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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Total Raised: $21.4mm.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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He built & IPOd Demand Media. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. for $565 million to Excite.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc.

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