(Bloomberg) -- Salim Ismail, who led Yahoo! Inc.'s internal incubator Brickhouse, is joining Miami-based venture capital company Rokk3r Fuel as a general partner.
Ismail was also behind news aggregation startup Angstro, which he sold to Google Inc. in 2010, Rokk3r said Wednesday in a statement. Rokk3r Fuel started in March and includes Jeff Ransdell, a former managing director with Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch unit, and software entrepreneur Nabyl Charania.
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Florida's venture capital scene has emerged from relative obscurity in recent years with the help of Magic Leap Inc., a $4.5 billion augmented-reality startup. Still, the state remains a relatively small market compared with the size of its economy.
Ismail is chairman of the Fastrack Institute in Miami and founder of ExO Works, a consulting business, according to the statement. He is also founding executive director of Singularity University, a Silicon Valley-based think tank and business incubator.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan Levin in Miami at jlevin20@bloomberg.net.
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