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APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. VC’s often talk about this term as in the total amount of funds EVER raised by that VC. Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management.

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MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. So I think it’s now fair to rate me at 9/10 on follow-on fundings. 5 years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2010

The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

in grant funding, from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service. The funding comes from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. WildBlue said the funding will go to activate new subscribers on its satellite broadband services.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

billion in investments, according to the Q3 analysis of venture capital deals by socalTECH.com. According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 billion invested in Q2.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. Tags: venture capital investment southern california 2009.

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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. ” 9. .

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. So we went for it.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2009

Thursday, June 11, 2009 -- CONNECT Cleantech Venture Roundtable. Selected entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to present to a group of premier venture capital providers actively funding investments. CONNECT's Cleantech Venture Roundtable will take place on June 11, 2009. See [link] (more).

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MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. Most importantly – this should encourage LP funds to back more local firms and I would hope to see more indigenous funds to develop.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. Uncertainty surrounding this year’s presidential election has kept U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2009

The firm said the new funding will be used for sales and marketing activities, ongoing clinical studies, research and development, as well as for general working capital. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said the financing may fund its operations through at least 2009.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Angel Investing - Demystified. In the current economic and venture capital climate, angel investment is an increasingly important component of the start-up capital structure. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association are reporting today that venture capitalists invested $3.7B According to the report, financing nationally was essentially flat from Q1 of 2009, when $3.2B was invested in 105 firms, and flat from Q1 of 2009, when $301.26M was invested in 55 firms. in 22 deals.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly?

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MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). Yet their next fund had Facebook in it.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Startup DNA.

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Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

It’s what signals to existing investors how quickly their teams need to be fund raising and the level of risk the company is facing and also it signals to potentially new investors both how quickly you need to raise (ie you have less leverage if you’re in a rush) as well as how much cash you’ll need if they fund you.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

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JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. Once you start doing that, it also allows you to get a sense of the ROI from that marketing activity.

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We actually saw lots of startup activity in Los Angeles last year. Scott Sangster: The Tech Coast Angels is still actively investing. We invested all through 2009, and are currently seeking investments to do in 2010. What should startups be doing to get funding nowadays, versus a more normal year?

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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. I wish the team well and I’ll certainly be watching actively on the sidelines. I think you’ll enjoy watching. LivingSocial.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. This changes the landscape in a lot of ways: accumulating capital becomes less critical, while accumulating talent becomes more critical.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What they do, is accelerate that team or company to get them to the next level, and then go through and put in some investment money, help them build out the management team, and help with vendor relationships, help with overall strategy, and then help those companies riase their next round of capital. We actually are ideating internally.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). First Round Capital requires Second Round Capital.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. As a result of that, we decided to raise capital from strategic angels, to really accelerate the opportunity there to develop our partnership with Zynga.

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IP PHP Design Startup 217

Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences , founded in 2009 to advance a fluorescing biologic agent intended to help surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, has completed a $20 million Series C round of venture funding. Inbio Ventures, a venture capital management company, represented Pharmstandard in the deal.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Create, manage and communicate all your daily activities with the people that matter most - all on one calendar. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. and AudioMicro. .

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. We need people at all stages of the funding lifecycle and not just VCs.

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Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. Some of the standout technology innovators include: ClippPR : ClippPR provides businesses with a simple way to track any type of online activity — press releases, videos, blog mentions, etc.

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