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Geni, Yammer Both Raise Funding

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West Hollywood-based Geni, and instant messaging spinout Yammer have both raised $5M in funding from the firms' existing backers, Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund, according to regulatory filings and reports. Geni and Yammer have both been fundraising since the middle of last year. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. This is minutes 8-11.

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Lindzon Backs Discoverly

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Discoverly disclosed a seed round of funding worth $750,000 which included Salesforce.com, Bessemer Venture partners, Atlas Venture , Great Oaks Venture Capital, as well as Jim Patterson (Yammer), MJ Elmore, Howard Lindzon (Stocktwits), and Alchemist Accelerator.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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For entrepreneurs raising capital, the tool makes it easier to be transparent and share information. We're building out the capital raising tools to help people raise money, and we want to make sure to get the word out about it to people interested in using it. Who would find this most useful? Jackson: It's free, for now. READ MORE>>.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation.

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CapLinked Teams with Quipa to Protect Business Transactions with Military-Grade Security

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CapLinked’s partnership with software security firm Quipa,a software firm founded in 2008 and dealing in new and revolutionary approach to secure network connectivity, will create a stronger network and be the solution for securely managing deals in the cloud. Series A Round.

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