TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 18, 2019

With an inaugural investment into the Los Angeles-based entertainment startup Culture Genesis , Clifford Harris Jr., ”, has launched a new syndicated investment vehicle called Tech Cypha. billion in 2018, a record for the region, according to data from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2016

Newport Beach- and San Francisco-based investment firm Carrick Capital Partners has named Mike Salvino as Operating Partner at the company, according to the company. Salvino spent 22 years at Accenture.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2012

Sibling Capital , a brand new venture capital based in Rancho Santa Fe, said this week that it has formed to invest in the areas of. The new fund said it made its first investment, part of an $80M investment in biopharmaceuticals firm Relypsa. chemistry, medicine and material sciences. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

Local angel groups have hit the jackpot again with an investment, this time with the October acquisition of Pasadena-based Bluebeam in a $100M deal by German software company Nemetschek AG. pasadena angels exits venture capital angel investment bluebeam tech coast investors greendot gdot' READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. However, they have been sending VCs far more investment checks in the last ten years than they’ve gotten back as distributions.

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Venture Capital Capital Marketing Seed Funding 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 -- Raising Angel Capital. In the current economic and venture capital climate, angel investment is one of the most critical sources of start-up capital. Along with capital, angel networks bring additional added value. Angel networks are the source of the majority of this funding.

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Capital Angel .Net Startup 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The company said the exclusive placement agent on the offering is H.C. Wainwright & Co.

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San Diego .Net Study Acquisition 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2019

Long Beach-based investor Sunstone Venture Capital Fund says it has participated in the funding for supersonic airplane maker Boom Supersonic. Sunstone did not say how much it invested in the round, which was announced last week by Denver-based Boom Supersonic. Boom said its plane, the "Overture", will travel at Mach 2.2,

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Most share expertise as well as money.

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Venture Capital Angel Seed Funding Invest 106

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The company says it expects to net $725M after underwtigin discounts, commissions, and other expenses. The company begins trading this morning on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as GDRX. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co. Seelaus & Co., LLC and Ramirez & Co., READ MORE>>.

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Pricing Silver Lake Santa Monica .Net 113

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.

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Venture Capital Product Marketing Resource 296

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 21, 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 -- Attracting Angel Capital: Tips from Frontline Experts. In the current economic and venture capital climate, angel investment is one of the most critical sources of start-up capital. Angel networks such are the source of the majority of this funding.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Angel Investing - Demystified. In the current economic and venture capital climate, angel investment is an increasingly important component of the start-up capital structure. See [link] (more).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of a series that I’ve been working on called Understanding Venture Capital. This led Roy Rodenstein (whose company Going.com was sold to AOL ) and others to discuss , what happens when VC’s need to invest across multiple funds. And VC’s don’t like to invest across multiple funds.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Thus, it’s entirely appropriate that founders net substantially more than the VC partners associated with their company. Currently, carry proceeds are taxed at the long-term capital gains rate of 20%. This would effectively increase the delta between what an entrepreneur nets from a company’s sale, versus that of an investor.

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Venture Capital Capital .Net Entrepreneur 100

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But often, entrepreneurs turn to others for initial capital. Describing that capital using the phrase “friends, family and fools,” or “FFF,” has become as common as to be trite. And now that “crowd sourcing” has been enabled using the Internet – seeking many investors at a small amount per investment. The legality issues.

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Company Companies Invest Entrepreneur 156

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Rose, according to his classic book, “ Angel Investing.” All startups always need more money.

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Funding Startup .Net Invest 144

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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Invest Angel Funding Startup 111

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Research is paramount, and sources are everywhere, especially for public companies and large investment firms. When taking their money, you made a promise to “make them liquid” someday, not to build a lifestyle business where they would be trapped forever, unable to see a return on their investment. The net result of this exercise.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 17, 2014

Simply stated crowd funding or crowdfunding is the raising of capital in small amounts, from a broad base of investors. Usually the investors are non-accredited, and only invest a small amount. The object behind crowdfunding is to open up more opportunities for capital to flow into businesses to help them grow and create new jobs.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We’ve worried together about the moral obligation implicit in taking such investments from people so close, even with their promise never to expect a return. There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company.

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2022

Venture capitalists (VCs) are paid to invest other people’s money, and measured on the rate of return they get. Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives. They tend to work locally, so they can “touch and feel” their investments. Use personal networking.

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Invest Angel .Net Startup 153

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Every startup dreams of achieving that milestone, when they can focus more on scaling the business and enjoying their earnings, rather than fighting for another investment infusion. Both have worked.

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Organization Invest Customer Custom 94

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

It’s a strategy that has now netted the company $33 million in financing led by the Silicon Valley-based investment firm Altos Ventures and New York’s Left Lane Capital. Hyde Park Angels, Fika Ventures, FJ Labs and Silicon Valley Bank also participated in the round.

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Services Los Angeles .Net Mobile 187

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management.

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Startup Venture Capital .Net Capital 212

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The company said the funding primarily came from high net worth individuals. Bradbury is a member of life sciences consulting and investment firm BioBrit LLC; he also served as President and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals. renova therapeutics biopharmaceuticals gene therapy congestive heart failure venture capital lifescience amylin'

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Bradbury San Diego .Net Venture Capital 138

Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2019

When you started the business, you took investments from friends and family in small amounts just to get you started. Enter the need for larger investments. Describing that capital using the phrase “friends, family and fools,” or “FFF,” has become as common as to be just plain trite. Oh, I know. Crowd sourcing as a tool.

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Invest Entrepreneur Course .Net 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Every startup dreams of achieving that milestone, when they can focus more on scaling the business and enjoying their earnings, rather than fighting for another investment infusion. Both have worked.

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Organization Invest Customer Custom 173

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Saudi Arabian Price Al-Waleed Talal said on Tuesday that he has invested $250M in Snap, taking a 2.3 The investment injection comes as Snap announced its Q2 results, where the company reported a net loss of $353.3M percent stake in the company. in the three months ended June 30, 2018, on revenues of $262M.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

THQ said it has hired an investment banker to help it consider "strategic alternatives", in hopes of raising additional capital to bring a number of titles to market. The announcement came as the firm announced net sales of $107.4M The announcement came as the firm announced net sales of $107.4M in revenues. in revenues.

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THQ Agoura Hills Sales Agoura 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Most share expertise as well as money.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Seed Funding 126

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The company’s stock tanked by more than 26 percent, representing a $230 billion reduction in market cap and a $31 billion drop in Zuckerberg’s personal net worth. “ Crypto investment starts 2022 with a roar.

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