PetPlay's Eric Weber
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A new cat food good enough for you to eat; that's the idea behind PetPlay Inc's Petite Cuisine. Founder Eric Weber just won the Best Presentation at the Tech Coast Angels' Fast Pitch at UCLA last month. I was immediately intrigued and came home from the Fast Pitch with a free sample; my cat, Jazz, is allergic to lots of ingredients. So here's a twist on the question many investors like to ask: will the cats eat the cat food? In Jazz's case, yes.
Big news for Rx3 Pharmaceutical, podcast interview 70; they changed their name to Trius Therapeutics at the same time they closed a $20M round with Sofinnova Ventures, as lead investor, joined by InterWest Partners, Prism VentureWorks and Versant Ventures.
Also in the news, YouMail, interview 76, just closed a convertible note for $1.879M with the Tech Coast Angels.
