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New Firm Looks To Fund Technology Startups

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Beverly Hills-based Henislie , a new joint venture created by BioAccel and Imprimatur Capital , said today that it is in the midst of raising approximately $50M to seed investment in companies in the life science, information technology, telecommunications and clean energy production.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. Frost & Sullivan just named MediaPlatform the product leader in enterprise video platforms. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't. be the pig and don't get greedy.

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BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery

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If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses. Concurrently with our product launch, we announced our seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab. They have to pay for placement. Farbod Shoraka: We''re really excited.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. It's not about what product we are selling, is what are your problems and can our product solve those problems, or is there something else where we can augment what we already have. Did you take investment initially?

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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However, being that I started a tutoring agency when I was 18, Beverly Hills Academics, I was able to understand the logistics on how to operate hyper-locally from the beginning, so HeyTutor could spend money on developing a platform where we knew exactly what we were doing. We have product, people, and have our foundation set.

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Mike Jones On Science Inc.'s First Firms

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They were a group of really great young guys out of Beverly Hills, who understand how to build a brand, and figured out how to do it very quickly, and manufacture for a very low price. They love branding, and have built a brand with provides an aspirational lifestyle through their products.

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

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Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).