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JULY 7, 2009

SodaHead, which is venture backed by Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels, as well as angel investor Ron Conway, recently swizzled the site into a "social news" site, where people can debate and discuss breaking news and topics.

Yahoo 133

Yahoo Tech Coast Angels News Mission Ventures 133

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APRIL 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment is announcing this morning that it has raised an additional $2.7M According to the company, the funding came from Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. in a Series B funding for the firm.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Research 100

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Big Stage Entertainment is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels and based on technology spun out of the University of Southern California. Barry has also served at Brilliant Digital, Warner Bros., and Intel Corp. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

SodaHead is venture backed by Mohr, Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, the Tech Coast Angels, and angel investor Ron Conway, and has raised $12.7M in venture funding since its launch in September of 2007.

Tech Coast Angels 113

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Sites Web 113

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JUNE 9, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Blue Mars 2150 is being developed by Virtual Space Entertainment. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Technology Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The company is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, the Pasadena Angels, the Tech Coast Angels, and others. LeisureLink's vacation property service markets vacation rentals, timeshares and other properties through online travel sites and travel agents. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Clearstone Pasadena Angels Mission Ventures 100

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JUNE 24, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

Content 100

Content Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

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JUNE 25, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and Tech Coast Angels, and is based on technology developed at the University of Southern California. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

SodaHead.com is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm raised $8.4M SodaHead.com also provided details on its site traffic, saying that it now has over 1 million registered users, and is seeing around 2 million unique visitors per month.

Sites 113

Sites Tech Coast Angels Encino Mission Ventures 113

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The most active Southern California investors, including all of their investments both inside and outside of the region, were the Tech Coast Angels (7 investments), and Rustic Canyon Partners (6 investments); Redpoint , Mission Ventures , and GRP all had 4 investments total.

Southern California 195

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

The firm is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology is a result of CIA-funded research efforts at USC. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Big Stage develops technology which converts digital photos of a person into a 3-D avatar.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC Social Network 100

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MARCH 16, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and the Tech Coast Angels. Big Stage explained that the application will first be applied to a mobile campaign with Lionsgate for the movie "The Spirit." READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Entertainment Content 100

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The firm said the official launch will allow users to create what the firm calls an "@actor" -- a 3D avatar which can be inserted into movie and TV clips, music videos, still images, and elsewhere. The firm had launched a beta of its site in August.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Clearstone Southern California Mission Ventures 100

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology is based on research developed at the University of Southern California and for the CIA. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures Pasadena 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

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DECEMBER 10, 2008

Big Stage is backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Venture, and the Tech Coast Angels. Icarus Studios is a provider of white-label, massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds; The Venue Network is a developer of yet-to-be-launched software for conducting virtual events. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Sample Pasadena 100

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APRIL 21, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. The firm's software allows users to upload photos to create their own, 3-D avatars, which can then be inserted into online greeting cards, scenes from movies, photos, and other media. READ MORE>>.

Content 100

Content Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC 100

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology was developed at the University of Southern California. The new deal means that users on VIDiGREET will be able to insert themselves into the firm's funny video postcards.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures USC 100

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Outside San Diego, Coda Automotive, the electric auto firm in Santa MOnica, raised $24.1M; Northridge based Gamma Medica raised $24.0M

Southern California 140

Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway. Unlike many other online invitations sites, the firm has tapped well known, professional designers for its card designs. www.sodahead.com). Myspace Connection : Jason Feffer , former VP of Operations of MySpace.

Startup 178

Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

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JULY 9, 2009

The most active investors in the region, in terms of activity, were the Tech Coast Angels , with five investments or follow up investments in the quarter, followed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers with three investments.

Southern California 100

Southern California Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital Technical Review 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources.

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

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JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The panelists included James Cham of Bessemer Venture Partners; Beau Laskey of Steamboat Ventures; Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures; Leo Spiegel of Mission Ventures; Ross Levinsohn of Velocity Interactive; Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Venture Partners; Mike Stuhley of the Tech Coast Angels; and Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures.

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

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JULY 19, 2011

active firms (all with three deals each) being Rustic Canyon Partners , DFJ Frontier , the Tech Coast Angels , Amgen , GRP Partners , and Mission Ventures.

Southern California 167

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 167