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The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far

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The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US. Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar. In this case, it’s mostly just the SF Bay Area, plus others scattered between Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego and one ( Magic Leap ) in the unfortunately named Plantation, Florida. Jason Rowley.

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

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Especially since the round was led by the Los Angeles-based venture firm Upfront Ventures. Our founding team includes world-class engineers, designers and architects who have been building billion-dollar SaaS products for two decades,” said McCorkle, in a statement. “We Midwest rising.

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Nomad Homes, With Team In LA, Gets $4M

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Nomad Homes , a startup developing a marketplace for finding and buying a home--which has operations in Los Angeles--has raised $4M in seed funding, the company said on Wednesday. The funding was led by Comcast Ventures, and also included Abstract Ventures, Partech, Precursor Ventures, WndrCo, and Class 5 Global.

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Down bad

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Our guest, Aaron Levie, built a successful SaaS business in Box, and now he’s on a mission to beef – respectfully – with web3 stans all over Twitter. I don’t even think digital assets [are] an asset class. I think it’s a technology that is now wrapping all asset classes,” Dorman said. debt, equity, derivatives) or sectors (e.g.,

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Announcing Upfront Ventures’ Newest Partner — Kobie Fuller

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That’s why I’m so excited to announce today that we’ve hired Kobie Fuller as a Partner at Upfront Ventures — he will move down to Los Angeles with his wife and 1-year-old son and start later this summer. Kobie then headed to Los Angeles to join LA-based startup REVOLVE as its CMO where he got his direct operating experience.

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socalTECH Jobs: Job Highlights for August 7th, 2014

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Some recent jobs: VP of Business Development, RampRate - Los Angeles. Business Development Director, Colony Logic - Los Angeles. Colony Logic is a Los Angeles-based platform technology company that simplifies the overly complex world of profitably selling and supporting Digital products.

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socalTECH Jobs: Monday Morning Job Highlights

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Our transaction-focused methodology delivers low risk, best-in-class business terms, rates and service levels for our customers. Funded B2B SaaS is looking for a VP, Engineering. The company and this position is Los Angeles based. Our average client revenue in in the millions. VP, Engineering , Fetch Recruiting.

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