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Draper Goren Holm Raises $25M Blockchain Fund

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Los Angeles-based Draper Goren Holm , a new venture capital fund founded by Tim Draper, Alon Goren, and Josef Holm, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $25M in its very first fund. According to the firm, its Fund 1 will make seed and Series A investments in the fintech and blockchain startup world.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Of these 19 have received funding (10 have received significant amounts of VC funding) and 5 have been acquired (2 for more than $30 million).

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Favor Plans Expansion Into San Diego, Gets $13M

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Favor , a on-demand, mobile delivery app developer, said today that it will be expanding into San Diego in the coming months, thanks to a new, $13M funding round. Favor was part of the SLO HotHouse incubator/accelerator. The company currently operates in Austin, Boston, Houston and Dallas. READ MORE>>.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. When I was at Amplify, we had a lot of people wondering what an accelerator was, and how we differentiated from an incubator. We actually are ideating internally. READ MORE>>.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

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Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. Brock has personally invested close to $1M into the currency itself, and a bit shy of $1M into the companies/ecosystem with 12 funded Bitcoin companies in 2014 alone. Our panel maintains they are not in the business to fund forex traders.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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PERSON Timothy Draper PERSON|Timothy Draper. NAME Timothy Draper. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. NAME Mark Zuckerberg. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. TOPICID 408. NAME Mich Mathews. NAME Mark Suster.