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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? Now, we're turning into a formal incubator. However, we're very different than most incubators, in that we only do big data. Second, we only incubate companies we ourselves start. Also, we have a lot of corporate investors.

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LA Demo Day Crowd: The Good Times Are Back

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That seemed to be the mood running through the cloud at the more-than-sellout crowd at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica Thursday at the first LA Demo Day , organized by Docstoc's Jason Nazar. Are the good times for startups back? At the event, the enthusiasm for startups was palpable.

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Cirro Finds $8M For Big Data Software

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The round was led by Toba Capital, and also included Frost Venture Partners and Miramar Venture Partners. Cirro is one of the big data companies which was incubated out of Frost Venture Partners. Cirro''s CEO is Mark Theissen. Toba Capital is the new venture capital firm founded by former Quest Sofware CEO and Chairman Vinny Smith.

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Cirro Gets Win At WildTangent

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Cirro is one of the companies out of the big data incubator headed by Stuart Frost, Frost Venture Partners; the company''s venture backers include Toba Capital (the venture fund of former Quest Software CEO Vinny Smith) and Miramar Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Independa Raises $2.35M

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The firm said the round included Miramar Venture Partners and City Hill Ventures. The company is part of the San Diego EvoNexus business incubator. San Diego-based Independa , which develops remote health management and monitoring systems for the elderly, said today that it has raised $2.35M in a convertible note funding.

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Cirro Lands Strategic Investment From GE Ventures

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Cirro''s other Series A backers are Toba Capital, Frost Data Capital and Miramar Venture Partners. The company is one of the firms out of big data incubator Frost Venture Partners. Cirro raised $8M in its Series A back in October.

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