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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. People can come in and have a coffee.

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Tastemade Gets $10M More For YouTube Food Channels

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Santa Monica-based YouTube food show producer Tastemade has raised $10M in new funding, the firm said Thursday, led by Raine Ventures and also including Redpoint Ventures. Tastemade is the producer of a number of online, Youtube food and cooking shows, which had been founded by former Demand Media executives.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

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Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. WordPress parent company Automattic secures $300M.

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Luxe Valet Raises $20M

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Luxe Valet , the on-demand valet parking app provider which launched into LA in January , has reportedly raised $20M in a new financing.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. Hark is backed by Redpoint, and happens to be co-founded by Fouad. How is the company funded and backed? Was Fouad with Redpoint at the time? However, Redpoint still wanted to go in.

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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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I left a great firm, Redpoint Ventures (after 11 years), to start a new firm, Archer Venture Capital. Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius.