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United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve California’s housing crisis

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A former venture capitalist and the co-founder of the firm that would become Los Angeles’ largest, Upfront Ventures, Dietz decided to start his company as a response to what he sees as the largest problem that California faces. . The Culver City, Calif.-based When you can match that latent supply with latent demand.

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Factual Pulls In $25M

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The funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, and also included Michael Ovitz and Ron Conway's SV Angel fund. Factual provides an online data platform and API which allows developers to access, modify, and collaborate on datasets. Factual previously had raised $2M in angel funding. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2018: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers.