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Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop

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Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

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HopSkipDrive Raises $7.4M More For Ride Service For Kids

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in a new funding round. The funding came from Student Transportation Inc. FirstMark Capital, Upfront Ventures, as well as new investors Skyview Capital and Halogen Ventures also participated in the funding. As part of the funding, Denis J. STI), a company in the school transportation, safety, and fleet services market.

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Happy Money Names Interim CEO

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Orange County-based fintech startup Happy Money, which operates a service to help consumers better manage their money and pay off credit card debt, says it has named Jeff Winner as the company's Interim CEO. The company said its founder, Scott Saunders, will remain Chairman of the company.

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Interview with Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, K5Launch

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Amir Banifatemi: K5Launch supports our larger vision, the K5 initiative, which was promoted last year to provide a more stable and vibrant community of entrepreneurship in Southern California, but mostly Orange County. We are in Orange County, but we're also focused more largely on Southern California.

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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program

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Demographics at funds and startups will also be under the microscope, since signatories have agreed to report on their composition by race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability status, immigration status, veteran status, educational attainment, socioeconomic origin, tenure at a firm.

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H.E.A.R.T.

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Orange Countys premier technology groups will present the ninth annual Holiday Event and Annual Roundup of Technologists (H.E.A.R.T.), was organized to unite technology professionals and businesses while celebrating the holidays with networking and raising funds to benefit the community. Tuesday, December 7, 2010 -- H.E.A.R.T.

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

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Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. I think the biggest challenge we have, is to get these investors to see that the startup world is not totally based in the Bay Area, that we have a whole, West-coast ecosystem, which Orange County is a part of.

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