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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? Was it hard to raise the fund?

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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four 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 week.

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Southern California Firms Gets $694M In Q3 2012 Venture Funding

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in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M The MoneyTree report--which is compiled with data from Thomson Reuters--found that so far in 2012, $2.5 invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M

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Southern California Firms Get $694M In Q3 2012 Venture Funding

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in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M The MoneyTree report--which is compiled with data from Thomson Reuters--found that so far in 2012, $2.5 invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.

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What Mattered in 2012: Paul Bricault, Amplify LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four 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 week.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.