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Rustic Canyon Backs Social Shopping Site

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Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon is the lead investor in a round of funding from a social shopping site out of Y Combinator. According to Mertado , a social shopping service which links users with home and kitchen products via Facebook said Wednesday that it has raised $2.3M in a Series A round.

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From The Valley to The Beach | Interview with Nate Redmond of Rustic Canyon

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TechZulu caught up with Nate Redmond managing partner of Rustic Canyon and he tells us what is happening in the LA Tech Scene. Service providers also expanding and showing commitment to the area (e.g. Happy workers are productive workers. Viddy also announced another program, The Rule The Beach. Google, Zynga).

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Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3

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In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M provider of celebrity endorsement services, with $21.6M Media and Entertainment came in second, with $70.1M--but only because San Diego's SkinIt boosted totals by $60M. in funding.

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MuckerLab Startup Accelerator Brings TechStars Incubation To Los Angeles

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Much like the model employed by TechStars and Y-Combinator, MuckerLab will recruit Internet software, services, and media entrepreneurs through an open, but selective, application process. At the end of the program, companies present their businesses to potential investors at a Demo Day event.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them. 15mm in Series A.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.