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SGI-DNA Finds $25M In Funding

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San Diego-based SGI-DNA , a biotech company which is developing synthetic genomics and dna data storage technology, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Northpond Ventures, and also included Oxford Finance and BroadOak Capital partners. READ MORE>>.

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On Launching a Brand – Upfront Ventures Four Months In

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Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). At a big Hollywood fund raiser this past weekend a well-known entrepreneur pulled me aside to thank me for hiring Hamet. who is talking about putting in up to $30 million in our startup. .”

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. in Los Angeles.

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Howard Marks: What I Learned In 2014

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We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? This will finally revolutionize the way startups get funded. What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. It is different.

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AppOnboard raises $15 million to let Android users try before they buy apps on Google Play

TechCrunch LA

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Zweig was one of the architects behind the success of AdColony, a startup which sold to Opera Software in 2014 for $350 million.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. More on that later.