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Los Angeles Venture Investors Get Their Mojo Back

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The IPO of education company 2U also greatly benefited Los Angeles, with the company''s extensive operations in LA, plus backing from former Redpoint Ventures'' (now Archer Capital) investor Greg Martin.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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