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APRIL 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. Interestingly, only Redpoint, Domain, Anthem, and DFJ Frontier have local offices in Southern California. Tags: southern california angeles venture capital diego santa barbara startup investment finance. in a March deal.

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Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

BetterWorks has been growing its staff since an $8M funding round announced at the beginning of August; the firm's funding was led by Redpoint Ventures. Paige Craig is among the most active Los Angeles angel investors, and turned his attention to Betterworks in December of last year. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint Santa Monica Los Angeles Activity 157

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Jeff Lee , a senior associate at San Diego- and Los Angeles-based Mission Ventures , has quietly left the firm to head up a newly founded, stealth startup, according to Lee's LinkedIn profiles and bounced emails to his Mission Ventures address. Lee was helping to provide Mission Ventures with coverage of the Los Angeles area.

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Mission Ventures Redpoint Startup San Diego 124

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

million round led by Los Angeles firm Upfront Ventures, with participation from Mucker Capital and Matchstick Ventures. We’ll have a16z general partners Chris Dixon, Angela Strange and Andrew Chen for insight into the firm’s latest activity. The business has closed a $3.85 A whole lot of VCs will be joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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Services Startup Venture Capital Redpoint 207

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Los Angeles-based Chill , the social video startup which allows users to chat while watching video content, announced today that it has added a number of features to the service. Chill is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Redpoint Ventures, Atlas Venture, Paul Kedrosky, and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.

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Redpoint Los Angeles Activity Content 140

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M The most active Southern California investors, including all of their investments both inside and outside of the region, were the Tech Coast Angels (7 investments), and Rustic Canyon Partners (6 investments); Redpoint , Mission Ventures , and GRP all had 4 investments total.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

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APRIL 15, 2010

invested across 18 deals, followed by Los Angeles, with $224.4M The energy and clean technology sector actually helped boost investments in Los Angeles, as well, with big deals for Torrance-based Amonix , which raised $64.4M Nationally, Q4 of 2009 brought in $5.2 billion in venture deals in 832 deals. across 31 days.

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Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

Locally, San Diego led the region in terms of venture deals for the quarter, with $300M invested, followed by Los Angeles, with $239.1M That was a drop of 37 percent in terms of dollars, and 30 percent in terms of deal volume for the year. in investments. Orange County saw $48.7M in investments for the quarter. in investments in the quarter.

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Southern California Venture Capital Invest Orange County 154

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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles saw $407.2M 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. totaled $6.5

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Southern California Orange County Rustic Canyon SoCal 174

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

Locally, San Diego led the region in terms of venture deals for the quarter, with $300M invested, followed by Los Angeles, with $239.1M That was a drop of 37 percent in terms of dollars, and 30 percent in terms of deal volume for the year. in investments. Orange County saw $48.7M in investments for the quarter. in investments in the quarter.

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Southern California Invest Venture Capital Orange County 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources.

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Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

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APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. We also put together the Series B with Redpoint for Machinima.

Riot Games 199

Riot Games Technology Los Angeles Entrepreneur 199

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $8mm in Series B from RRE Ventures (Will Porteous)(lead), SoftBank, Hearst Interactive Media, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Founder Collective.Total raised: $11.5mm. Go Boulder!

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240