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OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Monrovia-based Xencor , the developer of antibody technology which is headed by Dr. Bassil Dahiyat, said today that it has received a second, milestone payment from Boehringer Ingelheim. Financial details and amount of the payment were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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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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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. The firm said an inflation adjusted price for a NASA Dragon cargo mission will cost $115M.

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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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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, down 8 percent from 2007, when $31.4

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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. Visiogen is developing a dual-optic accomodating intraocular lens.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

LiveOffice is backed by private-equity firm Summit Partners, which invested in the company in 2007. LiveOffice said it had strong financial results, driven by an interest in cloud-based technology, along with its migration technology and new channels.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. The report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, found that 2008 investments declined by 8 percent in terms of dollars, and 4 percent in terms of deal volume, with fourth quarter results seeing a 26 percent drop to $5.4 in 37 deals in 2007. billion in 277 deals.

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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. 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.

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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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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. According to Regulus, the new funding will provide it with cash to operate through 2011.

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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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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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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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APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. What drove you move from investing to starting up BetterWorks? Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group.

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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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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. Collectively, across all those programs, we've invested in a bit over 900 startups around the world. billion combined.

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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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AUGUST 27, 2014

There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that? We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

We use the technology and the power of our community to help prioritize and vet those deals, making it real simple to find those deals you're looking for. Loren Bendele: We started in March of 2007. But, no one was investing in the elements we thought was needed to become a dominant player. What's the story behind Savings.com?

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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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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? Kevin O'Connor: I've been really fortunate in life, in that I love technology, and love solving problems.

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JUNE 9, 2010

We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. This investment round is a pretty substantial financial investment. We'll also be using that to improve our technology and our user experience. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. What is all that funding going towards?

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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 left HotJobs, and started another company, with Jake Winebaum, called Work.com, while he was running Business.com.

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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. Peter Hoskins: We're more about entertainment than a technology, platform, or wire.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. We've been bootstrapped from the beginning, and never taken outside investment.

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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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MAY 14, 2012

Few people in the technology world are unfamiliar with the huge rise in the popularity of the photo sharing service Instagram, which was topped off by a $1 billion acquisition of that company by Facebook just a few weeks ago. I then invested in a company called Better, which did testing for pay-per-click ads and AdWords ads.

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JUNE 17, 2009

Companies we've selected are those that are the most exciting, and high profile, that people will want to invest in. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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MARCH 17, 2009

In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. In late 2007, Chi.mp Rob Farrow: Lots of what goes on in technology happens on the West Coast. in creation and development of new technologies, trends, fashion, style, and communications. Why did you start Chi.mp, and what does it provide?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We were founded in 2007, with the mission of leveraging video -- which is a much more, exact medium -- to help consumer with this problem. Our application is designed to leverage their investment in video, and deliver these guides. The have to also go to market with a turnkey solution, which is cost effective.

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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). One of the partners, Greg Goldfarb, was really excited about Telesign. I was introduced to the founders.

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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. He left to start his own firm, which only invests in data-based companies, who are all focused on accumulation and use of data. funding round. Jeff, thanks for the interview. It's a wide open space.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Last month, San Diego-based Advanced Telemetry (www.advancedtelemetry.com) announced that the company had scored a Series B round of funding from clean technology investor Quercus Trust and 21Ventures, for the firm's energy monitoring solutions. Gus Ezcurra: We started the company about two years ago, in August of 2007.

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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. With our technology, we're able to pinpoint that information, and do lots of analytics, and tie that back into zones but also specific advertisers. What's the idea behind Sometrics? Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company.

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