socalTECH
JULY 12, 2013
The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations. After I left Yahoo, I spent a couple of years with Forsythe Solutions Group, as a liaison with account executives. What drove you to start MetaCloud?
Both Sides of the Table
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. You don’t.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 20, 2010
As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. close behind.
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