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APRIL 14, 2016

billion raised in Q4, and even lower than Q1 of 2015, when $2.01 in funds invested, across 47 deals; Orange County had $158M invested across 15 deals; and San Diego had $253.5M invested across 21 deals. Among the bigger deals were an investment in smart doorbell company Ring, with a $61.2M was invested.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

NantCell is developing immunotherapy products, and is working on a portfolio of biological molecules that it says will enable it to develop a cancer vaccine to combat multiple tumor types without the use of high-dose chemotherapy. The new investment was made on December 19th. According to NantCell, Celgene now has 2.8

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JULY 30, 2018

Cool Planet , which is developing agricultural technology centered around "biochar", which is used to boost the fertility of soil while also sequestering carbon, has raised $20.3M in a new investment round. Cool Planet said the new investment is an extension of its previously announced Series A funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. It’s still considered high risk for investment, since manufacturing and quality issues are likely. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/3/2015.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The funding came from Manta Ray Ventures and Upfront Ventures. The company was founded by Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2017

The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments. The company is a spinout of Deal Current, and was founded in 2015. The company focuses on website development, SEO, Facebook ads, and review monitoring. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 31, 2016

Two, Southern California investors-- Qualcomm Ventures and Greylock Partners --have backed San Jose-based Innovium , on its efforts to develop semiconductors for the next generation, data center market, Innovium revealed this morning. Specific breakdown of the two investments was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Costa Mesa-based venture capital investor CerraCap Ventures says it has seen an exit out of its investment portfolio, saying that the sale of digital gifting and exchange company Swych resulted in a 4.3X Swytch was a developer of digital gift card and mobile gifting apps, and was acquired about four weeks ago by a company called Finablr.

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MAY 10, 2019

Los Angeles-based mobile game publisher Scopely has acquired DIGIT Game Studios , the game development studio behind its hit mobile game, Star Trek Fleet Command , Scopely announced on Thursday. Scopely was already a strategic investor in Dublin, Ireland-based DIGIT, having made an investment in DIGIT in 2015.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Qualcomm said its Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator will focus on helping to accelerate the development of a next generation of robotics and intelligence machines. Qualcomm said it will invest a total of $1M in funding to support program participants, and will initially select 10 companies to participate in the program. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2020

El Segundo-based Carbonated Games , a developer of mobile games, has raised $8.5M Carbonated focuses on developing "highly competitive" games for mobile devices, which are more in line with the hard core games found on consoles and PCs, rather than the more usual casual gaming market. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The software is the first title for the new company, which was founded in 2015 by Charlie Jackson, whose claim to fame was founding the original Silicon Beach Software in 1984, one of the very first develops of third party software for the Apple Macintosh.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

Los Angeles-based enterprise software developer Chrome River , which develops cloud-based expense management and supplier invoicing software, says it grew its user base by 82 percent, year over year. The company said it had record growth in 2015, and now has over 430 enterprise customers and more than 1 million users.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Robotoki , a Los Angeles-based game developer headed by Robert Bowling, formerly working on Call of Duty, has raised a funding round from NEXON Co., Financial details of the investment were not announced. Nexon said the investment will go towards developing games based on Robotoki's multi-screen, cross-platform games.

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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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MARCH 15, 2019

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5

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APRIL 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based Chrome River , which develops expense and invoice management software, said this morning that it had its largest first-quarter sales in the company's history. The company is backed by Great Hill Partners, which invested $100M in the company in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

San Luis Obispo-based REC Solar , the commercial solar and energy developer, said it has named Matt Walz as its CEO. Walz had already been on REC Solar's board of directors, as a result of Duke's investment in REC Solar. Walz is a prior executive at Duke Energy, where he was for 12 years.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language. The participants will receive up to $120,000 in investment from Disney to develop their ideas, along with mentoring from executives.

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JULY 11, 2018

Neusoft Technologies (NueMD) develops practice management, clinical and medical billing application software, which it offers up to independent medical practices. South Jordan, Utah-based AdvancedMD develops cloud-based software for physicians and medical billing services. Marlin Equity acquired AdvancedMD in September of 2015.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based MarketShare Partners , the marketing analytics technology developer led by Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, has been acquired by Neustar , in a deal worth $450M. According to Neustar, Marketshare generated $57M in revenues for the twelve months ended September 30, 2015.

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JULY 15, 2016

Other big fundings contributing to the total included a $220M funding round for San Diego biotech firm Human Longevity Inc. , $111M raised by Marina Del Rey-based Thrive Market , and $100M raised by Irvine cybersecurity sofwtare developer Cylance. billion raised in the region just a year ago in Q1 of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2018

For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development to produce its lineup of high-end headphones, speakers, and other audio technologies. The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

TuSimple has pulled in $95 million more in venture funding to advance its development of a commercial autonomous fleet of trucks. TuSimple, founded in 2015 in San Diego and Beijing, raised its Series C round of $55 million in late 2017. Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. Though some of these products are still in development, farmers have come around to using new technology in an effort to become more efficient and more productive.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). For starters we’re an LA-based venture fund who invests nationally (and sometimes internationally, but less so). billion).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

For years, AT&T invested more than $1.9 billion Investment. billion Investment. McNeely said,“I’m proud of the investment AT&T continues to make in California. Toebben added that this investment by AT&T will help more people and businesses stay connected in today’s fast-moving technological world.

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MARCH 11, 2021

It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015).

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JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. We are looking forward to this year''s Silicon Beach Fest 2015 continuing these themes and being bigger, adding more international, biotech, and more. Watch for more in 2015.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? I''m very interested in seeing how the so-called "marketing cloud" emerges and develops further. You never know what can happen and surprise you! It might accidentally go in the goal! There are many silos, and several big players (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.),

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MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. It’s not ok if you’re going to be a third-party developer. IMO what Twitter did is defensible.

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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. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Yet, they often provide similar small seed investments, similar to those of accelerators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A popular myth these days is that successful entrepreneurs must attract investors to get their businesses going, when the reality has been that more than 80 percent of new businesses are started and grown with no outside investment at all. You don’t want to risk your own money on development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2015

Professional investors expect to see your top three use of funds categories, and how these relate to scaling the business, rather than initial development. The average valuation for angel investments is $2 million, which will get you $500,000 for 20 percent of your startup. Are you flexible on the terms of the investment?

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MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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