Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

. “Kobe was loved in Los Angeles,” wrote Mark Suster , managing partner of the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Upfront Ventures , in a private message to TechCrunch. Bryant launched his venture career with partner and serial entrepreneur Jeff Stibel back in 2013, according to Crunchbase. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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MAY 25, 2017

Toba Capital , the venture capital investment firm founded by Quest Software's Vinny Smith, has scored another exit, this time at San Francisco-based cloud applications tool developer Codenvy. Codenvy was backed by both Auriga Partners and Toba Capital, and had raised less than $10M in funding since it was founded in 2013.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Although it might still be on the early side for an analysis, we''ve run our numbers again to figure out who''s having the biggest success so far in the market, where entrepreneurs are most likely to find capital providers hanging out, and where (if anywhere) are exits happening? We''ve analyzed our database of angel and. Our analysis.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners has surfaced in what looks to be the downtown Austin's hippest new event venue. The new space was formerly La Zona Rosa, a famous music hall that featured Prince as its last act (back in 2013). The building was also Apple Music's 2017 SXSW headquarters.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

94 new startups have launched since January 2013 to June 2013 and the startup ecosystem has raised $500 million in funding in 2013 so far. Communication and growth will bring more capital and investors to start new businesses and ideas to create more opportunities, thus continuing the circle of startup life.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

in venture capital in Q3, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data From Thomson Reuters. was raised in venture capital. was raised in venture capital. in investment. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 million this year versus $3 million in 2013. Source: National Venture Capital Association. history (admittedly, at 2.1

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2013. The post TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast appeared first on TechZulu. 24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica.

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MAY 22, 2018

The funding came from Upfront Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Fika Ventures. Kazerani and Segil sold Edgecast back in 2013, in a deal worth around $390M. Openpath is developing cloud-based physical access control systems for businesses. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Irvine-based online real estate marketplace Auction.com announced this morning that it has raised $50M in a funding round from Google Capital. According to Auction.com, Google Capital will also add a representative to the company''s board of directors, and also gain an observer seat. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2014

Overall, great news for our fair city with a 25% increase in funds raised in 2013 over the year before. 9 more companies weigh in with $25 million fund raising totals and impressively, 100 additional companies did their part in raising $1 million or more in capital. Originally posted by the good people at Built In Los Angeles.

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MAY 14, 2014

Los Angeles-based CAA Ventures , the venture capital arm of the Creative Artists Agency, has made an investment in a monthly delivery service focused on do-it-yourself (DIY) crafts. in a funding round, which came from Maveron, Forerunner Ventures, and CAA Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2018

The new funding was led by Emergence Capital. Kazerani and Segil previously founded Edgecast, which they sold to Verizon in 2013 for around $390M. The company's other investors, who participated in this round, include Upfront Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Fika Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “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.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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APRIL 21, 2014

The latest numbers are out on venture capital investments in Southern California from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, finding that the region had nearly $762.88M invested in companies in the region during Q1 of 2014. was a significant increase from Q1 of 2013, when only $571.0M

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Freeletics , headquartered in Munich, Germany, is today announcing its first round of private capital after bootstrapping since 2013. The $45 million Series A was co-led by FitLab, Causeway Media Partners and JAZZ Venture Partners, with participation from Courtside Ventures, Elysian Park Ventures and ward.ventures.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

He was accused of diverting more than $18 million from the $283 million Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund III under the guise of management fees. Those amounts, siphoned away during the period between December 2007 and September 2013, were not owed to him, according to a Department of Justice account. Burrill was also charged.

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Image courtesy Bigstock.

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MAY 5, 2014

Crawford is a member of the board of Lionsgate Entertainment, and previously was a portfolio manager at Capital Research and Management. According to UberMedia, it had 300 percent growth in 2013, and is now sees around 4 billion impressions per month, with a reach to 400 million devices. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2021

The round was led by Intel Capital, and also WISE Ventures, Quest Venture Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment, plus angels Mike Baker (Dataxu) and Mike Shehan (SpotX). was foudned in 2013, and provides analysis of videos to determine the content and relevance of clips to specific viewers.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

The new funding was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included OrbiMed, Reed Elsevier Ventures, and TELUS Corporation, along with prior investors Easton Capital, New Leaf Venture Partners, and New Science Ventures. tigertext venture capital healthcare text texting communications enterprise software'

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JANUARY 28, 2016

Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital firm linked to The Walt Disney Company, is seeking to raised $100M for its latest fund, Steamboat Ventures V. The last, Southern California investment by Steamboat looks to have been in Edgecast back in 2013. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I now use the Impact Matrix as a venture capital investor to help our portfolio companies objectively evaluate which initiatives they should pursue in the near-term, which they should re-considered in the future and which should be dismissed entirely.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

According to BlackLine, its management, Silver Lake Sumeru, and ICONIQ Capital are partnering in the deal to make Silver Lake Sumerua majority shareholder in the company. blackline systems accounting software merger acquisition exit venture capital private equity' Financial terms of the investment were not announced.

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MARCH 6, 2017

The funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners , and also included Eniac Ventures and Spider Capital. The company develops cloud-based software used to help monitor construction project progress and compliance, and was founded in 2013. Raken is led and was co-founded by CEO Kyle Slager and CTO/CPO Dr. Sergey Sundukovskiy.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

The investments were up by 12 percent from 2013, when the angel group invested $14.64M in its portfolio. tech coast angels venture capital investment exits totals' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Today, we're featuring Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners , founder of LaunchpadLA , the startup accelerator, not to mention well read blogger and highly watched host of This Week In Venture Capital. The most significant news for GRP Partners in 2012 was the first close of our 4th venture fund.

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APRIL 25, 2013

The company said the new funds go towards a planned, 2013 commercial launch of its products in both the U.S. topera medical atrial fibrillation stroke heartattack heart cardiac rhythm venture capital lifescience device' and europe. NEA''s Justin Klein joins the company''s board. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). And Jamie hers.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Venture capital investments saw a sharp drop in Q1 in Southern California, according to the latest venture numbers from the MoneyTree report. The report, released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association over the weekend, tallied up $534.3M billion in 863 deals. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.” It’s very common for founders who find venture capital funding, to soon find out that they are being replaced by a CEO who has “more experience.”

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MAY 16, 2019

The funding was led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and Virgo Investment Group, and also included MetaProp, Almubader Growth Fund, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The startup was founded in 2013 by Jared Levy and Gordon Stott. Los Angeles-based Connect Homes , a developer of prefab housing technology, has raised $10.8M

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

San Diego-based venture capital investor Avalon Ventures and biopharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline said Monday that the two have teamed up to fund and launch up to 10, early stage life science companies. According to Avalon Ventures and GSK, they will provide up to $495M to fund those ten new companies. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Minnie Ingersoll: A few things, but most recently I started by own company, in 2013. Why did you decide to move to venture capital? I started a startup called Shift.com, it's an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. I've been going through the startup journey, and just finished our Series D investment.

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