Partners in 1980.[3] The first IVP fund had $22 million.[4] In a field that was generally male-dominated, Ruthann Quindlen became a rare female general partner in 1994.[4][5] After the burst of the dot-com bubble in 1999, partners from IVP combined with Brentwood Venture Capital formed Redpoint Ventures, which would specialize in later-stage digital media and Internet companies,[6] and Palladium Venture Capital to focus on health science investments.[2]:307 IVP specializes in venture growth investments, industry rollups, founder liquidity transactions, and select public market investments. It only makes a small number (about 12 to 15) relatively large investments per year. Its fourteenth fund raised about $1 billion in June 2012.[7] Its fifteenth fund raised $1.4 billion in April 2015.[8] Its sixteenth fund raised $1.5 billion in September 2017.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Venture_Partners

IVP / CROWDSTRIKE

https://www.ivp.com/portfolio/crowdstrike/

REDPOINT / FORTINET

The firm was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Beijing and Shanghai. The firm manages $3.8 billion of capital.

The firm's partners include Allen Beasley, Jeff Brody, Jamie Davidson, Satish Dharmaraj, Tom Dyal, Tim Haley, Brad Jones, Chris Moore, Lars Pedersen, Scott Raney, Ryan Sarver, Tomasz Tunguz, John Walecka, Geoff Yang and David Yuan. The founders of Redpoint Ventures have been involved with successful investments including Foundry, Juniper Networks, Netflix and Right Media.[1] Its partners have been involved in 136 IPOs and acquisitions. IPOs include Snowflake, Twilio, Pure Storage, 2u, Just Eat, Zendesk, HomeAway, Qihoo, Responsys, Fortinet and Calix. Acquisitions include Acompli, Caspida, Efficient Frontier, Heroku, RelateIQ, BlueKai, Posterous, Trip.com, LifeSize, Refresh, Right Media and Zimbra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redpoint_Ventures

*SIDE NOTE – CAN anybody find a connection between YANG enterprises and the Geoff Yang listed above? More on Yang Enterprises @ http://cavdef.org/w/index.php?title=Yang_Enterprises

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X PRIZE / PETER DIAMANDIS

Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the executive founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies.

As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space, venture capital and education. He is the cofounder and vice chairman of Celularity, Inc., a cellular therapeutics company, and the cofounder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with $250M investing in exponential technologies.

https://www.xprize.org/about/people/peter-h-diamandis-md

LOS ANGELES(BUSINESS WIRE)The X PRIZE Foundation raised more than $2.5 million at the “Radical Benefit for Humanity” on Saturday evening. Hosted by Larry Page at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., luminaries from around the world attended including: Lawrence Bender, producer of “An Inconvenient Truth”; Tipper Gore; Sergey Brin, Google co-founder; Sir Richard Branson; Dr. Stuart Blusson, sponsor of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics; Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles Lindbergh; Robert K. Weiss, vice chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation and film producer; Anousheh Ansari, title sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE and the first private female space tourist; Arianna Huffington, opinion leader, Huffington Post; and Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway Computers. Robin Williams, actor/comedian, gave an impromptu performance for the crowd of more than 300.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070307005775/en/PRIZE-Foundation-Raises-2.7-Million-Gala-Hosted

#8525087 at 2020-03-23 02:22:14 (UTC+1)

Q Research General: #10913: Wartime President Edition

Two excerpts from WikiLeaks email attachment regarding Donations to Robin Hood Foundation

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7939

____Peter diamandis, Founder, X Prize. Works to bring about breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity through large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. Notable successes include quadrupling the speed of oil spill cleanups and building the world's first private spacecraft. diamandis recently announced a series of anti-poverty XPrizes with the Robin Hood Foundation with the potential to revolutionize city-based anti-poverty programs. In July 2012 diamandis called for a job creation XPrize. [M/US]

PETER DIAMANDIS / HUMAN TRAFFICKING ORG

https://ourrescue.org/partnerships

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