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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Trade Desk develops online advertising technology used to manage display, social, and video advertising campaigns. Jeff Green is a serial entrepreneur, who sold his last company--AdECN--to Microsoft, back in 2007. The Trade Desk is one of the companies out of the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (V2TC). READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. When did you invest in the firm?

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MAY 16, 2011

Pasadena-based venture capital firm Arcturus Capital has scored an exit out of its portfolio this morning, as Milpitas, California-based Pliant Technology was acquired by SanDisk in a deal worth $327M. Arcturus first invested in Pliant in 2007. SanDisk is a major manufacturer of flash memory.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. The purpose was to deliver high value jobs.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

The firm said the patent covers technology used in its SEO Audit Score System. The firm filed the patent in March of 2007, and it was granted earlier this week on January 25th. Covario is venture backed by Dubilier & Company, FTV Capital, and Voyager Capital. Patent and Trademark Office. According to the U.S.

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MAY 26, 2010

The round included new strategic investor Oclaro, multiple un-named telecom OEMs, as well as existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Allegis Capital, ONSET Ventures, and Pacific General Partners. Oclaro is using ClariPhy's technology in the 100G Coherent Long Haul and Ultra Long Haul market.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

USC Stevens said it has appointed Rick Friedman as Senior Director of Technology Advancement and Licensing, and expanded Dr. Richard Hull's role to Senior Director of New Ventures and Alliances. USC Stevens was established back in 2007, when Mark Stevens--a General Partner at Sequoia Capital--and his wife gave $22M to the school.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2 billion in deals.

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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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JULY 12, 2012

An Illinois firm whose technology is based on, and licensed from Pasadena-based Materia and Caltech , has raised a whopping, $104M funding round. Elevance is using olefin metathesis technology, licensed from Materia, and originally developed by Noble Prize winning Caltech professor Robert H.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Irvine-based Visiogen is reporting this morning that it has raised $40M in a financing round for its intraocular lens technology. The firm last raised funding in 2007. Tags: novartis biomedical lifescience intraocular lens biotech venture capital. Visiogen is developing a dual-optic accomodating intraocular lens.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Damarillo is known for founding GlueCode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, Logicblaze, which he sold to Iona Technologies in 2007, and for founding Webtide, which was sold to Intalio in 2009. Morphlabs also said it anticipates additional funding announcements before the end of the year. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2009

The investment came from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Isis Pharmaceuticals, which created Regulus in a joint venture in September of 2007. Regulus also said that it now has over 900 patents focused on microRNA technology. Tags: microrna regulus pharmaceuticals venture therapeutics biotech lifescience capital.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Zag develops technology which allows members of groups like USAA to fully configure and purchase cars, through car buying programs. USAA has been offering Zag's services to its members since 2007. Tags: automobile ecommerce usaa venture capital automotive. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Funk is a venture capitalist who founded OceanRoad Partners and has been a Managing Director with Allegis Capital, where he invested in Sandpiper Networks, Rent.com and Shopzilla. Previously, we reviewed the performance of southern California technology IPO's from 1995 through the end of 2000.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Santa Monica-based Teleflip, which operated a service which allowed users to send and receive email using text messages, has been sold to an undisclosed buyer, according to creditor Hercules Technology Growth Capital. HTGC had invested $1M in debt financing in June of 2007 to Teleflip.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 Clean Technology saw a 52 percent increase in terms of dollars, and 16 percent growth in deal volume over 2007, reaching an investment level of $4.1 in 37 deals in 2007.

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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. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk about what its battery technology is all about.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We caught up with CEO and co-founder Brett Rossman to learn more about the company and how it''s been able to grow, profitably, all without raising a dime of outside capital. We generate thousands of new customers everyday for clients such as Ally Bank, GE Capital, Transunion, and a few other big brands.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based ManiaTV (www.maniatv.com) is one of the companies, having moved here in 2007 from Denver to take advantage of the local talent. Peter Hoskins: In 2007, we took a fantastic soundstage at Pico and Fairfax. We started, obviously, some time ago, and raised a fair amount of capital to build our business.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage.

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JULY 15, 2015

The company was formed with this business proposition, that we could apply newer, later technology, and create something that was highly configurable and flexible. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. We'll also be building up new and exciting products.

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JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter.

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JUNE 9, 2010

We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. But, we've seen so much interest in the flash sales space, we saw an opportunity to raise more capital, and use that to press on the accelerator. We'll also be using that to improve our technology and our user experience.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. Donnelly in 2007. I thought I'd swear off early stage companies, even though I ended up three or four more after that. That was four years ago.

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JULY 13, 2009

The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. A large amount of this new fund, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, is focused on technology in the financial services sector. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. Tags: mark suster interview venture capital partners global retail grpvc.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cody Simms: Ultimately, our mission is to be the best, global ecosystem for bringing new technology to market. We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. Those companies have raised more than $2 billion in follow on capital, and have a valuation of over $6.5 billion combined.

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MARCH 4, 2010

I think one of the main reasons, is that LA has some unique challenges when it comes to a technology community. It's not like San Francisco, where everyone seems to be in a five mile square radius, and you can get out and walk to other technology companies. In San Francisco, it's technology people looking to find business people.

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JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. That was really my first experience working with a technology that was merging the digital and physical worlds.

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MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Tags: entrepreneur startup microsoft advertising internet adecn capital venture desk trade thetradedesk green jeff. Last week, Ventura-based The Trade Desk (www.thetradedesk.com) announced a $2.5M

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JULY 20, 2009

Because we've really hit a strong note, with Jetty used in thousands and thousands of domains out there, our technology is our calling card, and our service is sold to people who value them. When I joined Webtide from IBM in 2007, I also discovered that the basic costs of running a company is a lot lower than running a company was in 2003.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. Hi guys, thanks for getting together.

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