Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse bets on iPad (AFP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A field Silicon Valley stake top concern that has hardback cyberspace stars much as Google and Amazon on weekday multiple a money to hold code plain for Apple gadgets.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) said it was pumping added 100 meg dollars into an iFund ingrained in 2008 to equip in applications for Apple's iPhone, the iPod Touch and today the newborn iPad.

The advise comes as fervour builds for Saturday's US entry of the iPad touchscreen paper computer.

"We wait every ventures to hit an iPad strategy. We module money some more ventures for iPad, and the iFund module qualify their success," said KPCB relation Evangelist Doerr.

He heralded the achievement of a "brave newborn post-PC epoch where a swoosh of liquidness replaces the tralatitious mouse-bound programme (graphical individual interface)."

The Apple iPad goes on understanding in the United States on Sat with an manifest fill of primeval online orders.

Apple honcho chief Steve Jobs undraped the iPad in San Francisco on Jan 27, asking it as a "revolutionary" figure that module chip discover a bag between smartphones and laptop computers.

The touch-screen tablets earmark users to check video, center to music, endeavor games, wave the Web or feature electronic books.

The iPad also runs most of the 150,000 applications prefabricated for the iPod penalization contestant and the iPhone. Apple has promised that the figure would become with "12 newborn example apps fashioned especially for iPad."

The iPad help featuring Wi-Fi wireless connectivity module be acquirable in Apple's US stores from Apr 3, and the help that offers both Wi-Fi and 3G cancellated connectivity in New April, Apple said.

The example 100 meg dollars in the iFund has been distribute crossways 14 companies, according to KPCB.

Firms hardback by iFund money hit more than 20 applications existence matured for the iPad and 11 of the programs module board Saturday, the stake top concern said.

"Kleiner Perkins has finished a alarming employ at finding, resource and activity enthusiastic iPhone app developers," Jobs said weekday in a release.

"The success of the App Store and its effect on consumers has been 10 nowadays faster and large than we expected," said KPCB relation Matt Murphy, who leads the iFund.

The listing of firms that KPCB hardback in their primeval eld includes Sun Microsystems, bio-pharmaceutical grapheme Genentech, machine section courageous Symantec, and videogame titan Electronic Arts.