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

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There''s tons of activity, and lots of companies getting funded. There have been a lot of new angel investors coming out of the woodwork, and lots of companies getting pretty good funding and valuation. We invest globally, with 20 percent of our funds outside the U.S., I think the incubators have a lot to do with it.

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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Rob Freelen: The best lesson I learned in 2016 is that a well-managed company can succeed in any funding environment. Despite the Q1 correction in valuation, and subsequent drop in VC funding, we saw numerous LA companies not only survive, but thrive - despite the macroeconomic trends. What's the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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KnuEdge, Backed By $100M, Launches Voice Recognition Software

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San Diego-based KnuEdge , a startup which was founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin, said this morning that it has unveiled its voice recognition and authentication technology--which it has developed with $100M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

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Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. You mention the firms who aren't as active--and with funds going away, not yet raising money, etc.--where

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

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The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates. Meebo - Founded in 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging and group chat at meebo.com and on partner sites across the Web.

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