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JANUARY 18, 2013

In the second set of venture capital numbers released today, Dow Jones VentureSource has released its tabulation of Q4 2012 venture capital financings, reporting similar numbers to those from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters released earlier this morning. billion in 2011.

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JUNE 11, 2014

Flarion had been acquired by Qualcomm in 2006 for $805M. Laroia was a VP at Qualcomm from 2006 until 2011. qualcomm paul jacobs light venture capital flarion photography digital photo hardware' Rajiv Laroia, who was previously the CTO of Flarion Technologies--whose base technology became LTE. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, is keeping the faith in one of its portfolio companies, Validity Sensors , a developer of fingerprint sensors for the PC, mobile, and tablet market. Qualcomm has been an investor in Validity since at least 2006. The new round was announced Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Huntington Beach-based BeSmartee, a developer of digital mortgage software, said Tuesday that it has received a strategic growth investment. Size of the new investment was not announced. The company was founded in 2006. The funding came from M33 Growth. BeSmartee is led by CEO Tim Nguyen, and was co-founded by Veronica Nguyen.

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APRIL 8, 2019

If you’ve been following venture capital trends, what you expected to happen in the first quarter of 2019 did: More money is being invested in fewer deals, and women founders still are getting less of it than men. Venture firms sent $32.6 Venture firms sent $32.6 Companies raised only $9.66 billion through 1,648 deals.

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MARCH 30, 2011

The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. We chatted with Jeb Spencer , Managing Partner at TVC, to understand the firm's strategy and how the investment worked out. Jeb Spencer: The goal at TVC Capital is to do exactly this.

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APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 11:40-14:15). 16:35-19:35). 37:00-40:30).

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MAY 2, 2017

Veritone is looking to list as VERI on the NASDAQ Capital Market and hopes to raise as much as $20M in its IPO effort. Veritone's IPO underwriters are Wunderlich, Craig-Hallum Capital Group, and Northland Capital Markets. Veritone's CEO is technology startup veteran Chad Steelberg. billion price tag. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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MARCH 23, 2011

The sale this morning of El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies was a big win for San Diego investment firm TVC Capital. TVC's investment in Accordent was managed by Jeb Spencer, who was Chairman of Accordent's board; TVC's Steve Hammerslag also served as a director.

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JUNE 12, 2013

San Diego-based biotech investment firm Domain Associates announced this morning that it has promoted Nimesh Shah to Partner at the firm. Shah has been at the firm since 2006. He also is a board member for the San Diego Venture Group, and previously served at Cutlass Capital and Alex. Brown & Sons (now Deutsche Bank).

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JANUARY 6, 2012

The firm has previously raised funding from ad pepper media international, CGI Opportunity Fund, Fulcrum Venture Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments, and RimLight Capital.

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APRIL 27, 2018

An interesting post by William Hsu of Mucker Capital shows that the list is strongly weighted towards venture capitalists who have gone to Stanford University, investors who worked for McKinsey & Company, or who have worked for Morgan Stanley.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

One of the portfolio firms of San Diego venture capital firm Enterprise Partners is heading towards an IPO, according to a S-1 filing Friday. The IPO is being underwritten by UBS Investment Bank, Jefferies & Company, Baird, and Cowen and Company.

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MAY 2, 2012

BAT said the new round was led by Matthew Pritzker Company , and also included existing investors Miramar Venture Partners , Newport Coast Investments , RimLight, LLC, Fulcrum Venture Capital , and ad pepper media International. in a Series D funding round. BAT said it has now raised $34M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Laguna Beach-based Okapi Venture Capital , the venture capital fund run by Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, has kicked off fundraising efforts for a new, $30M venture fund, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. The firm's first fund, Okapi Ventures I, LP, closed in 2006. has a target of $30M. 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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AUGUST 24, 2010

The round was led by Miramar Venture Partners, and also included prior investors Newport Coast Investments, RimLight Capital, Fulcrum Venture Capital, and ad pepper media International. Other investors also include the CGI Opportunity Fund II, the investment vehicle of the Ueberroth Family. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The round was led by Pinnacle Ventures and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital, Venrock, Global Catalyst Partners, Oak Investment Partners and DAG. The firm last raised a round of funding in 2006. Tags: newport media semiconductor venture capital mobile chip rfic. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Ben Goldhirsch founded GOOD in 2006, and prior to this round was funded by Goldhirsch himself, who told the New York Times in 2006 that he planned to invest $10M in the company over the next 5 years. Tags: good content media magazine movie venture capital angel nicholas negroponte. Goldhirsh is the son of Inc.

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JULY 28, 2010

Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures , which is run by Sharon Stevenson and Marc Averitt , has seen its first portfolio exit, in Carlsbad-based Helixis. Okapi said that the first exit represented a return of more than six times the invseted capital in the firm, which it first invested in less than three years ago.

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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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APRIL 26, 2010

Mojix--which is applying communications techniques honed on NASA deep space exploration missions and applying them to RFID readers and tags--said that Jones has been at the firm since 2006, after joining the firm from California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Jones also served at Broadcom. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based venture firm Rustic Canyon , along with Intel Capital, has put more into Silicon Valley-based InSync Software , a developer of software for the RFID and supply chain tracking business. Both had invested in InSync in 2006. Tags: rustic canyon venture capital rfid software supply chain.

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MAY 20, 2010

Apriso is venture backed by Brentwood Venture Capital, CMEA Ventures, LogiSpring Investment Fund SA, SAP Ventures, and Wall Street Technology Partners, although the firm has not publicly announced any kind of investment activity since 2006. Apriso's software is used for managing supply chains.

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JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. source: Capital IQ. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me.

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JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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JULY 10, 2009

According to the firm's filing, the funding will go towards general working capital purposes and payroll. Enterprise and Vista invested a small, $0.5M round back in 2006 in the firm. Tags: capital venture technology steel scoperta.

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JULY 19, 2019

From 2006 to 2012, the number of pills distributed to pharmacies increased by more than 50 percent. The opioid crisis reaches all corners of the nation, and newly released data this week revealed how the growth of the epidemic tracked with a massive increase in the production and distribution of these drugs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital. You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Make sure that your team can motivate shareholders. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. They raise money from institutions who want to have some allocation of their investment dollars in a category known as “alternatives,&# which is supposed to mean higher risk, higher returns.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

I don't have any predictions, but in terms of goals I'm looking to invest in future of work, media & entertainment, e-commerce and supply chain and social impact companies. Anna Barber is the Managing Director at Techstars LA where she invests in B2B and B2C early stage startups.

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MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” But VC is like congress.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly?

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