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MARCH 9, 2016

Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital has raised $45 million for its third fund, Mucker III. The Silicon Beach firm said that it will continue to invest in software and services startups and continue to focus on the greater Los Angeles area. “We are founders, just like the… Read More.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Of these 19 have received funding (10 have received significant amounts of VC funding) and 5 have been acquired (2 for more than $30 million).

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

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MAY 15, 2013

Peter Csathy , the CEO of San Diego''s Sorenson Media , and digital media veteran, has departed the company, and will head up a new legal and investment group formed by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. The new digital media venture from Manatt was created by Los Angeles partner T.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). What was the biggest value they got from the investment?

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Tecca said today that it has launched a new, personal electronics shopping and information service with the backing of Best Buy Co. Fuse said that Tecca was incubated from within the firm. and Fuse Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Services Santa Monica Google Incubator 188

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

” Perhaps it is time to seek some funding, but how do you get advice from the same people that you’ll need money from? Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp.

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Incubator Startup Mentor Entrepreneur 107

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. When I was at Amplify, we had a lot of people wondering what an accelerator was, and how we differentiated from an incubator. David Carter: I started out as an engineer.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/).

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

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JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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Santa Monica Google Incubator Advertising 133

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). What was the biggest value they got from the investment?

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. Mike Jones: Coming out of Myspace, I looked at both operational roles and joining a venture fund. I wanted to go back to both, with an operation and investment focus. What is Science?

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Incubator Startup Commerce Los Angeles 196

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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MARCH 4, 2021

How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Accelerator programs--like YCombinator in Silicon Valley, and TechStars in Colorado--have come to the forefront of the minds of entrepreneurs as a way to boost their ideas quickly into the market, find funding, and into existence. We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

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JULY 11, 2010

VCs constantly share cross fund information and are therefore always getting dialed into what is going on in the industry. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator?

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Startup Venture Capital Incubator Entrepreneur 285

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JUNE 20, 2012

Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. We're not investing in ideas and trying to turn them into companies.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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APRIL 20, 2010

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. It's not meaningful for the venture industry as a whole, because if you're investing in Series B, C, or D round investments, these are not meaningful.

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Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. 94 new startups have launched since January 2013 to June 2013 and the startup ecosystem has raised $500 million in funding in 2013 so far.

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JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. How did you end up in Santa Monica? We'll also be expanding our team, and investing more in technology. How does Giftagram work?

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JUNE 17, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. Xavor invest through our dependable consulting services.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We know you're doing this as a dog lover, but it might be interesting to talk a bit about your past background in the venture investing industry? We'll also be announcing some additional funding in March. We spoke to Aaron about the company.

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Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164

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MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We know you're doing this as a dog lover, but it might be interesting to talk a bit about your past background in the venture investing industry? We'll also be announcing some additional funding in March. We spoke to Aaron about the company.

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Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

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JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. And it’s not just the movement from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. Both companies were in Los Angeles. Is that a real trend?

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

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JANUARY 20, 2012

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44