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Venture Firms Invest Around $1.6 Billion In Q2 2010 In SoCal

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An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 billion invested in Q1, and up from $1.0 in investment), Energy ($190.2M in investments) and Medical Deviecs ($128.1M in investments in Q2). billion in Q2 of last year.

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Q1 Southern California Venture Deals Rise To Around $1.4B

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The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. Interestingly, only Redpoint, Domain, Anthem, and DFJ Frontier have local offices in Southern California. in deals tracked by our database.

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Zag Spins Out TrueCar

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According to TrueCar, it will provide information about new car pricing, using the actual price people have paid for cars. The firm said it has scored Series A funding from Zag, Anthem Venture Partners, Global Retail Partners, Capricorn, Capital One Auto Finance, ARcturus Capital, Scott Painter, and co-founder Tom Taira.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

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We're focusing on what we believe is a collision course between the desires of the mobile workforce--people like you and me who use their iPad, Android, or iPhone to get to our data and stuff and share it with other people--and the desires of business to make sure they can securely provide that information to both employees and people outside.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. My brother is actually at Anthem Ventures, working with Bill Woodward, and I was an intern there in business school. We've been toying with taking an investment for the last three or four years, and were able to meet with the guys at Kennet, and Javier Rojas.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. They’re the ones that rise to the cream of the crop and get the attention of the folks that are investing in LA, and they often have Bay Area or East Coast suitors who want to invest in their companies.

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