Redpoint Ventures , said late Monday evening that the firm has closed on Redpoint IV,a $400M, early stage venture capital fund specifically aimed at the social and mobile Internet, cloud computing, and clean technology. Redpoint's efforts in Southern California are headed by Brad Jones . Redpoint is based in Menlo Park with offices The firm highlighted its recent exits of LifeSize, WiChorus, Kazeon, and Irvine's Network in Motion in the announcement. The firm said it now has over $2B in management.

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A New York-based online learning firm with links to the University of Southern California has scored a round of funding, and added Redpoint's Greg Martin to its board, the firm said this morning. 2tor said it raised $10M in a Series A financing from Redpoint Ventures, along with Novak Biddle Venture Partnres and City Light Capital, for its service, which helps universities create online degree programs. The firm currently only offers one online program, from the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. That program, MAT@USC,

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 most active investors for the quarter were the Tech Coast Angels, with 5 deals; the Pasadena Angels, with 3 deals; followed by Mission Ventures, First Round Capital, Venrock Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Okapi Venture Capital, Draper Associates, Idealab, and Redpoint Ventures, all with 2 deals each. socalTECH

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. (socalTECH The conference, which does not unveil the names of the companies pitching until the day of the event, rolled out a lineup of Southern California companies ranging from email and instant messaging aggregator Orgoo, to virtual avatar firm mEgo.com. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference). The conference, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa

invested in Southern California in Q4. was invested in Southern California, as well as Q4 of last year, when $508.2M industry, Southern California saw its biggest investments in Biotechnology, with $195.6M terms of venture firm activity, the report found that DFJ Frontier was the most active in the quarter, with five deals; GRP Partners , Mission Ventures The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this morning, finding that there was $587.8M

invested in Southern California in Q4. was invested in Southern California, as well as Q4 of last year, when $508.2M industry, Southern California saw its biggest investments in Biotechnology, with $195.6M terms of venture firm activity, the report found that DFJ Frontier was the most active in the quarter, with five deals; GRP Partners , Mission Ventures The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this morning, finding that there was $587.8M

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures . Funk Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies.

Southern California venture capitalists are mostly absent from Forbes’ latest Midas List — the magazine’s list of the most influential venture capitalists — with the exception of Domain Associates’ James Blair . The subjective list–based on Forbes’ assessment of how much venture capitalists did for their investors–has previously included Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures , Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures , Andrew Senyei of Enterprise Partners , and Clearstone’s Bill Elkus , along with Blair. Of course, with exits few and far between nowadays, the traditional data that drives the list — who backed the biggest and best exits — is hard to come by. ...Tags:

This morning, we published the results of an extensive study of the impact of venture capital companies on Southern California in terms of exit values, finding that exits from VC-backed firms between 1995 and 2009 generated an astounding $48 billion (billion with a capital B) in value. The study, which was conducted by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners (also  of Allegis Capital), used data from our own venture capital database, additional data from Dow Jones/VentureSource, as well as private data collected by Redpoint Venturs’ Greg Martin. The exits have been written about before (ie.,