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Bill Gross Backs Startup Idea Marketplace IdeaMarket

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According to the startup--which is based in San Francisco--it will let participants in the process share in equity and other profits from those companies. All of those ideas have a pre-commited amount of capital from investors willing to back those ideas. ideamarket venture capital idealab marketplace' READ MORE>>.

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Privlo Gets $350M In Debt For Technology Driven Mortgage Loans

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Los Angeles-based Privlo , a technology driven startup offering up mortgage loans to consumers, said this week that it has raised $350M in a debt financing round, along with $3.8M The equity funding came from Spark Capital and QED Investors; source of the debt funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MobLab Finds Funding For Personalized Learning

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Pasadena-based MobLab , a new startup which develops personalized learning software for the education market, has scored a round of funding, the company said today. Nikou is the founder, managing partner, and CEO of private equity investment firm OpenGate Capital.

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TweetUp Funding Worth $3.5M

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The April funding of newest Idealab startup TweetUp was worth $3.5M, according to regulatory filings from the firm released Thursday. The amount of the funding, which came from Index Ventures, betaworks, Revolution LLC, First Round Capital, Jason Calacanis, and Jeff Jarvis, had not been announced in April. READ MORE>>.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

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Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. Speaking onstage at the Upfront Summit, an event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

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Interview with Buck Jordan, Miso Robotics

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How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. So, with the last funds out of my fund, I started Miso Robotics. What is Miso Robotics? The demand is there.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. Between Greg and Alan, we''ve come up with a very innovative way to solve this problem.