Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
On Funding?—?Shots When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.” billion When Ring started, even the folks at Shark Tank wouldn’t fund it. Being too early is the same as being wrong. It was ~30 days from bankruptcy.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 11, 2022
New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2014
We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? Was it hard to raise the fund?
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital is one of the lead investors in a new, video game publishing startup called Nifty Games , in a $3M funding round, announced on Tuesday by Nifty Games. He also was founder of Massive In-Game Advertising (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), among other firms.
socalTECH
MAY 4, 2015
Size of the funding was not disclosed. The company raised its seed funding round in 2008 as part of the DFJ Venture Challenge. La Jolla-based NeuroVigil , a developer of brain monitoring tools and technology, said it has received a second financing round. NeuroVigil is developing a non-invasive, portable brain scanning device.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Lawrence Ng , the co-founder of Oversee.net, said this morning that it has launched a new, startup fund called the OnRamp Fund , a $10M, international incubation fund that invests in early stage startups. Ng started Oversee.net in 2008, and he and his co-founders eventually sold the company to Oak Hill Capital for $150M.
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2015
Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the startup led by Bryce Maddock which is the secret weapon behind the rising tide of on-demand and Internet startups, has raised $15M in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Phillipnes-based private equity investor Navegar.
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