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What Mattered in 2010: Bruce Hallett, Miramar Venture Partners

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We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 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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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 Brand Affinity Technologies says it has over 3,750 celebrities on its platform, which is used by online sites to identify celebrities for endorsement deals.

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Brand Affinity Technologies Gets $20M

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Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the latest startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, announced today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. Tags: brand affinity technologies venture capital sports celebrity endorsement steelberg dmarc. The two also founded AdForce (sold to CMGi) and 2CAN Media (sold to CMGi).

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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. Factual is developing an online platform which allows anyone to share and mash open data. READ MORE>>.

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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Each of those dimensions really overwhelms existing platforms, whether that's a relational database or business intelligence tools. It's created this perfect storm, where there's all kinds of new technology and challenges, which are slowly being fixed. Instead, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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