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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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Geni Connects With Facebook

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Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web sites for families, has connected the company's service with the popular Facebook social networking web site.

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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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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

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So, what we do, is bring all of that data together into a unified, comprehensive solution, so they can manage all of that activity and data in one place. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. How did the company come about?

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

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After that, I had the opportunity to move to Australia in 2007, and joined a venture capital firm called Starfish Ventures. In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. You then caught things like Web 2.0, Back when I was doing energy investing in 2007, there were only 7 gigawatts of solar power world wide.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. This is astounding and myopic in my view.