socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2013

in venture capital in Q3, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data From Thomson Reuters. was raised in venture capital. was raised in venture capital. in investment. READ MORE>>.

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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. March Capital Partners co-led the Series A funding round for SpyCloud in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. ” Numero uno.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops mobile marketing software which lets marketers understand correlate the activities of mobile users with the physical locations of those consumers, said this morning that it has raised $5.5M momentfeed venture capital location analytics software retail marketing social media'

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Draper Social Media Santa Monica Venture Capital 167

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. Congratulations Launchpad LA, and those who have an idea or a company looking for opportunities and one of the best networks to make it grow… apply now.

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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. Rowl said it paid $6M, consisting of 10 million shares of its common stock at $0.60

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2015

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a new, $30M investment in Coho Data , a developer of high performance, flash-based storage. March Capital Partners is managed by Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken, and Jamie Montgomery. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the provider of analytics software for tracking location-based check-in and other activity from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Gowalla, said Monday that it has scored an investment from Rockfish Brand Ventures , the venture capital arm of Rockfish Interactive.

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Invest Santa Monica Marketing Venture Capital 180

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. Congratulations Launchpad LA, and those who have an idea or a company looking for opportunities and one of the best networks to make it grow… apply now.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Funding Idealab 65

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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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

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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.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Funding 168

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Palomar Ventures has re-upped its investment in a security software firm Damballa , which is based in Atlanta, as part of a new $12M funding round for that company. Palomar's Jim Gauer sites on the board of Damballa.

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Palomar Santa Monica Venture Capital Activity 145

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

The report found that infrastructure and vehicle investments led the industry, with $704M in investments, including $140M in Irvine-based Fisker Automotive and $30M for Santa Monica-based Coda Automotive. Tags: clean technology venture capital cleantech energy solar automobile green. Solar investments totaled $322M.

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Technology Draper Santa Monica Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2018

Santa Monica-based InvolveSoft , which develops software to help companies encourage their employees to volunteer for events and help contribute to their local communities, has raised $2.5M The funding was led by Bonfire Ventures, and also included Greycroft, Bertelsmann, Launch Capital, CrowdSmart and Noname 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 Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, Jim Simons, a venture capitalist at Split Rock Partners, is listed as a board member of the firm. in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Santa Monica Venture Capital Sites 187

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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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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Yahoo Santa Monica SoCalTech Venture Capital 145

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

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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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2012

Santa Monica-based Engrade , a developer of online classroom management tools, said today that it has raised $3M in a funding round. The round was led by Rethink Education, and also included NewSchools Venture Fund, Greg Gunn, Zac Zeitlin, and Richard Chino. Engrade says it has more than 4.5 READ MORE>>.

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Tool Santa Monica Education Activity 145

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. do not expect venture funding to dry up. in investments.

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Southern California Orange County Funding Report 113

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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Entertainment Santa Monica Journal Belkin 108

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. You can log in at any time and see a realtime indication of how much traffic is on your website, where that traffic is coming from, what stories people are reading and how many people are active vs. inactive. Basically, it rocks!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

at Cross Campus in Santa Monica. We will have amazing panelists from Crosscut Ventures, Machine Shop Ventures, Techstars, and more to be announced soon who will share their insights and forecast for startups in 2016. Machine Shop Ventures was featured in WIRED Magazine for its groundbreaking new model.

Startup 40

Startup Santa Monica Venture Capital SaaS 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Mike is actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member. Paul B ricault , Venture Partner at Greycroft Partners /Co-founder Amplify.la.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

at the Dethrone Base Camp in Santa Monica. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015. Our line-up of panelists include many of Southern California’s top VCs, Angels and Startup Accelerators.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Venture Capital Santa Monica 40

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. Opportunity #3 – There is Plenty of Capital for Great Team/Products.

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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica. Prior to founding MuckerLab, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital where he helped lead one of the most successful seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Our Panelist Include: Erik Rannala , Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ MuckerLab. Venue Sponsor.

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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. I'm not suggesting that it's content, I'm suggesting it is the journey and the experience related to consumer activity. There's been some turmoil in the local venture capital market, what do you make of the position of capital here?

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Riot Games Technology Los Angeles Entrepreneur 199

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Please join TechZulu as well as Los Angeles tech savvy elite comprised of VC’s, Angels investors, startups and your fellow entrepreneurs, as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno. The event will take place Thursday, Febuary 2, at 7pm.

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CalTech Idealab Tech Coast Angels Enterprise Forum 79

socalTECH

MAY 26, 2011

Youve been in involved in a lot of very successful ventures. At first glance, you wouldn't think finding dentists would be interesting to venture investors. What drove that VC interest? Although there are tons and tons of ventures going after solving healthcare, there is very little activity in dental.

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Startup Pricing Southern California Networking 249

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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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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. He's also a member of our board.

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