L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

has secured $165 million in funding from a venture capital group to build out its home services software firm through acquisitions and moves into new markets. Glendale-based ServiceTitan Inc.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

San Diego's TVC Capital has made another investment in a growing software firm, this time in Washington State. TVC invests in software companies with an eye on growing their revenues and making them an appealing acquisition candidate. Steven Hammerslag of TVC has joined Limeade's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Handling PR with VCs. This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. Just notice how many VC emails you get after your TechCrunch article or after you were on stage at TC50. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2013

According to NextSpace, its first expansion outside California comes via the acquisition of a coworking operator called The Coop. nextspace venture capital coworking chicago coop merger acquisition' The investment came from a Chicago real estate and private equity investor, Lakewest, along with angels. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

In the latest positive move for the Los Angeles venture capital market, a new investor has moved into town, to take advantage of the area''s growing startup market. core innovation capital venture investment fund' The firm''s efforts here are headed by Arjun Schutte. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. And VC’s are tough customers. I’ve talked before about how to build long-term relationships with VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Because my role as a VC requires me to take and endless stream of meetings I long ago decided I need to learn as much as I can from the meetings I attend so I often just ask tons of questions and assimilate knowledge. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). Bimodal returns are a fallacy, many great VC funds are built on the power law curve. They say the same about VC. Both can hurt you in an acquisition. Often they are “soft landings” for PR purposes. They are wrong there, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. I run Revolution’s VC investments. Revolution, what is it?

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM). bitvore data intelligence gathering venture capital yuri pikover' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2014

The chart of valuations shows that there are three companies which made the cut for being venture backed, having raised money in the last three years, and are still privately held. billion dollar startups venture capital exit merger acquisition spacex snapchat beats' billion); Beats Electronics ($1.0 READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The round also included Greenspring Associates, Sands Capital Ventures, Cross Creek Advisors, and Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Revolution Growth is the venture investment firm led by AOL execs Steve Case, Donn Davis, and Ted Leonsis. Scopely is led by Walter Driver. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

MEDU itself is now flush with $4 million in seed funding in a round led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Halcyon Fund and a group of angel investors, including Ryan Shea. She explained that the decision to go after venture capital was to gain partners that would help the company grow.

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Development Develop Venture Capital Startup 257

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

99.9999% of you won’t be contemplating raising capital at $500 million any time soon or selling for a billion. My friend Christin Herron of Intel Capital weighed in on the issue. Maybe you should just close your VC round? Closing a VC round might just be the right move for you. Christin goes on.

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Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital , the venture capital investment firm led by Kelly Perdew, has seen its first exit out of its portfolio, with the acquisition this week of Threatcare , a developer of cybersecurity software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Capital Acquisition Venture Capital Software Development 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Cloudant had been backed by Avalon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, In-Q-Tel, Rackspace, Samsung, and Toba Capital, and had only raised around $14.0M cloudant venture capital merger acquisition exit cloud software nosql database' Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. in funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

The IPO of education company 2U also greatly benefited Los Angeles, with the company''s extensive operations in LA, plus backing from former Redpoint Ventures'' (now Archer Capital) investor Greg Martin. investment investor capital venture angeles' READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As the authors make clear in the book’s preface, their goal is to create a “definitive guide to venture capital deals” and “demystify the venture capital financing process.” They are both former entrepreneurs and current Partners at Foundry Group , a highly successful, early stage venture firm.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Another, new venture capital firm, with an office in Los Angeles, NordicEye , has set up an office in Santa Monica, and has been targeting investments in the growing Silicon Beach region. only 11 months ago, before Proofpoint's $66M acquisition of Weblife today.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2013

The acquisition looks to be a great one for EcoATM''s investors, which also included Claremont Creek Ventures, Tao Venture Capital Partners, and Jens Molbak. Tao Venture Capital Partners is the investment firm led by Tom Clancy, who had formerly been at Enterprise Venture Partners. in funding to date.

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Claremont San Diego Venture Capital Acquisition 174

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2017

Toba Capital , the venture capital investment firm founded by Quest Software's Vinny Smith, has scored another exit, this time at San Francisco-based cloud applications tool developer Codenvy. Red Hat said this morning that it has acquired Codenvy, but did not disclosed financial details of the acquisition.

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Capital Venture Capital Acquisition Tool 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

VCs strangely never seem to weigh in on other VC funds. As an entrepreneur I never really knew what to make of VC return data. But more importantly, VC returns are notoriously hard to measure at one point in time. Let me offer you an insider’s take. Now from Both Sides of the Table I know a thing or two. Nobody knows.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

But, how are those accelerators doing so far in terms of attracting capital and attention to Southern California startups? socalTECH has analyzed its database of venture capital deals , exits, and other local deal activity, and started to come up with some tracking of the activity due to local accelerators, with some interesting results.

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Los Angeles Angel Report Startup 234

socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2013

As part of the acquisition, EMN8 said it raised $50M in a new funding, to both acquire Snapfinger and expand its platforms. Bass Associates, and also included Allegis Capital and individual investors. emn8 snapfinger merger acquisition venture capital restaurant ordering dining food point sale' READ MORE>>.

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Allegis Venture Capital Acquisition Mobile 164

socalTECH

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Southern California venture capital investors Domain Associates and Versant Venture saw a public exit of one of their portfolio companies this morning, molecular diagnostics equipment maker Veracyte. veracyte venture capital molecular diganostics lifescience gene thyroid cancer merger acquisition exit domain versant'

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Southern California Marketing Venture Capital Acquisition 159

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

The new features are an outgrowth of the evolution of CapLinked from providing its services to startups and venture capital firm, to large clients like Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital Partners, AI Verified, NextView Ventures, and Equity partners CRB. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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Services Venture Capital Equity Los Angeles 218

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2014

Pasadena-based venture capital firm California Technology Ventures has scored an exit at one of its portfolio firms, selling cardiac catheter maker AngioScore , to medical device firm Spectranetics. California Technology Ventures has been an investor in AngioScore since at least 2004, as part of the company''s Series B funding.

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Technology Venture Capital Pasadena Acquisition 147

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

I have the utmost respect for the tech produced by our northern colleagues and acknowledge it is the tech capital of the world and that won’t change. AOL committed to keeping the team in LA after the acquisition and in building a deeper technology team in town. We have top 25 engineering schools than anywhere else, too.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

demand media credit facility financing venture capital merger acquisition' The new facility came from Silicon Valley Bank, U.S. Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Comerica Bank, Citibank, Union Bank, OneWest Bank, and Goldman Sachs Bank. READ MORE>>.

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