socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Los Angeles-baaed Fastpoint Games , the online fantasy game development shop headed by Kelly Perdew, is winding down its website, according to a notice on the firm's site, and is now looking for a buyer. Fastpoint had been venture backed by Mission Ventures and DFJ Dragon Fund, Allen & Co. READ MORE>>.

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Sites Mission Ventures Los Angeles Funding 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Here are a number of Southern California startups who are making waves in the cloud computing, as mined from our subscription venture capital database. Funding: $25.5M, from Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates [ Profile ]. Funding: Mission Ventures [ Profile ]. Funding: Private [ Profile ].

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Cloud Computing Southern California Manhattan Beach Startup 182

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment is announcing this morning that it has raised an additional $2.7M in a Series B funding for the firm. According to the company, the funding came from Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Research 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based online social question and answer site Sodahead.com said today that the firm has reached more than 1 million registered users at the site. SodaHead is venture backed by Mohr, Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, the Tech Coast Angels, and angel investor Ron Conway, and has raised $12.7M

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Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Sites Web 113

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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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association, and VentureOne will release their quarterly nationwide results of venture activity later this month.

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Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Los Angeles-based Webtide , which develops the popular Jetty Application Server for the Java programming language, has been acquired by Intalio. Webtide was self-funded, and was headed by Adam Lieber, who has previously been at Gluecode and Mission Ventures.

Java 100

Java Oracle Mission Ventures Google 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The firm is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology is a result of CIA-funded research efforts at USC. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Big Stage develops technology which converts digital photos of a person into a 3-D avatar.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC Social Network 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

in a funding round. in investments for the Los Angeles area. The third biggest investment was for San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , a maker of transmission systems for the electric vehicle industry, which raised nearly $39.2M In terms of the region, San Diego led in terms of total investments, with $193.1M in investments.

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Venture Capital Southern California Invest Capital 154

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

Locally, San Diego led the region in terms of venture deals for the quarter, with $300M invested, followed by Los Angeles, with $239.1M Tags: venture capital investment quarterly moneytree thomson reuters. in investments. Orange County saw $48.7M in investments for the quarter. in investments in the quarter.

Southern California 154

Southern California Venture Capital Invest Orange County 154

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. Tags: venture capital investment southern california 2009.

Southern California 100

Southern California Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital Technical Review 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

The numbers were driven by large dollar fundings in the clean technology sector, including large rounds to PowerGenix, Aptera Motors, and Pentadyne. The totals reported may differ from other venture capital surveys, due to sources of information, timing of funding events, and classification of data.

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

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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Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

in 32 deals, followed by Los Angeles with $172.3M round; San Diego-based Zogenix with a nearly $36M funding round; and Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) , which raised $30.4M. In the region, San Diego led in Q3 deals, with $236.3M in 25 deals. Orange County had $66.8M in 8 deals.

Southern California 100

Southern California Invest Orange County Palomar 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

Locally, San Diego led the region in terms of venture deals for the quarter, with $300M invested, followed by Los Angeles, with $239.1M Tags: reuters thomson moneytree quarterly investment capital venture. in investments. Orange County saw $48.7M in investments for the quarter. in investments in the quarter.

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Southern California Invest Venture Capital Orange County 113

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. What will the funding be used for? Eric Hovanec: Both Steve and I are angel investors. I left, and one thing I started doing was angel investing.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. So far so good.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Alex Roudi, the San Diego investor backing the Plug and Play program here, has described the local effort as a bridge to Silicon Valley, by enabling the San Diego companies to make connections and raise funding in the Bay Area. It’s really cool.”. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

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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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111