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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Upfront Ventures is the lead investor in a new, $15M Series B funding round for artificial intelligence software developer Tact. Tact develops artificial intelligence software for Salesforce which helps salespeople automate data entry into their CRM systems.

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Nationally, there was $13.0

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MARCH 23, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm is one of the investors in mobile operating system developer Cyanogen , as part of that company''s new, $80M Series C funding. Cyanogen is developing an open source alternative distribution to the Android operating system. READ MORE>>.

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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. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , a developer of multi-channel, performance advertising technology, announced today that it has raised $6M in a venture funding round. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures. As part of the funding, Redpoint's Greg Martin joins the company's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has scored a quick exit at Redwood City-based Mertado , after Mertado said Friday that it has been acquired by daily deals site Groupon. in a round from Rustic canyon, Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator, and Blumberg Capital. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based Orca Security, a developer of cloud security software, has joined Southern California's unicorns, raising $210M in a Series C funding. The funding was led by CapitalG, the growth fund of Alphabet, and Redpoint Ventures. the company said the funding gives it a valuation of $1.2

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JULY 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leadpoint , a developer of an online marketplace for sales leads, has raised $6.5M Leadpoint, which is headed by Marc Diana, has previously raised funding from Breakwater Ventures, Estalea, European Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, RVA Enterprises Retirement Trust, and Stanford University. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon is the lead investor in a round of funding from a social shopping site out of Y Combinator. The round came from new investor Rustic Canyon Partners, and also included prior investors Blumberg Capital and Redpoint Ventures. in a Series A round. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Qualified , a startup developing conversational marketing software for companies that use Salesforce, said on Tuesday that it has raised $12M in its Series A funding.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based Tastemade , which develops food- and lifestyle-focused content for YouTube, as well as its own website, said this week that it has raised $35M, in its Series E funding round. The content developer, which is led by co-founder and CEO Larry Fitzgibbon, says it now reaches over 250 million monthly viewers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the firm developing online video programming guides for the Internet, said today that it has raised $11M more in a Series B investment round. The new funding was led by JAFCO Ventures, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Impact Radius , a firm which is developing a service to link performance advertising to TV, radio, print, and online channels, has raised $1.0M Impact Radius is backed by Redpoint Ventures, and the firm's management team includes Per Petterson, co-founder of Commission Junction. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary 's Sound Ventures, which is based in Los Angeles, has made an investment in the Series B funding round for San Francisco-based software development provider Gigster , in a round that also included basketball legend Michael Jordan. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Jaunt , a developer of cinematic, virtual reality hardware and software, said this morning that it has opened up a new, virtual reality studio in Los Angeles, after receiving $65M in a Series C funding. 1 SE, Axel Springer SE, The Madison Square Garden Company plus Google Ventures, Highland Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Sky and SV Angel.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Gravity develops real-time, personalized web pages based on what consumers are most interested in, serving up personalized content on everything from iPad apps to web pages.

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based Victoroius , which develops mobile apps focused on YouTube creators and celebrities, has raised $25M in a funding round, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The funding came from Marker Ventures, Dentsu Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Redpoint Ventures.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Machinima , which operates a video entertainment network for video gamers and develops associated animated content tools, has raised $3.4M Machinma is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures, MK Capital, and others. as part of an ongoing, $5.0M READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

a developer of Internet businesses. DailyStrength was venture backed by around $5M in venture capital from Redpoint Ventures. Los Angeles-based DailyStrength, an online health-related social networking site, has been acquired by HSW International, Inc., Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

According to the firm, the round was led by Redpoint Ventures, and will go towards hiring, expansion, and continued development of its platform. As part of the funding, Redpoint's Satish Dharmaraj joins the company's board of directors. The round brings the company's total raised to $10M.

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JUNE 27, 2012

The firm says it now has over 18 million registered users, and that it will use the funding to accelerate development and distribution of its platform. Other investors in the round included Atlas Venture and Chris Saccas Lowercase Capital. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2011

We also put together the Series B with Redpoint for Machinima. Los Angeles is the creative capital of the world, and we're where the next opportunity is--the connected consumer. That's why we're called the creative capital of the world. Are you saying that developing that technology doesn't matter as much now?

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MARCH 20, 2009

Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). Venture Capital for Technology Innovators. Your Software Development Partner. Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Southern California's high tech news and companies.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. What is Aggregage?

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APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com) What''s your next big goal?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning. I also have really enjoyed working with Satish Dharmaraj at Redpoint who like me was an enterprise software CEO (he was the founder & CEO of Zimbra — so he’s a perfect board partner for Tact).

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