Remove Activity Remove Entertainment Remove Invest Remove Redpoint
article thumbnail

Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

socalTECH

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M Southern California's investment totals bucked the national trend, which found that there was a 9 percent drop in dollars to $4.7 of the total invested in Q1.

article thumbnail

Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3

socalTECH

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. billion invested in the region. in investments.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

socalTECH

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.

article thumbnail

The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

Company 111
article thumbnail

This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Booyah’s most popular application is social LBS game is MyTown; users engage in a mobile game centered around real world locations and activities, including check-ins, virtual purchases of real-life locations, collecting rent on properties, virtual goods. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game. I would also note that they claim 2.1