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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Investors: Union Square (lead), Spark Capital (lead). Tynt Multimedia “Online tool that allows content sites to control copy-paste activity on their web sites.&# For starters I LOVE the idea for this product. In business you spend your life in email.

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Lindzon Backs Discoverly

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Howard Lindzon , the San Diego angel investors who also heads up stock micro-messaging site StockTwits , has invested in another private company-- Discoverly.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US.

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Betterworks Raises $1.5M

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Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders. BetterWorks looks to be scaling up dramatically; the firm currently has eight open positions listed on its web site for everything from engineers to marketing director.

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CapLinked, Startup America Tie On Startup Fundraising

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CapLinked's site allows companies to manage due diligence documents, shareholder communications, finding investors, and more; the firm said it now has over 135,000 users using its site. Startup America is the effort launched last year to spur the creation of startups nationwide. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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Pocket Change Finds More Funding

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The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founded GumGum, and Amos Elliston, who served as CTO at Geni and SVP of Engineering at Yammer. and Kamran Pourzanjani, who founded Pricegrabber. and Kamran Pourzanjani, who founded Pricegrabber. READ MORE>>.

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CapLinked Lands New Funding Round

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Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the startup which provides an online site to help companies manage their fundraising process, is announcing this morning thta it has raised $400,000 in a new funding round. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $1.8M.