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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well.

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GRP Partners Backs Cloud Database Firm

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The lead investor on GRP's investment in MongoLab was not disclosed. MongoLab develops a cloud-based version of the MongoDB database software, which runs on Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. READ MORE>>.

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Morphlabs Launches Enterprise Cloud Management Platform

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Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , which develops software for managing public and private cloud computing infrastructure, said this week that it has launched a new product called mCloud On-Demand. The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud.

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Morphlabs Raises $5.5M

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The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. in a Series B financing round. and AO Capital Partners Ltd.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. With our software, our clients just inherited the ability to use Ceph, and there was nothing they had to do to get that. They didn''t have to play with software upgrades, and they didn''t have to put together a contingency for rollback.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. What our software does, is it allows that collaboration to take place, but also keeps track of that. We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software. Monitoring Software. More Software.