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Anzu Partners, With Offices In San Diego, Raises $128.4M Venture Fund

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Anzu Partners , a venture capital and private equity investors focused on industrial technology with offices in the San Diego area, has quietly raised $128.4M Among Anzu's Venture Partners is Carl Eibl, former Managing Partner at Enterprise Partners in San Diego, and Vice Chairman of CONNECT; Eibl is based in San Diego.

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Southern California Sees Boom In Venture Investments In Q4

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Think there is a technology investment slowdown? in San Diego. The largest deals included $150M received by LA's Zestcash , $91.96M invested in San Diego's Sapphire Energy , and $85M invested in Irvine's Alteryx. That's definitely not the case in Southern California, which saw a massive, $1.3

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TargeGen Acquired By Sanofi-aventis

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San Diego-based TargeGen , a firm developing small molecule kinase inhibitors for the treatment of myelofibrosis (MF) and polycythemia vera (PV), has been acquired by Sanofi-aventis, in a deal worth as much as $560M, the firm said Wednesday. TargeGen had raised over $113M in venture funding from A.M.

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Q3 Southern California Venture Deals Around $879M

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San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with a large number of the biggest VC deals all located in the area. Intellikine in La Jolla and Zogenix in San Diego both raised $51M in deals; San Diego's NextWave Wireless raised $45.5M, San Dieg's Roka BioScience $37.2M, and Borrego Solar Systems, in El Cajon, raised $30M.

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Scoperta Adds $1.4M

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San Diego-based Scoperta , which is developing fabless specialty steel technology utilizing scrap materials, has raised $1.4M Other details on the funding have not been released, however, the firm is backed by Enterprise Partners and Vista Ventures, and Drew Senyei of Enterprise sits on the firm's board of directors.

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Venture Capitalists Invest $475.5M In Southern California In Q3, Says MoneyTree

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In the region, San Diego led in Q3 deals, with $236.3M The biggest deals in the quarter came for San Diego's Roka Bioscience , with a $37.2M round; San Diego-based Zogenix with a nearly $36M funding round; and Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) , which raised $30.4M. in 25 deals.

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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San Diego was not far behind, with $222.4M The energy and clean technology sector actually helped boost investments in Los Angeles, as well, with big deals for Torrance-based Amonix , which raised $64.4M Clean technology in Southern California represented $230.0M across 31 days. in 29 venture capital deals for Q1.