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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Vicente Capital Partners announced MOnday that it has invested in iBwave Solutions , a Canadian company providing in-building wireless design software. Financial details of the investment were not announced. ibwave vicente capital wireless software network design'

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JUNE 16, 2021

Santa Barbara- and New York-based Lead Edge Capital, a private equity investor which focuses on growth stage investments in technology companies, said on Wednesday that it has raised $150M in a new fund. According to the company, the new fund will be used for public equity investments. by Fastly).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the venture capital fund led by serial entrepreneur Kelly Perdew, is ramping its investment pace, with the first two formal investments out of its new fund. Moonshots also led the investment in New Knowledge. presidential elections in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it has created a new company, Newfold Digital, through the acquisition of Endurance International Group, plus strategic investment transactions with both Web.com and affiliates of Siris.

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MAY 5, 2020

Newport Beach-based Toba Capital , the venture investment firm founded by Vinny Smith, is the lead investor in Emeryville, California-based Clear Skye , a developer of identity governance and administration software. As part of the funding, Rajan Aggarwal, Partner at Toba Capital, will join the company's board of directors.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Pasadena-based Alexandria Venture Investments, the venture arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, says that has been ranked as one of the year's top five most active U.S. According to the company, it is on track to double its investment activity this year. investors in the "agrifoodtech" sector.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based fintech venture capital investor Core Innovation Capital is out looking for new investors in its third fund, with a target of $100M, according to regulatory filing by the firm on Friday. As expected, the company has not detailed any information on the new fund.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Sole Source Capital announced last week that it has acquired two companies, Peak-Ryzex and Optical Phusion, two companies in the factory automation area. Financial details of the transaction were not announced.

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MAY 30, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in a new startup, Backtracks , a developer of podcast analytics software. in a seed funding round, which was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Capital Factory, Sputnik ATX, Next Coast Ventures, Bull Creek Capital, and BNSG Capital.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital. Congrats on the new name for your venture capital firm. What types of companies are you making investments in?

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

San Diego-based Forward Slope, a provider of software for the defense industry, has received an investment from private equity investor Trive Capital. Size of the investment was not announced. Forward Slope was founded in 2002, and is led by CEO Carlos Persichetti, who Trive Capital said will continue to lead the company.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pasadena-based Thin Line Capital announced this morning that it has launched a brand new, energey and sustainability fund, which will invest in cleantech investing. Fyke previously had been CEO of multiple companies for Idealab, and also was a cleantech investor at Starfish Ventures in Australia.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based digital marketing agency Wpromote has received a private equity investment from Shamrock Capital , the two announced today--the first ever outside investment received by Wpromote, ever. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Toba Capital , the investment firm founded by former Quest Software founder Vinny Smith, is the lead investor in a $6.4M, Series A funding for San Francisco-based Skupos. Skupos said its Series A was led by Toba Capital, and also included Dynamo Fund, Loup Ventures, and other existing investors. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

The partners at MaC Venture Capital , the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent the bulk of their careers breaking barriers. MaC Venture Capital co-founders Marlon Nichols, Michael Palank, Charles King, and Adrian Fenty. Image Credit: MaC Venture Capital.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Santa Monica-based Arrowroot Capital Management announced today that it has raised a $177M, third fund, Arrowroot Capital II, L.P. , to invest in growth equity for enterprise software companies. Arrowroot Capital said the fund was oversubscribed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer Sorrento Therapeutics announced on Monday that it has invested in a newly former company, Celularity , focused on treatment of cancer, inflammatory and degenerative diseases, and functional regeneration using placental technology. Size of the investment by Sorrento was not announced.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a big, $32M funding round for ActionIQ , a startup which provides personalization software to enterprise customers. As part of the funding, March Capital's Meredith Finn, a Partner at the firm, will join ActionIQ's board. Finn led March Capital's investment in ActionIQ.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Shell’s plan to roll out 500,000 electric charging station in just four years is the latest sign of an EV charging infrastructure boom that has prompted investors to pour cash into the industry and inspired a few companies to become public companies in search of the capital needed to meet demand. billion valuation.

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MAY 10, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Arrowroot Capital has invested $38M in big data and analytics software developer ClickFox , according to a regulatory filing from ClickFox this week. Arrowroot Capital is led by Founder and Managing Partner Matthew Safaii; Arrowroot says it invests in business-to-business software companies.

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JULY 20, 2021

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Moonshots Capital announced on Tuesday morning that it has raised $36M in its second fund, Moonshots Fund II. The venture investment firm--led by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings--said the new fund will continue to go to late Seed and Series A investments.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Aaron Fyke: I believe we're in a second wave of clean tech investing. Lots has changed since 2009.

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MARCH 29, 2019

MiLA Capital , the venture capital firm that is behind the Make In LA hardware accelerator, says it has raised its first official venture capital fund, officially closing its first fundraise. The fund--led by Carmen Palafox, Noramay Cadena, and Shaun Arora--says it has so far made investments into 16 companies since 2015.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Beverly Hills-based Launch House, which hosts month-long, live-in startup programs in Los Angeles and elsewhere, is looking to raised $10M in a new venture capital fund, according to a regulatory filing from the company. The filing said the company is raising $10M to invests in startups.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in the seed round of a startup, New Knowledge , which developed the artificial intelligence software which uncovered a large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. As part of the investment, Kelly Perdew, the founder of Moonshots Capital, has joined the board of New Knowledge.

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JULY 8, 2019

Westwood-based growth equity investment firm 3L Capital announced July 8 it raised a $217 million equity fund to continue investing in local companies.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The summit is now associated with March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com). What's your role at March Capital? Meredith Finn: I joined March Capital at the beginning of the year. For myself, I'm largely focused on investments in enterprise software, primarily in the areas of application software and intelligence.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the new venture investment fund founded by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, is on an investment roll, and has made another investment from its fund. As part of the funding, Craig Cummings, co-founder and General Partners of Moonshots Capital, has joined Complai's board.

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JULY 15, 2021

The National Venture Capital Association says that venture capital activity in Q2 of 2021 has hit record highs, with the group saying, in particular, that seed and early-stage VC financings have hit record highs and new quarterly records. The NVCA said that $75.0 The NVCA said that $75.0

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APRIL 30, 2019

San Diego-based Quality Built , a provider of third-party, quality-assurance services to the residential and commercial construction industry, has received a private equity investment from Los Angeles-based Gallant Capital Partners. Size of the investment was not announced.

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MAY 9, 2019

Cloud Capital announced on Wednesday that it has made a growth capital investment in a new company, AleraCare Holdings , which will provide. Size of the investment was not announced. Cloud Capital, AleraCare will provide a full spectrum of specialty pharmaceutical services. According to St. According to St.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

A new, Santa Barbara-based private equity investment company Cuadrilla Capital says it has acquired a Mt. Laurel Township, New Jersey-based company, Agilence. Cuadrilla says that the acquisition is its first investment since its launched in April. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based NantWorks , the investment arm of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong, said on Thursday afternoon that it has made a strategic investment in San Diego-based multiplayer online games developer Daybreak Game Company. Size of the investment was not announced.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , along with another local investor, Crosscut Ventures , have both made investments in a new Techstars company, Branch Messenger , Branch announced this morning. The company said it has raised $10M in funding, including a $6.8M READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Santa Monica-based H Code, which provides digital advertising services to the Hispanic market, said Monday afternoon that the company has received a new, capital investment. The funding came from private equity investor Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), which invests in growth-oriented, middle-market companies.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

San Diego-based Dexcom, which develops equipment for continuous glucose monitoring for people with diabetes, has launched its own venture capital fund, Dexcom Ventures. The company said its venture capital arm will be led by Steve Pacelli.

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