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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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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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Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3

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Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 in funding raised; followed by Otonomy , a San Diego maker of treatments for hearing disorders, which raised $38.5M. funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M in funding. in funding. in investments.

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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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No longer will you need to be situated in Silicon Valley, or Boston, NY or LA to get venture funding. I think we will see far greater diversity in the types of entrepreneurs that get funding and build businesses which will create a wonderful richness of new company cultures.

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

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Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Those are two big gaming companies.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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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 you’re complaining that its too hard to raise money as the founder of an LA tech company, stop bitching about a lack of funds and focus on being a bigger badass. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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