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Bonfire Ventures closes $60 million to invest in SoCal B2B startups

TechCrunch LA

Los Angeles is becoming one of the more interesting destinations for startups and the investors that provide money for venture capital firms to place bets on young companies are increasingly starting to take notice. New funds are launching in Los Angeles at a pretty feverish clip, and the latest to plant its flag in the […].

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Bonfire Ventures closes $60 million to invest in SoCal B2B startups

TechCrunch LA

Los Angeles is becoming one of the more interesting destinations for startups and the investors that provide money for venture capital firms to place bets on young companies are increasingly starting to take notice.

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Learn about the new LA incubators/accelerators

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 -- Learn about the new LA incubators/accelerators. So much so that we are going to start 2012 with a big bang with the LeanLA incubator/accelerator event. I don't know if you guys noticed but incubators have been popping up in LA like mushrooms after a rainstorm in the last few months.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

socalTECH

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. You have a unique position, being both in the investment banking as well as being an early stage investor.

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Incubators, Accelerators, and New Choices for Entrepreneurs

Steve Reich

Wild times in Southern California—VC firms contracting and incubators/accelerators exploding! You can’t turn around in SoCal without running into new incubators. Ben Kuo at SoCal Tech did us all a big favor by publishing his Complete Guide to Southern California Incubators.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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Insights and Opinions: Idealab and the Bill Gross Legacy

socalTECH

In all of the recent rush to create internet accelerators in the region, William talks about, Bill Gross, the person behind the "original" tech incubator, Idealab. Bills name is well known within the investment, start-up and tech communities, especially of late with the recent launch of his Chime.In Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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