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Silicon Beach Report Jan. 11: Venture Capital Investment to L.A. Region Falls Again

L.A. Business Journal

Venture capital investment to L.A. region falls again; Internet Brands to acquire lawyer search website Avvo; and SpaceX delays commercial crew test flights to latter half of 2018.

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March Capital Partners Launches $240M Venture Fund

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Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the venture capital investment firm founded by venture investment veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery, said this morning that it has had a final close on its first fund, at $240M. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. They realized through the process that regulations would make this a very costly business and one that they couldn’t build as he had envisioned. Current round: $11mm Series-B led by Accel.

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How OneStop Internet Is Powering Ecommerce For Brands

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How did you end up going from Senior Associate at a venture capital company to CEO at a fashion related business? John Tomich: Actually, prior to working for the VC firm, I spent a couple of years out of college working on eCommerce and Digital strategy at a consulting agency. You''ve got a very interesting background.

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First Round Capital Rolls Its Own Startup Exchange Fund

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Venture capital firm First Round Capital , the early stage venture fund whose Managing Directors include Idealab's Howard Morgan , said last night that it has created its own startup exchange fund, a fund which allows the founders of the firm's various startups to diversify their investments and share in the success of the company's portfolio.

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Rustic Canyon Sells Positions In Portfolio

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San Francisco-based investment firm Saints Capital , and Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners said Tuesday that they have formed a new fund, Saints Rustic Canyon, L.P., Among the firms sold by Rustic Canyon were Southern California portfolio firms Cooking.com, Internet Brands, and US Renewables Group.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. I think we've done some of the really exciting companies in LA, including most recently Clicker, Machinima, BUZZmedia, and SVnetwork.

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