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Solarflare Acquired By Xilinx

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According to Xilinx, the deal will help the company accelerate its "data center first" strategy. Xilinx was a strategic investor in the last funding announced by Solarflare, and Solarflare's other investors have included Oak Investment Partners. Financial details of the acquisition were not anounced.

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Embarke Raises $1.25M For Email MarketingTools

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The company''s backers include Anthem Ventures, La Costa Investment Group, Right Side Capital Group, Promus Ventures, Social Leverage, plus angels, including Howard Lindzon, Eric Otterson, and others.

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Q1 Southern California Venture Deals Rise To Around $1.4B

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The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. The growing clean technology sector also helped numbers, with $74.0M in deals tracked by our database.

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What Startups Can Learn From The Pizza Business: Samit Varma

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Varma is actually a former technology investor at Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Anthem Ventures, and we thought it would be great contrasting his experience starting and running a restaurant franchise with the technology startup world. What is Pizza Studio? How did you go from venture capital to running a franchise restaurant chain?

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Interview with Todd Jerry, Marmol Radziner

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Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. First, explain what your company is all about?

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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He’s also candid, humble and helpful. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.