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JANUARY 29, 2015

Southern California''s biggest organized, angel investment group, the Tech Coast Angels , said this morning that the group had its biggest investment year ever in 2014, investing a total of $16.37M across 61 total deals. The investments were up by 12 percent from 2013, when the angel group invested $14.64M in its portfolio.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2013. The post TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast appeared first on TechZulu. 24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based BlackLine Systems , the developer of financial close software-as-a-service, has scored an investment from private equity firm Silver Lake Sumeru. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. READ MORE>>. blackline systems accounting software merger acquisition exit venture capital private equity'

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking. In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 5, 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013 -- Maverick Angels Investment Accelerator. At Maverick Angels, we understand our responsibility as angel investors to help entrepreneurs streamline their investment pitch and to better articulate their vision to enroll investors. Do you have a great business idea?

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JANUARY 17, 2014

Southern California''s venture capital investments totaled a little more than $598.4M The investments were a drop from Q4 of 2012, $711.8M was invested in the region. billion was invested across Southern California''s technology industry. billion was invested in 1,077 deals nationally. For the year, a total of $2.51

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APRIL 12, 2013

Tied for second, were LaunchpadLA and MuckerLab , where we tallied 15 investments each in their portfolio companies over the last year. From our numbers, it looks like the accelerators and incubators in the region are stimulating both dollar investments as well as deal volume for the region. Not far behind was Science Inc.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Los Angeles-based >A href="[link] which develops contextual advertising technology focused on video, has raised $18M in a Series B investment round. The round was led by Intel Capital, and also WISE Ventures, Quest Venture Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment, plus angels Mike Baker (Dataxu) and Mike Shehan (SpotX).

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Los Angeles led the region in investments, with $348.6M in investments; San Diego followed, with $205.2M in venture capital raised in Q3; Orange County had $155.96M in investments for the quarter. The industry with the largest amount of investment was in Software, with $229.6M in investment. in investment.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Venture capital investments saw a sharp drop in Q1 in Southern California, according to the latest venture numbers from the MoneyTree report. invested in 81 deals in the Southern California region in Q1 of 2013, down from Q4, when there was $674.2M The local drop in investment was across the board. billion in 863 deals.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

WiseBanyon provides personal finance and investment management tools and its own technology platform, and was based in Las Vegas. WiseBanyan was founded in 2013, an is known as a "robo advisor"--providing financial and investment management services for its clients using software tools.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Phoenix communities are celebrating because JPMorgan Chase has made several local charitable investments to support underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses with the goal of creating jobs and spark a growing economy. The post JPMorgan Chase Invests $2.2 In addition to this excitement, JPMorgan Chase announced another $1.1M

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

GlaxoSmithKline is acquiring a startup it helped launch in 2013 as part of an alliance with life sciences venture capital firm Avalon Ventures. Sitari was the first of eight companies spun up through the partnership between the Southern California investment outfit and British pharma company. Financial terms of the acquisition were.

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APRIL 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management has sold its interest in security software developer Checkmarx , in a deal worth $1.15 K1 says that since it made its initial investment in K1 in 2013, the company grew its revenues "more than ten-fold", expanding its customer base from less than 200 customers to over 1,400.

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JULY 18, 2013

in venture capital investments in Q2 2013 across Southern California, spread across 80 deals. Those numbers reflected a drop from Q2 of last year, when there was $868.98M in investments across 97 deals. However, venture dollars invested were above Q1, when Southern California saw $569.1M in investments across 90 deals.

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MAY 28, 2021

FIGS was started in 2013, raising a seed funding worth only $2M from Crocs, Mohr Davidow Ventures, 500 Startups, Karlin Ventures, and others. The company's Co-CEOs are Heather Hasson and Trina Spear.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Bryant launched his venture career with partner and serial entrepreneur Jeff Stibel back in 2013, according to Crunchbase. The pair made a mix of early- and late-stage investments in Los Angeles-based companies like LegalZoom, Scopely, Art of Sport, The Honest Company, RingDNA, FocusMotion, DyshApp and Represent.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based Output , a startup developing music creation software aimed at professional artists, has raised $45M in a Series A investment. Output was founded in 2013. The funding came from Summit Partners. The company's founder is CEO Gregg Lehrman. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2014

The latest numbers are out on venture capital investments in Southern California from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, finding that the region had nearly $762.88M invested in companies in the region during Q1 of 2014. The investment of $762.8M in investments; Biotechnology saw $158.0M

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Nationally, there was $13.0 READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Auction.com said the investment values the company at $1.2 The company says it now has over 900 employees, and had over $7 billion in commercial and residential real estate traded through its marketplace in 2013. auctioncom auction real estate marketplace venture capital google investment' READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 11, 2020

According to Fair Stewart served as CEO of XOJet from 2013 to 2018, eventually steering the company through an acquisition by its parent company, Vista Global. Fair is reportedly in the midst of raising another round of funding to continue to grow its service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. So what can entrepreneurs do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue and position their startup for a winning IPO?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” That used to be called A-round investing.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Irvine-based FirstElement Fuel , a company developing a network of hydrogen fuel cell fueling stations, says it entered into an agreement with Air Liquide, where Air Liquide will invest more than $150M for a new liquid hydrogen production facility to supply FirstElement Fuel's hydrogen stations. The company was founded in 2013.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Additionally, many opportunities require financial investments, which must be considered in tandem with non-financial resource requirements. Resources Required – At high-tech startups, required resources include developers’ time and the opportunity cost associated with alternative uses of the developers’ 12-hour workdays.

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MAY 16, 2019

The funding was led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and Virgo Investment Group, and also included MetaProp, Almubader Growth Fund, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The startup was founded in 2013 by Jared Levy and Gordon Stott. Los Angeles-based Connect Homes , a developer of prefab housing technology, has raised $10.8M

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

Investors will more likely invest in a person they believe in, but more on that later when I discuss the investor panels. The post Silicon Beach Fest June 2013 Keynote and Accelerator Panel Highlights appeared first on TechZulu. Entrepreneurship Silicon Beach Fest Startups 2013 Accelerator adam miller Amplify Amplify.la

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JANUARY 28, 2016

The investment firm--which once was located in Burbank--has shifted its operations to Hong Kong, and now looks to be focusing strongly on overseas rather than domestic investments. The last, Southern California investment by Steamboat looks to have been in Edgecast back in 2013. READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Accel has grown so much since I joined, I think they probably have 25 investment partners now. Theresa Gouw, one of the three founders of Acrew, worked closely with me from 2006 to 2013, when she left. They have been great for me, but there's not the same level of participation and engagement now that they're so large.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 has proved to be a wild year. 2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. So with the wild ride of 2013 I had thoughts about what made me thankful this year. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. eCommerce was battered this year. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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MAY 25, 2017

Toba Capital , the venture capital investment firm founded by Quest Software's Vinny Smith, has scored another exit, this time at San Francisco-based cloud applications tool developer Codenvy. Codenvy was backed by both Auriga Partners and Toba Capital, and had raised less than $10M in funding since it was founded in 2013.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Upfront, an early backer of Deliv, made its first investment in the company in 2013 alongside RPM Ventures, as one of the original investments in the startup. Upfront's Greg Bettinelli leads the firm's investment in Deliv. and Westfield Corp. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2018

Kazerani and Segil previously founded Edgecast, which they sold to Verizon in 2013 for around $390M. Those investors made a seed investment in the company in May. Openpath is developing cloud-based physical access control systems for businesses.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

IO Data Centers New World Ventures , the venture investment arm of The Pritzker Group--which has been one of the most active local investors in Los Angeles in recent months--is already on track to an IPO, according to a report. The investment in IO is apparently the largest, ever investment by New World Ventures in a company.

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JUNE 19, 2015

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which was launched back in 2013 as a startup incubator, has pivoted its model, and has become an online equity crowdfunding platform called StartEngine Crowdfunding. READ MORE>>.

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