socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2010

in funding and gone public through a reverse merger. The firm said it had a net loss of $6.8M for fiscal 2009. Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a developer of facial animation software and services, has raised $8.0M As part of the public listing, Image Metrics reported it had revenues of $4.0M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

Inphi is venture backed by Walden International, Tallwood, Mayfield Fund, and Samsung Electronics. In its S-1, the firm said it had net income of $7.3M for the year ended December 31, 2009. on total revenues of $58.8M READ MORE>>.

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Westlake Village Thousand Oaks Southern California .Net 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Angel Investing - Demystified. Angel networks, where high-net-worth individuals come together to screen and vet deals, are the source of much of this funding. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. We sold that to CoreLogic in 2009, and that company now has roughly a 60 percent market share of mortgage applications.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. the funding and market coverage. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. LivingSocial.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app. All of 2009 was figuring out what people want. Al Eisaian: It's been angel funded so far.

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Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates. The first shirt in our series is a question of authority: When you die, will you trend? . Its like a match made in heaven. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? that plays a leading role in funding in the Central Coast of California.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. “The goal of an accelerator is to get companies funded with seed financing. That said, is a two or three or year program that goes away…a net negative? This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. In fact, that’s all that I fund as a VC.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded. million in 2010.

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Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. com> 4/25/08.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

Yet along with “authenticity” they are two of the key attributes I look for when I meet with companies I may consider funding one day. This is how Upfront Ventures came to fund Tristan Walker – one of the most talented and passionate entrepreneurs with whom we work whose new company is called Bevel. And we did.

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Startup Entrepreneur Design Funding 419

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

While the amounts were down, the number of startups that took slices of the pie went up by 9 percent (780 total), perhaps signaling that investors are trying to be more economical with their funds. Despite the third-quarter funding drop, though, funding for the full year still looks to be higher than it was in 2009.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Summary 90