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Venture Activity Comes to (Unicorn) Point in 2017, and Top 10 Deals

Xconomy

PitchBook, founded in 2007, can’t provide. A record number of unicorn financings—venture-backed companies valued at $1 billion or more—helped drive U.S. venture funding to a total of $84.2 billion in 8,035 companies (through 8,076 deals) in 2017, according to Venture Monitor data.

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StockTwits Updates iPhone App

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StockTwits is led by Howard Lindzon, who is an active angel investor and former founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007. The firm said the app includes a number of filters of its streams, based on category, plus also allows users to track what is trending on the service in real time. READ MORE>>.

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Venture Group’s Krenn Sees Improving VC Deals for SD Tech Startups

Xconomy

I haven’t seen it this good since 2007,” he says. A breakout of regional deal flow so far this year indicates that venture activity in San Diego. Call him an optimist if you must, but San Diego Venture Group president Mike Krenn says venture financings for San Diego’s early stage tech startups are on a tear. “I

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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles. Rahmat was CEO of Tom's Hardware, which he sold to BestofMedia in 2007. ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development.

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StockTwits Trumpets Usage Surge

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Lindzon is known both for his angel investing activities, as well as for founding Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS in 2007. The service is similar to micro-messaging site Twitter, except filtered and centered around publicly traded stocks. READ MORE>>.

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First Quarter IPOs Beat All Of 2009

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According to Dow Jones, those eight IPOs matched the same number of IPOs throughout all of 2009, and made it the most active quarter for venture-backed company IPOs since Q4 of 2007. The IPO activity in Q1 was a notable improvement from last year, when exactly zero venture-backed companies went public.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 As a result of this activity I have now personally returned significantly more capital in my 5 years than I have invested. I have huge confidence in the companies that I’ve backed that are still active. years ago. I’m already back to work.