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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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2010 was a momentus year for me personally. I left a great firm, Redpoint Ventures (after 11 years), to start a new firm, Archer Venture Capital. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? Stay tuned.

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Venture Firms Invest Around $1.6 Billion In Q2 2010 In SoCal

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Other active firms included Bessemer Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Palomar Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners, Domain Associates, The Westly Group, Life Science Angels, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Idealab, Versant Ventures, Anthem Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and First Round Capital.

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Chill Shifts To Social Discovery

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The new focus is one of several iterations made by Chill since its started life as Namesake, a social Q&A service, back in 2010. Norgard and Gould were previously the founders of Ad.ly; Chill is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Redpoint Ventures, Atlas Venture, Paul Kedrosky, and CrunchFund. READ MORE>>.

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Betterworks Ramps Hiring, Looks To Hire 50

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Testifying to the rapid growth rate at which local startups operate, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the online employee benefits and perks firm headed by Paige Craig, revealed Tuesday that it is expecting to expand its team to over 80 people, after inking a round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.

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SoCal Venture Deals Up In Q2

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In terms of venture firms, the most active firms from Southern California, nationally, were Redpoint Ventures (9 investments), Steamboat Ventures (5 investments), and GRP Partners , Rustic Canyon Partners , Blade Ventures , Avalon Ventures , and Angeleno Group , with four investments each. billion in investments so far in 2010.

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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billion in investments in 681 deals in the first quarter of 2010. Southern California's investment totals bucked the national trend, which found that there was a 9 percent drop in dollars to $4.7 Nationally, Q4 of 2009 brought in $5.2 billion in venture deals in 832 deals. invested across 18 deals, followed by Los Angeles, with $224.4M

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.