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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals. This is a pretty big round and is a lot of funding--what are you using it for?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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But we have a great city for building technology companies. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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