Both Sides of the Table

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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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Southern California has seen another, big venture capital investment quarter, with companies raising $1.46 billion across the region in Q3 of 2015, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree survey, based on data from Thomson Reuters. in 108 deals. in 108 deals. There has now been $4.93

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A healthy manufacturing sector, likely to gain even more strength in 2015, is creating an impetus to invest. This was led by a modest increase in the net percent of owners who plan to increase capital spending and more who expect higher sales in the next few months. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

There was an explosion in number of startups both because it was cheap and there was tons of available capital. With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. Be thoughtful about from whom you raise capital.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Irvine-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital has sold two enterprise software companies it owns, Syncsort Incorporated and Vision Solutions , to fellow private equity investor Centerbridge Partners , in a deal worth $1.26 Clearlake Capital acquired Syncsort in 2015. Syncsort is based in Pearl River, New York.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

According to Siemer & Associates, this year's conference, the Siemer Summit 2015, will be held from October 13th to 14th, and will feature Tim Draper as the keynote speaker. This time, the event is being held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, rather than Santa Monica, where the event had been held in prior years.

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MAY 14, 2019

Rancho Santa Margarita-based Virtium , a developer of ruggedized, industrial, embedded solid state drives and memory, has been sold to private equity investor Court Square Capital Partners , by its existing private equity owner, L Square Capital Partners. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners has re-upped on one of its portfolio companies, Redwood City-based E8 Security , which develops software used to analyze cybersecurity threats. March Capital Partners made its first investment in E8 back in March of 2015. E8 Security has now raised $21.8M in funding.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Over the last week or so, we've featured the reflections of our readers on 2015 and what it has meant for Southern California's technology industry. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year? That's making sure you remove your hitch.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 12, 2017

The flow of venture capital dollars invested into Los Angeles-area companies fell 16.3 billion in 2015 to $3.49 percent from a high of $4.17 billion last year, according to a report by Dow Jones Venture Source.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2016

Los Angeles-based fintech investor Core Innovation Capital is one of the backers in a big, $220M equity funding for solar power financing provider Mosaic. Core Innovation Capital is very active nationally in fintech investments, and raised a big fund in 2015. The company is based in Oakland. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It’s also worth noting that this represents a bit of a turnaround for the company, after the it shut down operations in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans in 2015, with Hall coming on as CEO shortly afterwards. And it sounds like he isn’t in a rush to launch in a bunch of new markets. ” Good Eggs CEO Bentley Hall.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Arteen Arabshahi: While Karlin Ventures has had an excellent first few years as a firm seeing over 6 exits and making 40+ investments within 3 years, what was most exciting in 2015 was the addition of our third team member, Erin Shipley. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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MARCH 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based fintech venture investor Core Innovation Capital has scored a quick exit at one of its portfolio companies, Honest Dollar , just a year after its seed funding. Core Innovation Capital had backed Honest Dollar as part of a small, $3M funding round that closed in March of 2015, along with Expansive Ventures and Formation 8.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Santa Monica-based Arrowroot Capital , an investment firm focused on investing growth equity in growing software-as-a-service and internet-based businesses, has launched an effort to raise $175M in its third fund, Arrowroot Capital III, LP. The firm's second fund closed at the end of 2015, and was worth $50M. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 29, 2015

Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? Lawrence Ng: We were reminded that the best solutions come from a team that is a combination of individuals who are veterans in traditional industries as well as those with proven track records as growth hackers and problem solvers.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The two have been working together since August of 2015. GumGum is backed by such investors as Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, and says it has a reach of 600 million uniques. The company said it will deliver its in-image and in-screen ad units to those publications. Financial details of the renewal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The socalTECH 50 is aimed at identifying and highlighting the top 50 people in the technology industry here, who are most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit, or influence the industry in a significant way.

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MAY 6, 2013

The Pasadena-based company said the new financing was led by RA Capital, and included new investors Camber Capital, Special Situations Fund, and Aquilo Capital. Existing investors Sabby Capital, Sphera Global Healthcare Fund, and Jim Mellon also participated in the offering. Arrowhead trades on the NASDAQ as ARWR.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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JUNE 13, 2017

The funding came from Atomico, Sequoia Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and Fifth Wall. Clutter has now raised around $97M in total funding since 2015. Clutter has also previously raised funding from AmplifyLA, Resolute.vc, and angels Matt Coffin, David Sacks, and Joanne Wilson. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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 technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015?

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm Upfront Ventures said over the weekend that it has named two new Partners at the firm. Maliwal was most recently a product manager at Google, and also had served at Crosslink Capital and Deutsche Bank. Upfront's Managing Partners are Mark Suster and Yves Sisteron. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? spencer capital 2014 reflections venture' What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? maybe even 10x. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. These days, GOAT is about more than just shoes, at least according to the company. ” Money, it’s gotta be the shoes.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Los Angeles-based ProducePay has inked a $190 million debt facility from Coventure and TCM Capital, to expand its lending business and marketplace for farmers. Since its launch in 2015, the company has seen $1.5 It buys produce ahead of delivery and sets itself up as a middle-man between distributors, growers and grocers.

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MAY 29, 2019

Black Mountain Systems was previously owned by another, private equity investor, Stone Point Capital LLC , which acquired Black Mountain in 2015. Black Mountain said the investment y Vista will help it grow both domestically and internationally, and also provide new capital ti invest in development of its platform.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

and Composite Capital. The company was founded in 2015. TuSimple , a developer of autonomous trucking technology which has offices in San Diego and in China, said on Wednesday that it has raised $95M in a Series D funding round. The funding came from Chinese investors SINA Corp. TuSimple says it has now raised a total of $178M.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). As I like to say (and as Kara humbly hates when I do so in front of others) … she has a much better resume to a venture capital partner than I do. But she also has the temperament, which is important.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Biotech IPO valuation trends have been strong year-over-year since 2015, and significantly more so among. There were approximately 58 biotech IPOs in 2018 (excluding offerings with under $25 million of proceeds) for total gross proceeds of $6.3 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The funding was led by Lead Edge Capital, and also included Martin Ventures, the healthcare-focused venture capital firm founded by executive, investor, and entrepreneur, Charlie Martin, and existing investors Jackson Square Ventures, Health Velocity Capital, Summation Health Ventures, Structure Capital and Freestyle Capital.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Instead, he’s launched a new delivery service that has just raised $3 million from Casa Verde Capital , the $45 million venture firm founded by hip hop impresario Snoop Dogg, and Kevin Durant’s Durant Company — among others — to take advantage of the growing demand for marijuana delivery.

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology. Big ideas rule the day.

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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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