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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

San Diego-based venture capital investor Mission Ventures has re-upped its investment in San Francisco-based Alpine Data Labs , a developer of Hadoop software for the big data market. Greenplum was acquired by EMC in 2010. mission ventures alpine data hadoop bigdata venture capital metapa greenplum' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Irvine-based Vision Solutions , which develops data protection, high-availability, and other IT automation software, said Tuesday evening that it has sold its Double-Take Software division to Carbonite. Vision Solutions is owned by Santa Monica's Clearlake Capital. Financial details of the sale were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

The company, which employed about 160 people, laid off 57 workers, according to documents filed with the California Employment Development Department. After resigning as CEO of the now-defunct EV startup Coda Automotive in 2010, Czinger began to focus on how the vehicle manufacturing process could become more efficient and less wasteful.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Competitors, seeing a successful development of a niche, flock into the competitive void with products or services built with a fresh view of the current environment. LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software headed by Michael Crandell, has raised $15.6M RightScale is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Tenaya Capital. The company last announced a round--a Series C funding--back in September of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Los Angeles-based Playsino , which develops social casino games, said today that it has acquired two social gaming firms, including Popover Games and Foghorn Games. Popover Games develops social casino games such as Popover Poker. Foghorn Games is a developer of Popover's social casino game Bingo Around the World.

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JULY 23, 2015

Thornton is also the founder of Fortify Software, which he sold to HP in 2010. Prevoty develops runtime application security software. Prevoty is led by Julien Bellanger, and is backed by US Venture Partners, Plus Capital, Double M Capital, Core Ventures Group, Inventures Group, Daher Capital, Digi Venture Fund and Karlin Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Irvine-based Kajabi , which develops a platform that helps both individuals, as well as small- and mid-sized businesses monetize online courses, training materials, and other content, has receive an investment from private equity investor Spectrum Equity. Kajabi said the funding is its first institutional funding since it launched in 2010.

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JULY 2, 2013

San Diego-based startup EcoATM , the developer of automated kiosks used for recycling cell phones and other electronics, has been acquired by newly renamed Coinstar (now known as Outerwall). ecoATM develops self-serve kiosks--found in many malls--which lets consumers turn in their mobile phones, tablets, and MP3 players for cash.

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APRIL 16, 2015

The Angel Capital Association , a national association for angel investors, said Wednesday that it has awarded the Luis Villalobos Award to a company, for being the most innovative angel backed company from its members. The ACA began giving away the award in 2010. Villalobos was also a founder of the Angel Capital Association.

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APRIL 1, 2014

San Diego-based DivX , the developer of digital video encoding and decoding technology has been acquired by private equity firms Parallax Capital Partners and StepStone Group , the companies said yesterday, in a deal worth $75M in cash plus earnout. DivX said that it was assisted int he deal by San Diego''s Karmel Capital.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Santa Monica-based Pathmatics , a startup developing analytics software for analyzing the programmatic advertising market, has raised $3M in a Series A funding. Pathmatics is led by Gabe Gottlieb, and was founded in 2010. BDMI's Sim Blaustein joins the company's baord with the funding.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has made another investment in femtocell and picocell technology developer ip.access , as part of a new round of funding. According to ip.access, it raised $15M from investors Amadeus Capital Partners, Cisco, Intel Capital, Qualcomm, Rothschild & Cie Gestion, Scottish Equity Partners and TE Connectivity.

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MAY 24, 2011

Calabasas-based Music Mastermind , which is developing a music creation platform, said Monday that it has raised $10.8M The round came from Intel Capital and Liberty Global, along with angel investors. Music Mastermind said the funding comes on top of an earlier, $5M in funding it received in February 2010 from angel investors.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

San Diego-based Seismic , which develops sales enablement and marketing software, has joined the unicorn club, saying this morning that it has raised $92M in a Series F funding, which values the company at approximately $1.6 The company says that it now has over 900 employees spread across 14 offices; the company was founded in 2010.

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JULY 12, 2017

Laguna Hills-based Ephesoft , a developer of document capture software, has raise $15M in a Series A funding, the company said this week. Ephesoft develops machine learning software which is used to capture, extract, and analyze unstructured content from financial, federal, insurance, mortgage, and healthcare documents. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Irvine-based PathCentral , a developer of web-based software for managing the practice of community pathologists, has raised $3.0M PathCentral is venture backed by Okapi Venture Capital, Arboretum Ventures, and Baird Venture Partners. The firm last announced a round in November of 2010, when it raised $10M in a Series B funding.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies.

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MAY 8, 2012

The venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has placed more funding into one of its portfolio companies, Sutro Biopharma , which is working on developing a scalable biochemical protein synthesis platform aimed at cancer therapeutics. Amgen has been an investor in Sutro since at least 2010. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Barclays Capital, William Blair & Company, Piper Jaffray, Pacific Crest Securities, and JMP Securities. Cornerstone OnDemand--which is headed by Adam Miller--is venture backed by Bay Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Meritech Capital. for 2009, and has seen revenues grow to $20.28M in the first six months of 2010.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

San Diego-based wireless communications module developer On-Ramp Wireless announced Wednesday that Kevin Hell, the former CEO of DivX, has joined the company as President and CEO. Hell headed by DivX until its acquisition by Sonic Solutions in October of 2010, and most recently was chairman of the EvoNexus startup incubator run by CommNexus.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

In a loss to the Los Angeles technology industry, Voice over IP software developer Fonality has relocated its headquarters to Texas, the firm said today. The firm said it has bolstered its staff in Texas by more than 75 since August of 2010, including executive staff, finance, sales, and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

in a Series B round, led by Greycroft Partners and also including Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital. LiveFyre had been seeded by Paige Craig , Zelkova Ventures , Travis Kalanick , and Jarl Mohn back in July of 2010. LiveFyre develops social commenting software. LiveFyre said it raised $4.5M READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Orreco , an Irish company developing machine intelligence and data collection tools to improve professional sports performance, has raised $2M, and is opening up an office in Los Angeles, the company said on Wednesday. Orreco was founded in 2010 in Ireland. The Series A funding came from True Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

San Diego-based ServiceNow , the venture-backed, privately backed developer of IT management software, said today that it has passed $125M in annual revenues, and has opened up a new, San Jose development center. the firm's new San Jose development center will be headed by Moti Eliav.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Online Warmongers is based in San Francisco, and is developing online war games. Battlezone" which it says it will release in late 2010. Tags: arktos entertainment venture capital online warmongers. Online Warmongers lead title is "War Inc. Online Warmongers says its founders come from EA, Activision, and Cryptic Studios.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2019

Two weeks after raising $40 million to push ahead with its drug development programs, Inhibrx submitted paperwork to the SEC revealing that it aims to raise money in the public market, too. The La Jolla, CA-based company, which is developing protein drugs targeting cancer and other diseases, was founded in 2010.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Irvine-based Kurion , the venture-backed developer of nuclear cleanup technology, reported progress of its cleanup efforts at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant today. The firm is venture backed by Lux Capital Management and Firelake Capital Management. x 1017 Becquerel (9.4 million curies) of cesium. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2011

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , the developer of CMOS RF integrated circuits, updated its S-1 filings Friday, saying that it had a net loss of $1.0M for the similar quarter in 2010. Pacific Crest Securities , and RBC Capital Market. on revenues of $21.2M for the three months ended March 26, 2011. on revenues of $22.9M

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MARCH 7, 2014

Zya , the mobile music game developed by Music Mastermind, said Friday that it will offer players of the game an opportunity to win a recording contract and $10,000 in cash. Music Mastermind is venture backed by Intel Capital and Liberty Global. Do you have what it takes to score a major label record deal? READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2018

Cool Planet , which is developing agricultural technology centered around "biochar", which is used to boost the fertility of soil while also sequestering carbon, has raised $20.3M in a new investment round. Cool Planet said the new investment is an extension of its previously announced Series A funding. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 23, 2011

Thousand Oaks-based Ceres , the developer of seeds aimed at producing renewable, biomass feedstocks for the biofuels industry, has filed for an IPO. and Barclays Capital. for the year ended August 31, 2010. The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & co., The firm said it had a net loss of $22.5M READ MORE>>.

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