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JULY 15, 2021

The National Venture Capital Association says that venture capital activity in Q2 of 2021 has hit record highs, with the group saying, in particular, that seed and early-stage VC financings have hit record highs and new quarterly records. The NVCA said that $75.0

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

RepairSmith was venture backed by TI Capital, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche Ventures, and Spring Mountain Capital, and had raised $41M in a Series B in 2021. AutoNation says RepairSmith has significant operational footprint in the southern and western United States.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

The funding was led by startup studio Science, and also included Live Nation, PowerPlant Partners, Access Capital, and Nomad Ventures. According to an interview with CEO Mike Cessario, the company had nearly $45M in revenues in 2021. The company has now raised $125M in total funding.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

The company also said it added Wendy Hayes as an independent member of the board; she is partner at an un-named venture capital firm, and was previously at Deloitte.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

Shield AI raised a big, $210M venture capital round--a Series D--back in August of 2021, which came from Disruptive, Point72 Ventures, Breyer Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. Harward is a retired United States Navy Vice Admiral (SEAL) and a former Deputy Commander of the United States Central Command.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Beck was most recently Chief Legal Officer at United Capital, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2019 for $750M. Crexi says it increased its total number of employees by close to 40 percent in 2021. Laehy has previously served as interim CEO at Coinbase.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

The Upfront Summit, the high tech and venture capital company run by Upfront Ventures, has been delayed, the latest victim of resurging COVID-19 numbers and the Omicron variant. Upfront's last tech conference, in 2020, was held at the Rose Bowl.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

and Europe, today announced that it has raised $65 million, with $50 million of those as a Series B funding round co-led by Albacore Capital Group and $15 million in convertible notes. Expa and Keyframe Capital, as well as new investor Capital One Ventures also participated in this route.

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MAY 27, 2021

and will trade under the symbol OAKS on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2021. Acorns said that, after the completion of the deal, it will operate as Acorn Holdings, Inc.,

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MARCH 1, 2021

The reverse merger includes $470M in PIPE investments from 39 total investors, including Vector capital, BlackRock, nd Neuberger Berman. Rocket Lab said it expects the deal to be complete by Q2 of 2021. According to Rocket Lab, the deal will give it an implied pro forma enterprise value of $4.1

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 17, 2021

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 -- Viterbi Startup Garage: Oceanside Chat: Cleantech 2.0: Who: Aaron Fyke (Founder and Managing Partner of Thin Line Capital). What Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know. The opportunities in this industry are bigger than any other industry, but the challenges of getting new technologies to market have been many.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Previous backers include Sequoia Capital, SilverLake, Dragoneer and Ant Group, among others. and plans to use its new capital in part to continue to grow there and globally. billion in volume for the entire fiscal year of 2021 and Afterpay is projecting $16 billion in volume for its entire fiscal year. .

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2022

The alternative protein space is hot, hot, hot as evidenced by both the number of companies developing products and the venture capital going into the space. Investment into alternative proteins, for example, plant-based meats and dairy substitutes was $5 billion in 2021, according to both the Good Food Institute and Crunchbase data.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The funding was led by 40 North Ventures and also included Piva Paladin Capital Group, Vertical Venture Partners, and Tony Fadell's Future Shape. The company says it hopes to go from engineering quantities in 2020 to millions of units in 2021. Menlo Micro also has previousy raised funding from Corning and Microsemi. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

According to the company, the funding was led by Bond and Tribe Capital. The funding also included Lee Fixel, Michael Ovitz, Spencer Rascoff, Republic Labs, and Jared Leto, along with Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Mark Cuban. Relativity is led by co-founder and CEO Tim Ellis. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 2, 2022

That number is dwarfed by Shein, which gained over 170 million downloads worldwide in 2021 and surpassed Amazon as the top shopping app in the U.S. Cider has racked up roughly 7.4 million installs across the world to date, according to data provided by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. And Cider has broken into the crowded U.S.

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JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. Three Arrows Capital, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This year, the company expects — looking at predictions that included results through Q2 2021 — to post positive gross margins. million in Q2 2021, its best result ever, and one of only four quarters in which the result was positive. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The company, which was founded in 2021 by researchers from Harvard and Stanford, has invested in clinical-grade deep learning to unlock the potential of image data, helping oncologists make much more informed decisions about their patients. Another startup that's dedicated to changing the world for the good, is Valar labs.

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MAY 7, 2019

Relativity is venture backed by Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, Phillip Spector (formerly of Intelsat), and Mark Cuban. According to Relativity, it plans to have its first launch in Q3 of 2021. Spaceflight helps companies arrange ridesharing flights to space for their cubesats.

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APRIL 5, 2022

million in seed funding from groups like Agya Ventures, Gaingels, Goodwater Capital, Nomo Ventures, PKO Investments and Y Combinator — Playhouse was a member of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. Now, Playhouse is releasing its TikTok-like, short-form video feed of Bay Area properties in beta. It’s already secured $2.8

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million. The company, which currently has 28 employees expects to grow to 75 staff members by the end of 2021, Miller said.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? They were a way to gather cheap capital.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Attacks will cost the world $6 trillion by 2021, research firm Cybersecurity Ventures says- –the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history and more profitable than the trade in all major illegal drugs. Cybercrime has become a global epidemic. As the threat keeps rising, the cybersecurity industry keeps growing.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

“We’ve created the HBCUvc Donor Circle as an opportunity for supporters and individuals to engage in our work and join a long-term strategy toward racial equity in venture capital and technology,” she wrote in the post. It held a city-based internship program with Los Angeles, which connects students to venture capital firms in the area.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Micronoma says it is setting up a new headquarters in San Diego with 4300 square feet, with plans to have their new headquarters in San Diego CLIA certified by late 2021, with a dry lab and two wet labs, one each for R&D and CLIA-associated activities, as well as office space. The company recently raised $3M in a funding round.

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APRIL 30, 2019

billion equity capital raise it is running with Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Los Angeles-based electric vehicle developer Faraday Future (FF) says it has received a new, $225M Senior Bridge Financing, from Birch Lake Fund Management, LP, ahead of a $1.25

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 15, 2021

The company plans to end 2021 with eight locations, in particular eyeing the Denver, Seattle and Los Angeles markets. The company plans to use its new capital primarily to expand into new markets. It recently opened its second facility, a 66,000-square-foot location, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that is currently about 40% occupied.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

The company said it expects the first of its solutions to be available as early as the second half of 2021. The company's President and CEO is Dr. Nguyen X. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

This round is being led by Point72 Private Investments, with previous backers Toba Capital, Index Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, BoxGroup, and VMG Partners also participating. But at the same time, Los Angeles–based Boulevard got this funding infusion at a boosted valuation because it has been on a roll.

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JULY 16, 2020

The company currently only offers up info in Los Angeles, and says it plans to launch in San Francisco and San Diego later this year, Seattle in 2021, and Chicago and San Diego later. According to PocketList, it uses the "wisdom of the crowd" to share information about the rental market. Nick Dze is the co-founder and CEO of PocketList.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

According to the company, it is aiming at launching its fully autonomous, electric lawn mower by 2021. Santa Monica-based Graze , a new startup backed by Wavemaker Partners, said this morning that it has launched a new, robotic lawn mower targeted at the commercial market.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Rivian, which is led by founder and CEO RJ Scaringe, recently announced an agreement with Amazon to supply 100,000 electric delivery vans starting in 2021, although the firm has yet to start commercial production on its vehicles. Rowe Price, and also included Amazon, Ford Motor Company, and BlackRock. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recession several years ago and the recent pandemic: Venture capital funds are regaining momentum.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

According to Urovant, the $100M in debt is split between $15M in a first tranche, and an additional $85M split between three additional optional tranches, through June 30th of 2021. The company said that the deal also includes granting Hercules warrants in each of the tranches.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

Czinger is hopeful that by 2021 the company will be able to announce that its 3D-printed structures will be production vehicles. It was enough to get the attention of investors and at least two global OEMs as customers. Divergent can’t name the customers because of non-disclosure agreements.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

He said the company has been growing in double-digits month over month, had zero churn and produced five times as much food this year versus the same time period in 2021. “We It has since expanded its locations with them and are now in Bristol Farms locations, including 86 throughout California.

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