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Good Eggs raises $100M and plans to launch in Southern California

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Grocery delivery startup Good Eggs is announcing that it has raised $100 million in new funding, and that it’s planning to launch in Southern California in either the summer or fall of this year. “I think of [Southern California] not as one big region, but as several small sub-regions,” Hall said.

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

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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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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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I also find that Southern California is an amazing place for talent. We've got three of the team also based here in Southern California, and it's proven to be am amazing hub. We're working from Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and we've found that Southern California is really friendly. versus New Zealand?

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California.

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How mPulse Is Using Your Smartphone To Improve Health Care

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mPulse was formed in April of 2015, as a spinoff of a company called mobileStorm, which has been in mobile marketing and communications for the last fifteen years. Chris Nicholson: It's actually been much less about the technology, but about finding talent here in Los Angeles, and in Southern California. What is mPulse?

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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