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OCTOBER 22, 2020

We caught up with Krisztina, who has been active in Southern California's startup community for a number of years, to learn more about the firm and its investment style. What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? It looks like there's some link to MIT with the fund? We do pre-Seed to Series A deals.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. We also had our first exit for Moonshots Capital Fund 1 --Threatcare. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2020?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Fables of the reconstruction.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M In Los Angeles, near $324.2M invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M was raised. New York followed Southern California with $512.8M in investments.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 182

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2020

A new initiative from a Los Angeles investor is taking stock of venture firms and their ability to commit capital in an effort to match firms that are still open for business and cutting checks to startups that are fundraising in the age of COVID-19. For established businesses that need additional support, the door remains open.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2012

in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M In Los Angeles, near $324.2M invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M was raised. New York followed Southern California with $512.8M in investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Another firm funded them. Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies.

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Snapchat Invest Technical Review Dollar Shave Club 214

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It’s not hardcore tech, I’ll give you that, but it’s a Kickstarter funded project that shows entrepreneurial drive, an appreciation for design, and an innovative new way to think about the bottled water and filtered water industry. The post KOR Nava | Rethinking Hydration [Review] appeared first on TechZulu.

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Technical Review Design Product Patents 92

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2010

An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 The deal totals were significantly boosted in the quarter by activity across Biopharmaceuticals ($247.2M billion in the area in Q2, up slightly from around $1.4 billion in Q2 of last year.

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Southern California Westlake Village Invest Tech Coast Angels 195

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Manatt Venture Funds, which we dedicate a specific portion of our funds to targeted digital media investments, is also part of the Manatt Digital Media network. Generally, LA was not that active during that time until about three years ago. Does Manatt Digital Media operate nationally or globally? HG: I would say nationally.

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Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. What is LifeCrowd?

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. John Morris from the Tech Coast Angels was encouraging me to do something similar. We connected.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Southern California Tech Coast Angels 259

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week.

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Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett. Trails.com.

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Sites Southern California Technical Review Allegis 153

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. It’s a gathering of friends and tech enthusiasts of all stripes. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). Ryan Blair: The theme around the fund is pretty simple. So where is the fund now?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. Eva Helene Yazhari: It''s a program for budding angel investors, and female angel investors.

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Angel Invest Mentor Technical Review 276

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. He said that data suggests people prefer to “buy high, sell low.&# And so it goes in tech investing.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For our interview today, we talked with CEO and co-founder Jon Grishpul about the startup, which offers up its services for free to homeowners in the Los Angeles area. How are you funded? Jon Grishpul: We've been around for the last year, and we've been completely self funded. What is GreatBuildz?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite. But I loved it).

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one. Mentorship.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. What''s the story behind the big round, and why now for some funding? Simon Anderson: DreamHost was founded 16 years ago.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

Most sectors saw drops in investment during the year, with the exception of few--including a couple of sectors where Southern California has a significant presence, in Clean Technology and Media & Entertainment. San Diego led in the report for the quarter, with $205M in 24 deals; Los Angeles had nearly $198.6M in 10 deals.

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JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. So, what we do, is bring all of that data together into a unified, comprehensive solution, so they can manage all of that activity and data in one place.

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. However, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to grow technology innovators from the ground up. In other cases, it’s strip malls and shopping to generate foot traffic.

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Social Network Social Media Press Technical Review 111

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. He was a really nice and personable guy who had deep domain knowledge in an industry that he’d worked in for 10 years that is in need of technological advancement.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based TheBouqs (www.thebouqs.com) thinks so, with its new, cut-to-order online flower delivery service for the iPad generation. John Tabis: Our ten second elevator pitch, is we drop ship premium, super fresh flowers from an active volcano, and ship them directly to a consumer''s door for $40 flat. What is the Bouqs?

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Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California. He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

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. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. In addition to that, we provide the ability of customers to review that with analytics.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133