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DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? Was it hard to raise the fund?

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

Wolpert is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry, helping to run technology accelerator Amplify, investing in countless startups, working with Accel Partners, and having been Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks, President of Disney Online, among other positions.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

Wolpert is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry, helping to run technology accelerator Amplify, investing in countless startups, working with Accel Partners, and having been Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks, President of Disney Online, among other positions.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investment firm CrossCut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc) announced this morning that it has raised its fourth fund, CrossCut 4 , a brand new, $125M early stage investment fund. We spoke with one of the firm's four Managing Directors, Clinton Foy , about the big new fund and its investments.

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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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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.

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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. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund. We went out to market to LPs.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve been featuring the reflections on the last year from folks in Southern California''s technology industry. This enabled our partnership to raise its third Frontier Fund offering, focused on early stage media and technology companies. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

We''ve been featuring a few reflections on the last year from a number of movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry over the last couple of weeks, during the holidays. Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. maybe even 10x.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

in a funding round. Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? Where there are lots of players focused on different types of equity, different types of investments, different types of debt, they're doing it in a very unfocused manner. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I also find that Southern California is an amazing place for talent. We've got three of the team also based here in Southern California, and it's proven to be am amazing hub. We're working from Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and we've found that Southern California is really friendly. versus New Zealand?

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Gomez said he was inspired to start Canopy San Diego after spending time at CanopyBoulder , the cannabis industry fund and accelerator founded in 2015, less than three years after Colorado voters approved a similar marijuana legalization initiative. billion in 2015—a number estimated to grow by 25 percent this year to $6.7

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. Unicornless. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. How long have you been doing this, and who is backing you? READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

If you look at the companies in the startup space both here in Southern California, as well as across the country--especially those that are expanding rapidly and hiring hundreds of people--we''re the go-to source for how they manage their customer care and back office. You''ve built quite a big business--how did you fund all of that?

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MARCH 11, 2016

Our customers use this to raise more money, and we can make the case that investing in the product will get them X return. Definitely, with nonprofits, ever penny counts, and they want every penny to go towards their impact and program, so it's very hard for them to generate revenue. Can you talk briefly about your venture funding?

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JULY 21, 2015

So she started a conference for girls. Hundreds of founders, speakers, mentors, and students flocked to the University of Southern California on March 28 th , 2015 to be inspired by female entrepreneurs. You put on one the largest female millennial entrepreneurship conferences in Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles.

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