A billion in VC? Or could that just be the high end of a range that they're preparing for? I'd never heard of a round done for that much so I went looking. Onl

A billion in VC? Or could that just be the high end of a range that they're preparing for? I'd never heard of a round done for that much so I went looking. Only clear has ever taken on more VC than that in total after combining all their rounds... but apparently much of that was from industry partners, and they had a lot of spectrum to buy in small chunks. The second highest company in terms of total raised comes in just below the size of this round alone, with $949.85M. In googling to find that list I came across another fact... 1 Billion more or less matches the total amount of foreign VC expected to flow into all of India in 2011. Clearwire $1,299.50 Solyndra $949.85 Western Integrated Networks $889.00 MetroPCS Communications $733.10 Facebook $677.70 Reliant Pharmaceuticals $574.15 WildBlue Communications $557.99 Force10 Networks $553.42 Better Place $550.00 Grande Communications Netw. $507.40 http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/06/01/the-top-10-richest-venture-backed-companies-of-all-time/ http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/06/01/the-top-10-ri...