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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 Just as Yves mentored me when I became his co-managing partner in 2011, he didn’t seek to ride off into the sunset either. And all the platform stuff. Wait, What About Yves? Yves enjoys the same things I do?—?investing

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. I met with Seed San Diego partners Taner Halicioglu and Eric Gasser, who also reviewed the companies and provided their feedback. I widened my net this year.

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Smartest Motorcycle Helmet Raises over $900K in One Day | Skully AR-1

Tech Zulu Event

For those who may not be familiar with the Skully AR-1, its a motorcycle helmet with heads up display, review camera and GPS navigation. Skully is doing an introductory price of$1,399 if you should be one of the first to get the helmet when it ships in May 2015. TECH SPECS. Lightweight, aerodynamic polycarbonate shell.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

TechCrunch LA

organized by the Los Angeles-based venture firm Upfront Ventures as a showcase for technology and investment talent in Southern California, venture investor Josh Kopelman spoke to the heightened pace of dealmaking at his own firm. Speaking onstage at the Upfront Summit, an event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. ”

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Bio Roundup: RIP Roger Tsien, Novartis CAR-T Wheel, Zika News & More

Xconomy

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. The firm raised $450 million in January 2015. For more on Tsien and the rest of the week’s news, let’s get to the roundup.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

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He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. Beatriz has been a tireless public advocate of the role of Latinx leaders in startups, technology y media. home ownership in 2015 (NAHREP).

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