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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Los Angeles-based BiasSync, which provides a service to help companies assess, measure and manage unconscious bias in the work environment, says it has named Robert Jordan as its Chief Revenue Officer. Jordan was previously Founder and CEO of investment banking firm Tribeca Capital Partners.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Los Angeles-based Cloudbreak Health , which develops a platform used for telemedicine efforts, has raised $10M in an investment round, the company announced this morning. According to the company, the funding came from Columbia Partners Private Capital.

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JULY 9, 2020

Los Angeles-based Synadia Communications , a software startup that is behind the open source NATS.io Size of the strategic investment was not announced. Synadia said it has developed cloud-native messaging technology built on top of NATS.io, and which runs on all major cloud provider platforms. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based PeerStreet , the startup which offers up investment opportunities in real estate backed loans, says it has dropped investment minimums on its service to just $100, when used with automated investments. The company is venture backed by Andreessen Horowitz. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Now the three men are finally ready to take the covers off of the labor of love they’ve been working on and launch Forge Platform , a new toolkit for distributed applications. “We wanted to pick a platform where the majority of developers are,” says Lorenz of the decision to work with Ethereum. ” . .

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based NuOrder, a B2B wholesale e-commerce platform, closed on a $15 million Series C financing round, led by Radnor, Pa.-based based venture capital firm NewSpring and joined by existing investors Upfront Ventures of Santa Monica and Argentum of New York City.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2020

Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it’s little wonder that there’s something of a boom in investments in technology companies servicing the market coming from the region. billion, active in the real estate industry in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based logistics service provider Port Logistics Group says it has made an investment in Silicon Valley-based Whiplash Merchandising , a developer of e-commerce software used for order management and warehouse management. Size of the Series A investment was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2015

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which was launched back in 2013 as a startup incubator, has pivoted its model, and has become an online equity crowdfunding platform called StartEngine Crowdfunding. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based Wavemaker Partners is one of the lead investors in a round for a cognitive health startup, Savonix , in an extension of its Series A funding. The investment round also included DEFTA Partners, Rethink Impact, and DigiTx Partners. The investment round also included DEFTA Partners, Rethink Impact, and DigiTx Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new online platform startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early-stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor OCV Partners has received $200M from j2 Global--and added outgoing j2 Global CEO Hemi Zucker--to ramp up its investments in technology companies.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures , along with Jeffrey Katzenberg's investment fund, WndrCo and rapper Nas , are the lead investors in a new startup, Rally Rd. which lets individuals invest in fractional shares of blue chip, classic cars. According to Rally Rd. New York-based Rally Co.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Existing investors DST Global, 01 Advisors, Dragoneer Investment Group, Franklin Templeton and Mubadala Investment Company too doubled down on their investments in SpotOn, joining new backers Wellington Management and Coatue Management. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Los Angeles-based Asset Avenue has launched a new, crowdfunding site focused on commercial, real estate investments, the company said this week. According to the startup, its online marketplace lets potential real estate investors access to pre-vetted investment opportunities across the country. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Gross and Barnehama met through a mutual friend in the robotics industry in Los Angeles, the chief executive of Embodied, Paolo Pirjanian, Barnehama wrote in an email.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. Los Angeles'

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , along with another local investor, Crosscut Ventures , have both made investments in a new Techstars company, Branch Messenger , Branch announced this morning. March Capital's Jim Armstrong and CrossCut's Brett Brewer were both involved in the investment deal. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. “ 2020 was a blowout year… People needed an interactive streaming platform that they could spin up quickly that they could launch on their website.”

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Interlude , a video-based, media and technology company with operations in Los Angeles, which says it has created a video technology which responds to a person's emotions and interests, has raised a strategic funding from Samsung Ventures. Size of that investment were not disclosed. Size of that investment were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Los Angeles-based gaming startup Midnight announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M The funding came from Shima Capital, blockchain platform Forte, gaming community SNACKCLUB, guild and mod platform Overwolf, plus the founders of gaming companies Illuvium and investors Woodstock Fund, FJ Labs, Bixin Ventures, among others.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Los Angeles-based Untapped Ventures said on Wednesday that it has launched a new, early-stage venture capital fund, which it says invests in companies that "help people live the best version of themselves, personally and professionally." The size of the new fund was not announced. The size of the new fund was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

Divergent, the Los Angeles-based startup aiming to revolutionize vehicle manufacturing, has cut about one-third of its staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended startups and major corporations alike. The platform is an end-to-end digital production system that uses high-speed 3D printers to make complex parts out of metal alloys.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Today, Welcome’s platform is approaching 3 million active users, according to co-founder and CEO Amir Hemmat. s SB Opportunity Fund.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. “We were excited to crossover and invest in Scopely.” valuation. .

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Irvine-based ThoughtWorld, a new market research and social media platform, says it has raised $2M in an angel investment round. The company says it launched the Alpha version of its platform on July 21st. The company says it launched the Alpha version of its platform on July 21st.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based Armorway , which develops data analytics software which uses artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity response, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital said that one of its portfolio companies, Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems, has acquired another company, MultiCam, from private equity investor Rosewood Private Investments. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Rose, according to his classic book, “ Angel Investing.” They will need more money.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based LogicBoost Labs, a startup accelerator which focuses on pre-revenue and early-stage B2B SaaS startups, says it has made a $300K investment in Clarevent, which supplies video infrastructure for virtual events. The company said the investment was $200K in cash, plus another $100K in advisory services.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The funding came from a number of angels, including Broadway Angels, San Diego Venture Partners, and TI Platform Management. According to the startup studio it plans to use the funding to launch four new startups in San Diego, investing $300K in seed capital in each of those companies. in funding, according to the group.

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