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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. People can come in and have a coffee.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

TechCrunch LA

The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. We’ll have a16z general partners Chris Dixon, Angela Strange and Andrew Chen for insight into the firm’s latest activity. The business has closed a $3.85

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

socalTECH

We also put together the Series B with Redpoint for Machinima. I'm not suggesting that it's content, I'm suggesting it is the journey and the experience related to consumer activity. I think, also, that we'll clearly benefit from companies like Demand Media, and the newly minted set of angels and entrepreneurs coming out of that.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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