CIO Funding Santa Monica Venture Capital 
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APRIL 17, 2012
ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. Think about venture capital. Also East of the 405?
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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. I live in the city of Santa Monica. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.
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