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APRIL 25, 2014

San Diego-based Sightly , which develops video advertising technology, said Thurday that it has launched a new platform aimed at delivering personalized, video ads from local businesses to prospective customers. Sightly said its video ad platform provides micro-target audiences in hyper-local areas for advertisers. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. CEO Lorenz was previously in Product and Monetization at Snap, and prior to that was SVP of Product at Brand Networks, in addition to serving at a VP at SHIFT.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Looking for fellow travelers to join in on its mission to transform the beverage business, the Los Angeles-based startup Bev has taken on fresh capital from a slew of strategic investors. . In addition to the new media platform, Bev is also planning to launch two new beverages into its boozy stable of canned wines.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider DataPop , the startup led by Jason Lehmbeck, announced this morning that it has launched a new semantic advertising product specifically aimed at Google Product Listing Ads (PLA). Pricing on the new platform were not announced by the company.

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MAY 14, 2019

Rancho Santa Margarita-based Virtium , a developer of ruggedized, industrial, embedded solid state drives and memory, has been sold to private equity investor Court Square Capital Partners , by its existing private equity owner, L Square Capital Partners. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. Valuations are out of control” is the mantra of others.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Today, we have Kelly Perdew , Co-founder and General Partner of Moonshots Capital. This year ushered in the successful launch our second fund at Moonshots Capital, further validating our thesis that investing in extraordinary leadership produces exceptional companies. Are you a founder, CEO, or investor who would like to participate?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. The funding was led by Shamrock, and also included other, existing, un-named investors.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Del Mar-based ScoreStream , the crowdsourced local sports startup led by Derrick Oien, said last week that it has added new funding from Intel Capital. ScoreStream said the funds go towards new product enhancement and extension of its platform. Details on the size of that funding round were not announced.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Today, Welcome’s platform is approaching 3 million active users, according to co-founder and CEO Amir Hemmat.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced htis morning that it is buying Syncsort , a new Jersey-based developer of big data, data migration, and other tools. Behdad Eghbali, Prashant Mehrotra, and Paul Huber, all of Clearlake Capital, join Synsort's board of directors in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 2, 2018

San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals said on Friday that it has entered into a deal with venture capital investor venBio Partners , which will allow venBio's portfolio companies to enter into a pre-agreed worldwide OmniAb platform license agreement.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Carpinteria-based construction software developer Procore Technologies has launched two, brand new cloud-based software products to the market, Procore Construction Financials and Procore Quality & Safety , according to the company. Pricing on the new offerings was not announced. Pricing on the new offerings was not announced.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The funding came from Agility Capital, a provider of venture debt to startups and other high tech companies. Agility Capital said the funding was in the form of a growth capital term loan. Size of the funding was not announced. Details on the terms of the debt were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Plantible says it has developed a verticall integrated agricultural platform to produce proteins from Lemna, to emulate the functional characteristics of widely used animal-based proteins and enables food companies to match the taste and texture of animal-based products with more sustainable plant-based ingredients.

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JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Morphlabs , the developer of cloud-based infrastructure software, announced today that it has launched a new, Openstack-powered public cloud platform. MorphLabs is venture backed by AO Capital, BroadBand Tower, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, Global Gateway Investment Group, and Siemer Ventures.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud management software developer backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures, and PHP developer Zend Technologies , said today that they have launched a jointly developed solution for deploying and managing PHP applications. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2023

Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Here people make online pledges to your startup during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, give donations, or qualify for a reward, such as a tee-shirt.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Los Angeles-based Untapped Ventures said on Wednesday that it has launched a new, early-stage venture capital fund, which it says invests in companies that "help people live the best version of themselves, personally and professionally." The venture capital fund is led by Founding General Partner George Bandarian.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. If you sell a product direct to a customer – in person or on the phone – you need to understand what their pain points are and position your product benefits against those pain points.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Vicente Capital Partners has invested $12.5M Vicente Capital's investment was led by Jay Ferguson. SportsMEDIA said it will use the funding to accelerate introduction of new products, migrate to a next generation software platform, and introduce its products into new markets.

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MAY 14, 2021

The funding came from Perceptive Advisors, MSD Capital, and Koch Strategic Platforms, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, plus existing investors Johnson & Johnson Innovation -- JJDC, Inc. JJDC), Decheng Capital, CAVU Ventures, ACME Capital, and others. Cue's flagship product is the Cue Health monitoring System.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Goleta-based Transphorm , which develops Gallium Nitride (GaN) power conversion technology, reported today that Japanese customer Yaskawa Electric Company has gone into mass production on a product that uses its devices. kW, indoor photovoltaic (PV) inverter, which uses the company''s platform. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. M&A Discussion.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

San Diego-based GoSite , which develops an online platform to help small businesses put up online and mobile websites, has raised $16M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Longley Capital, and also included Stage 2 Capital, Ankona Capital, Serra Ventures and SaaS Ventures, and angels.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The round was led by Qumra Capital, a new investor. Microsoft’s venture fund M12, also a new investor, participated in the round alongside Acrew Capital, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Munich Re Ventures, and Israeli entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer, who co-founded security firms Check Point and Imperva.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Liberty Street Funds, Walleye Capital, Japan Post Capital, Joseph Stone Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Tech Pioneers Fund are among the new backers, who are being joined by existing investors Celtic House Asia Partners, INP Capital, Reimagined Ventures, Moringa Capital Management, and others, along with other unnamed participants.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

And it’s why the company has raised $7 million in financing led by Casa Verde Capital — the investment firm launched by legendary cannabis aficionado, Calvin Broadus (AKA Snoop Dogg). To build the company’s first product, Mancheril looked to his co-founder’s Pablo Borquez-Schwarzbeck and Benjamin Dusastre.

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APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The funding was led by Okapi Venture Capital and also included Saas Ventures. Chargezoom develops a software platform that helps businesses automate accounts receivable, billing, and payments. Chargezoom said the new funding will go to continue scaling its product and team. The startup is led by CEO Matt Dubois.

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JULY 12, 2019

Laguna Hills-based Centercode , a developer of software used for managing product and customer testing efforts, has raised $4M as part of an ongoing, $6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company this week. Centercode was founded in 2001, and offers up a platform used for customer validation. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 25, 2015

The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” Are our users addicted to our product? Success for many is ephemeral.

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APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 11:40-14:15). Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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