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AUGUST 25, 2011

A portfolio company of Irvine-based venture capital firm SAIL Venture Partners , SNTech , has made an acquisition, SNTech announced earlier this week. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. RBC is selling the unit to clear the way for its own, acquisition of another electric motor business, of A.O.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. But take prompts from the VC.

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JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures).

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MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I had to laugh a bit reading it. What about strategy?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based Social Native , which operates an online marketplace which helps brands source visual content says it has acquired Olapic , a service focused on user-generated, influencer, and short-form video content for brands. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

San Diego-based venture capital investor Mission Ventures has seen an exit in its venture portfolio this morning, at data science and Hadoop software developer Alpine Data. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. in funding.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

VCs strangely never seem to weigh in on other VC funds. I have no incentive to do so other than to help those reading the WSJ piece better understand how I believe most insiders think. As an entrepreneur I never really knew what to make of VC return data. Let me offer you an insider’s take. Can that really work?”

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. The answer? Something so simple.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Also, I'm curious if you could help us out a little. What’s The Worst Mistake?

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Bitvore said one of its first products, Bitvore for Munis, helps investment banks and hedge funds looking for an information advantage in municipal bond markets. 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).

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MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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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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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 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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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. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.”

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MAY 13, 2014

La Jolla-based Dermtech , a developer of non-invasive, gene expression tests for helping to diagnose skin cancer, has filed for an IPO. in its IPO, and has applied to list on the NASDAQ Capital Market as DMTK. dermtech international venture capital healthcare lifescience merger acquisition tech coast angels'

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio. Our software helps companies save time, improve their communication, and ultimately build better products faster. I think in the end it’s helped us build a better product because we are resource-constrained. Semick: They are.

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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

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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. Being a radar screen of a buyer helps. Both can hurt you in an acquisition. You need to build relationships early.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Signal Sciences, a Culver City web application security company, is adding impressive clients and just closed a $30M Series C that will help it continue to scale.

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MARCH 22, 2018

We’ve also seen a substantial inflow of venture capital from all over the world.”. Over the past several years we have observed a significant decrease in startups leaving SoCal,” said Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. In fact, as is well-reported, the luster of Silicon Valley is fading.

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JULY 7, 2014

Disney is providing $120,000 in investment capital to startups to help them develop their ideas, and also provide mentoring from Disney executives. Disney is providing $120,000 in investment capital to startups to help them develop their ideas, and also provide mentoring from Disney executives. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Demand Media said it would use the new funding with "additional flexibility and liquidity", and in particular to help pursue its strategic objectives and a spin-off of its domain services businesses. demand media credit facility financing venture capital merger acquisition' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile rental marketplace app developer Radpad said Tuesday that it has raised $2M in a funding round, which came from existing investors SG VC, L.P., The company claimed the round came after it "turned down two lucrative acquisition offers." eppers jonathan market capital venture marketplace rental mobile'

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Remember, you have only one chance to make a great first impression, so it helps to know the lingo when dealing with investors. A micro venture capital firm. Currently, there are about 250 micro-VC firms , including such notable names as Mike Maples of FloodGate Fund. A “genesis” venture capital round.

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MARCH 11, 2015

Santa Monica-based Cinq Music ,  which helps music companies distribute their music digitally, through mobile, and physical channels, has raised a round of funding, according to GoDigital Media Group, the investor in the company. cinqmusic venture capital content hollywood streaming distribution godigital' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Connectifier was developing automated software to help companies with their recruiting, and had raised around $12.0M in funding from such investors as Galeo Ventures, Goldcrest Investments, Okapi Venture Capital, and True Ventures. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2014

Two, Southern California venture capital investors A-Grade Investments , the investment company run by Ashton Kutcher, and Karlin Ventures , which is managed by TX Zhou--have scored what looks like a nice exit over at Gyft , a mobile gift card service. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , an online startup developing software to help link entrepreneurs with their investors, has raised $350,000 in an equity investment round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Jackson, who was a very early employee at PayPal, where he helped bootstrap marketing and early formation of the firm.

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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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MARCH 6, 2013

The firm announced this morning it has launched a new set of deal features, aimed at the enterprise, which help clients manage all kinds of business deals. The company is now focused on providing a platform to help streamline deals like asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions, according to the company.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based Ferret, a startup working on artificial inteligence software to help people determine who they can trust, has raised $4M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The company said it is developing machine learning algorithms which help users determine who they can trust in real time.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Welltok , a developer of online applications to help employees improve their health--and also help companies manage their health programs--has acquired Mindbloom , a developer of mobile apps for improving your health. margolis jeff trizetto software enterprise healthy android iphone health acquisition merger mindbloom welltok'

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