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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Los Angeles private equity investor Vance Street Capital said Monday that it has acquired Lark Engineering , a San Juan Capistrano-based designer and manufacturer of RF filters. secure communications vance street capital merger acquisition private equity lark engineering filter hardware' Sutherland & Associates. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The company--which develops software-as-a-service which helps local businesses manage scheduling, staff management, point of sale, ecommerce, marketing, and more--said the funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Catalyst Investors, W Capital Partners and Montreux Equity Partners.

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Pasadena Venture Capital 147

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. So they will have allocations to US public equities, international public equities, emerging market public equities, real estate, mining, minerals and so forth.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Although dollars were up, the number of deals (736 nationally in Q1 vs. 827 deals last year) was the lowest in a single quarter since Q3 of 2009. Locally, the report totaled $201.28M in deals in the Los Angeles area, $191.89M in the Orange County area, and $100.0M Frontier , the Tech Coast Angels , and New Enterprise.

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Southern California Invest Orange County Tech Coast Angels 186

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization service firm headed by Frank Addante, is claiming this morning that the firm saw 270%, year over year growth in 2009. The firm is backed by $42M in funding from Clearstone Ventures, Mayfield, IDG Venturs, and the GE/NBC Universal Peacock Equity Fund.

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Clearstone Advertising Equity Los Angeles 160

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Initial funding. Expert mentoring and training.

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Incubator Technical Review Entrepreneur Mentor 146

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JANUARY 21, 2010

The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. USC also reported that it owns equity in 32 startups, though none of those startups were identified.

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USC Southern California Activity Venture Capital 178

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Last month, just before the holidays, Los Angeles-based PartyEarth (www.partyearth.com) raised $4.0M We caught up with Sam Altman, the firm's founder, to hear more about the company, and how we went from working in private equity to heading up a company all about finding nightlife. Sam Altman: We launched in November of 2009.

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Content Equity Startup Platform 196

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online ad optimization firm, said today that its analysis finds that online spending in Q4 of 2009 was up, resulting in an increase in CPMs by 34%. Rubicon said it expects 2010 to be a "strong year" for digital advertising. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Advertising News Equity 113

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante , announced this morning that it has hired investment banker Allen & Company. Rubicon also said in its announcement that it had year-over-year growth of 270%, and that during 2009 it made its first acquisition, of technology firm Others Online.

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Invest Clearstone Acquisition Advertising 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009 -- Alternative Financing. Your family, angels, and VCs aren't the only sources of funding for a growing business. You will learn what to consider if looking at equity equivalent financing (grants, strategic partners, etc.)

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Equity Capital Funding Help 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Thursday, December 3, 2009 -- Alternative Financing. Your family, angels, and VCs aren't the only sources of funding for a growing business. You will learn what to consider if looking at equity equivalent financing (grants, strategic partners, etc.)

Equity 100

Equity Capital Funding Help 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners is looking to raised $250M in its newest fund, GRP IV L.P., according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. According to the filing, the fund is being managed by Steven Dietz, Brian McLoughlin, Yves Sisteron, and Mark Suster, and has just started fundraising efforts.

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Gogii GRP Partners Funding Truecar 162

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Bridge Financing. So your VC or Angel investors have given you a term sheet for your "A" round. Come learn about various ways that bridge financings -- short term debt that converts upon a future issuance of equity -- are used, and how they are put together. Tremendous! Not so good!

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TCVN Venture Capital Equity Entrepreneur 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Thursday, November 5, 2009 -- Bridge Financing. So your VC or Angel investors have given you a term sheet for your "A" round. Come learn about various ways that bridge financings -- short term debt that converts upon a future issuance of equity -- are used, and how they are put together. Tremendous! Not so good!

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TCVN Venture Capital Equity Entrepreneur 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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APRIL 12, 2017

How did you end up here in Los Angeles doing investments? I tragically lost my mom to cancer, my girlfriend (who I was living with at the time) and I broke up, and then my team and I were laid-off when the market crashed in 2009. Until I was fortunate enough to secure a job with Ron Burkle at the end of 2009. All day, every day.

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Invest Startup Hollywood Echo Park 157

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Last month, Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), the developer of machine translation software, was acquired by SDL , a publicly held, UK-based firm in the language translation business. As a result of that, in August of 2009, I gained agreement from our board to go out and consider fundraising.

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Equity Startup Acquisition Funding 168

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium , founded in 2008, has raised close to $113 million since its inception, according to Crunchbase , although that number includes both debt and equity deals. He was an early angel investor in Tealium, having worked with founders Ali Behnam and Mike Anderson at San Diego-based WebSideStory.

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Customer Custom San Diego JavaScript 40

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded. “Don’t enter the process blind,” says Jamie Rhodes, an investor in Austin with Central Texas Angel Network , which invested $5.5

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Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

” Today I want to talk about how a VC thinks about equity pricing on your round and particularly if you’re coming off of a convertible note. This was until about 2009 because most the investments in companies came from one, maybe two, sources.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Invest 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. Best to make sure you’re aligned closely with your investor on this topic.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

His idea and subsequent business plan won the Wharton Venture Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Wharton Business Plan Competition. This drove Mike to follows his passion in lieu of returning to the private equity world he had been in prior to business school.

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Conference Orange County Technical Review Software Review 96

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner. To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com? That's part of the premise.

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

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JUNE 18, 2009

What I feel like now, in 2009, is that to be an entrepreneur who dabbles both in entertainment and technology, you need to be able to talk tech, and talk entertainment, and be pretty well versed in both languages. We're financed through friends and family, and some angel investment early on. How are you backed?

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Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly.

Startup 354

Startup Pricing Equity Venture Capital 354

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. Gagnier [ [link] ] are forward-thinking Los Angeles-based intellectual property attorneys and online journalists.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

But Paul Graham really did have a point in his “ high resolution fundraising ” post – that there is a problem – particularly in angel financing – with herding cats. Since 2009 I have been counseling people to offer discounts to the first angel investors. You can do it with equity & a price.

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Pricing Venture Capital Writing Equity 294

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - Short answer: no.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dec 26, 2009). equity debate. Video From Business Of Software 2009: Building Great Software Businesses - OnStartups , August 23, 2010 Of the several conferences I attend or speak each at each year, my favorite is the Business of Software conference organized be Neil Davidson (of Red Gate ) and Joel Spolsky (of Fog Creek ).

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Pitch Session, Startups / Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital (VC) / Angels / Investors. . Angels in the Infield. Funding / VC angel, incubator, startups. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization. .

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69