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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Benson was the founder of eCrush, which he sold to Hearst in 2006; Ranker is backed by Benson, Siemer Venture Capital, and the Tech Coast Angels. Tags: benson clark ecrush angels coast tech startup lists ranker. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. Tags: ranker venture capital seed funding lists content. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Kevin Jacques , a former Los Angeles venture capitalist who was at Palomar Ventures, has surfaced as the head of Visa Ventures , the venture arm of Visa. According to Jacques' LinkedIn profile, he became Vice President and Head of Visa Venturs, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, in October.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based GOOD , a media firm which operates Reason Pictures, GOOD Magazine, and GOOD Digital, announced this week that it has raised a Series A funding round. Investors included angels and Nicholas Negroponte and Ben Goldhirsch, the firm's CEO and co-founder. Amount of the funding was not disclosed.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mojix , a developer of RFID technology, said today that it has promoted Dr. Christopher R. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures and InnoCal Venture Capital. Jones as its new Chief Technology Officer. Jones also served at Broadcom. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Thing Labs was foundedin June of 2008, with funding from Jones, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC, and Jeff Clavier. This is at least the second time Jones has benefited from an AOL acquisition; his own startup, Userplane, was acquired by AOL in 2006.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Launched in 2006 by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels, the annual John G. Ten tech startups will vie to impress a panel of six judges and hundreds of attendees at San Diego’s biggest pitch contest later this month. Three of the 10 slated to pitch at the Oct. 24 event will get a cut of $75,000 to advance their businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based SOS Online Backup , a developer of cloud-based online backup and data protection services, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. SOS Online Backup was founded by Ken Shaw, and first launched its services in 2006. The round came from Splashpoind Investors. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”

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APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Deal evaluations the Foundry way, which continues into a great discussion about VC decision-making processes. “So was starting. Distribution.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Managing Director of Miramar Venture Partners. He joined Miramar in 2006. in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011. In addition, he is on the board of directors for the Angel Capital Association, a national angel trade association. Based in Newport Beach, CatchFree has raised $5.5m

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels. Lisha is a member of Pipeline Angels , a social impact angel investing group focused on women and non-binary femmes, and serves as the Deal Flow lead. She’s also an advisor and connector to portfolio companies, and consults other angel groups to develop business plans.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2006, a platform called FanLib raised $3 million in venture capital to launch a platform where copyright owners (like ViacomCBS, which owns “Star Trek”) could host fan fiction contests to engage fans. This mistrust goes back years to the founding of Archive of Our Own.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J. Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Get to know them now before they become household names.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. Pipeline Angels (National Network).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Pitch Session, Startups / Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital (VC) / Angels / Investors. . Funding / VC. Jusin Fishner-Wolfson, 137 Ventures. Having the.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. We successfully built up that firm, and in late 2006 we sold it to Tandberg Television. Robert Flynn: I'm actually an LA native.

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APRIL 5, 2017

And, even more impressively, it's now seeing more than $100M in annual revenues--without ever having taken any institutional or venture capital. We spoke with CEO Bryan Cheung to learn more about LifeRay, and how it grew from a church basement and open source to $100M+ in revenues, without ever taking outside capital.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night.

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JULY 13, 2009

This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? That as unhealthy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. Los Angeles is a great place for startups. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Total Immersion recently moved its headquarters here to the Los Angeles area, and we caught up with Bruno to learn more about the firm, its technology, and why it moved here to LA. The first was in 2001, the second was in 2006, and we have two French VCs and one in the U.S. Are you hiring here in Los Angeles?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Allen Morgan , Mayfield Ventures. Allen Morgan , Mayfield Ventures. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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MAY 10, 2012

He co-founded Mindshare LA in 2006. This upbringing naturally steered him to Los Angeles, where he now works in computer graphics for feature films. Artists & InventorEric is an artist and inventor in Los Angeles, CA. Talks Schedule: 10am: Introduction to “What Comes Next?”. Douglas Campbell / @ProjectFresh. 10:15am: MIND.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. Juniper and countless others.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. Around 2006, they opened up a sales office here, with a couple of guys talking to the film and games business. One of those venture investors was Saffron Hill, which is involved here.

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