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Carl Edwin Berg (born 1938) is an American businessman, real estate investor and venture capitalist. He has been included in Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest people in America several times,<ref name=ForbesBillionaires>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in March 2013 his net worth was estimated at $1.1 billion.<ref name=ForbesBillionaires />
Early lifeEdit
Carl Berg was born and raised in New Mexico.<ref name="BizJournalMission" /> He has one brother, Clyde Berg, also a real estate developer.<ref>Mercury News: "Silicon Valley real estate magnate facing charges in suspected sexual abuse of wife" By Tracey Kaplan August 5, 2013</ref><ref>Mercury News: "Clyde Berg abuse lawsuit: Jury decides against his ex-wife" By Tracey Kaplan March 10, 2016</ref>
CareerEdit
Berg worked as a loan officer in Texas and then moved to California in the 1970s where he took a job running a mortgage company in Sunnyvale.<ref name="BizJournalMission">Silicon Valley Business Journal: "Carl Berg a man on a mission" by Katherine Conrad July 25, 2010</ref> In California, he partnered with real estate agent, John A. Sobrato, and pooling their owned capital, founded Midtown Realty.<ref name=BizJournalMission /> In 1979, they re-focused their business on building industrial campuses for the tech industry.<ref name=BizJournalMission />
InvestmentsEdit
Berg acquired Mission West Properties Real Estate Investment Trust in 1997, and sold it to realty developer Divco West in December 2012 for $1.3 billion.<ref name=ForbesBillionaires />
Berg has invested in more than 100 technology startups.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> He began by investing in companies that were tenants of his Silicon Valley office buildings, occasionally trading office space for company stock.<ref name=":1" /> Berg's technology investments include the consulting firm International Network Services, which he bought from Lucent Technologies in 2002. He is a major investor in Verifyme, Inc.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is a major investor in Valence Technologies, owning 52% of the company and serving as chairman in 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has also invested in Summit Semiconductor, and is on the board of directors of LynuxWorks.
Berg is also one of the founders of Berg LLC, also known as Berg Health, a biopharma company using AI approaches.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2014, Berg invested in the development of a new prostate cancer test through BERG LLC.<ref name=":0" />
Personal lifeEdit
Berg is married, with one daughter, and resides in Atherton, California.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1982, Berg's wife and daughter were kidnapped, escaped unharmed, and the perpetrators were caught.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>