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MAY 16, 2019

San Diego-based bioClarity , a skincare brand which markets itself to millennial and Gen-Z consumers, has raised $13M in a funding round, the company said thsi week. The funding was led by Prolog Ventures. The company was founded in 2016. The company is part of Adigica Health, Inc. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Irvine-based Future Media , a digital marketing company, announced late Thursday that it has acquired Oak & Jackal , a direct-to-consumer maker of watches. Oak & Jackal was originally launched and funded through an effort on Kickstarter , in June of 2016. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to OpenGate Capital, it acquired Power Partners in January of 2016, via its first, institutional fund. Power Partners is a manufacturer of pole and pad-mounted distribution transformers for the utility, industrial, and commercial market. Power Partners is based in Athens, Georgia, and had approximately 370 employees.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Carlsbad-based Zingle , a developer of mobile messaging and customer experience software for the hospitality, travel , and retail markets, has been acquired by San Francisco-based Medallia , a provider of customer experience management software. Medallia said it will pay approximately $42M in cash for Zingle.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Some of the early investors in Woodland Hills-based accounting software developer BlackLine are looking for some liquidity from their investments, more than a year since BlackLine's October 2016 IPO, and plan to sell around 4,500,000 shares of their stock. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Pasadena-based Episona has raised $4M in seed funding, to go towards expansion of its male fertility testing product, Seed, the company said last week. According to Episona, the funding came from the Pasadena Angeles, as well as other high-net worth individuals from Pasadena and San Francisco. The company is led by Dr. Alan Horsager.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today. Nervana Systems was acquired in 2016 by Intel. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Aliso Viejo-based semiconductor developer Microsemi has made an investment in San Juan Capistrano-based Veracity , a developer of industrial, network security software, as part of a collaboration in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market. Microsemi said that Veracity will use its minority investment to fund its product development efforts.

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MAY 3, 2018

in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. Washe has been in Southern California since at least July of 2016, when it started offering its services in San Diego and Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 13, 2018

According to BlackLine, the shares in the offering are being sold by Silver Lake Sumeru, investment funds affiliated with ICONIQ, Therese Tucker, the company's CEO and founder; and Mario Spanicciati, the company's Chief Marketing Officer. BlackLine had its IPO in October of 2016. Silver Lake Sumeru is looking to sell around 6.1M

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JANUARY 13, 2017

as the venture market eased off its torrid funding pace. The NVCA called the investment levels "fairly health" and said that it appears that venture funding is coming to a "more normal level" versus the peak in 2015. According to the report, for the whole of 2016, more than $69.1 READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

The company is selling 4,000,000 shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as ANAB. AnaptysBio is backed by Frazier Healthcare, Novo A/S, Avalon Ventures, Alloy Ventures, Biotechnology Value Fund, HBM Healthcare Investments, and others. as early as Thursday.

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. The boost in funding came despite a lower overall deal count, with 89 funding deals in Q2, versus 97 in Q1.

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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. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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MARCH 23, 2016

The Startup Outlook 2016 report--SVB's annual analysis of the startup environment--broke out regional findings for Southern California for the first time, pulling responses from the local market about what technology and life science executives think about business conditions. and China for their opinions. and China for their opinions.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The ICO madness through 2016 and 2017 was bad, initially, for the industry as a whole, because there were lots of crooks and charlatans, but now, the SEC has cut through a lot of the BS. A lot of people say it's easy to just invest in the stock market, which historically, over a long period of time, performs well. It's my money.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Last week, Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems (www.oculardatasystems.com) announced a funding round from the Pasadena Angels, for its camera-based systems used by law enforcement to capture evidence in drunk or drugged driving cases. When did this become a business and when did the funding come about? What does Ocular Data Systems do?

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

We also saw a few of our portfolio companies grow steadily, notably one that made a risky/painful pivot in 2016 that is just starting to show exciting results. Techand the markets overall--has enjoyed a surprisingly long stretch of prosperity. It also means going to bed earlier! What are you looking forwardtomost in 2018?

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MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso?

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MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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JANUARY 14, 2016

mPulse was formed in April of 2015, as a spinoff of a company called mobileStorm, which has been in mobile marketing and communications for the last fifteen years. For those of us not familiar with the market, what is it that you are adding with mPulse which isn't out there already? It's a highly competitive market.

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What that's done, is it's create a large hit in this space, at the top right end of the market.

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MARCH 9, 2017

If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. That's about the same time the Department of Energy put together a program to regularly fund projects to secure or improve the grid. Paul Myer: That's a great question.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. It was really a meeting of the minds with the fund. I think we're seeing our growth finally is starting to be exponential, while back in 2015 and 2016 we found we needed to have some patience. versus New Zealand?

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Jay Goss: I got involved around April of 2016, as the company was putting the final pieces together on the app. What it started out as, and what it received funding for morphed. The consequence of shooting for absolute perfection, is you never get your product into the market. How did you get involved with the company?

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Parker Wells: We spun out and created our own company in 2016, and we got our first funding from the State of California in 2017. What's the biggest challenge you see in getting this to market? Our technology is physically large, which takes time and money to bring to market. How far along are you with commercialization?

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016. We've done very well, and are funded 100 percent with revenues. Tell me about Connected Travel?

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