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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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Mission Ventures' Lee Departs For Stealth Startup

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Lee was involved in Mission's investments in SodaHead, Access 360 Media, and Active Storage, among other companies. Lee has previously served in associate and intern roles at Riordan, Lewis & Hayden and Redpoint Ventures, and prior to that was at Cisco Systems. Lee has not yet announced what he his new startup is up to.

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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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Prior to founding Archer, Greg was a partner with Redpoint Ventures for 11 years, which grew out of Greg's original firm, Brentwood Venture Capital. His current active investments include: Sovrn, Zyp Media, and QMerit. Greg focuses on early, growth stage and secondary technology investment opportunities.

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

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Media and Entertainment came in second, with $70.1M--but only because San Diego's SkinIt boosted totals by $60M. In terms of industries funded, Biotechnology by far led the funding, with $162.2M raised by companies in the sector. The other large sector for investments was Software, with $54.8M in total funding for the quarter.

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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Media and Entertainment was at $55.5M The most active firms investing in Southern California, according to the Pwc/NVCA report, were GRP Partners , Domain Associates , and TPG Growth --all with 4 investments each--followed by Allegis Capital , Benchmark Capital , and Sanderling Ventures , all with three investments each.

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

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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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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. Current round: $8mm in Series B from RRE Ventures (Will Porteous)(lead), SoftBank, Hearst Interactive Media, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Founder Collective.Total raised: $11.5mm.