PalmPilot Organizer Creators Secure Funding and Sign Licensing
Agreement With 3Com; JD Technology Now Handspring, Inc.
09:05 a.m. Nov 05, 1998 Eastern
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5,
1998--Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, the principals behind
the development of the wildly popular PalmPilot(TM) handheld
computer, have secured funding from leading venture capital
firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and
Benchmark Capital. John Doerr will represent KPCB on the
board of directors and Bruce Dunlevie, an early investor in
Dubinsky and Hawkins' former company, Palm Computing,
Inc., a 3Com company, will serve on the board representing
Benchmark. The new company will be called Handspring, Inc.
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