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London and SF have become Impact Tech hubs, with 280% increase in VC in 5 years

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Tech solutions for such pressing issues as the climate crisis and social inequality have seen a 280% increase in global VC investment from 2015 to 2020, while investment in this space more than doubled in both cities over the past five years. capital has produced 241 impact startups since 2006, with 95 companies founded in San Francisco.

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Interview with Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. Jeb Spencer: The goal at TVC Capital is to do exactly this. Accordent had been bootstrapped for five years before we met them. These companies don't traditionally get venture capital.

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Demand Media Shuffles CFO

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Hilliard has at Demand Media for five years. Tang has been at Demand Media since 2006, and previously served at UBS, venture capital firm Prime Ventures, and as an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. READ MORE>>.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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Startup Glory Awaits: Become the Startup of the Year Champion

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Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. Really, it's just another source of capital. We've grown really fast.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo!

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