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TORONTO (Reuters) - The co-managers of a $150 million venture capital fund backed by Research In Motion will open offices in California's Silicon Valley and elsewhere as they focus on mobile phone-related investments.

"We're at the beginning of what will be a transformational decade," said Kevin Talbot, who co-manages the Toronto-based BlackBerry Partners Fund with John Albright.

"There are 2 billion bank accounts in the world today yet there are 5 billion (mobile phone) subscriber accounts. We see massive numbers, we see huge velocity," he said, adding that mobile entrepreneurs can now be found globally.

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