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What Mattered in 2010: Bruce Hallett, Miramar Venture Partners

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Last week, we asked with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures about his opinions, and today, we're featuring the thoughts of Bruce Hallett , a venture capitalist at Miramar Venture Partners. In each technology company in which Miramar invests, we are focused on supporting the management teams successful execution of its plan.

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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. Gil Elbaz was the founder of Applied Semantics, which became Google AdSense. READ MORE>>.

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Factual Partners With Newsweek

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Los Angeles-based Factual , the open data startup headed by former Google engineering director Gil Elbaz, said this weekend it has partnered with Newsweek on a "America's Best Public High School" initiative. Applied Semantics was acquired for pre-IPO Google stock in April of 2003. READ MORE>>.

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Factual Bolsters Places Dataset

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Los Angeles-based Factual , the data API firm led by Gil Elbaz, has made a big enhancement to its Places dataset, the firm explained this morning, saying it has added over 80,000 landmarks (parks, memorials, historic building), 20,000 transport hubs (airports, rail stations, etc.) and 190,000 ATM location to its database.

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Venture Capitalists Invest $493.2M In Southern California In Q1

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Locally, the report totaled $201.28M in deals in the Los Angeles area, $191.89M in the Orange County area, and $100.0M Although dollars were up, the number of deals (736 nationally in Q1 vs. 827 deals last year) was the lowest in a single quarter since Q3 of 2009. in San Diego.