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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Coffin's last startup, LowerMyBills, was sold to Experian Interactive in 2005 for $330M plus earnout; he is also an active angel investor in Southern California, with stakes in ThisWeekIn, Ad.ly, Rubicon Project, Docstoc, and other prominent local Internet firms. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Matt Coffin , the founder of Los Angeles-based LowerMyBills and an active angel investor in Southern California, has joined venture capital firm Split Rock Partners as a Venture Advisor, the venture firm said this week. Split Rock was an investor in LowerMyBills, which Coffin sold to Experian in 2005 for $380M.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Mohit is one of the pioneers of the Southern California high tech industry, having founded Bizrate back in 1995, based on his thesis at Wharton. Scripps for $525M in 2005. Bizrate eventually became Shopzilla, and was acquired by E.W. Cheers launched last February. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies. Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen of Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Second, this was a great year for the broader Southern California tech ecosystem. Ive been building technology companies in Southern California for 22 years and at the end of the day, the quality of the management team has the highest correlation to the eventual outcome of the business. in 2005 for $680M.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

For today's interview, we spoke with Richard Sussman , who is leading up investments for a new venture capital firm in town, NordicEye (www.nordiceye.com), which just saw a big exit in one of its very first investments, Los Angeles-based Weblife. LA, and Southern California, is getting bigger and bigger and bigger in technology.

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MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). There are definitely interesting things in Southern California.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture. IPO in 1996).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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JULY 13, 2009

We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- OCTANe Capital Connections - Inside Fjord Ventures.Get an inside look at Fjord Ventures, meet the team, and hear from the portfolio companies at this unique Orange County firm.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, publishers are also going through disruption, magazines are going to digital as well as video, and were helping publishers to go and capitalize on the video side of publishing. Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. Number six are publishers. I had built an audio company before.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. There was legislation moving through in 2004, which ultimately came out in 2005, which was a starting point for the smart meter discussion. Jerry Fitch: California is always a bell-weather for this kind of activity.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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MARCH 10, 2010

The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. I've actually gone to four startup, so far, taking them from prototype to production, when they are able to sell the company or have it run on its own.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business. We were going through the traditional route of seeking venture capitalists both here in Southern California and flying to Sand Hill road. We've been doing this for a while and capitalize on our head start.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And what happened in L.A.

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JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. So far so good. One of the firm's co-founders, Adam Lieber , is now the founder and CEO of Webtide (www.webtide.com), which is also based here.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients. The firm made a name for itself representing Skype from formation in 2003 through its ultimate sale to eBay for $2.6

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I wanted to look at what they actually did so in looking at their website I saw this positioning. So Skype was ubiquitous. And then eBay bought them for $2.6 billion).

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This morning's reflections are from Kelly Perdew , managing general partner of at Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com).

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MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology.

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