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The Boring Company Gets Nod On Las Vegas Transportation System

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Los Angeles-based The Boring Company has just received approval from Clark County, Nevada, for its plans to create an underground transportation system that will connect the Las Vegas Strip, Allegiant Stadium, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The project is expected to stretch 29 miles and will have 51 stations.

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EMN8 Raises $50M, Acquires Snapfinger

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Los Angeles-based restaurant ordering systems developer EMN8 said this morning that it has acquired Snapfinger , a developer of remote ordering products for the casual dining industry. Bass Associates, and also included Allegis Capital and individual investors. The new funding was led by Sid R. EMN8 is led by Perse Faily.

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AdventureLink Buys Competitor, Get Investment

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Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , the new adventure travel booking site run by Kelly Tompkins, announced this morning that it has acquired a competitor, Adventure Central. According to AdventureLink, the all-stock deal also included a new investment from Allegis Capital. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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AdventureLink Snags CEO From Yahoo

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Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. AdventureLink is venture funded by Anthem Venture Partners, The Mailroom Fund, and Allegis Capital. Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, READ MORE>>.

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Four Sites To Add Adventure To Your Summer Travel Plans

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AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett. This bootstrapped firm, based in Los Angeles, is the brainchild of Eric and David Bjorndahl. Adventurelink [ Profile ]. The firm is run by Billy Fried. . TravBuddy [ Profile ]. Trails.com.

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

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invested across 18 deals, followed by Los Angeles, with $224.4M The energy and clean technology sector actually helped boost investments in Los Angeles, as well, with big deals for Torrance-based Amonix , which raised $64.4M Nationally, Q4 of 2009 brought in $5.2 billion in venture deals in 832 deals. across 31 days.

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Interview with Justin and Dawn Newton, Netki

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Los Angeles-based Netki (www.netki.com) is addressing that complexity, with a product called WalletNames, which replaces those long, complex, easy to confuse strings with easy to remember, domain-like text strings. It was a regional ISP, and got bough tout by Allegiance Telecom.

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