socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

A new, venture capital firm, founded by Jon Bauch and Brian Mesic, has emerged in Los Angeles, called Ankona Capital. Bauch and Mesic--who were previously at Anthem Venture Partners--apparently are aiming at early growth capital investment in software companies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2012

The startup--which is developing a subscription-based, all-you-can-fly airline which connects Palo Alto and Los Angeles--did not announce the size of the round, which is rumored to be somewhere in the range of $14M.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Viewdle , a developer of computer vision technology which is venture backed by Anthem Ventures and Qualcomm, among others, is in the midst of an acquisition by Google , according to reports today. The original report came via Forbes, with followup from TechCrunch. TechCrunch said the acquisition is worth around $30M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based social shopping site ThisNext announced this morning that it has raised a new round of funding, and inked a partnership with online advertising firm Federated Media. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Clearstone Venture Partners and Anthem Venture Partners also participated. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Los Angeles continues to be a hotbed for new, finance-related startups this morning, as Santa Monica-based CARD.com announced it has raised $3M in a Series A funding. The Series A funding was led by QED Investors, and also included Resolute Ventures, Anthem Ventures, and angels such as Adam Press and Greg Steiner (BeachMint, eHarmony).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

San Diego-based Embarke has raised $1.25M in a funding round, which the company''s founder said came from a number of venture capitalists and angel investors. embarke venture capital funding seed email marketing optimization' The company is led by Al Bsharah. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Santa Monica-based Surf Air , the startup airline headed by Wade Eyerly looking to create a subscription-based, all-you-can-fly airline between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, has raised around $2.6M, part of an ongoing funding round worth $7.0M, according to a recent regulatory filing by the company. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based FileTrek , a developer of cloud-based, enterprise, file sharing and tracking software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Anthem Venture Partners, Telesystem, and the Ontario Emerging Technologies Funds. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based Cocodot , the online invitations service run by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, has raised $4.25M out of an ongoing $6.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Viewdle , the developer of cross platform, facial recognition technology backed by Santa Monica-based Anthem Ventures, has scored another round of funding, worth $10M, according to Viewdle. As part of the investment, Best Buy's Kuk Yi and Blackberry Partners Funds' John Albright have joined the company's board. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , which operates an online booking system for adventure travel, announced today that it has raised a Series A funding for the firm. The funding came from Anthem Venture Partners and The Mail Room Fund. Tags: travel adventurelink mailroom venture capital adventure fund.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2014

in a funding round, from Anthem Venture Partners, Simon Equity Partners, Third Wave Capital, Wavemaker Partners and ZenShin Capital. The company says it already has more than 20 engineers in its Los Angeles offices. READ MORE>>. videoamp video advertising venture capital ross mccray'

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag , which has developed an automobile configuration and buying service for affinity organizations like credit unions and automobile organizations, has a funding round of undisclosed size. Tags: automobile venture auto capital funding. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the startup co-founded by Eytan Elbaz , Eytan Elbaz , Walter Driver and Ankur Bulsara, which is developing social and mobile games, said this morning that it has raised $8.5M It looks like all that bacon paid off.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based AwesomenessTV --which is now part of Dreamworks--has acquired Big Frame , another local YouTube network operator. Series A funding back in 2012. The company had a $3.0M AwesomenessTV''s acquisition by DreamWorks was one of the fastest and most profitable exits of a company ever in Southern California.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2013

The new flights make Santa Barbara as close to San Francisco as it is to Los Angeles, and could help bolster the area''s high tech companies. SurfAir said it will connect Santa Barbara with nonstop service to Silicon Valley, with the first flight leaving this morning at 8:15 a.m.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2012

Hollywood-based Big Frame , a new startup focused on providing content programming and marketing of YouTube talent, has raised $3M in a funding round, the firm said Tuesday.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based FileTrek , the developer of software which helps teams to track changes and updates in their projects, data, and documents, said Tuesday that it has released a new iPad application. FileTrek is headed by Dale Quayle, a serial entrepreneur whose last firm, Integrien, was sold to VMware in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2010

in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners and also included Anthem Venture Partners and un-named angels. According to the firm, the new funding will go to introduce new products and to expand its developer relations program. TweetPhoto is headed by Sean Callaham.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. Other big funding deals included a big, $115.3M A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based FileTrek , the cloud-based file sharing, collaboration, and revision tracking software firm headed by Dale Quale, said today that it has linked with a European firm in a distribution deal. The firm said the partnership with Empowered Technology will help it meet demand and increasing opportunities in Europe. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , the new adventure travel booking site run by Kelly Tompkins, announced this morning that it has acquired a competitor, Adventure Central. Amount of that funding was not released. Amount of that funding was not released. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2010

The analysis was based on tracking of venture capital, angel, and private equity deals by socalTECH.com, which maintains its own proprietary database of local and national venture capital deals and dealmakers. billion in the area in Q2, up slightly from around $1.4 billion invested in Q1, and up from $1.0 billion in Q2 of last year.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. AdventureLink is venture funded by Anthem Venture Partners, The Mailroom Fund, and Allegis Capital. Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!,

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2009

in a funding round. Apparently, the company was a victim of TechCrunch's Arrington's crusade against PR embargoes, and disclosed the funding based on an embargoed draft. Zag is venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Arcturus Capital, Capital One, Capricorn Management, GRP Partners, and the Tech Coast Angels, along with USAA.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest. Here’s how to do it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzznet , which operates a network of web sites focused on celebrities and pop culture, announced this morning that it has raised $12.5M According to the company, the funding round was led by Focus Ventures, and also included Anthem Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett. This bootstrapped firm, based in Los Angeles, is the brainchild of Eric and David Bjorndahl. Adventurelink [ Profile ]. The site offers up a way to research and book adventure travel, across the globe. .

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Venture backers : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

For Southern California as a region, funding totaled $485M in 74 deals for the quarter, a significant drop from both Q4 of last year, which had $829M and 102 deals; and also from the prior quarter, when there was $779M invested in 84 deals. San Diego led in the report for the quarter, with $205M in 24 deals; Los Angeles had nearly $198.6M

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. We spoke with Dale Quayle , the firm's CEO, about the funding and company. Our sales and marketing will be in Los Angeles. What is FileTrek?

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

If Groupon remained a bootstrapped entity or a business built on the back of funds raised from friends and family, Mason would still be firmly entrenched as founder and Chief Executive. Wealth family officers, who manage family trust funds, are often seen as being passive investors. What is your exit strategy?

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

Indiana is home to the global headquarters for Anthem, Cook Medical, Dow AgroSciences, and Eli Lilly and Company, as well as the North American headquarters for Roche Diagnostics. Notable university spinouts include Angel Learning, Endocyte, and Marcadia Biotech. That law helped kick-start the modern tech transfer field.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. There is a lot of interest in radio these days and another high profile deal in this sector is TargetSpot funded by USV. My take: Never bet against Bill Gross. OTHER STUFF.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers.

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