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Cedars-Sinai Backs Censinet In $7.8M For Risk Management

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Los Angeles-based Cedars Sinai is one of the major backers of a new startup, Censinet , in the company's Series A funding. Cedars-Sinai's participation in the funding was led by Darren Dworkin, the healthcare system's Senior Vice President and CIO. According to Censinet, it raised $7.8M READ MORE>>.

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HyreCar Names New Board Member

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Los Angeles-based car sharing marketplace operator HyreCar announced this morning that it has named a new member of its board of directors. According to HyreCar, it has appointed Jay Vijayan, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Tesla, and current CEO of Tekion, to its board.

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Former LA VC Gets Backing For Enterprise Alerting, Micro Apps Startup

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Fouad ElNaggar , a former venture capitalist who had been responsible for the Los Angeles office of Redpoint Ventures, has scored funding for a new startup, Sapho. According to Sapho, it has raised $9.5M in a Series A funding, which was led by Alsop Louie Partners. Sapho is in Silicon Valley. READ MORE>>.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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HashAtIt.com Takes On Hashtag Search

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A new, Los Angeles startup, HashAtIt.com has launched this morning, offering up a search engine specifically for searching for hashtag content. The company said it was founded by Laurie Paolone, who was formerly the CIO of MagnaFlow. READ MORE>>.

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Fliptu Gets $1.2M For Social Aggregation Tools

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Los Angeles-based Fliptu , the developer of social aggregation tools for music and entertainment brands, has raised $1.2M The startup--led by Jeremy Gocke--said the funding came from Scout Ventures, Rick Dalzell (former Amazon CIO), Rich Heise (early Groupon investor), Hivers & Strivers, Kelly Perdew, and other angels.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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However, Metacloud (www.metacloud.com), a startup providing private cloud services, is looking to change the equation and make it much easier for companies to deploy their own private clouds. We think those four dimensions matter because you can sort of mix and match those, and end up with interesting business models.

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