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Thankful Takes $12M For AI Efforts

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Venice, California-based Thankful, a new artificial intelligence software startup focused on customer service, announced this morning that it has raised $12M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Alpha Edison, and also included Bonfire Ventures, Ten-One-Ten, Greycroft, Omega, and Miramar Ventures.

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Jeda Networks Takes On Storage Networks

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Newport Beach-based Jeda Networks , a new startup in the storage networking arena, said today that it has unveiled its technology, with the backing of U.S. Venture Partners and Miramar Venture Partners. The new startup is led by Stuart Berman, the former SVP and CTO of Emulex. READ MORE>>.

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Factual Finds $35M In Series B

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Los Angeles-bassed data startup Factual , which is led by Gil Elbaz, said Thursday that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding round. Factual said the funding brings its total raised to $62M. Factual said the new funds go towards engineering, sales and marketing, and for international expansion.

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Factual Gains Funding, Names Investors

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Santa Monica-based Factual , the new data focused startup run by Gil Elbaz , the co-founder of Applied Semantics , which invented Google's AdSense technology, is announcing the investors in the firm this evening.

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Brand Affinity Technologies Raises $7.5M

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Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg which is focused on celebrity endorsements, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series D funding round. BAT said it has now raised $34M in funding.

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Brand Affinity Technologies Raises $4.5M

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Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the online advertising and celebrity sports endorsements startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, has raised $4.5M funding round, according to a filing from the firm this week. as part of an ongoing, $7.0M

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data. Second, we only incubate companies we ourselves start.

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