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JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based Dreamscape Immersive , which is working on opening up physical "VR centers" across the country, said Wednesday that it has raised $30M in a Series B funding round. The company said it is hoping top open up its first location at the Westfield Century City Mall sometime next year. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2012

not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. Think about venture capital. Those that were around 30+ years ago never had to think about branding – there were hardly any other VCs. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I always try my best to take meetings like this since my friend had clearly committed some political capital to his friend in saying he could help him get a meeting. So I ended up doing a dinner meeting because I know what it’s like when you travel to meet somebody about fund raising and might not get to have the meeting after all.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. This is a pretty big round and is a lot of funding--what are you using it for? Gil, thanks for the time today.

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MAY 16, 2010

I always try my best to take meetings like this since my friend had clearly committed some political capital to his friend in saying he could help him get a meeting. I want to be on Paul Graham’s “ Maker’s Schedule &# but as a VC this is quite hard.) The meeting was set for Wednesday, May 8th 2008 at 11am.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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