socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles?

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Competitors: Gowalla.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

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. The area between Santa Monica and Playa Vista, otherwise known as Silicon Beach, houses more than 35% of startups in Los Angeles. With Yahoo!,

Report 104

Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, 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. And Facebook.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. 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.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44