TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

He started Dutchie in 2017 (and yes, it is named after the song ) in 2017 from Bend and has been slowly and steadily growing the business. ” That mantra of scalability was apparently what attracted Casa Verde, which took only two months to decide to lead the investment round into Lipson’s new venture.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Since we started Science six years ago, we've co-founded and invested in more than 70 companies and have exited multiple portfolio companies. What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017? Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based fintech venture capital investor Core Innovation Capital is out looking for new investors in its third fund, with a target of $100M, according to regulatory filing by the firm on Friday. The company raised a similar fund , Core Innovation Capital II, LP, back in January of 2017. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Venice, California-based venture capital investor Fifth Wall says it has made a $135M investment in San Francisco-based real estate sales startup Opendoor , as part of a combined equity and debt funding. The funding came as part of Opendoor's Series D funding round.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Thursday, September 28, 2017 -- Orange County VC and Angel Investor Conference. Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Orange County? Register for the FundingPost event on Thursday, September 28th, 2017. FundingPost.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company’s public offering should be a nice windfall for the Chicago-based investors DNS Capital, an investment firm managing the private wealth of the Pritzker family, and Cleveland Avenue, founded by former McDonald’s executive Don Thompson; as well as the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Obvious Ventures.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 20, 2017

While venture capital investment in L.A. startups rose slightly in the first quarter of 2017, seed-stage investments went in the other direction.

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 -- Insider Insights: You got your VC meeting, now what? San Diego Venture Group. You got your VC meeting, now what? Just like your company is unique, so too are venture capitalists and their investment strategies.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

In the latest fund in an unprecedented boom in local investment funds, Los Angeles-based Pontifax AgTech Management announced this morning that it has closed on its first fund, a $105M fund calld the Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund. Pontifax AgTech was co-founded and is led by Ben Belldegrun and Phil Erlanger.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding service run by serial entrepeneur Howard Marks, has chalked up 25 companies raising money on its platform since the start of 2017, according to the company.

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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. These opportunities are creating an opening for Watertower Ventures in markets far beyond the Hollywood hills.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2019

Venture capital investments rose in 2018 to levels not seen since the heady days of 2000, the last year U.S. That’s according to PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association’s Venture Monitor report, released this week, which tallied nearly 9,000 deals made last year, through which venture investors sunk $130.9

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Today's contribution is from Alon Goren , the co-founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups. Alon Goren: This year, my partners, Josef Holm (Krowdster), Darren Marble (CrowdfundX) and I started Crowd Invest Summit. We also got the LA VC community involved as well which was a lot of fun. Alon Goren: Delegate!

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2021

The former CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based advertising exchange Rubicon Project, Frank Addante, has launched a new, startup investment fund, he announced on Wednesday, saying that after a brief foray into retirement he decided to launch TinkerBarn Ventures, a new startup studio and early stage investment fund.

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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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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Burbank-based Disney has made a $15M investment in Norwegian educational and learning games developer Kahoot , Kahoot said Friday, in a deal which grows Disney's stake in the company. Kahoot--which was part of the Disney Accelerator in Burbank back in 2017--revolves around user-created quizzes, which people set up and share with other users.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Riot Ventures , the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch. Marcus has a long background in angel investing and company creation.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

San Diego-based Section 32 , the venture capital investment fund of former Google Ventures CEO and founder Bill Maris, is looking to raised $250M for its second fund, Section 32 Fund 2. Section 32 is just one of a large number of new venture capital investment firms to set up shop in Southern California in 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Glendale-based Beyond Limits , a venture-backed developer of artificial intelligence software, has named Meghan Sharp, Ph.D., the former Managing Director of BP Ventures/Americas, as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

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APRIL 19, 2017

reports that seed funding in Q1 of 2017 dropped precipitously, falling 42.2 AmplifyLA pointed out that the seed deals were in contrast to the bigger picture, where venture capital investments were up 15 percent nationally--but pointed out that those gains were driven by "mega-deals", rather than seed funding.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Fortunately, there are thousands of options for raising capital, from angel funds and VC firms to crowdfunding campaigns and looking through your couch cushions. Thanks to data from Crunchbase , we can bask in the glory of the five highest funding rounds in 2017 so far. Yes, those are billions with a capital B.

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2018

Venture capital investors sank $547.2 million into 37 startup companies throughout San Diego County during the first three months of 2018, maintaining roughly the same level of venture funding seen in recent quarters, according to the Venture Monitor Report. million invested in the first quarter last year.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

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. Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 million into 61 companies during the last three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. The annual total was slightly ahead of venture activity in 2016, when VCs put slightly less than $1.9

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners has surfaced in what looks to be the downtown Austin's hippest new event venue. The only current tenants in the space are Vast and March Capital Partners. March Capital Partners opened up its new office in Austin in July.

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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 Swych had announced a single funding round, in 2017, but had not announced investors or amounts of that funding.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. Venture firms invested $21.5 While there was a 6 percent downtick from funding in the previous.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures has just kicked off an effort to raise a new, $280M venture capital fund, Upfront VII, L.P. Upfront Ventures started raising $250M in a growth fund, Upfront Growth II, back in June of 2019, and raised its last core fund, Upfront VI, back in June of 2017.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

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

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MAY 11, 2017

Irvine-based angel investment group Tech Coast Angels said this morning that it has had it's best Q1 ever, both in terms of dollars and total deals. According to the TCA, it invested $3.8M in total across 17 deals, for the quarter ending March 31st, 2017. InvestED, Mobilize Solutions, OnRamp, and Tot Squad.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

venture firms refueled last year by raising a near-record $51.6 billion , they also eased off the throttle in terms of their investment activity during the first quarter of 2017, according to data released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Scopely said it would use the capital to continue its strategy of developing and acquiring new games as it looks to continue its run of six consecutive mobile games that will gross $100 million or more in lifetime revenue. The new investment follows Scopely’s milestone of achieving more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

Thirty-seven venture-backed companies in the San Diego area collected almost $350 million in new funding during the first three months of 2017, according to data released this week as part of the latest Venture Monitor report from the National Venture Capital Association and Seattle-based PitchBook.

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