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APRIL 28, 2016

Westlake Village-based Sienna Biopharmaceuticals , a new aesthetics and medical dermatology startup, said Thursday that it has raised $34M in a Series A financing round. The funding was led by ARCH Venture Partners, and also included Altitude Life Science Ventures, Partner Fund Management, and Venvest Capital, along with angels.

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JULY 13, 2016

Westlake Village-based Sienna Biopharmaceuticals has had a second close on its Series A funding, bringing the total raised in the round to $46M, the company said on Tuesday. The funding was led by ARCH Venture Partners and Partner Fund Management, and also included Two River, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Venvest Capital, and angels.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Tipalti , which provides accounts payable and supplier payment automation software, and which has operations in the Los Angeles area, has raised $14M in a funding round, the company said this morning. Tipalti's headquarters are in Palo Alto, but it also has offices in Westlake Village and Herzliya, Israel.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2009

Last week's angel investment report by the Angel Capital Association reported that investments by angel investors dropped nine percent in 2008, with a hefty percentage of angel investors--40 percent--expecting this year will be a down year. What isn't appealing to angel investors right now?

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JULY 6, 2010

An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 The most active investors in the region, by number of investments, were the Tech Coast Angels (9 tracked deals); followed by clean tech investor Angeleno Investors (3 deals). in investments in Q2).

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JULY 16, 2010

With the IPO of Los Angeles-based RealD , which starts trading this morning on the NYSE as RLD, Southern California now has three successful IPOs on record. RealD said last night that it had priced its IPO at $16.00, and is selling 12.5M shares of its common stock.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels startup spawned out of technology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Caltech, has set an offering range for its IPO. Gevo is venture backed by Khosla Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Total Energy Ventures, Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, and LANXESS, among others.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

billion in investments, according to the Q3 analysis of venture capital deals by socalTECH.com. According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a developer of a system for sending electronic mail to postal addresses, announced today that it has raised $8M in a funding. Tags: zumbox venture capital angel electronic postal email mail. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Westlake Village-based Cyber-Rain , a developer of smart irrigation controllers, has raised $792,454 in an equity funding raise, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Cyber-Rain has previously raised funding from Funk Ventures, Momentum Ventures, a various angel investors, including the Tech Coast Angels.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Row 44 / John Guidon / Westlake Village - Guidon sold his last firm--Comcore Semiconductor--back in 1998 to National Semiconductor, for a substantial gain. which he sold to AOL.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

We put out an RFQ to all sorts of venture capital firms in California, in order to be the fiscal steward of that money. We are able to do events like this launch party to give them more exposure, and there's also a mentoring components, and access to capital through DFJ Frontier and other venture capitalists and angels.

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