socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Tustin, California-based THREAD , a developer of software used for managing decentralized clinical research, has raised $50 more in funding from private equity investors Water Street Healthare Partners and JLL Partners. The company was acquired by Water Street and JLL Partners last year, in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Jam City said the new, $350M funding round was a combination of equity and debt, and included Netmarble, Kabam, and affiliates of funds managed by Fortress Investment Group.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 8, 2019

Thursday, March 14, 2019 -- Startup Boost Applications Deadline. We are a no fee / no equity 6 week mentorship program. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 17, 2019

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 -- Fundraising Basics: How to Understand and Negotiate a Term Sheet with Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 -- Preccelerator Workshop: Term Sheets w/ Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court makes a number of allegations against Stefan Krause and Canoo, including that Christina Krause was paid less than other founding members and not given the co-founder designation or the equity stake that often comes with that title despite being a founding employee.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Startup Boost Los Angeles has opened up applications for its Fall 2019 class, according to the group. The programs--which does not charge fees or take equity from companies in its program--says it is seeking nine early stage startups to take part in its eight-week program, designed to help early stage startups.

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JUNE 24, 2020

The company said the equity and asset financing is an extension of its seed funding round, and was led by Fin VC, and also included new investors Tribe Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Lachy Groom, Anthemis, along with prior investors Craft Ventures, Fika Ventures, and MaC Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital has acquired Sargent and Greenleaf , a maker of a wide range of both electric and traditional mechanical locks, from Stanley Black & Decker. According to OpenGate Capital, it expects the acquisition to be complete in Q1 of 2019.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2021

Viant's major shareholders are executive Tim Vanderhook, Chris Vanderhook, and Larry Madden, along with two entities, Four Brothers 2 LLC and Viant Technology Equity Plan LLC. in net income on $164M in revenues for the year ended December 31, 2019. The company is led by CEO Tim Vanderhook. The company reported $9.9M

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion in VC investment from January to October, already matching 2019 levels. Funding rounds for London impact companies involving North American investors in 2020 include a $118 million growth equity round into Arrival by BlackRock, an $80 million Series B round for COMPASS Pathways and a $25 million Series C funding for Tractable.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The funding was led by JMK Consumer Growth Partners, and also included existing investors, including the Nordstrom family, and new investor David Kessenich, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of healthcare private equity firm Excellere Partners.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Meline, is planning to retire, serving as CFO through the end of 2019, but will remain at the company through the second quarter of 2020. Meline--who has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Amgen since 2014--will be replaced by Peter H.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to a classic article on Thrinacia , there were over 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence then, estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to today. Startup equity model. In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. I almost skipped IPO corner this week because no big-name companies dropped or amended their S-1s or completed a highly anticipated IPO, as has been the case basically every week of 2019.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Los Angeles investors and startups, in conjunction with Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Annenberg Foundation, announced a new effort, PledgeLA , to help address the "work opportunity gap" in the industry by increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion in their firms and investments.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

There’s no word on whether the new money is in equity or debt, but what is certain is that JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and syndicate partners including Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank and CIT Bank are all involved in the deal. And the company isn’t the only mobile games studio making moves.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

Watt says Share Ventures will operate as a holding company with pooled equity shared across the employees at the company. Watt began talking to investors in 2018 about the idea and spent the bulk of 2019 trying to build out its first few companies. ” Image Credit: Share Ventures. ”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. In 2018, many of them sold their companies or raised massive equity rounds. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“ The EIRs will receive a small stipend and equity in the business, Barber said. The starting gun for M13’s Launchpad program was in 2019 and the program currently has managed to spin up three startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

According to a recent article on Thrinacia , there are now aver 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to 2022. Startup equity model. In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. In the U.S.,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Kaman said that Bal Seal expects revenues of approximately $95M for the full year 2019. Acording to Kaman, the acquisition will significantly expand and diversity its portfolio of products, and help it reach into high-growth and high-margin medical and industrial end markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In a world when LPs benchmark VC performance on a 3-year time horizon from deploying one’s fund (is your 2019 fund in the top quartile!!??) I suppose if I loved spreadsheets and valuations and benchmarking I would work in the even more lucrative world of late-stage private equity. you are bound to pray to the valuation Gods.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. It is not disclosing its valuation with this investment, but Alastair Westgarth said that this doesn’t rule out raising further funding from investors.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. There was no monetary reward for those who participated (and Startup Boost does not take fees or equity from the companies that we help).

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

The pay equity fights that the women’s team has led are still ongoing ( and suffered a setback earlier this year ), but Nortman and Portman saw an opportunity to chart a new course for the league with the combination of both of their support. Image Credits: Angel City. That non-profit is also a partner with Angel City. “In

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. However, Bird has shaken up its model in recent quarters, leveraging a partner network to handle scooter deployment, which has generated more attractive results. Other figures are looking up, too.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: We closed our nineteenth and twentieth software focused growth equity investments this year, a significant milestone for our firm.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Snap invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake, and while the program does not require batch participants to integrate with Snap’s services, the company has used the program to invest in strategic areas that it has also pushed on the product side.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

I plan to try to put both of these lessons together in 2019. 2018 was a great year for TVC Capital and we were able to get our fourth growth equity fund closed, taking our assets under management to close to $400 million. I think my ten active portfolio company CEOs and my colleagues at TVC will appreciate the evolving approach.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 24, 2019

before moving over to Bain for consulting and finally settling in to a job at Bain Capital investing in the firm’s San Francisco-based private equity shop. Bullock initially worked at the investment bank, Allen & Co., Anderson remained at Bain Consulting until Bullock pulled him away to start Cann. ”

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” Both Vaughn and his Saucey co-founder Daniel Leeb will take management positions at PCH, and Blumberg Capital and Bullpen will have a large equity stake in the newly formed holding company, Vaughn said. We’ve spent the past decade in bev-alc at the forefront of providing solutions to changing consumer shopping behaviors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Fast forward to 2019, and Shopify now has over a million stores in the world, man of them direct-to-consumer stores. So, we started looking in Q2 of this year, and were selected by the San Diego Venture Group as one of their cool companies for 2019, one of their top thirty startups for 2019.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

CEO of Patreon Jack Conte attends VidCon 2019 at Anaheim Convention Center on July 12, 2019 in Anaheim, California (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images). The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. “I realized there were a lot of fragmented issues in the renovation space, especially when it came to the individual workers,” she recalls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch reported a new high of more than 200 companies in YCombinator’s Winter 2019 cohort, and many were scooped up by VCs even before the Demo Days. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund.

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