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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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Los Angeles-based business transactions and dealroom service CapLinked has rounded up some new investors today, saying that it has added additional investors in its Series A funding. The firm earlier had announced investments from. FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), and others.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Think USV is only invested around Union Square in NYC? And in many communities that are new to building tech startups I’ve found that a lot of angel money is not very sophisticated at investing in startup companies. Think the next big startup can’t come from Dallas, TX? Think again. Angry Birds?

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I believe the key here is key, and the ability to provide this for free, which is why we took the recent investment.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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I love to rib the Winklevoss twins as much as anyone , but focusing more on California does seem like a smart move to show that they are serious about tech investing. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. socaltech socalcto

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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It's something that is really neat which we invested in, which we've never seen anywhere else. My background, is I'm from Los Angeles. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer. If someone has a contest form in PDF on a web site, we can fill that out and track that submission.

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