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Mission Ventures Re-Ups On Alpine Data

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San Diego-based venture capital investor Mission Ventures has re-upped its investment in San Francisco-based Alpine Data Labs , a developer of Hadoop software for the big data market. Greenplum was acquired by EMC in 2010. mission ventures alpine data hadoop bigdata venture capital metapa greenplum'

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SoCal Venture Capital Investments Total $497.8M In Q4

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Software investments took second place, with $102.2M Nationally, venture capital investors invested $21.8 billion across 3,277 deals in all of 2010 -- up 19 percent in terms of dollars, and 12 percent in terms of deals compared to last year. in investments. Biotechnology investments were third, with $99M in investments.

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Plug and Play San Diego Finds Home in New Downtown Works Space

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Bielas, a longtime San Diego resident who founded RSI ID Technologies, a San Diego area maker of inexpensive radio-frequency identity tags and RF readers, said he started to invest in technology startups after selling the business (which merged with Sirit in 2008) to Federal Signal in 2010. “I It’s really cool.”.