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Santa Barbara Investor Puts $4M Into Mindflash

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The Investment Group of Santa Barbara , a venture capital investment group based in Santa Barbara, has invested $4M in funding for a developer of a web-based cloud training software firm, Mindflash , Mindflash said today. The firm is led by Donna Wells, the former CMO of Mint.com.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges?

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Local Market Launch Scores $1.5M

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Santa Barbara-based Local Market Launch , a new startup founded by former ValueClick founder Brian Coryat, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Rincon Venture Partners. in funding, including an earlier seed funding. The company said it has now raised $2.7M

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content. Meritech Capital also participated in the funding. As part of the big new funding, Andrew Braccia of Accel and Vic Parker of Spectrum have both joined the company's board. READ MORE>>.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In retrospect, our decision was both perfectly rational and completely lame. Unicornless.

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HG Data Lands $2M For Business Intelligence

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Santa Barbara-based HG Data Company announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, for its cloud-based, business intelligence database service. HG Data is led by Craig Harris, and develops technology to gather business intelligence data from both the Web as well as offline source.

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TCA Stresses Mixers, New Website

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The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. READ MORE>>.