TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In this case, it’s mostly just the SF Bay Area, plus others scattered between Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego and one ( Magic Leap ) in the unfortunately named Plantation, Florida. The San Francisco Bay Area is perhaps one of the best-known tech and startup hubs in the world. Although U.S.-based

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APRIL 30, 2019

San Diego-based Quality Built , a provider of third-party, quality-assurance services to the residential and commercial construction industry, has received a private equity investment from Los Angeles-based Gallant Capital Partners. Size of the investment was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Orange County, Calif. Earlier this year, Postmates raised an additional $100 million in equity funding at a $1.85 For now, the company’s party feature will only be offered in a handful of the nearly 3,000 U.S. and Philadelphia.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

San Diego-based DriveCam has renamed itself as Lytx , as the company said it has evolved the company and vision beyond just devices. Lytx said it now has more than 250 employees, most of then in San Diego. Lytx is led by Brandon Nixon. Lytx is led by Brandon Nixon. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2018

The funding was co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Index Ventures, and also included Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, plus Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures. As part of the funding, Bird said it has named angel and venture investment veteran Paige Craig as its new Head of U.S. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

San Diego-based private equity firm TVC Capital , which is led by Jeb Spencer and Steven Hamerslag, has closed on a new, $75M growth equity and buyout fund, the firms said today. The new fund, TVC Capital II came from private equity fund of funds, institutional asset managers and family offices. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investment firms and executive teams behind the Los Angeles-based delivery liquor delivery company, Saucey , along with Inception Companies, the backer of marijuana distribution company, Emjay , have formed Pacific Consolidated to merge their two companies and build what’s likely the largest “vice” company in the world.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

DriveCam , the San Diego startup developing technology which analyzes and tracks the performance of commercial fleet drivers, reported this morning that it has just reached over $100M in 2012 sales. DriveCam said the revenue growth came due to global expansion, strategic partnerships, and continued growth within its customer fleets.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

San Diego-based MicroPower Technologies , which develops wireless, solar-powered surveillance hardware, has raised $5.7M in an equity funding, the firm said this morning. The company has previously announced funding from Motorola and the Tech Coast Angels. The funding came from Karmel Capital and others. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

San Diego-based DriveCam , which develops driver monitoring systems for commercial vehicles, reported today that it has named Drew Martingas its Chief Informatoin officer. Martin was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Sony Electronics. Martin has also served at PepsiCo. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

San Diego and Dallas-based Liquid Environmental Solutions , a provider of non-hazardous liquid waste collection and treatment, has received $20M in an investment from Los Angeles private equity firm Craton Equity Partners. Craton Equity is focused on clean technology investments.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Today, Apple News offers local news coverage in 11 markets, including San Francisco, the Bay Area, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Miami, Charlotte, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.,” ” my colleague Aisha notes. Crypto startups are making it easier to build crypto clubs.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the portfolio firms of Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon , Trion World Network , is reportedly prepping for an IPO, according to reports over the weekend. Rustic Canyon's investment in Trion World Network is managed by Nate Redmond; the firm also has part of its game studio in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Rustic Canyon Report San Diego Venture Capital 140

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JANUARY 16, 2015

billion in investments in Los Angeles, near $125M in Orange County, and $106.6M in investments in San Diego. The numbers in Southern California were significantly helped by two, mega-funding deals in Los Angeles, including $485.6M San Diego''s largest deal was nearly $22M invested in BioNano Genomics.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

San Diego-base d DriveCam , which develops systems for monitoring fleet drivers to reduce risky driving, has raised $4M in a debt funding, according to Leader Ventures, the lender in the deal. Leader said the funding came in the form of a term loan. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Here are the venture firms who have been most active in SoCal (Santa Babrara - Los Angeles - Orange County - San Diego) in the last twelve months, based on the number of deals: 1. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows. Upfront Partners - 11 deals.

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APRIL 18, 2011

San Diego-based DriveCam , a provider of driver monitoring systems, said today that it has scored a new contract with Air Liquide Industrial U.S. DriveCam is venture backed by Chopra Ventures , Insight Venture Partners , Integral Capital Partners , JMI Equity, Menlo Ventures , Tech Coast Angels , and Triangle Peak Partners.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. In 2018, many of them sold their companies or raised massive equity rounds. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Locally, the report totaled $201.28M in deals in the Los Angeles area, $191.89M in the Orange County area, and $100.0M in San Diego. Frontier , the Tech Coast Angels , and New Enterprise. Biotechnology was second, with $98.14M in investments, followed by Meidcal Devices, with $61.02M in investment dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. So they will have allocations to US public equities, international public equities, emerging market public equities, real estate, mining, minerals and so forth.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Running that effort is Kevin Hell , the founder of DivX, who we caught up with to learn more about EvoNexus and how the group is trying to help grow technology startups in San Dieog.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Los Angeles investor Mark Suster, a general partner with Upfront Ventures , has been beating the drum for Los Angeles as a new tech hub for a while — and billion dollar exits for Ring and Dollar Shave Club, in addition to the public offering for Snap, lend credence to his position.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ), a San Diego-based company that was a pioneer in gene sequencing technology, founded the accelerator in 2014, along with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The startup does its R&D and design in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Freedom Meditech, a firm developing proprietary non-invasive ocular glucose measurement device for people with diabetes, has scored $380,000 in a equity investment. Freedom Meditech has corporate and engineering operations in San Diego, but also maintains R&D operations across Ohio.University of Toledo. READ MORE>>

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MARCH 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Nogales Investors announced today that it has acquired a controlling interest in San Diego-based DR Technologies , a developer and manufacturer of advanced composite structural products for the aerospace and defense industry. Financial terms of the recapitalization was not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

As part of the program, up to 30-minute rides will be free for members of critical workforces through April 30 in Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, the Washington D.C. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Spin, similarly, introduced a new initiative that provides free, 30-minute rides and helmets to essential healthcare workers.

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Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. We are planning to expand to Texas at the end of January, San Francisco soon after, and Denver, Colorado on March 1. Do they have positive equity in their home? Where is the company now in terms of the service?

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. To give you an overview, there are something like 6,000 equities in the U.S. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. However, in the Muni bond market, there are 1.25

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MARCH 19, 2014

So, it was a surprise when a number of smart, insider angels -- including Roy Rubin (founder of Magento, which he sold to eBay), and Dan Rose (VP of Partnerships at Facebook)--put their money behind TaxJar (www.taxjar.com), a San Diego startup developing sales tax compliance software.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

A month ago, I participated in my first ever Startup Weekend event in Los Angeles, California in the co-working spaces at Coloft. IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, TRY & TRY AGAIN: Startup Weekend San Diego was held two weeks later at a beautiful venue in the heart of Balboa Park at the Hall of Champions.

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