socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M was invested in 65 Southern California deals in Q3, compared to $773.3M billion invested in 637 deals in Q3, up 17 percent quarter-to-quarter, but down three percent in deals. in 25 deals.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 4, 2010

Meet the top VCs who are investing in Southern California. Find out what they are looking to invest in. Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. Tuesday, August 10, 2010 -- LAVA's Annual VC Breakfast. Learn about the hottest trends and the mistakes NOT to make. See [link] (more).

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LAVA Venture Capital Palomar GRP Partners 100

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which operates an online advertising optimization service, is announcing this morning that the firm has raised $13M more in a combination of equity and debt. Tags: capital venture project rubicon. According to Rubicon, the follow on funding round brings its total raised to $33M. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Equity Advertising Research 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. San Diego led in the report for the quarter, with $205M in 24 deals; Los Angeles had nearly $198.6M

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Southern California Rustic Canyon Orange County Miramar 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, we asked with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures about his opinions, and today, we're featuring the thoughts of Bruce Hallett , a venture capitalist at Miramar Venture Partners. In each technology company in which Miramar invests, we are focused on supporting the management teams successful execution of its plan.

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Miramar Southern California High Tech Clearstone 140

Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. So what does this mean for internet entrepreneurs?

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Venture Capital Rustic Canyon Capital Clearstone 44

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). It was him investing his own money. or $1.5M, for our first investment.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

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. Opportunity #3 – There is Plenty of Capital for Great Team/Products.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. It looks like GRP has been making lots of early stage investments lately--can you talk a little bit about your investment preferences and what you are looking at nowadays?

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157