socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2012

The new focus is one of several iterations made by Chill since its started life as Namesake, a social Q&A service, back in 2010. Norgard and Gould were previously the founders of Ad.ly; Chill is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Redpoint Ventures, Atlas Venture, Paul Kedrosky, and CrunchFund.

Redpoint 160

Redpoint Sites Los Angeles Services 160

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

In terms of venture firms, the most active firms from Southern California, nationally, were Redpoint Ventures (9 investments), Steamboat Ventures (5 investments), and GRP Partners , Rustic Canyon Partners , Blade Ventures , Avalon Ventures , and Angeleno Group , with four investments each. billion in investments so far in 2010.

Southern California 174

Southern California Orange County Rustic Canyon SoCal 174

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

If you watch the video you’ll see that Jason & I debated whether Austin Ventures or Redpoint had funded HowAway / VRBO … turns out we were both right! Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. The SimpleGeo API will provide you access to these services.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

billion in investments in 681 deals in the first quarter of 2010. in investments, IT services--which includes many online advertising firms--was at $35.15M in investments. Southern California's investment totals bucked the national trend, which found that there was a 9 percent drop in dollars to $4.7 across 31 days.

Southern California 208

Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009.

Southern California 29

Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29