Solexel: The Incredible Missing Stealth Company

Yesterday Eric Wesoff reported that Solexel, a stealth, Kleiner Perkins-backed company was hiring for epitaxial silicon and MEMS engineers. MEMS, or micro-electro-mechanical systems, is a microfabrication technology used to integrate mechanical features and microelectronics on a silicon surface. Interesting, right?

After reporting this, (almost) all mentions of Solexel were removed from John Denniston’s page on the KPCB wesbite. But a deeper look on their site shows someone in the KPCB IT department most likely didn’t finish in the top of their class at Stanford. I did a search for “Solexel” and turned up this page, which clearly shows Solexel listed as one of Denniston’s companies. Right there next to Segway. So what’s to hide, John?

Solexel already has a CFO - his name is Bob Komin and he didn’t return my email. The skinny on Solexel is that they’re “developing disruptive, high efficiency, cost-reduced energy conversion products for the solar energy market.” Which is VC-speak for shoebox terrarium.

With all the “micro” talk, I was kind of hoping Jon Bonnano was involved. No such luck.

Any more details on Solexel? You know how to reach me.