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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Silicon Valley Bank is big supporter and has been a sponsor of socaltech for many, many years. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies. Before SVB, Rob worked at marketing startup Impower and as investment manager at Fisher Investments. He earned a B.A.

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APRIL 22, 2013

FastSpring , the fast growing Santa Barbara-based e-commerce payment services provider headed by Dan Engel, said today it has scored a funding round from Pylon Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. The investment is the first, outside investment in the company since it was founded in 2005.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based PeerStreet said this morning that it has launched a brand new, online real estate loan marketplace, which is aimed at accredited investors interested in real estate investments. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Split Rock, which is based in Minneapolis, said that Coffin will work with the firm to identify promising investment opportunities, as well as to help advise its existing portfolio companies. Split Rock was an investor in LowerMyBills, which Coffin sold to Experian in 2005 for $380M.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

SAIL focuses all of its investments on clean energy related companies, and first invested in Ice Energy back in 2005. SAIL joined TIAA-CREF, Energy Capital Partners, Good Energies, and Second Avenue Partners in the funding.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Closing our inaugural fund was big news for us, but even bigger news in my perspective has been the breakaway performance of many of our investments led by military veteran founders: 1. Those investments are a huge validation of our Fund thesis: investing in Extraordinary Leadership, with a heavy emphasis on military veteran co-founders.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

However, Southern California's IT industry actually saw an increase in investments, bucking a national downturn in IT industry investments. According to the report, investments in Southern California total $421.80M across 51 deals, down from $902.16M and 58 deals in Q3. billion was invested in the U.S. billion in deals.

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JULY 30, 2012

The move might actually be a positive one for Southern California, given that Levinsohn had been pulled away from investing and helping Southern California startups in 2010, when he was tapped by then Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to aid Yahoo. Levinsohn has not said what he'll do next after his stint as Yahoo CEO. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Marc Averitt co-founded Okapi Venture Capital in 2005 and is a Managing Director of all three of Okapis funds and responsible for their technology investments. While the tech industry has historically remained comparatively removed from the process, 2019 will be a much different year leading into the 2020 elections.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year? What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The company also said that it is planning to double its investment in its technology platform. Lavin and Dusig's last firm, goZing, was successfully sold to Greenfield Online in 2005. Actual financials for the privately held firm were not disclosed, however, the firm claimed record growth in its year-over-year results.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp. During 2011, the analysis identified 73 exits by companies, with an average value of approximately $106M.

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JULY 14, 2010

The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. in a Series B financing round. and AO Capital Partners Ltd.

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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. Give us an overview of your fund and what you invest in? Here's a real use case.

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JULY 18, 2013

We spoke with Arjan Shutte about the investment firm and its interest in financial startups, and why it moved from New York. Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. Tell us about Core Capital and the types of investments you make? It''s now well over seventy.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

According to OVP's site, it was approached in 2005 by the CFO of a former portfolio company, who had made money for the firm twice before, begging the firm to invest. OVP is known for its list of "missed deals" in its portfolio, and recently added Networks In Motion to its missed deal for its 2001-era Fund 6.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution. in 2005 for $680M.

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APRIL 5, 2017

How is it you made it to $100M in revenues without outside investment? There are something like 110 different ways for someone to make money, whether that might be investing in the stock market or real estate, building a Silicon Valley company and flipping it. We have a pretty good retention rate, over 90 to 95 percent.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. You have a unique position, being both in the investment banking as well as being an early stage investor.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Collectively, across all those programs, we've invested in a bit over 900 startups around the world. Cody Simms: Obviously, I live here in LA, and I have been since 2005. We are investing in companies that are becoming part of our global network and ecosystem. billion combined. Thanks, and good luck!

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

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. What do you invest in? We spent six plus years at a local firm, Palomar Ventures, doing Series A and Series B investments. Let's start with an overview of the fund.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. Within that have own custom cabinet shop, our own metal shop, make our own furniture, and as an offshoot of that, started exploring developing modular, prefab homes in 2005.

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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 invested in Thermark Technologies, I've invested in Evryx, where we worked together. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. You mentioned you had been on the investment side of things -- what pushed you to become an entrepreneur? The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles.

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MAY 27, 2009

We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals. Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. Can you tell our readers the story behind how you found the company?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002. socalcto socaltech Follow @pandodaily. Like PandoDaily on Facebook.

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Where there are lots of players focused on different types of equity, different types of investments, different types of debt, they're doing it in a very unfocused manner. Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. We're also 100 percent focused on debt. Plus, we don't make loans ourselves, which we see as unnecessarily risky.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005. Fred Wilson has a pretty good track record on investments he's done in the web space.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I had worked before at BEA Systems, the middleware company which was acquired by Oracle in 2004 or 2005, and we used to joke that the company had been built entirely by acquisitions. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team. It was a question of build versus buy.

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JULY 16, 2010

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. Quinn Curtis: We were self-funded from 2006 to 2008, and in 2008 we acquired a small botnet company in San Diego, which had a venture capitalist invested in it. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com).

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AUGUST 15, 2014

What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. By the next morning, they asked us if we wanted them to invest. Keith Bonnici: Both myself and my two other cofounders have seven years in publishing. It was a pretty big amount.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays. Our largest investment was a partnership with Norman Lear's Act III Communications, we did a series of acquisition in the movie theater space. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 You did pretty well at DoubleClick, and have been doing investments--why did you decide to get back into the game on the operational side? I said, okay, why don't we take a similar user interface, and apply that over a broad spectrum of things?

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JUNE 13, 2019

When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. So are you now looking at new projects and investments? One, called Ciplex, I started in 1999, when everyone was asking for a website.

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MAY 11, 2011

Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. I told him, I wanted him to invest his time. They offered me a contract job at the intersection of science and graphics, which is satellite imaging, a dream come true. I ended up managing that project. How did you connect with Nolan?

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