Both Sides of the Table

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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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Irvine-based a href="[link] Technology, a developer of advertising software, says it has launched an IPO, intending to sell 7,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. The IPO will raise as much as $181M for Viant. The company has given an estimated offering range of between $19.00

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. So What Does All This Mean?

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Jvion , a developer of clinical decision support software, said on Thursday that it received a "significant" growth equity investment for the startup, to expand its healthcare AI and prescriptive analytics platform. Jvion is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and was founded in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011 -- A CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: The current venture market and how to pitch it - Joey Tamer, shadow CEO. Getting professional tech investment (private, angel, venture, strategic) in these times is not easy. See [link].

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JUNE 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based private equity investors Gores Group and Platinum Equity said this morning that they have backed Data Blue , an Atlanta provider of storage, backup and server virtualization and consolidation solutions for the enterprise market. Size of the investment was not announced. Data Blue was founded in 2011.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. We went out to market to LPs. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman. “We ”

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APRIL 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of predictive analytics software for the marketing industry, has raised a big, $38M funding round, the firm said Monday. MarketShare, which is co-led by Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, said the financing will go towards its technology platform and accelerate growth in markets worldwide.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

According to the WSJ , Apax Partners has decided to retain the company, after testing the market for a sale of Epicor. Apax bought Epicor back in 2011. epicor apax partners supply chain management software investment banking merger acquisition' The news on that move came in May. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The new round was led by Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, and also included Accel Partners, Index Ventures, SAP Ventures, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc., Acording to OpenX, it more than doubled its team in 2012 to 260 employees, and saw greater than 100 percent year-over-year growth in both 2011 and 2012.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Venice, California-based early stage, pre-seed investment fund and accelerator Amplify.LA pointed at all of the companies in Los Angeles that came out of the demise of MySpace, and argues that the growth of Snap is about to trigger another wave of startups in the market. In the report, Amplify.LA In the report, Amplify.LA

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

A company that makes a mapping system to help doctors see high-resolution, 3D images of irregular heart rhythms in real time has raised $100 million in venture investment and a $70 million credit facility to fund its full-scale market launch. Acutus Medical, based in the northern San Diego community of Carlsbad, was founded in 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

San Diego-based GlySens , a startup developing implantable, long-term glucose monitoring sensors, has scored an investment round, according to investor West Health Investment Fund. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.”

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APRIL 22, 2013

FastSpring , the fast growing Santa Barbara-based e-commerce payment services provider headed by Dan Engel, said today it has scored a funding round from Pylon Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. The investment is the first, outside investment in the company since it was founded in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I can’t control the market. Private markets for stocks are the opposite.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based StudioEX , a developer of Facebook and other social games, said Tuesday that it has launched, with the backing of Camelot Media Investments Media Group and $1.9M The company said its first game is launching commercially in 2011. The company said its first game is launching commercially in 2011. in funding.

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MAY 13, 2011

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the newly public developer of talent and learning management software, has reported its first quarter 2011 results, saying it saw a 63 percent, year-over-year increase in revenues for the first quarter. The firm said it had a total revenue of $15.7M for the quarter. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

LaunchpadLA, which is among a number of startup accelerators which have emerged over the past few years and turned Los Angeles into one of the hottest startup markets in the nation, offers up $100,000 in an investment, free office space for four months, and access to mentors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. There are 2.9

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Monday, October 24, 2011 -- Meet the Investor Series: Daniel Zhu, TSING Capital. Join us at the OnGreen Headquarters in Los Angeles on October 24th from 11am-1pm to learn more about the OnGreen Venture Roadshow to China and meet with our special guest Daniel Zhu, Partner at TSING Capital, the first venture capital investment firm in China.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: The current venture market and how to pitch it. Our featured speaker is Joey Tamer, shadow CEO Getting professional tech investment (private, angel, venture, strategic) in these times is not easy. This is not a networking event.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. It was clear to us that LA was now a powerhouse market and we loved working with all of the other accelerators in town. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators. You may enjoy looking at that last link.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Howard Marks is a technologist and co-founder of ATVI (11B+ market cap) and other successful games companies. Howard founded StartEngine in 2011 to help LA based startups grow successfully. Invested in 60 startups. He started his first company in his of University of Michigan dorm room selling software for the Apple II.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 28, 2011

Friday, June 3, 2011 -- LAVA Global Group. Expansion into international markets is a serious matter for Southern Californian companies with ambitions of rapid growth.

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MAY 28, 2015

According to the firm, the funding will go towards expansion into international markets, to strengthen its R&D, and continue development of its products. The company last raised funding in 2011, when it raised $7M in a Series B. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011 -- Negotiating Preferred Stock Terms. As you know, today's market is a different place to start a business. Join us for this Workshop to learn the basic elements of a preferred stock term sheet from TCVN's Chairman, Bart Greenberg!

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JUNE 11, 2009

in equity from marketing firm Guthy-Renker. According to the firm--which is traded OTC--the restricted common stock investment by Guthy-Renker also came with an extension of an agreement the two companies have until June 2011. Tags: software security investment capital venture guthyrenker cyberdefender. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable?

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

From a marketing partnership with Verizon, to producing our own radio shows on CBS and ABC and finally, a Costco rollout; the company’s management worked tirelessly to find solutions to maintaining growth and profitability, critical components of any business. Then, we got a verbal yes on a decent capital investment.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. That has grown very nicely, even those we''ve not been overly aggressive with marketing. However, the founder recognized back in early 2011 that they wanted to take the platform to another level, and get DreamHosting in front of a much bigger audience, worldwide.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Dominique Hanssens, who is a prominent UCLA professor and specialist in the area of market response models.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The ad network--which announced a restructuring and buyout by an investment group led by founder Zac Brandenberg earlier this week--is now looking to court more major advertisers and large brands. How does the firm hope to attract more large brand advertisers?

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