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Tech Coast Angels Invests $4.5M In First Half Of 2012

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The Tech Coast Angels said today that it has totalled up its investments for the first half of 2012, and found that it invested $4,571,000 in direct investments--as part of $10M in funding--for 17 companies. The group said that investments were fairly consistent compared with the same period in 2011, when it invested $4.4M

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. numbers should be released in the next week for 2012. As 2012 turned.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The post Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups appeared first on TechZulu.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. You may enjoy looking at that last link. Quality endures.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million.

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CoFoundersLab Matches Entrepreneurs Scientifically

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In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. By November 2012, CoFoundersLab Meetups had expanded to 20 cities. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. But, most did not file their S-1''s. Globalization is a big trend.