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Local Startups Draw Far And Wide For Funding In Q4

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If you're a Southern California startup, it's most likely you're going to find funding from local, Southern California startup funds, right? Among the top investors, some of the most active (500 Startups, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners) don't have local investment coverage.

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Genomatica Drops IPO Plans, Raises $41.5M

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The firm, which had filed for a $100M IPO in August of 2011, said in a withdrawal of its registration, that it has determined not to proceed with its IPO, "in light of current market conditions." The firm announced that instead, the company has raised $41.5M READ MORE>>.

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CapLinked Announces New Investors, Signs Up New Clients & Builds New Features

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The new funding brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to over $3 million. Based in LA, and launched in 2011 by Eric M. Business Entrepreneurship Startups AccessDNA Artesian Group Caplinked Chris Harris Conversion Capital Draper and Kramer Eric M. million in the Series A round. Team, Technology & Vision.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures. The reason I was brought in, was because one of my board members, Tim Draper, who was a board member at my first company, encouraged me along with some of the other partners at Epic to come and spend a year there. Only companies we are creating.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011. But, there are not many funded players in the space. A very small amount of those sites have had funding, but there are certainly websites about lists. Most of that funding is going towards staffing up.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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PERSON Timothy Draper PERSON|Timothy Draper. NAME Timothy Draper. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.