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OCTOBER 18, 2011

San Francisco-based Livefyre , one of the many companies backed by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig , has scored a new round of funding, the firm said today. LiveFyre had been seeded by Paige Craig , Zelkova Ventures , Travis Kalanick , and Jarl Mohn back in July of 2010. LiveFyre develops social commenting software.

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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. The funding came from Mercato Partners. Joe Kaiser of Mercato joins the company's board with the funding. The company was founded by Ike Kavas, and was founded in 2010.

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MAY 20, 2018

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and be willing to hear a “no” is what holds back many people from “yes.” I believe people generally hate making decisions and especially so when they involve commitments and risks.

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MAY 3, 2012

San Diego-based Qualcomm has renewed its investment in Visage , as part of a Series C funding for the enterprise mobility management software provider. Qualcomm was the lead on the February 2010 round for Visage, whose software is used to manage the security and mobile policy for enterprise customers.

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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 in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. The firm has now raise $58.10M in funding.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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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. READ MORE>>. mission ventures alpine data hadoop bigdata venture capital metapa greenplum'

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Carpinteria-based Procore Technologies , the developer of cloud-based, construction management software let by Tooey Courtemanche, says it more than doubled its headcount in 2014, and also saw record growth in its business. 5000 rating says the company had 2013 revenues of $9.5M, compared with 2010 revenues of $1.5M. 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 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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JUNE 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based FileTrek , the developer of software which helps teams to track changes and updates in their projects, data, and documents, said Tuesday that it has released a new iPad application. FileTrek is headed by Dale Quayle, a serial entrepreneur whose last firm, Integrien, was sold to VMware in 2010. The new app is free.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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JULY 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based FileTrek , the cloud-based file sharing, collaboration, and revision tracking software firm headed by Dale Quale, said today that it has linked with a European firm in a distribution deal. The firm said the partnership with Empowered Technology will help it meet demand and increasing opportunities in Europe. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Local angel groups have hit the jackpot again with an investment, this time with the October acquisition of Pasadena-based Bluebeam in a $100M deal by German software company Nemetschek AG. The Tech Coast Angels and the Pasadena Angels revealed today that their return on Bluebeam was 20x for angels who participated in funding Bluebeam.

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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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DECEMBER 23, 2019

We have invested in 13 companies out of our Fund 1 so far and are more bullish than ever on the amazing entrepreneurs we are meeting and the companies we are helping them build. We also had our first exit for Moonshots Capital Fund 1 --Threatcare. Since 2010, $6.3B Think Google Ad Words for podcasting.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Most of the great software startups that I’ve been involved in have at least one technical co-founder (and many have more than one.) and if you can’t then you better start thinking of ways to raise enough funds to be able to pay them something. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- LAVA's 7th Annual Venture Awards Dinner. 2010 LAVA Hall of Fame Inductee: Jake Winebaum; Best Exit Life Sciences: Corevalve, Inc.; Eucalyptus; Best Funding in Clean Technology and Energy: Energy and Power Solutions, Inc. Master of Ceremonies: Ken Rutkowski, METal International. See [link] (more).

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MAY 3, 2016

Paige Craig--as well as a number of other angels--originally seeded LiveFyre back in 2010. Greycroft, which is very active in Los Angeles, took the lead on LiveFyre's Series B funding in 2011. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based HG Data Company announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, for its cloud-based, business intelligence database service. Harris was most recently the founder and CEO of NOZA, which he sold to Blackbaud in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Now Microsoft has responded with a play of its own, partnering with the provider of a suite of hosted graphic design and animation software tools called Nimble Collective. “We’re excited to work with innovators like Nimble Collective to help them transform how animated content is produced, managed and delivered.”

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Thursday, February 25, 2010 -- The Art of the Start-Up. San Diego Software Industry Council. An interactive workshop and panel discussion focusing on practical guides to business, legal, and fund raising choices. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The firm said along with the announcement that it will be adding ad serving, forecasting, and other functionality to its system in 2010, and that it is taking an aim at current provider of ad server technology. Tags: rubicon project merger acquisition investment banker advertising software technology server. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries. 406 Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. Mark, why wouldn’t you fund him? Startup DNA.

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MAY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based Momentum Ventures , the venture acceleration and funding firm, is no longer making investments and is winding down, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Momentum had not maintained a major investment fund, only a small bridge fund to help its portfolio companies to their next venture round.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I could go on for a long time.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

The company is focused on the enterprise software area. Andy Vogel: We originally started back in 2010, when Blackstone making investment in companies that weren''t very obviously companies they were going to spin out. Andy Vogel: Blackstone is our primary funding partner. What is Colony Logic? They gave us our initial raise.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The firm says it will use the funding to grow rapidly and close more partnerships like the previous Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and last week’s Sunbelt Network partnership. As funds, corporations, and banks seek out new tools to collaborate on transactions, CapLinked is poised to become the gold standard.”.

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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. 14mm in Series C; $25mm in Series B raised in March 2010; $44mm raised in total. LivingSocial. Yes, that’s right. AppDynamics.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Testifying to the rapid growth rate at which local startups operate, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the online employee benefits and perks firm headed by Paige Craig, revealed Tuesday that it is expecting to expand its team to over 80 people, after inking a round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Sunbelt will give this deal management software to its business owner clients and franchised owners. The softwares allows parties to communicate and exchange data safely in the cloud, making it easy for tracking, accountability and simplified workflows. Business Entrepreneurship Funding Investment M&A Caplinked Data Eric M.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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