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Red Cell Targets Healthcare, Defense Technology With Investment, Incubation

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Red Cell Partners, a newly formed investment and incubation company targeting healthcare and defense technology, announced it has launched the firm out of Washington and Los Angeles. The company said it will look to invest in companies and technologies in the areas of health care and defense.

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Report: Levinsohn May Head Up Yahoo North America

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Ross Levinsohn , the former head of Fox Interactive Media, is possibly the top candidate to head of Yahoo 's North American operations, according to a report from AllThingsD. It's unclear where that would leave Levinsohn's venture firm, Fuse Capital , as well as a new digital media fund the firm recently established with Best Buy.

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M DataPop was founded Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman, both of whom have been at Overture and Yahoo! Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo.

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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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If it seems strange to find the inventor of Bitcoin living in the San Gabriel Valley, it''s actually not all that surprising given the area is home to one of the most prominent research universities in the United States, The California Institute of Technology ; NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; and the original Internet incubator, Idealab.

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First Round Capital Launches Dorm Room Fund | $500,000 Pilot Investment Fund For Students

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Josh Kopelman, managing partner at Philadelphia based First Round Capital has launched Dorm Room Fund, in a move to reach out to college dorm entrepreneurs, like he was in 1992 while at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Less Capital is Capital Still. He says on his blog , “I was a dorm room entrepreneur.

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Geodelic Ships Application With T-Mobile

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The company was incubated by Clearstone Ventures, which has been actively pulling together management teams and funding new startups in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Aside from Sonnad, who was at thePlatform, the company includes executives from Shopzilla, Yahoo!, and Jamdat. READ MORE>>.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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