Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). It’s very noticeable in terms of funds raised, dollars invested and deals completed. What gives? The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has backed a provider of cloud-based databases, MongoLab , in its Series A funding. The lead investor on GRP's investment in MongoLab was not disclosed. The lead investor on GRP's investment in MongoLab was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners EC2 Venture Capital Los Angeles 174

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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 also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. One of the investors, Anthem Ventures, is here in Los Angeles, which is how I got involved.

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EC2 Los Angeles Web Anthem 150

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. You can really oversubscribe that capital investment, and drive up utilization to something really meaningful, like 80 to 85 percent utilization. That is on premise, off premise, fully managed, and do-it-yourself. That''s what we''re seeing.

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Let’s compare.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57