Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers is the lead investor in a $14m round of financing for Zing.com Inc. Last seen displaying stock photos to users waiting for web pages to download, Zing has reinvented itself as a personal photo community site and portal. Zing is perfectly positioned to be the online photography portal for millions of consumers as they adopt digital photography, said KPCB partner John Doerr. We helped make Amazon a premier brand and we’re going to do it again with Zing. Digital camera sales are exploding, Zing CEO Mark Platshon pointed out. Zing is the next step, using the web to share, manage and store photos – in essence, moving the photo ‘shoebox’ online.
