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The Riskmaster, lyrics by Tim Draper of DFJ

Eric Greenspan

First, my thanks to Tim Draper for allowing me to use his song in my entrepreneur presentations at UCLA, Anderson School of Business and USC, Marshall School of Business. The Riskmaster, lyrics by Tim Draper. Bankers demanding blood refund. Even Draper will not fund! Invested all his mattress money. He is the Riskmaster.

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Inogen Names New Board Member

socalTECH

Mora was previously was Chief Administrative Officer, Vice President for Finance, Administration and Treasurer at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and also served at Harvard University and Coopers and Lybrand LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). Inogen is a maker of oxygen concentrators, which have been in high demand during the pandemic.

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Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health Launches New Fund

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According to Wavemaker 360, the launch of Fund II is ahead of schedule as a result of a "surge in demand for all-things-healthcare-innovation". The firm says it has invested in 30 companies since it was founded in mid-2018, and now has investments in California, Boston, Cleveland, NY/NJ, Chicago, Florida and Denver. READ MORE>>.

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Shift Technologies Gets $50M More

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The funding was led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP), and also included Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Highland Capital Partners. Shift is unusual, in that it takes responsibility for providing on-demand test drives of vehicles--and helps prep those vehicles for sale--rather than just connecting buyers and sellers.

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Favor Plans Expansion Into San Diego, Gets $13M

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Favor , a on-demand, mobile delivery app developer, said today that it will be expanding into San Diego in the coming months, thanks to a new, $13M funding round.

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Graphcore Scores $200M to Scale Up A.I. Chip Production

Xconomy

Graphcore’s big haul is a notable milestone in the recent revival of investor interest in computer hardware, due to the demand for ever-greater processing capacity that can maximize the potential of. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Investors: Helion Venture Partners (Ashish Gupta), Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners. This is interesting because just 2 years ago many of these businesses were shut down by the SEC. Enter P2P lending. 7.5mm in Series C.