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Lalawag Goes To Silicon Valley's Valley Girl

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a publication that is run by Jesse Draper, the daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper. Jesse Draper's Valley Girl show is a web-based, talk show which has featured the CEOs of major corporations and startups, interviewed about their businesses on a very pink set. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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Invested.in Turns Attention Towards Funding Companies

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The firm is launching BoostFunder , an online startup marketplace, with Adam Draper, which will allow startups to raise up to a million dollars from accredited investors. Adam Draper is the founder of Xpert Financial. The new site also comes as Invested.in READ MORE>>.

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MyShape Raises $5.5M More

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The funding came from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tenaya Capital, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund. The firm also said as part of the funding announcement that it has redesigned its web site. Los Angeles-based MyShape , the online personalized fashion and women's clothing and apparel firm, said today that it has raised $5.5M

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Genomatica Raises $21.25M

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Genomatica says on its web site that it has now raised more than $40M in financing from TPG, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Alloy Ventures. No details on the new funding have been disclosed by the firm. Genomatica develops technology to replace fossil fuel based chemicals with renewable products.

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Anthem, DFJ Frontier Back Janrain

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Anthem Ventures , represented by Samit Varma , and DFJ Frontier, represented by David Cremin , are two of the investors in Portland-based JanRain , whose software is used to allow websites to use existing online accounts such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo to sign up for other web services or even corporate applications.

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Cognition Trumpets Semantic Mapping

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Cognition -- which is backed by Tim Draper, Draper Associates, Fingerhut Ventures, and the firm's CEO, Scott Jarus -- develops software which looks to understand English language search queries and web pages.

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MTV Buys Social Project

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Social Project is behind the development of Flux, software which allows web publishers to create their own social networking web sites. Social Project was venture backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and MTV, and originally started as a competitor to MySpace. READ MORE>>