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The Angel Capital Association reported this week that investing activity by angel investments groups dropped by nine percent between 2008 and 2007, and 40 percent of angel groups expect overall investment to decrease again this year. Tags: angel investment venture capital report.

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APRIL 2, 2014

It''s been a long road for Rubicon''s backers, who first invested in the company back in 2007, when Clearstone Ventures invested in Rubicon''s Series A funding. Rubicon--which priced at $15.00 per share last night--was trading as high as $20.44 per share on its first morning as RUBI. and Mayfield. Clearstone owned about 24.0%

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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. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool! in Computer Science.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

Vakil has been at JMI since 2012, and was most recently serving as a Principal; he helped invest in Applied Systems, Arena, Avecto, Code42, Internet Brands (acquired by KKR), Intradiem, and Seismic. Guttman ha been at JMI since 2007, and has been CFO of the firm since 2013; he had previously been at EY. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its 10 percent stake in Hulu , the firm said Friday morning, getting a nice return on its investment in the online video streaming site. Providence Equity Partners had invested $100M in Hulu in 2007, and reportedly sold back its stake for $200M to the company this week.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Irvine-based medical equipment maker Masimo announced Thursday afternoon that it has appointed Adam Mikkelson, who is a Partner at healthcare-focused investment fund Camber Capital Management LLC, to its board of directors. Mikkelson has been at Camber since 2007.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Paul replaces Tom Fuelling, who had been at Hulu since 2007. Hulu said that Paul had been involved in Disney''s original investment in Hulu back in 2009. Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu announced late Friday that it has named Elaine Paul as its new CFO.

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JULY 9, 2014

Salen has been CFO of Etsy since January of 2013; she previously also served at Fidelity Investments. Bessemer was co-lead on Cornerstone OnDemand''s first institutional round in 2007. Cornerstone OnDemand cited Salen''s financial and operational experience, as well as familiarity of today''s technology landscape for the appointment.

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JUNE 17, 2013

The amount of capital invested in Fisker makes the company the highest profile flameout ever in Southern California''s startup history, far surpassing the mere $375M in venture capital raised of of prior record holder Amp''d Mobile from back in 2007. billion dollars in private and public funds, according to Reuters.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series B funding; managing director Dan Beldy sits on Greystripe's board. Greystripe said the funding round was led by Incubic Venture Capital, and also included Monitor Ventures, in addition to Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series B funding; managing director Dan Beldy sits on Greystripe's board. Greystripe said the funding round was led by Incubic Venture Capital, and also included Monitor Ventures, in addition to Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2011

Topping the list of IRR investments was Clearstone Venture Partners I-B, L.P. , percent IRR for the La Jolla fund, vintage year 2007. a 1999-vintage fund from Santa Monica-based Clearstone, which had an IRR of 154.7 Second on the returns list was Avalon Ventures VIII, L.P.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

According to The Riverside Company, it will be investing heavily to help Be Green Packaging accelerate its growth, in the areas of manufacturing, sales and marketing, and research and development. Be Green Packaging was founded in 2007, and was co-founded by Ron Blitzer and Robert Richman.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Steven Burrill, once a noted biotech investment fund founder, sought-after conference speaker, and life sciences publisher, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 30 months in federal prison for defrauding his investors and evading taxes. Burrill was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 14, 2017. Burrill was also charged.

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JUNE 23, 2015

The company had launched the Walmart MoneyCard with Walmart back in 2007, helping to create one of the most successful companies backed by Southern California's angel investment groups, including the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Citing two people with "knowledge of the matter", Bloomberg said Providence had originally invested $100M in 2007, and will be paid $200M for its 10 percent share of the video streaming site. No details on the deal have been announced. Hulu's other owners are Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp., and News Corp.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Investors learn too, and often invest in a failed entrepreneur a second time if believing that those lessons have been well learned, Success can teach lessons too. Yes, it works both ways. A successful entrepreneur who has seen the movie before is even more valued. Including cash. The economic environment changing downward.

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MAY 16, 2011

Arcturus first invested in Pliant in 2007. SanDisk said it would pay $327M in cash, plus equity-based incentives for Pliant, a developer of enterprise solid state disk drives (SSDs). SanDisk is a major manufacturer of flash memory.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Boehringer Ingelheim and Xencor inked their development deal in February of 2007 for the use of Xencor's technology; Xencor also has similar deals with Amgen, MorphoSys, Pfizer, Centocor, and others. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

in a grant to invest in South Los Angeles schools. Amgen has been providing grants to the schools since 2007. Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen said today that its nonprofit arm, the Amgen Foundation , is giving $4.5M The effort is being run within the area of West Adaps Prep and Manual Arts. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2013

Peter Csathy , the CEO of San Diego''s Sorenson Media , and digital media veteran, has departed the company, and will head up a new legal and investment group formed by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Boggs helped open up Manatt''s Silicon Valley office in 1998 and San Francisco offices in 2007.

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APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. I laid out the following goals: Hire investment partners with operating experience combined with investment experience and deeply committed to LA Tech, but with strong relationships in SF, NYC and beyond.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. I have done 6 VC investments – all within the past 20 months. years ago. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. I wrote about him here.

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MARCH 29, 2011

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners has upped its investment in Mumbai, India-based Games2Win , an online developer of casual and other games. Games2Win raised $5M in its Series A back in March of 2007. According to Games2Win, it has raised $6M in a Series B financing roudn, which also included SVB India Capital Partners.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Walrath is co-founder of WGI Group, and former CEO of Right Media, which he founded and headed until he sold it to Yahoo in July of 2007 for $850M. WGI is an investor in Meteor Games, and made an investment in the firm earlier this year. Walrath also co-founded documentary film firm Atlas Films.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

She described the initial funding from Huapont as a strategic investment, as Histogen plans to work with the Chinese pharma conglomerate to make and distribute its lead product in China. Including the $6 million from Huapont affiliate Pineworld Capital, Histogen has raised a total of roughly $33 million since the company was founded in 2007.

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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. Should VC’s really be impacted by public market valuations when the money that they’re investing today should be for returns in 7-10 years? The deal was done in late 2007.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Lindzon is known both for his angel investing activities, as well as for founding Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS in 2007. The service is similar to micro-messaging site Twitter, except filtered and centered around publicly traded stocks. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The funding was led by Alsop Louie Partners, and also included Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures. Pasadena-based New Matter , which is developing consumer focused, 3D printers, said today that it has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 4, 2011

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm run by technology mogul Elon Musk, disclosed today in an email to supporters that the firm has racked up over $3 billion in revenues in its launch manifest, and has been profitable since 2007.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

The Next 10 report found that California accounted for 24 percent of total global investment in clean technology, with a total of $11.6 billion invested in cleantech venture capital in the state since 2006. Tags: next10 southern california clean cleantech energy power solar investment jobs employment.

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MARCH 25, 2011

He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. Come hear him talk about about SoCal startups, entrepreneurship and the investment scene. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The firm has previously raised funding from Domain Associates, Proquest Investments, Mitsubishi, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Oxford Bioscience Partners. The firm last raised a large, $40M funding round in 2007. No details on the funding have been announced by the firm.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Luck has it, I'm also a small investor though an investment in BetaWorks.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Calixa was co-founded in 2007 by Dr. Eckard Weber and Dr. James Ge, and had acquired development rights to its primary compound from Astellas Pharma. Amount invested in Calixa Therapeutics was not disclosed, however, Domain Associates was the primary backer of the firm. The deal was worth $92.5M

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