SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2017

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 -- FundingPost Orange County VC and Angel Investor Conference. Join us for this intimate VC and Angel Investor Conference. Then register for the FundingPost Investor RoundTable on April 4th, 2017 at 5:00pm. FundingPost has hosted 300+ sold-out venture events in 23 cities over the past 16 years.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Saturday, September 16, 2017 -- First Time Entrepreneur Workshop. KAVA is extremely pleased to announce its next First Time Entrepreneur training program. The program is open to entrepreneurs that are starting companies in areas that are likely to draw venture capital investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

The best entrepreneurs in our industry focus on it year-round as opposed to just once every 18 months. As a VC I also have to fund raise every three years and these posts 100% apply to VCs raising money, too. Below is the outline Upfront. Lemons ripen early The hardest thing about fund raising is how dispiriting it can be.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 19, 2017

Saturday, March 25, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Funding. Will we witness more venture funding and increased company valuations in the region? Our program will open with Chang Xu delivering a presentation highlighting the current state of the venture capital industry as well as the unique qualities of LA Tech.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund. Fika invests roughly half of its capital exclusively in startups headquartered in LA, with a particular fondness for B2B, enterprise and fintech companies.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang. Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

In response to VCs’ sudden rush to invest in more Black founders , Black venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have penned a bunch of advice on the best way to tap into talent. It held a city-based internship program with Los Angeles, which connects students to venture capital firms in the area.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. It’s amazing to see the success of LA under Mayor Garcetti and that’s why I urge you to turn out to reelect him tomorrow — March 7, 2017 - every single vote matters.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 -- Eric Ries: Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup discussing his upcoming book, The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth. Live Talks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

we're proud to be part of one of the world's most vibrant innovation ecosystems with some of the fastest growing companies and most creative entrepreneurs. Despite the Q1 correction in valuation, and subsequent drop in VC funding, we saw numerous LA companies not only survive, but thrive - despite the macroeconomic trends.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Over their longtime personal and professional relationship, the two Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneurs have invested in each other’s companies and investment firms, but never worked together until now. With that in mind, the Watertower Ventures group, which launched in 2017 with a small, $5 million fund, is a return to those roots.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 6, 2017

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 -- Fierce, Funded, and Female: A Discussion On Capital Raising. Join a group of female investors and successful entrepreneurs for an open discussion on raising money for your new venture. What are the pros and cons of equity funding from angels, VC firms, crowdfunding and bank lending?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 -- LAVA's First Look LA. This technology preview is geared for Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Venture Capital Investors. Join us at Cal State Los Angeles for a full day of innovations and technologies presented by the region's finest researchers and inventors!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 -- LAVA's First Look LA. This technology preview is geared for Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Venture Capital Investors. Join us at Cal State Los Angeles for a full day of innovations and technologies presented by the region's finest researchers and inventors!

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

“We want to inspire, but we also want to be realistic and show beauty in real life,” Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss said in a 2017 interview with Inc, just as the brand had reached what Weiss herself described as “cult status.” Even Chrissy Teigen and Reese Witherspoon wore Glossier’s signature Cloud Paint blush to the Oscars. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

According to current Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity now exceeds 86%, more than 12 percentage points higher than ten years ago at the height of the last recession. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

The eight-people team is led by Cheng Lyu, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who goes by Jesse and helped Baidu build up its smart speaker unit from scratch after the Chinese search giant acquired his voice startup Raven in 2017. The startup appears suitable to undertake the task. Investors are buying into rct’s offering.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The foundation ranked Los Angeles as number 3, and San Diego as number 4 in terms of the highest startup activity in the United States, based on the rate of new entrepreneurs, startup density, and other factors. Miami was ranked number on in the nation. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

For today's interview, we spoke with Richard Sussman , who is leading up investments for a new venture capital firm in town, NordicEye (www.nordiceye.com), which just saw a big exit in one of its very first investments, Los Angeles-based Weblife. What's wonderful about this new fund, is we literally started in April of 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2019

SendGrid had a successful IPO in 2017 , and was acquired for $3 billion in February. Saldana is now CTO of Techstars Studio, an effort to help entrepreneurs rapidly envision, validate, and launch disruptive startups. One of the company's co-founders, Isaac Saldana, helped co-found the company in Anaheim.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Chiefly, they thought that robotics and machine learning were going to transform everything from aerospace to industrial manufacturing and retail, and they saw Los Angeles as a unique location from which to deploy capital. Marcus has a long background in angel investing and company creation. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2020

Lassen was started last year within Frazier Healthcare Partners; Mark Barrett, an entrepreneur in residence at the venture capital firm since 2017, is its CEO. Lassen—a name inspired by a 10,000-foot peak in Northern California, the southernmost major volcano in.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We also got the LA VC community involved as well which was a lot of fun. Next year, we plan on building it into a bigger business and in April 2017, we'll be doing it again, but this time in New York. It's called Flyte Bike and it was created by an entrepreneur that works out of HUB101 with me named Robin Palmer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Scott Alderton: No single piece of news, but a theme going on 15 years - Stubbs Alderton & Markiles is still dedicated to representing entrepreneurs and technology companies big and small in the Emerging Growth and Technology markets. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As 2017 comes to a close, we’re surveying business and technology leaders from around our network to get their perspectives on the year in tech—and what’s next. Xconomy: If you think public perception about the tech industry turned for the worse in 2017, what should the industry do to rebuild trust in 2018?

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Tech.Co

JUNE 14, 2024

of venture capital funding in 2023. Some equity-focused organizations are trying to level the playing field, however, by offering female entrepreneurs cash injections to launch or grow their venture. But it’s not just angel investors that favor the status quo. Get a huge 86% off Surfshark with this special tech.co

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round? So, in 2017, we though it was very important for us to understand the unit economics.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In a bid to put things in perspective at year’s end, Xconomy reached out to Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, and one of the stars of TV’s “Shark Tank.” Here’s an edited transcript of our exchange: Xconomy: Do you think 2017 was a turning point in public.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. founded in summer of 2017. Their mindset is that everyone should be an entrepreneur if they want to be, that's their mantra. What does your startup do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Of course, both are impressive and both already exceed VC investments annually.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Xconomy recently reached out to business and technology leaders from around our network to put 2017 in perspective and look ahead. Below are the highlights from our e-mail exchange with entrepreneur and investor Dave Balter, Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. Jamie is currently also co-founder of March Capital Partners, in addition to running the summit. It looks like you have a special session on female entrepreneurs again this year?

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

In addition to advising the companies on various core business practices and ways to improve their products, SMASHD LABS worked to create experiences that set them apart form other accelerators, in order to enrich its entrepreneurs with different ways to approach their businesses and their products.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

And, even more impressively, it's now seeing more than $100M in annual revenues--without ever having taken any institutional or venture capital. We spoke with CEO Bryan Cheung to learn more about LifeRay, and how it grew from a church basement and open source to $100M+ in revenues, without ever taking outside capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. For example, I often hear from aspiring entrepreneurs that “I had that idea first, and he stole it, and is now making money on my idea.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often have to deal with people who are convinced that they must get me to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before they begin talks about their new venture. Some entrepreneurs avoid the patent process, since patent details become public once a patent is issued.

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