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Celebrating innovators in healthcare IT! Along with former Venrock portfolio company athenahealth and fellow venture firm Oak Investment Partners, Venrock hosted a party during the annual JP Morgan Healthcare conference, giving the burgeoning healthcare IT sector a place to convene and network at this monster conference. To see predictions for the sector shared by attendees, check out our SlideShare page, and to see photos from the party, check out our Flickr page.

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And the latest addition to the Venrock family is…. (drumroll, please)… Klout! Klout identifies influencers and provides tools for influencers to monitor their influence. Do you have Klout? The investment was led by Venrock’s David Pakman and Marissa Campise, who boast Klout scores of 57 and 51 respectively. Welcome to the family Klout team!

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2011 was a pivotal year for the energy sector – the world witnessed a colossal nuclear power disaster at Fukushima, Japan and the venture capital flameout of Solyndra. Until recently the energy sector was hot among investors, but what now? Ray Rothrock takes a candid look at the energy sector in, “Venture Capital and Energy in the United States: Where to From Here,” published by The Huffington Post on New Year’s Day.

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Venrock’s Matthew Nordan wrote a four-part series of posts about the state of  cleantech venture capital, including The Money,  The Investors, The Companies and Final Thoughts. The posts were published by GigaOm and also appear on Matthew’s blog, Secret Forumula.

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