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. If you want to understand how the VC industry is changing there is a great primer in the link.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 14, 2016

A previous firm of Kobe Bryant’s venture capital partner Jeff Stibel netted several lawsuits with its business practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. My first ever investment as a VC was Invoca. Entrada Ventures? —?that Maker Studios?—?sold

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

Partners at large venture firms generally believe that Orange County is the ideal geography for medical devices, San Diego for telecom and life sciences (along with Boston) and Silicon Valley for everything else. Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC. STAGE: Few Harvests, Little Planting. Financial Services percent of total deals = 2.58%.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2019

Legendary rock musician and longtime internet evangelist Peter Gabriel has joined the all-star cast of speakers for Net@50 , a historic event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first net message—while also looking ahead to the internet’s next 50 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

Lots of discussion these days about the changes in the VC industry. The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion.

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

These are all subjects that will be examined at Net@50: The Roots and Future of the Internet , a unique two-part event to be held. But as we are ever more acutely aware, that very technology infrastructure is also a tool for scams, identity and financial theft, election fraud, and oppression. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 5, 2019

The event is called Net@50. At the World Frontiers Forum and Xconomy, we can’t promise to cover everything, but we can deliver an important and historic event that poses such questions and many more. We can also deliver some of the most knowledgeable and informed speakers and guests to provide at least some of the answers. It takes place the.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Online drone services firm begins testing AR.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2019

Come celebrate milestones the internet has made over the past 50 years at a special event called Net@50 on July 16 in Cambridge, MA, organized by the World Frontiers Forum and Xconomy. An afternoon forum at the MIT Media Lab will explore the big issues and challenges surrounding the internet.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

pasadena angels exits venture capital angel investment bluebeam tech coast investors greendot gdot' Bluebeam joins Green Dot among the trophy returns for the local angel groups; Green Dot IPO in 2010 resulted in a 100x return for the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

Of course there is no right answer but it’s a function of how much capital you have raised, your prospects for raising more capital in the future, your growth rate and your company’s risk tolerance. The Basics The starting point — the 101 — is knowing the difference between gross burn and net burn.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2020

San Diego-based AlphaTrAI , a fintech startup which is backed by venture capital investor Analytics Ventures, says it is launching its own, extrenal fund, and is expanding its leadership team. the founder of Hightree Advisors, to its advisory board.

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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. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs.

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Technology Council

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Feedback on this year’s Venture Net has been great. Thanks once again to Venture Net’s sponsors, [.] The event was sold out - almost 500 people in total! Scott Fox and an audience volunteer pick winners for the door prizes. Thanks, Ben!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2013

According to Manalto, the funding came from Europlay Capital Adivsors, Raven Capital, as well as high net worth individuals from Australia. manalto venture capital social media content managment software facebook australia' The company splits its operations between Santa Monica and Australia. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: > -jeff.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

No VC will be so naive as not to see straight through it. When I first became a VC, seed rounds were typically $500k – $1.5 There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.).

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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. John Shen is founding partner of Sunstone Management, which says it provides wealth management to high net worth clients worldwide, in particular U.S. new-immigrant families.

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Technology Council

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

13 of the hottest early stage technology companies in Southern California joined us yesterday for the 13th Annual Venture Net.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The company said the funding primarily came from high net worth individuals. renova therapeutics biopharmaceuticals gene therapy congestive heart failure venture capital lifescience amylin' As part of the funding, Daniel M. Bradbury has joined the company''s board. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. As discussed in Why I Passed On Twilio , VC's love to talk about their successes, but seldom publicly acknowledge their mistakes. It is far more detrimental to one’s returns to make investments in companies which fail to return capital.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2013

According to Arcturus, the funding came from multiple private capital,, high net worth investors from Canada, Japan, and the United States. Names of those capital sources were not announced. arcturus therapeutics venture capital rnai lifescience biotech biopharmaceuticals' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

The company said the round came from multiple, high net-worth private investors from the U.S. arcturus therapeutics venture capital rnai lifescience biotech' San Diego-based Arcturus Therapeutics , which is developing RNAi therapeutics to treat disease, said this morning that it has raised $1.3M in a seed fudning round.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

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. Since the company slipped in its R&D schedule, the partners of the VC firm voted to not add new money to the company for the project.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor). And just for measure, VC’s fund less than 2% of all deals they do investigate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. Why do VC’s care about these years?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The startup said its service uses a double-blind review process that ensures the user''s confidentially and privacy of sensitive financial information, helping startups avoid the issues behind having companies needing to verify investors'' income and net worth. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2012

Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site. Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

Oblong said it intends to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes. The publicly traded company--which trades on the Nasdaq as OBLG--said it sold 4,000,000 sahres of its common stock at a purchase price of $3.10

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. So what does a VC do when he or she isn’t ready to say “no” or perhaps might like to talk with you in a year but not now?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The company is selling 5,000,000 shares of its common stock, which would net it $92.0M Obalon is venture backed Domain Partners, InterWest Partners, Bader Sultan & Bros, and Okapi Venture Capital. and $16.00 if it prices at the high end of its estimated range.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The company--which is novel cancer therapies for patients who are failing, or are resistant to, current treatment regimens--currently trades on the Nasdaq as KTRA. The company said the exclusive placement agent on the offering is H.C. Wainwright & Co.

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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. Plenty of analysts shared that this was the biggest dollar amount single-day drop for a company’s market cap ever.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company said net proceeds from the transaction will go primarily to advance RGLS4326 for the treatment of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease and for general corporate purposes. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2021

The company said it expects to receive approximately $340M in net proceeds after the offering, after deducting the initial purchasers' discount and estimated offering expenses payable by Magnite. Magnite offers up a sell-side advertising platform for desktop, mobile, audio, and other platforms. The company trades as MGNI on the Nasdaq.

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