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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. Valuations are out of control” is the mantra of others.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in the seed round of a startup, New Knowledge , which developed the artificial intelligence software which uncovered a large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. As part of the investment, Kelly Perdew, the founder of Moonshots Capital, has joined the board of New Knowledge.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

Not only did they have to work 24/7 to build their startup, but they also had to invest the same effort in raising capital. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014?

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JANUARY 5, 2015

The Pasadena Angels , one of the most active organized angel investment groups in the Los Angeles area, released some details on the groups'' 2014 performance over the holidays, saying that it saw a total of four exits--including a $100M exit over at Bluebeam --and closed 17 deals during the year. The group said it provided $4.7M READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 16, 2021

New backers include Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts advised by T. Squarespace founder & CEO Anthony Casalena said the fresh capital will advance the company’s growth initiatives and help it scale its product suite. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

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APRIL 23, 2019

million from investors led by the Los Angeles investment firm March Capital Partners. Previous investors Vertex Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Moment Ventures and the Slack Fund also participated in the funding, which brings Astound’s total capital raised to $27 million.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

This morning, Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com), led by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings , announced its first formal fund, a $19M seed stage fund. What we would do, is we would round up ten other angel investors, get $25,000 from each of them, and then roll up our sleeves and help that entrepreneur find venture capital.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Lawn Love was backed by Bullpen Capital, Y Combinator, Alexis Ohanian, Joe Montana and Barbara Corcoran, and had raised $6.7M The company was founded in 2014. Financial terms of the cash-and-stock deal were not announced. in total funding.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. To learn about the new fund, we sat down with Jamie Montgomery , one of the fund's co-founders, to hear about March Capital's strategy and the new fund. We started March Capital in late 2013.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Newport Beach-based private equity investor L Squared Capital Partners says it has successfully sold one of its portfolio companies, Learners Edge , to another private equity investor, Quad-C Management. L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter and sponsor of socaltech over the years. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. Risk taking yields innovation.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The funding was led by Northpond Ventures, and also included Oxford Finance and BroadOak Capital partners. SGI-DNA spun out of San Diego's Synthetic Genomics in March, and was founded in 2014. The company said it is working on a product roadmap which includes automated printing of biological materials and DNA data storage.

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JULY 27, 2020

Match Group , the parent company of Los Angeles-based online dating app developer Tinder , said on Monday that it has named Jim Lanzone--former President and CEO of CBS Interactive, and also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital--as CEO of Tinder. He also has been on the board of Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com since 2014.

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MAY 29, 2020

NOAA Hi-Def Radar had been acquired by Scripps in 2014, after Scripps acquired WeatherSphere. Maple Media is backed by Shamrock Capital. Los Angeles-based mobile app developer Maple Media says it has acquired the mobile application NOAA Hi-Def Radar , which provides weather information, from The E.W. Scripps Company. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2019

Venture Partners, MK Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners. It sold that business, Movieclips.com, in 2014, to Fandango. ZEFR will continue to focus on its other business, in context-sensitive advertising for YouTube, and will have around 150 employees left in that business unit.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Rentlytics was venture backed by Trinity Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Cue Ball and Daher Capital. Andelman has since combined Rincon Venture Partners with the venture firm of Mark Mullen, Double M Capital, to create Bonfire Ventures.

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MAY 8, 2017

The round was led by Hermed Capital and also included Celgene Corporation, Vivo Capital, Decheng Capital, the Helsinn Investment Fund and Star Summit Ventures. Aadi Bioscience licensed the technology for its biopharmaceuticals from Celgene in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nortman has been at Upfront since 2014, serving as Partner at the firm. Nortman joined Upfront from children's e-commerce company Moonfrye, which she founded in 2014. Upfront's biggest exits have been Ring (acquired by Amazon), TestFlight and FleetSmith (both acquired by Apple), Maker Studios (acquired by Disney).

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APRIL 8, 2019

Lawn Love says it is backed by such investors as Joe Montana, Alexis Ohanian, Barbara Corcoran, Bullpen Capital, and others, and was part of the 2014 Y-Combinator startup incubator program.

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APRIL 21, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor The Gores Group announced very late Thursday evening that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell Fotona Holdings , a manufacturer of high performance lasers for the medical, dental, and aesthetic market, to AGIC Capital. Financial details of the sale were not announced. in the transaction.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

The funding came from Escalate Capital Partners. The company said the new funding brings its total raised to $47M in 2014. kareo debt funding medical office software venture capital finance' Terms of the new funding were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fisker , the new developer of electric vehicle and solid state battery technology which was crated by Fisker Automotive founder's Henrik Fisker, has received a strategic investment from Caterpillar Venture Capital. Caterpillar Venture Capital is the investment arm of industrial equipment and vehicle maker Catepillar.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

According to LoanHero had been venture backed by Alsop Louie Partners and Mucker Capital, and had raised $4.2M LoanHero had been founded in 2014. San Diego-based LoanHero , which had offered up a service to help merchants offer up point-of-sale financing options to consumers, has been acquired by Georgia-based LendingPoint.

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APRIL 11, 2018

was based in the Netherlands, and was foundedin 2014. SleepScore Labs is led by Colin Lawlor, and is a joint venture of ResMed, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P. SleepScore said that Sleep.ai READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2018

The funding was led by Benchmark Capital, and also included Index Ventures, Obvious Ventures, S2G Ventures, DNS Capital, Uprising and Collaborative Fund. It appears the company's lineup of investors is a complete turnover from its last funding round, in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The funding came from Romulus Capital along with ff Venture Capital. in seed funding in 2014, and was part of the AmplifyLA startup accelerator. Agoura Hills-based Estify , a developer of software to help auto body shops creates estimates on repair for auto insurers, has raised $6.3M Estify was founded by Jordan Furniss.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Social Reality--which is traded OTCBB--said the $25M came in the form of a $20M credit facility from victory Park Capital, and $5M in equity from Siskey Capital LLC. Terms of the Steel Media acquisition were not disclosed, however, the company said Steel Media expected $10M in 2014 revenues. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

from TVC Capital, $500,000 from Northgate, and $300,000 from Bill Baumel and RWI Ventures. The company said the new funding brings its total raised in 2014 to $8M. cybersecurity military capital venture software tvccapital security cyber edgewave' The funding included $1.2M EdgeWave is led by former U.S. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

The funding was led by Breakaway Growth Fund, and also included Tiller Partners & Rainier Partners, plus Manta Ray Ventures, Runa Capital, Korea Investment Partners, Mirae Asset Management, MTGx, Troy Capital Partners, and 500 Startups. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

The new funding, a Series C round, came from Caspian Venture Capital and DP World. Virgin Hyperloop One says it has now raised a total of $295M since it was founded in 2014. According to Branson, the new investment by Caspian and DP World will help it pursue opportunities in key markets in the Middle East, Europe, and Russia.

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MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). 5 years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. How is my scorecard looking?

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JUNE 8, 2017

Luxe is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures, Google Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Foundation Capital, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, Data Collective, Eniac Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, as well as others. Upfront made its investment in Luxe in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2019

FTD also agreed to sell both its North American and Latin American businesses to private equity investor Nexus Capital Management , in a move that includes San Diego-based Proflowers. FTD acquired San Diego's ProFlowers in 2014, paying $430M for the online flower and gift delivery service. United Online was acquired by B.

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MAY 21, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , the on-demand electric scooter rental service backed by Valor Equity Partners, Index Ventures, Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures, may be seeing even more competition in San Francisco, after reports that Lyft is hoping to launch its own, electric scooter service in the city.

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MAY 4, 2016

Cobb was most recently COO of Fexy Brands, and was CEO of Publishing Group of America (PGOA), which was backed by Bain CApital and Shamrock Capital, and had headed up the firm when it was sold to Fexy in 2014. Giant focuses on native video advertising for brands. READ MORE>>.

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