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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We really believe in the market.

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Qualcomm Gets Exit At Eero

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San Diego-based Qualcomm has seen an exit at one of its Qualcomm Ventures portfolio companies, Wi-Fi mesh equipment maker Eero , which was acquired by Amazon on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3

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Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. Nationwide, there was $4.8 billion invested in the region.

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Southern California Startups Raise $761.12M in Q2 2014

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The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Nationally, there was $13.0 READ MORE>>.

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Qualcomm Backs MapR's Hadoop Technology

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San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. MapR said today that it has raised $110M in a giant funding round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Qualcomm Backs Cyanogen In $80M Round

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San Diego-based Qualcomm is one of the investors in mobile operating system developer Cyanogen , as part of that company''s new, $80M Series C funding. cyanogen cyanogenmod venture capital android operating system alternative qualcomm mobile smartphone' READ MORE>>.

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ServiceNow's Slootman Aligns With Pre-IPO Flash Storage Firm

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Frank Slootman , the CEO of San Diego-based ServiceNow , headed up the software developer''s very successful IPO last year. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Tiger Global, and Sutter Hill, Greylock, Redpoint, and Index Ventures. slootman servicenow array data capital venture flash storage pure purestorage' That funding came from T.

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