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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. But these data points are often lagging indicators and perhaps a better barometer of the future would be to gather data on VC perceptions in the market right now.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based Acquicent , the startup which is developing a marketplace that allows users to invest in "museum-grade" collectibles such as art and vintage automobiles, is announcing this morning that it has added Kevin Conroy, CEO of ConroyMedia and former director of Sotheby's, as both an advisor and ivnestor. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. This is a trend from 2016 that should gain momentum in 2017. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Every year at Upfront we try to analyze the venture markets. Of course we fund companies in good markets and bad. To do so we need entrepreneurs who can build companies that scale well in booming markets and also control costs appropriate in correcting markets. VC survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Aliso Viejo-based semiconductor developer Microsemi has made an investment in San Juan Capistrano-based Veracity , a developer of industrial, network security software, as part of a collaboration in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market. Financial details of the investment were not announced. in a funding. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. Michael Terpin is CEO of Transform Group, a global public relations and marketing firm, specializing in emerging technologies, including virtual reality and blockchain. He's also a very active angel investor.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Brad Brooks is an accomplished entrepreneur with a successful track record of investing in, building and scaling companies in the technology and media spaces. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Tech.Co

MAY 13, 2016

Looking to invest in the next Facebook? TECHSPO LA is a four day technology expo taking place June 13 – 16, 2016 at the luxurious Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Santa Monica, California in the heart of Silicon Beach. Covering the Los Angeles tech scene for a publication? Or just a plain old tech enthusiast? The Best Part?

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It’s a new year – 2016. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company’s public offering should be a nice windfall for the Chicago-based investors DNS Capital, an investment firm managing the private wealth of the Pritzker family, and Cleveland Avenue, founded by former McDonald’s executive Don Thompson; as well as the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Obvious Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Either of these qualms can ultimately sidetrack your startup as not worthy of investment, so it pays to do your homework on what you say and how to communicate effectively. Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

It may seem hard to believe, but even in 2016, there remain a number of successful consumer brands that are not sold online. I thought it would be interesting to understand the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs who began selling online for the first time in 2016, so I sat down with Heidi Muther, COO at Z S upply , LLC.

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MARCH 9, 2017

For 2016 alone, there are two reliable sources of recent data for us to examine. Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest angel groups in the United States, published its data in 2016, showing sixty-eight percent plunging to less than the amount invested. And that is after investment, not after a company’s starting up.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Internet of things has been THE hot topic for the past couple of years and that trend continues into 2016 and beyond. Solving some of the problems that have been holding the IoT back from realizing its full potential are some of the most compelling technology trends to watch in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. On stark graph should give you a sense of the picture.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

in 2016, in a deal then reported as worth less than $100M. Machinima first started developing its gaming-related content back around 2008, and helped usher in a healthy investment market for multi-channel-networks, companies which aggregated multiple YouTube creators and channels into a single media company.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

If you didn’t notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous. It was a nerve racking morning. Neither do I.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Some of the early investors in Woodland Hills-based accounting software developer BlackLine are looking for some liquidity from their investments, more than a year since BlackLine's October 2016 IPO, and plan to sell around 4,500,000 shares of their stock. The company is not selling any stock with the offering. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 16, 2019

San Diego-based bioClarity , a skincare brand which markets itself to millennial and Gen-Z consumers, has raised $13M in a funding round, the company said thsi week. According to the comapny, the first close of its new investment round will help it accelerate its growth. The company was founded in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Lasergen , a startup developing technology for the DNA sequencing market--and which has an office in San Diego--has been acquired by Agilent Technologies for $105M, the two said late Tuesday. Agilent already owned a 48 percent ownership stake in Lasergen, as part of an investment it made in March of 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Pasadena-based Coronal Energy , a provider of solar photovoltaic (PV) project development, financing, and operation services for the utility, municipal and corporate market, has scored a strategic investment from Panasonic , the two said this morning. Financial terms of the funding were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Venture capital investment dollars declined in Q4, to $12.7 billion invested across 1,736 companies, according to the new Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor , the new report tracking venture capital investment across the U.S., as the venture market eased off its torrid funding pace.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. The industry will continue to invest heavily in educating people and convincing them to try internet security products (free versions & life-time trials).

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The new investment follows Scopely’s milestone of achieving more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue. Indeed, part of the reason for the financing is to accelerate the pace of its acquisitions and investments into new game development studios, according to chief executive, Walter Driver.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, modern point-of-sale (POS) technology for the food service and retail markets, says it has doubled its employee count in the last year to 200, as it sees what it calls "exponential" growth in its business.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5

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MARCH 13, 2018

According to BlackLine, the shares in the offering are being sold by Silver Lake Sumeru, investment funds affiliated with ICONIQ, Therese Tucker, the company's CEO and founder; and Mario Spanicciati, the company's Chief Marketing Officer. BlackLine had its IPO in October of 2016. Silver Lake Sumeru is looking to sell around 6.1M

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MARCH 11, 2021

It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital.

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $15.3 Southern California companies raised $2.49

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AUGUST 9, 2022

This round is being led by Point72 Private Investments, with previous backers Toba Capital, Index Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, BoxGroup, and VMG Partners also participating. The gap in the market that Boulevard is building to fill is that one-person bands, independent salons, and bigger chains all grapple with the same problem.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

The company is selling 4,000,000 shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as ANAB. AnaptysBio is backed by Frazier Healthcare, Novo A/S, Avalon Ventures, Alloy Ventures, Biotechnology Value Fund, HBM Healthcare Investments, and others. as early as Thursday.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Our interview this morning with an entrepreneur is with Anthony Citrano , the founder of Los Angeles-based Acquicent (www.acquicent.com), a startup which wants to make it as easy for you to invest in museum-grade collectibles such as classic cars and art, without having to invest millions of dollars in those assets.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

With the acquisition, Fastly is planting a flag as a new competitor in the cybersecurity market, even as companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google offer a wider array of services under their internet as a service business lines. Los Angeles, California, USA – March 23, 2016: Aerial view of the Hollywood sign at dusk in Los Angeles.

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