socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. We could easily use 4x to 5x the amount of capital we are getting now. Thanks, and congrats on the new role! READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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. It's always hard with venture capital. Tell us a little bit about the firm? I was blown away.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors and advertisers, who make our coverage of Southern. Thanks this week to our sponsors and advertisers, which include Clearstone. Venture capital for innovators. California's technology industry possible. Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. professionals? to San Diego.

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socalTECH

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. How did you end up joining March Capital? I think there are still barriers to women raising the same amount of capital that men to.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. To learn about the new fund, we sat down with Jamie Montgomery , one of the fund's co-founders, to hear about March Capital's strategy and the new fund. We started March Capital in late 2013.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter and sponsor of socaltech over the years. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. It was a fantastic run.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2014

Recently, the team behind MuckerLab has made a subtle shift--becoming Mucker Capital (www.muckercapital.com)--focusing on seed stage investments. We caught up with Erik Rannala , co-founder of both, to understand the move and why Mucker Capital felt like it needed to put more capital to work in local, seed stage startups.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Venture Capital for Technology Innovators. Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. This is minutes 8-11.

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APRIL 23, 2011

Thank you. (if 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).

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

Thanks to that activity, a new, venture investor has moved into town, Core Innovation Capital (www.corevc.com) , to specifically take advantage of those opportunities. However, although New York may be the financial capital of the world it is a little out in the weeds. That increase in startups has not gone un-noticed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Investors: Union Square (lead), Spark Capital (lead). OK, it’s official! Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. Jeb, thanks for the time today. Jeb Spencer: The goal at TVC Capital is to do exactly this. These companies don't traditionally get venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. “The third piece is a developer ecosystem,” Evans said. “We’re really copying Shopify, Squarespace for video or Shopify for video.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Most of the venture capital firms covered in TechCrunch and other tech publications compete for a spot on the cap table of the hottest Bay Area, New York or Los Angeles companies of the moment. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology. Big ideas rule the day.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

Kyriba said that existing investors Daher Capital, Iris Capital and Kyriba Chairman and CEO Jean-Luc Robert will remain as investors in the company. The company thanked its prior investors, which include Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP), Bpifrance, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, BRED Banque Populaire and Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And while the grocery delivery market has become increasingly competitive, Hall argued that Good Eggs stands out thanks to the quality and breadth of its products — 70% of its products are locally sourced, and it often delivers them within 48 hours of harvesting. Image Credits: Good Eggs. ” Good Eggs CEO Bentley Hall.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2018

A new, $20M venture capital fund, TAU Ventures , based out of Tel Aviv, Israel, and Tel Aviv University (TAU), says it is specifically looking to link with the Los Angeles technology community--thanks to its link with Los Angeles investor Behzad Kianmahd--co-founder of Cross Campus.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

While Messi’s rags to riches story is the stuff that sports dreams are made of, it’s impossible for the world’s best teams to get a window into all of the world’s best players, thanks to the game’s incredibly low barrier to entry. Anyone can play soccer. club team, the Seattle Sounders.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Community Sponsors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

No other than the Winklevoss Twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss , according to a report from TMZ today, which said the two have purchased a house in the Hollywood Hills and are looking to launch an arm of their investment firm, Winklevoss Capital, thanks to the booming tech scene here.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

billion thanks to $100 million in new financing. GOAT , the proprietor of online and physical retail locations for reselling the collectible kicks and kits that are the currency of street cred and cultural cool among the youths, is now worth a whopping $1.75 It’s a big number, and a big day, for the Los Angeles-based startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

A huge thanks goes out to the Social Media ClubHouse (SMCH3) for helping put this all together. We want to also give thanks to our sponsors for making TechZulu possible. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. Its like a match made in heaven.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. Three Arrows Capital, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 NewView, a growth stage venture capital firm spun out of the multibillion dollar investment firm NEA, led the most recent $200 million round for Scopely.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC. Naval Ravikant describes how Silicon Valley’s dominance over the venture capital landscape will evolve over time in the previously mentioned interview. The Founders of such a startup would be well served to invest their time pursuing non-venture capital funding. STAGE: Few Harvests, Little Planting.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night for the Digital Family Reunion , where we celebrated this year''s socalTECH 50 , and awarded Belkin founder Chet Pipkin with DFR''s Outstanding Achievement Award. Thank you to our sponsors who made this event possible!! The panel was moderated by socalTECH''s own Benjamin Kuo. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 30, 2020

The local biotech ecosystem is growing up thanks to its innovative science and collaborative ecosystem, advantages that put it nearly on par with the nation’s top life science regions, according to industry veterans.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

CoverHound , which has offices in Westlake Village, and is also one of the portfolio firms of Los Angeles-based venture investor Core Innovation Capital , has raised $33.3M Los Angeles investor Core Innovation Capital, which makes investments in fintech startups, also invested in CoverHound's prior round. in a Series C funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

There's a new venture investor in town, thanks to Dell. Vinny Smith , the former CEO of Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software , appears to have become one of the most active investors in recent months in enterprise software, after starting up a new venture capital firm, Toba Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2022

Some BNPL services are likely to falter amid a downturn in the tech industry that's making many venture capital investors second-guess pouring money into any startup lacking an iron-clad plan to reach profitability. One of them, Klarna, laid off 10% of its workforce last week, despite raising $639 million at a $45.6 billion valuation in 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Abundance of Late-Stage Capital Benefits All A lot has been said about the negatives of the late-stage capital that has entered the VC world but the reality is that it also is incredibly important at funding “the long game” and letting many of these companies remain independent and ultimately IPO.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

We want to give a huge thanks to our sponsors for making TechZulu possible. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. Our valued sponsors are: Mobile Roadie, GDP Wealth, Will You Trend?, and AudioMicro. . In Minutes. Its like a match made in heaven.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2015

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Upfront Ventures has hired technology journalist Michael Carney as an Associate, Pando said Wednesday. upfront ventures executive venture capital pando pandodaily associate' Carney had covered technology on the West Coast for Pando. READ MORE>>.

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