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Angel Groups
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Angel Capital Association
The Angel Capital Association is North America's professional alliance of angel groups. This fast-growing association brings together many of the 265 angel organizations in the United States and Canada to share best practices, network, and help develop data about the field of angel investing.
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Pasadena Angels
Founded in 2000, the Pasadena Angels are a group of leading private investors that provide long-term human and financial capital to help build successful companies. Members have many years of collective leadership experience and share resources to ensure the success of their portfolio companies. The Pasadena Angels invests in early stage companies across a broad range of industries including, but not limited to technology, that have the potential to build sustainable and successful businesses. The Pasadena Angels charges no fees for services.
See what the Pasadena angels are up to by checking their blog!
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Tech Coast Angels
A network of individual investors who fund early-stage, technology companies in Southern California. Like the diversified southern California economy, their portfolio includes Life Science and BioTech, IT, Services, Retail, Internet, Financial, Software, Media, Consumer Products and Tech startups. |
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The Frank Peters Show
Startup stories in angel investing and venture capital. If you're an entrepreneur these podcasts will teach you about raising money for your startup. If you're an investor you'll learn from the most experienced angel investors and venture capitalists in Southern California.
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Vator.tv
Vator.tv is a social network for technology startup companies which gives entrepreneurs a platform to connect with Investors, Acquirers and Media.
Vator.tv gives Investors useful tools to keep track of companies and industries that interest them, and provides a revolutionary interaction platform to discover the best investment opportunities in technology
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Venture Capital Firms & Resources
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Anthem Venture Partners
Anthem Venture Partners provides the necessary resources to enhance the development of emerging technology companies by providing financial investment, operational and management advice, and access to a network of professional relationships. Anthem Ventures funded USC Start-up Audyssey Laboratories.
Area of investment: Technology
Investment: $1 to $5 million
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Avalon Ventures
Avalon Ventures is one of the longest-standing venture capital firms in San Diego, investing in life sciences and information technology opportunities locally and around the country since 1983 through seven Avalon Ventures funds. The collective market capitalization of Avalon Ventures portfolio companies (most founded by Avalon partners) currently exceeds $11 billion.
Area of Investment: Life sciences, wireless communications, and Web 3.0 digital media in California and the Northeast.
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BioStar Private Equity Fund, LLC
BioStar Ventures is a venture capital partnership created by physicians and medical business leaders to invest primarily in early stage medical devices. BioStar was formed in 2003 by Managers and Scientific Advisory Board Members who have proven track records within the medical device industry. BioStar’s unique marriage of world renowned clinicians with experienced venture capitalists allows BioStar to capture unique deal flow and leverage decades of scientific knowledge, clinical expertise, and patient care delivery experience to benefit its investment process.
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Clearstone Venture Partners
Clearstone Venture Partners provides venture capital for technology and business model innovators. With offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park, California, and Mumbai, India, their coverage of the richest sources of wealth-building innovation is second to none. With over $650 million of committed capital raised in three funds, for investment across the horizon of technology markets, including software, enterprise infrastructure, storage, communications, security, wireless, semiconductors, advanced optics and both consumer & business Internet. Managing Director, Wiliam Quigley, received his BS in Accounting from USC.
Area of Investment: Communications and Optical Networking, Wireless Networking, Enterprise and Infrastructure Software/Security, Services, Business and Consumer Internet
Investment: $3 to $15 million
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Crescendo Ventures
Over the course of the last decade, Crescendo Ventures has raised five international venture capital funds and managed over one billion dollars from its headquarters in Palo Alto.
Based on the knowledge and experience gained from serving thousands of entrepreneurs during the last dozen years, the firm has built its networks, capabilities and expertise around the goal of being a valuable partner to their portfolio companies. The foundation of the team's success in helping their portfolio companies is rooted in the firm's focus, strategy and partnership philosophy.
Area of Investment: software, system, component and service companies that are focused on delivering new solutions based on technical, market or business model innovation
Investment: 100K to 400K
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Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Draper Fisher Jurvetson ("DFJ") backs extraordinary entrepreneurs everywhere who set out to change the world. DFJ achieves its mission through its DFJ Global Network of Partner Funds. Together, DFJ and the Network manage over $6 Billion and have made more than 600 investments on four continents.
Area of Investment: fast-growing emerging markets, including information technology, nanotechnology, life sciences, and clean energy.
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DJF Frontier
At DFJ Frontier, they believe entrepreneurs are extraordinary. A team consisting of investors who have also founded and grown companies, they know how to help because they've done it themselves. Their philosophy is to provide support to help innovators turn their ideas or technology into a self-sustaining business with real value.
Area of Investment: emerging technologies and will consider any market driven technology opportunity including software, information services, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and alternative energy
Investment: $100K to $ 1million
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Forward Ventures
Forward Ventures, founded in 1993, is a leading life-science venture capital firm located in San Diego. Forward has a team of investment professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital and operations. The firm has invested in over 50 companies since it was founded in 1993 and currently has more than $500 million in capital under management.
Area of Investment: Life Sciences
Investment: $1 to $15 million
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Foundation Capital
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm whose focus is Information Technology and whose passion is working with entrepreneurs to build great companies.
Area of Investment: Information Technology
Investment: $1 to $10 million
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ITU Ventures
ITU Ventures is a premier investment firm serving the unique needs of technology businesses emerging from the nation’s leading universities, research institutions and corporations.
Area of Investment: Technology
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are passionately committed to helping their portfolio companies succeed. Entrepreneurs gain access to their matched portfolio of companies and associations with global business leaders. These relationships are the foundation for strategic alliances, partnership opportunities and the sharing of insights to help build new ventures faster, broader and with less risk.
Area of Investment: Greentech, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Pandemic and BioDefense
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Miramar Venture Partners
Miramar Venture Partners, launched in 2001, is focused on early and expansion stage venture capital investing in information technology companies, primarily in Southern California. Their partners and investors have roots in the region and share a common purpose of supporting local entrepreneurism and technology development.
Area of Investment: Communications and networking, information storage and processing, security, next generation software and application services, infrastructure and wireless, nanotechnology
Investment: $1 to $3 million
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Mission Ventures
Mission Ventures helps build successful enterprises in Southern California and creates superior returns on investment for its investors. This is accomplished by investing in the most promising early-stage companies in high growth, emerging markets, and providing significant assistance to those companies as they develop.
Area of Investment: Communications, enterprise applications, infrastructure and technology driven services
Investment: $2 to $10 million
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National Healthcare Services
NHS provides strategic investment funding to privately held companies offering innovative products, services and technologies that help the Memorial Healthcare System significantly improve performance and achieve their community mission.
Area of Investment: Biotechnology (excluding pharmaceuticals), medical devices, healthcare information technology, healthcare services
Investment: $250K to $5 million
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NGEN Partners LLC
Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners is a pioneering investor in the cleantech sector investing in early to late stage businesses that offer economically valuable products and services that positively affect the environment. With a history in materials science, NGEN has deep expertise in alternative energy, energy efficiency, pollution abatement and green resources.
Area of Investment: Alternative energy, energy efficiency, pollution abatement, green resources
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Okapi Venture Capital
Okapi Venture Capital provides long-term capital and management support to emerging businesses in the information technology and life science sectors.
Area of Investment: Information technology and life sciences
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Palomar Ventures
Palomar Ventures was launched in 1999 by veteran venture capitalists to focus on early stage information technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership. The founding principle of Palomar is teamwork; they work closely with their portfolio companies to assist them in achieving their objectives. The partners at Palomar have contributed their strategic insight, network of corporate relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building nearly 50 public companies.
Area of Investment: Infrastructure software, networking telecom infrastructure, next-generation storage, wireless solutions, security initiatives
Investment: $2 to $5 million of a $5 to $10 million first round
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Redpoint Ventures
Redpoint Ventures was formed in 1999 with partners from Brentwood Venture Capital and Institutional Venture Partners, two firms that have been successfully investing in technology since the early days of venture capital. They offer a deep bench of experienced partners with success in building companies throughout the technology industry.
Area of Investment: Broadband infrastructure, enterprise systems & software, interactive media, content & advertising, consumer internet services & applications, mobile platforms and applications, semiconductor materials and a devices, energy and the environment
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Rustic Canyon Partners
Rustic Canyon Partners is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs building transformational companies. Since its founding in 1999, Rustic Canyon has maintained its position as one of the largest venture capital firms based in Southern California, with a strong and visible presence in Silicon Valley and Seattle. Their presence in these locations and roots in these communities provide Rustic Canyon with extensive connections to entrepreneurs, management teams and other strategic resources to help build value for their portfolio companies and investors.
Area of Investment: Internet media, clean technology, technology-enabled process outsourcing, information services, wireless and wireline broadband
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Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital provides venture capital funding to founders of startups who want to turn business ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs", Sequoia Capital's venture capitalists have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube, to name a few.
Area of Investment: Cleantech, financial, internet, mobile, services, technology
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Shelter Capital Partners LLC
Shelter Capital Partners is a Southern California based private investment fund, focused on investments in technology and technology-enabled companies at all stages of development, principally in the media, wireless/communication, enterprise software, and semiconductor industries. They also invest in other areas where market or technological changes are creating opportunities for new industry leaders.
Area of Investment: Technology and technology enabled companies
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Sheperd Ventures
Shepherd Ventures is a venture capital fund whose mission is to generate significant capital appreciation through first and later stage investments in carefully selected, wisely shepherded growth companies, with focus on opportunities in information technology and life sciences. Attractive investment candidates within these industries are characterized by passionate and experienced management teams, compelling value propositions and extraordinary upside potential.
Area of Investment: Information technology and life sciences
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Ventana Capital
As one of the first venture capital firms in the Southern California region, VENTANA is one of only a handful of firms that can tap into decades of building venture capital relationships. Steeped in a long, proud history, they have pride in the strength of their team, investment process, and most importantly, their local and global access to key resources.
Area of Investment: Semiconductors, Wireless Communications, Communications Infrastructure, BioPharma and Drug Discovery companies
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Zone Ventures
Zone Ventures is a partnership funded by institutional investors for the purpose of providing equity capital to young, high-growth companies, while achieving superior returns to its investors.
Located in Los Angeles, Zone Ventures has been instrumental in building the Southern California Technology Community. Zone Ventures has strong relationships with Universities, R&D labs, Entrepreneurs, and Financial Institutions to bridge the gap between the revolutionary technologies of tomorrow with the investment capital of today.
Area of Investment: Information technology
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Associations
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Astecs (Association of Technology Entrepreneurs)
ASTECS was formed in Silicon Valley by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Their mission is to help entrepreneurs navigate their startups towards success and bring important new technologies to market.
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CalTech / MIT Enterprise Forum
The Caltech/MIT Enterprise forum is a joint venture of Caltech's Industrial Relations Center, the Caltech Alumni Association and the MIT Alumni Association. The mission of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is to encourage the growth and success of technology-based entrepreneurial ventures in Southern California.
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CAN (California Association of Nonprofits)
California Association of Nonprofits (CAN) is a statewide membership network, creating sector-wide responses to the important issues facing nonprofit organizations and providing valuable resources and tools that empower nonprofits to achieve their missions.
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Center for nonprofit management
For 30 years, the Center for Nonprofit Management has stood as the premiere resource for the Southern California nonprofit community.
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Entrepreneurs Mentor Society
Entrepreneur Mentor Society is a non-profit organization designed to educate, promote, encourage, network and develop entrepreneurs
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Entretech
Entretech is the leading non-profit association supporting high tech companies in Greater Los Angeles with critical and practical business development resources and connections, empowering entrepreneurs to build new business through capital, education, people, and strategic partners.
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Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives
The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives connects exceptional women leaders with people and ideas that enhance their impact on the world.
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Larta
Larta Institute is a professional services firm providing entrepreneur training, commercialization, and technology transfer services for governments, companies, and universities. They accelerate the transition of cutting-edge technologies to the marketplace by connecting innovators to investors and companies.
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LAVA
The Los Angeles Venture Association supports the development of emerging growth and middle market companies in Southern California by creating an environment to provide access to financial professional and technological resources.
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OCTANe
OCTANe is fueling "innovation development" in Orange County and Southern California. By connecting people, capital and technology, OCTANe accelerates entrepreneurs and company development for Orange County's biomedical and information technology community.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused services for public and private clients in order to build public trust and enhance value through the application of what we call Connected Thinking. Some areas include audit and assurance, crisis management, human resources, performance improvement, tax, and transactions.
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SoCalTech.com
SoCalTECH provides breaking news coverage of Southern California tech companies, including venture funding, business news, and interviews with local technology entrepreneurs and industry luminaries. The SoCal TechNews is published daily, and is available on the web or delivered via email.
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Southern California BioTech Council
The Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio or SCBC) is the trade association of the life-science industry in Greater Los Angeles. The mission of SoCalBio is to represent and promote medical device and biotechnology industry in Los Angeles and Orange Counties as well as adjacent communities in the Inland Empire and Gold Coast.
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TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)
TiE is a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals. Dedicated to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation and giving back to the community, TiE’s focus is on generating and nurturing our next generation of entrepreneurs.
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TMC (The Technology Marketing Center)
TMC is a community for technology marketing professionals and their colleagues in engineering, sales and management.
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Startup Resources
Incubators
Los Angeles County Business Technology Center (BTC)
BTC is dedicated to the development of technology firms, presently focused on companies transferring and commercializing technologies from Federal Laboratories and universities.
Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative (PBC)
PBC is a non-profit organization created to support the growing biotechnology industry in the San Gabriel Valley. It promotes and supports new company formation by providing low-cost, high quality WetLab space and equipment to early start-ups. The PBC also provides specialized education and traning for the biotechnology workforce, as well as access to experts in business fields such as intellectual property, law and financial planning
Slingshot Labs (SantaMonica)
The mission at Slingshot Labs is to be a fast-mover in the quickly evolving Web2.0 landscape. They form, launch, and provide the critical momentum for companies to successfully become leaders in their markets. Their primary focus is on building companies that have engaging, disruptive, and unique approaches.
Redondo Beach Information Technology Center
Redondo TechCenter offers established high-tech companies the fiber and power they demand, while at the same time providing access to technology that is normally out of reach for many start-up and small businesses. TechCenter is located in the heart of Redondo Beach's "Heart of the City" plan area. Crafted with public input and under the direction of a team of experts from the Urban Land Institute Advisory Services Panel and other leading urban planners, the "Heart of the City" covers nearly 140 acres surrounding TechCenter.
Tech Space (OrangeCounty)
Founded in 1997, TechSpace is the nation's premier full-service facilities and infrastructure provider. We integrate world-class flexible office space, state-of-the-art technology services and business process outsourcing solutions, enabling our customers to focus on their core business.
Accel Tech (Pomona)
The Center for Training, Technology and Incubation (CTTi) provides a select group of emerging technology companies with the opportunity to be part of a nurturing environment that accelerates successful growth. CTTi accomplishes this by offering early stage companies resources available to mature companies and allowing them to selectively access the resources as the need arises. CTTi clients work in an environment that fosters communication among entrepreneurs; facilitates collaborations with Cal Poly Pomona researchers and students; and offers office, R&D, wetlab and light industrial space designed to expand with company growth. By design, CTTi helps mitigate many of the greatest challenges faced by emerging companies whether as a resident or affiliate.
College of the Canyons Advanced Technology Incubator (Valencia–Planningstage)
The i3 Advanced Technology Incubator at College of the Canyons provides technology-based entrepreneurs with the resources necessary to launch and grow a successful business. It serves as a tool for investors to find and propel high-growth ventures.
CSULB Technology Park (LongBeach–Planningstage) (CSULBTechnologyPark)
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), in strategic alliance with the City of Long Beach, is in process of creating the CSULB Technology Park on land formerly used as military family housing by the U.S. Department of the Navy. The CSULBTechnologyPark will provide a wide range of buildable sites, architecturally attractive buildings, high quality infrastructure and a high quality technology park environment. Training facilities for a wide variety of instructional programs will also be built.
Highland Capital Partners Summer@Highland (Boston)
Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on building companies in the communications, information technology, and healthcare markets. Founded in 1988, their strategy is to invest in exceptional people and provide them with the right mix of strategic guidance, management expertise, and hands-on leadership for building successful and enduring companies.
Plug and Play Tech Center (PaloAlto)
Plug and Play Tech Center’s mission is to accelerate the entrepreneur'ms path to success by leveraging a vast network of high-tech professionals who are serial entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors and high tech executives in established Silicon Valley companies.
YCombinator (MountainView)
Y Combinator is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. They help startups through what is for many the hardest step, from idea to company. They invest mostly in software and web services. And because they are themselves technology people, they prefer groups with a lot of technical depth. They care more about how smart you are than how old you are, and more about the quality of your ideas than whether you have a formal business plan.
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Small Business Assistance
Trojan CEO Forum
Brighter World Consulting is one of the founders of the Trojan CEO Network™. USC graduates who are running their own companies are invited to join a small and elite network of successful CEOs who help each other accelerate their growth and prosperity. Our events include:
- Speakers teaching CEOs how to increase their revenues and cut costs
- Trojan CEO Forum™ meetings where CEOs help each other push past their plateaus and attain higher levels of success
- Social events for CEOs and their families and friends
- Community service activities
Our members come from many different industries and the size of their companies range from start-up to middle market. Our focus is on idea exchange and learning, rather than just networking.
Small Business Administration
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
Valley Economic Development Center
VEDC has consistently provided services to small and medium sized business owners, entrepreneurs and members of the communities it serves. VEDC has grown to become the largest non-profit business development corporation in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Its’ mission is to revitalize communities and create jobs for deserving residents by being the leading provider of consulting, training, financing, and workforce solutions to local businesses.
CalGold (BusinessPermits)
In 1997, the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) established the California Government Online to Desktops (CalGOLD) Website to assist in providing businesses the information they need to comply with environmental and other regulatory and permitting requirements. CalGOLD offers direct Internet links and contact information to state, local, regional, and federal permitting authorities for more information.
SCORE (ServiceCorpsofRetiredExecutives)
SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Headquartered in Herndon, VA and Washington, DC, SCORE has 389 chapters throughout the United States and its territories, with 10,500 volunteers nationwide. Both working and retired executives and business owners donate time and expertise as business counselors.
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