Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

As you all know TechZulu is a huge supporter of Startup Weekend, and when we had the chance to be part of the very first Orange County (my home town) Startup Weekend we jumped on board. Tonights Startup Weekend presentations are being judged by the following: Maneesh Goyal. He blogs at startup-marketing.com.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 12, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 -- VC in the OC - OCTANe Innovation Showcase. The premier venture and technology organizations in Orange County, OCVG and OCTANe, have teamed up to produce a one-of-a-kind business event. One great event, one exciting day, and one registration gets you into both events! See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 -- VC in the OC and OCTANe Innovation Showcase 2010 Deadline. VC in the OC will focus on the Orange County venture capital ecosystem with opportunities to meet VCs from throughout California and see investment presentations from some of the most promising OC start-ups.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2016

Impinj , the developer of RFID chips and products which has operations in Orange County, saw a surge in its IPO this morning, and was trading around $17.24 in morning trading--up more than 23 percent from its $14.00 The company was initially started by founders split between Orange County and Seattle.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2016

Southern California startups raised $810.5M in venture capital in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Southern California venture totals were down significantly from the $1.38 was invested.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 18, 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 -- VC in the OC. Join OCTANe for this unique conference to get the inside view on cutting edge technologies, hot start-ups, venture investments, and industry leaders. This is the conference to connect with the Orange County marketplace. See [link] (more)

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

Randy Churchill and his team at PricewaterhouseCoopers meticulously prepare a quarterly report detailing the venture landscape, called Shaking The Money Tree. However, the fact that nearly half of all venture funding in the United States consistently occurs in Silicon Valley is shocking. Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M

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AUGUST 26, 2019

CrowdStrike , the cloud-based cybersecurity software developer which has substantial operations in Orange County, said today that it has launched a new, early stage investment fund called the Falcon Fund.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

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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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2014

The round was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included Felicis Ventures and angel investor Gen Isayama (World Innovation Lab). The startup was spawned out of Project Holodeck, a demonstration effort at an Orange County virtual reality conference. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Preact , a developer of software to help software companies reduce churn in their subscription customers which came out of Los Angeles-based startup incubator/accelerator Launchpad LA , has raised $4.6M The company said the funding came from Trinity Ventures. in a funding round. The company is now based in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Laguna Hills-based See Jane Go , a startup which operates a ridesharing service driven by, and which serves just women, has raised $2.47M in an angel funding, the company said Tuesday. See Jane Go currently offers it service in Orange County and Long Beach, with plans to expand to the rest of Southern California using the funding.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Ever wonder what the origins were of some of the most successful local startups? Look no further than the seed round pitch deck for SendGrid , one of the biggest exits of a company founded in Orange County in recent years. SendGrid had a successful IPO in 2017 , and was acquired for $3 billion in February. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Irvine-based Mavenlink , a startup which develops business process management software and related tools for services businesses, has raised $48M more, in a Series E funding round. The funding came from Carrick Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The financing came from the Tech Coast Angel''s ACE Fund, as well as angel investors from Orange County. The startup--led by Mark Nielsen--it targeting utilities, municipalities, and academic institutions with its product. textpower text message handling venture capital enterprise utility security alerts texting'

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Orange County Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital Report 153

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JUNE 13, 2019

San Diego-based Atlazo , a startup developing systems-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors aimed at used in healthcare and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, has raised $3.4M Atlazo is led by founder and CEO Dr. Karim Arabi; the company was part of EvoNexus, the startup incubator that operates in both San Diego and Orange County.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Karlin Ventures , one of the newest venture capital funds to emerge in the Los Angeles area, said today that it has launched a new "community hour" with Santa Monica's ROC, where the venture capital investment will help provide feedback on startup ideas and chat with companies.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker are no strangers to the world of high tech startups and angel and venture capital--Risheq was formerly CEO of Celllynx, Thacker was co-founder at Datallegro--but the way they're funding their newest startup is unusual, and a testament to the growing popularity of crowdfunding.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2015

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. ipourit beer serving self serve venture capital angel alcohol wine hospitality retail restaurant' READ MORE>>.

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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 billion in venture capital. Los Angeles had a total of $311.25M in deals for the quarter, followed by Orange County with $197.8M, then San Diego, with $174.6M

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. where we totalled up $33.85M in funding.

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MAY 15, 2019

Feather , an online, furniture rental service which lets people subscribe to gain access to fashionable furniture, said on Tuesday that is expanding its service to Los Angeles and Orange County.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Demographics at funds and startups will also be under the microscope, since signatories have agreed to report on their composition by race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability status, immigration status, veteran status, educational attainment, socioeconomic origin, tenure at a firm. The landmark. This commitment from L.A.’s

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JULY 15, 2016

Vinny Smith , the founder of Orange County's Quest Software , has put his backing behind a new data integration sofware startup, Grow. Grow said this week that it has raised $11M in a Series A funding, which came from Toba Capital, the investment funding company run by Smith. Grow is based in Utah.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Are you a startup looking to find funding in Southern California? It's often tough to figure exactly who the venture capital funds are who are funding startups in the area. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows. Upfront Partners - 11 deals.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture capital Association MoneyTree survey, which is based on data from Thomson Reuters, tallies $738.34M invested in Southern California in Q4 of 2011. The amount is up from $528.0M raised in Q4 of 2010, and up from the $652M invested in the region last quarter.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

Venture capitalists invested more than $1.3 billion in Southern California startup, according to the latest MoneyTree Report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association last night, based on data from Thomson Reuters. The report tallied $1.09 in investments in San Diego.

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JULY 18, 2017

The list of technology startups in Southern California who are "unicorns"--valued at more than $1 billion--surprisingly, might not be who you think, and in the sectors you might expect. Razer, the maker of gaming accessories, has recently filed for an IPO, which values the company at up to $5 billion. Razer (www.razerzone.com).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. What does your startup do? What's your background, and how did the startup come about? Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

A new report released today by Next 10 , a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy group, says that Southern California--and California, as a whole--leads the green innovation, cleantech venture capital, and energy market. billion invested in cleantech venture capital in the state since 2006.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The startup uses college students in order to provide in home technical support, with a focus on older users. The company said its expansion will start with adding services in Orange County, and eventually to a number of other, major metropolitan areas. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. Between Greg and Alan, we''ve come up with a very innovative way to solve this problem.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

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