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DECEMBER 28, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. Welcome to the 1990's!

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

The venture capital investment fund said it is focused on genomics, and will invest in companies in the areas of life science research, clinical diagnostics, novel therapeutic platforms, and other technologies impacting human health. The fund launched in summer of 2016 with $100M from Illumina.

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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. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? READ MORE>>.

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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. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? READ MORE>>.

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JULY 24, 2019

Bryant Stibel , the Los Angeles area venture capital investment firm of Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel, has backed item tracking startup Tile in a new, $45M funding round. The growth equity funding was led by Francisco Partners, and also included GGV Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, plus new investors Bryan Stibel and SVB Financial Group.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners has chalked up another exit in its enterprise software portfolio, after VMware said Thursday morning that it has acquired VeloCloud , a developer of cloud-based, software-definied, wide-area-network (SD-WAN) technology. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Lasergen , a startup developing technology for the DNA sequencing market--and which has an office in San Diego--has been acquired by Agilent Technologies for $105M, the two said late Tuesday. Agilent already owned a 48 percent ownership stake in Lasergen, as part of an investment it made in March of 2016.

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DECEMBER 29, 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. Based in Los Angeles and Taipei, Taiwan, it's a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Virgin Hyperloop One , the advanced transportation technology startup which is now backed by Sir Richard Branson, has inked a deal in the country of Dubai , to launch a new startup called DP World Cargospeed. DP World Cargospeed will use Virgin Hyperloop One's existing Hyperloop technology as the core of its efforts.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Southern California's venture capital totals dropped significantly in Q3 of 2016, to a mere $663.2M The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M in investments in the quarter, followed by $197.5M Another $28.68M was invested in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, plus Ventura.

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MAY 23, 2018

The investment was made by Shell Ventures, the venture capital arm of Royal Dutch Shell. Sonnen set up its US headquarters in Los Angeles back in 2016. The company's products are based on LiFePO4 battery technology. Sonnen , the German developer of energy storage systems which has its U.S. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, modern point-of-sale (POS) technology for the food service and retail markets, says it has doubled its employee count in the last year to 200, as it sees what it calls "exponential" growth in its business. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

According to a regulatory filing by Bitvore, the funding comes as part of an round which kicked off in December of 2016, and so far includes 36 investors. The technical team at Bitvore includes such well known local technology execs as Greg Bolcer (CTO) and Alan Chaney (Chief Software Architect, VP Engineering).

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. In summary, it really has been an amazing year and we look forward to supporting additional compelling software companies in 2016.

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MARCH 2, 2017

VeloCloud Networks a , a developer of software defined, wide area networking (WAN) technology which is backed by Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners, has raised $35M in a big funding round, the company announced today. VeloCloud was one of the first disclosed investment in March Capital's first fund.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

percent from last year, as its continues to have a significant piggyback of cash and investments for its acquisitions. in cash and investments--said it now expects its revenues to be between $830 and $860 million in its fiscal 2016. Los Angeles-based J2 Global said on Wednesday that its revenues increased to $211.8M

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

As is a tradition for socaltech, we feature reflections on the past year from those in the community all during the last week of the year. Erin joined us from the Weinstein Company and has become my partner in crime when looking at new investments. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. This morning, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Our interview this morning with an entrepreneur is with Anthony Citrano , the founder of Los Angeles-based Acquicent (www.acquicent.com), a startup which wants to make it as easy for you to invest in museum-grade collectibles such as classic cars and art, without having to invest millions of dollars in those assets.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Our investment in PlayVS and the subsequent launch of their Season Zero high school e-sports platform was very exciting.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. We had great news in 2018 from the companies weve invested in and supportive over the years. Here's Jim Andelman of Bonfire Ventures.

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MARCH 23, 2016

A new survey, released this week by Silicon Valley Bank, finds that even as the availability of venture capital in Southern California is tightening, and lofty unicorn valuations are declining, startup entrepreneurs are still optimistic about the future of technology in the region.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The city is also home to more than 1,100 startup companies -- the type of companies with the potential for high-growth and strong return on investment. Our research suggests even more can be done to stimulate investment in Los Angeles startups. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

We talked with Vahid--who is also Vice Chairman of Board of Directors for Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), was a Broadcom executive, and also who served at Ethertronics--about Morse Micro's technology, as well as why the Australian company has an office and is hiring in Irvine. What are you working on? It's a new Wi-Fi starndard.

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MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. The demand is there.

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd: Cross Campus is one of the companies I invested in, as the first, lead investor, about seven years ago. That's the same in the South Bay, where we've found there is a bit of a concentration in space technology, because of the location of some of the larger companies in that industry in El Segundo and the South Bay.

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APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: OceanX is a technology platform, and a company, solely focused on physical subscriptions. Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. That's actually what we've done at OceanX.

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MARCH 9, 2017

That's what we call OT, or Operational Technology. They invested $1M in Veracity in April of last year, and we just recently had another seed round of half a million from Microsemi, and another investor, Hollinbeck Financial, plus other individuals. However, industrial security is very different. That's how Veracity was born.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. What is Fuel50? The whole space has been neglected. versus New Zealand?

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JULY 15, 2015

The company was formed with this business proposition, that we could apply newer, later technology, and create something that was highly configurable and flexible. They've told their large enterprise customers they're sunsetting the product in 2016, and with that announcement, we've gotten a large number of their base evaluating our system.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

We caught up with Mike recently to better understand the company's technology, why there's an interest in energy storage by utilities, and more about that deployment. Can you talk about your technology? We have a lot in common in terms of those air conditioners and even the technology, but our product is different in an important way.

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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 caught up with founder and CEO Bryan Biniak to hear more about the company and what Connected Travel is doing.

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