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The firm's CEO, Michael Wayne, confirmed the funding with socalTECH, but said that the company would not be making any official comments until a formal announcement next month. Tags: video hollywood content venture deca capita Santa Monica-based DECA has raised $10M in a new round of funding worth $10M, according to a regulatory filing. The funding was led by new investor Rustic Canyon Partners, with participation from Series A investors Atomico, General Catalyst Partners, and Mayfield Fund.

The firm--which has locations in both Carlsbad and San Francisco--has previously raised funding from ABS Ventures, Dolphin Equity Partners, and Encinal Capital Management. Tags: socaltech overtone customer feedback software saa Overtone , a developer of software-as-a-service tools for monitoring customer sentiment, has raised $2.48M out of a $5.3M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday.

Frank recently talked with Clearstone’s Jim Armstrong about Jim’s views on how the economy is affecting both startups and the venture capital business, and it’s well worth a listen to get an idea of the issues facing both startups and venture capitalists in the new year.  (btw, btw, we’re now cross-posting relevant interviews from Frank’s podcast on socalTECH). ...Tags: Frank Peters, podcaster at the Frank Peters Show and chairman of the Tech Coast Angels, always has informative and in-depth interviews. Tags: Venture Capital Economy Entrepr

believe there are on the order of 1000 venture capital firms with less than 10,000 total investment professionals in the entire industry. For me, its sites like TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Socaltech, PaidContent, PEHub, etc. While the topic of career counseling is not the focus of this blog, I get enough requests from people who want to break into the VC industry, I thought it was worthwhile to write a blog entry about it so I can refer people to my viewpoint. There are plenty of articles (Seth Levine has two posts on this topic that are relatively popular – first , second )

Los Angeles-based Equipois , has raised $1M in a recent venture funding round, the firm told socalTECH this week. Tags: mechanical capital venture equippoi The firm--which develops mechanical devices to make objects weightless, used by manufacturers and others to reduce workplace injuries and improve efficiency--has now raised $6M since its Series A funding in 2007. The funding was disclosed by Eric Golden, the firm's President and CEO, in an interview this week.

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. The numbers, which were drawn from venture deals tracked and reported in socalTECH's proprietary venture capital database, found that there was $719.7M in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals.

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson , of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is the lead on a $60M venture capital round in Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the space rocket firm headed by Elon Musk, according to PE Week . SpaceX--which disclosed earlier this year via regulatory filing (and reported in socalTECH) that it had raised $15M out of $60M in a funding round--has Jurvetson listed as a member of its board. Jurvetson is a well known enthusiast for rockets. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Tags: jurvetson steve capital venture space

has performed very well," Suster told socalTECH, saying that the round was a seed round. venture capital twitte Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , which is developing an in-stream, advertising platform for Twitter, has raised $500,000 in a funding round. The round came from GRP Partners. GRP's Mark Suster sits on the firm's board.