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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). Talk about the new firm and the new fund?

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JULY 17, 2017

Pasadena-based Impact Health said Monday that it has raised $13M in a Series A funding, to help connect patients with health insurers. The startup said the funding came from Techstars Venture Capital Fund and Foundry Group. Looking for the best health insurance plan for you?

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. This is the list I would start with.

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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.

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JULY 1, 2010

The April funding of newest Idealab startup TweetUp was worth $3.5M, according to regulatory filings from the firm released Thursday. The amount of the funding, which came from Index Ventures, betaworks, Revolution LLC, First Round Capital, Jason Calacanis, and Jeff Jarvis, had not been announced in April.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Today, we share the thoughts of Aaron Fyke , the founder and Managing Director of Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com), a venture capital firm in the energy and sustainability space. This was the cumulation of several years as an entrepreneur based in Pasadena growing clean energy technology companies.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Investors are pouring millions into the creation of a network of shared kitchens, storage facilities, and pickup counters that established chains and new food entrepreneurs can access to cut down on overhead and quickly spin up new concepts in fast food and casual dining. Food startup Maple shuts down operations in New York to join Deliveroo.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Pasadena-based Wavemaker Three Sixty Health, LP , the healthcare startup investment fund led by Jay Goss, has teamed up with the University of Southern California's MESH (Medicine, Engineering, Science, Humanities) Academy at the USC Keck School of Medicine. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Pasadena-based Embodied , a new startup developer "affordable personal robots", has raised funding from Intel Capital. Size of the funding was not announced. A recent regulatory filing from Embodied suggests the funding round was worth around $3.79M. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2019

What's the hardest part of being a startup entrepreneur? Minnie Ingersoll: I grew up here in Southern California, in Pasadena, and have been in the Bay Area for a number of years, and just became a new partner at TenOneTen Ventures. TenOneTen Ventures is an early stage, seed investor here in Southern California.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Pasadena-based 55Haitao.com , a Chinese shopping site which acts as a forum and shopping guide for Chinese consumers, has raised $15M in a Series A financing, the company said today. The funding was led by JJ Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. 55Haitao wa founded by Alan Gu, who is the company's CEO.

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JULY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Ready Set Food , a startup developing a system which introduces babies to peanut, egg, and milk--potential allergens--has raised $2.2M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding came from Amplify.LA, Wavemaker 360, PLG Ventures, Adam Miller, David Rogier, the Pasadena Angels, and John Burry.

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MAY 7, 2014

Pasadena-based managed cloud provider Metacloud has raised $15M more, in a Series B funding round, the company said this morning. Metacloud said it will use the new funds to expand its team, and also to accelerate the evolution of its product. metacloud private cloud service enterprise openstack venture capital'

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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. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. Los Angeles has a diverse area of startups.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Branding & Shared Values.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report were released today, finding that a total of $683.7M The funding brings Southern California's total 2012 investments to $3.2 billion in venture capital. billion in venture capital. in funding.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Altadena-based TripTrotting , an online community that helps world travelers find hosts, has scored a Series A round of funding, according to sources close to the firm. The funding came from Idealab's New Ventures Group. Details on the funding, and size, have not yet been announced by the startup.

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JUNE 26, 2013

A new, startup incubator-created by the Art Center College of Design and the California Insitute of Technology --said this morning that it has launched a brand new, design-focused incubator, housed at Idealab. design accelerator pasadena startup incubator entrepreneur' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based Privlo , a technology driven startup offering up mortgage loans to consumers, said this week that it has raised $350M in a debt financing round, along with $3.8M The equity funding came from Spark Capital and QED Investors; source of the debt funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund.

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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. So, with the last funds out of my fund, I started Miso Robotics. What is Miso Robotics?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Pasadena-based 17hats , a developer of business automation software, has raised $1.25M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Wavemaker Partners, along with un-named strategic investors and angels. The startup is led by Donovan Janus. The company charges between $12.50 READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This contribution is from Jay Goss , General Partner at Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health , based in Pasadena. Thats an easy one.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Pasadena-based Embodied , a startup which says it is developing "life-like robots to revolutionize care and wellness for humans", announced Monday morning that it has raised $22M in a Series A funding round.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Bruce Blomstrom of the Pasadena Angels will present a talk on ANGEL INVESTING: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT OPERATES describing how angel capital fills the gap in start-up financing by providing seed funding prior to venture capital to advance high-growth, start-up businesses and economic development in local communities.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

iPourIt , which develops computer-controlled, self-serve, beer- and wine-dispensing systems, has raised $2M more in a Series A-1 funding, according to the company. The startup, which is based in Orange County, said that the funding round came from the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Pasadena-based New Matter , which is developing consumer focused, 3D printers, said today that it has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Alsop Louie Partners, and also included Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Ranker , the startup headed by Clark Benson which allows users to rank anything they want in a list, has raised $1.3M in a Series A funding. Ranker is a website which allows consumers to rank lists of their favorite TV shows, books, products, or anything else.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab has led a round into LA-spawned Mingly , a developer of software which connects Gmail with a user's social networks. The firm--originally based in LA, but now in San Francisco--is headed by Tyler Koblasa, who was involved with Startup Weekend L.A. and Startup Nights here in LOs Angeles.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Pasadena-based WaveMaker Three-Sixty Healthcare (www.wavemaker360.com) com) recently , announced a new healthcare focused venture capital fund, worth $25M. We caught up with one of the co-founders, Jay Goss, about what the new investment fund is looking for in a startup, and the types of investments it makes.

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Pasadena-based Heliogen , a clean energy startup which is backed by such notable investors as Bill Gates, Idealab and local billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong of NantWorks, says it has demonstrated for the first time, concentrated solar energy which exceeds temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Pasadena, California- and Oxford, UK-based Rockley Photonics , a new startup focused on integrated optics for high-density digital systems, has raised $40M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday morning. The company says it has now raised a total of $100M.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

Southern California has the one of the largest gathering of organized angel investment groups, and a huge crop of startup accelerators: there's only one problem, which is they don't naturally work together. As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasnt. The Angel funding process can be arduous. Continued.).

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MAY 23, 2017

HubHaus , a startup which operates an online marketplace which lets people find shared housing with people with similar professional and other interests, has raised $1.4M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed this week. The company currently offers up its service only in San Francisco and Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 16, 2010

A few days before the meeting the CEO asked me to change the meeting to 11:45 because “he was going to be wrapping up a meeting in Pasadena at 11am&# and it would take 45 minutes to get to Century City where my offices are. &# No problem,&# I replied. And that’s why he stood me up! I would have done the same.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

A few days before the meeting the CEO asked me to change the meeting to 11:45 because “he was going to be wrapping up a meeting in Pasadena at 11am” and it would take 45 minutes to get to Century City where my offices are. “No problem,” I replied. And that’s why he stood me up!

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