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PORTLAND, OR: Fleishman-Hillard-owned KVO Public Relations has joined the growing band of PR firms adding VC outfits to their client rosters. Timerline Venture Partners, an independently managed affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson that has backed such Pacific Northwest and CA-based infotech companies as etrieve, Bidpath.com and DocuTouch, has tapped KVO's corporate and public affairs group to handle its corporate PR account.