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Omaze Raises $30M In Series B

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Los Angeles-based Omaze , which operates an online fundraising platform for charities, has raised $30M in a Series B funding round. According to Omaze, it will use the funding to expand its "experience categories" and accelerate international growth.

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Scopely raises $340 million at a $3.3 billion valuation as gaming grabs investors’ interest

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In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. “We were excited to crossover and invest in Scopely.” valuation. . ” .

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

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The sheer number of entrants in the category — and the capital they’ve raised — points to the opportunity for several winners if companies can walk the tightrope balancing cost at scale and quality replacements for free range food.

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All Raise expands to new geos, launches ‘VC Cohorts’

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With a focus on female venture capitalists and founders, All Raise hosts an annual conference, several in-person and virtual fundraising workshops and networking sessions and, recently, the group began creating curated peer groups for investors. “I think the movement is just gathering momentum. Scaling a nonprofit, startup style.

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Southern California Firms Raise $738M In Q4 2011

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Southern California fundraising matched a similar increase nationally, where $28.4 In terms of industries, Biotechnology led the investments with $207M invested in the category, followed by Industrial/Energy, with $155.27M, then Medical Devices, with $133.59M in funding. The amount is up from $528.0M

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

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Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a newsletter published every Saturday that dives into the week’s most noteworthy venture deals, fundraises, M&A transactions and trends. Fundraising. Let’s take a quick moment to catch up. It doesn’t appear to be funded yet, but let’s just give it a few months.

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Interview with Brandon Hance, GoodThreads

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That was my first exposure to fundraising via an event. I started speaking with some of the people at Avon about that, and asked them why they were missing out on such a huge branding and fundraising opportunity. If you think about it, it's a new category of fundraising in the marketplace. If you look across the U.S.,

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