socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based Wavemaker Ventures has raised a new, $66M venture capital investment fund, for its Southeast Asia efforts, the company said this week. Wavemaker, which is one of the Southern California's most active investors, already was active in Southeast Asia with an earlier investment fund.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

SpyCloud , a startup which develops cybersecurity products used to prevent account takeovers and which is backed by Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , has raised $21M more in a Series B funding round, the company announced this morning. SpyCloud has now raised $28.5M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Santa Monica-based Bitium announced Friday that it has raised $6.5M The startup--which was founded by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson--said the round came from Polar Partners, Amplify, Resolute VC, Double M Partners, Social Leverage, Karlin Ventures, Lazerow Ventures and Rob Glaser. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. How did you guys end up working together on investments? A few years back, I started looking at angel investing.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2015

Santa Monica-based event discovery app startup Rowl said Monday that it has acquired Open Me , a company which provides e-greeting cards and birthday and holiday reminders. per share, for Open Me, which has around 140,000 daily active users. Open Me was co-founded by Ilya Pozin. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2011

Craig, in addition to being an active angel investor, is starting up his own, stealthy B2B startup in Santa Monica. Klout said today that it had raised $8.5M Klout is based in San Francisco.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Today marks another great day for the LA startup community as one of the city’s prominent mentoring programs , Launchpad LA, received VC funding – for each startup.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners announced this morning that it has raised a fourth fund, worth $200M, and also renamed the firm Upfront Ventures. GRP has been quite active in the local technology industry, having founded accelerator LaunchpadLA. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I think that’s one of the reasons that many of the most interesting bay area startups are choosing to locate themselves in the city. And make-up artists. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. But there does seem to be huge startup energy around the Flatiron District / Union Square. And sound engineers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active , organized angel investment group, has a goal: cut down the time it takes to fund a startup presenting to the organization. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Today marks another great day for the LA startup community as one of the city’s prominent mentoring programs , Launchpad LA, received VC funding – for each startup.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Santa Monica-based DailyD , an online operator of a daily, local deals site, has raised $5.0M DailyD is the latest startup of LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin; the firm also lists Business.com's Jake Winebaum as a board member of the firm. Split Rock was the venture firm which backed LowerMyBills. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza and drinks!

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2012

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature contributions, opinions, and editorials from members of the Southern California technology community, we have an advice piece from venture capital veteran Jon Funk , who gives five things entrepreneurs ought to think about before raising capital. Five by five.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based FamilyFinds.com , the new daily promotions site headed by former LowerMyBills.com founder Matt Coffin, said today that it has raised $5.75M in a funding round, and has officially entered the online daily deal space. The funding had been uncovered by socalTECH back in October. FamilyFinds.com was formerly dailyD.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. We will have an amazing treat for you all.

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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. 24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2013. TX Zhuo , Managing Partner @ Karlin Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. Let’s start with what I like most about the product. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. But it was the low-key, creative beach vibe of Venice and Santa Monica that spurred a spate of start-ups to seek offices and homes.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. at the Dethrone Base Camp in Santa Monica. Our line-up of panelists include many of Southern California’s top VCs, Angels and Startup Accelerators. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. I live in the city of Santa Monica. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2016 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, February 11 from 7 p.m. at Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Our line-up of panelists include top VCs, Angels and Startup Accelerators. JOE GUZEL – VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTOR – CROSSCUT VENTURES.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. We caught up with Erik to hear more about MuckerLab, and its efforts to grow the Los Angeles technology ecosystem. Erik, thanks for the time.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2011

Jake Winebaum is a veteran of the Southern California technology industry, having run and sold a number of successful, Southern California startups. He's also on the board of hot Silicon Valley startup Gigya. We caught up with Jake to hear why he's turned his attention to dentistry, and what he's trying to do with Brighter.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists. Opportunity #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. They're looking to get some measure of liquidity.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

As you k now, there is so much cool stuff happening in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica. It's like New York, which because of all the advertising folks who have spun out of the companies and agencies there where the economy tanked, and have started creating innovative companies. Derek Norton: I'm a fourth generation Angeleno.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. In terms of money, and in terms of brands, I think you're starting to see a lot of endemic brands sponsoring e-sports tournaments and individual teams.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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JUNE 17, 2011

He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. Headquarted in Santa Monica, CA, CallFire is dedicated to providing high-availability systems, intuitive user interfaces, furious developer support, and unparalleled customer care in order to transform how companies do business.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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