socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M raised, and Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , a. billion invested in the region.

Southern California 195

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

Southern California companies raised $739M in venture capital in Q2 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) based on data from Thomson Reuters. Los Angeles had $222.5M raised for the quarter. in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments.

Southern California 167

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 167

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2009

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

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Research 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which is developing technology for creating 3D avatars, said Tuesday that the firm has hired on Patrick Barry as the firm's Vice President of Content Alliances. Big Stage said that Barry joins the firm from SK Telecom, where he was Senior Director of Corporate Development and Strategy. and Intel Corp.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment, a USC spinoff developing avatar technology, announced a new effort to provide its technology to third parties. Big Stage said it has created BackStage, which will offer its 3D face modeling technology to clients and partners. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures USC 100

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops avatar creation technology for turning photos into animated, 3-D likenesses, said Wednesday that the firm has launched a new effort targeted training content creators on the firm's products. READ MORE>>.

Content 100

Content Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

One of the most active areas of interest and growth in the technology industry today is cloud computing--the use of computing resources on the Internet, to accomplish tasks that normally would have taken a server farm or local systems. Funding: Mission Ventures [ Profile ]. MaestroDev. Funding: Private [ Profile ].

Cloud Computing 182

Cloud Computing Southern California Manhattan Beach Startup 182

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.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops 3D avatar technology, said today that it has partnered with video game company GGL Global Gaming, to provide free game content on its web site. Big Stage develops technology which converts digital photos of a person into a 3-D avatar. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC Social Network 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

The biggest investments for the quarter went to Irvine-based Fisker Automotive , which raised $78.0M, followed by Hawthorn-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), the commercial rocket firm of Elon Musk, which raised $50.2M. in investments for the Los Angeles area. in a funding round. in a funding round.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Southern California Invest Capital 154

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment , a venture-backed startup developing 3D animation technology used to create avatars, said this morning that the firm has created a new application which works on the Apple iPhone. Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and the Tech Coast Angels.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Entertainment Content 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the venture-backed startup which is developing photo-realistic avatar technology, has exited its beta and officially launched its site. The firm had launched a beta of its site in August.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Clearstone Southern California Mission Ventures 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment, whcih provides technology to create 3D avatars, said today that it has partnered with Stephen J. BigStage's technology will be used to insert users into video clips and photos. Cannell Productions, the firm behind "The A-Team" and "The Greatest American Hero." According to the firms, Stephen J.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures Pasadena 100

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and Tech Coast Angels, and is based on technology developed at the University of Southern California. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment, which is developing 3D avatar technology, said today that it has opened up its proprietary 3-D facial modeling system to third parties. Big Stage is backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Venture, and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Sample Pasadena 100

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2009

Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA. Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

Content 100

Content Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC 100

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

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Outside San Diego, Coda Automotive, the electric auto firm in Santa MOnica, raised $24.1M; Northridge based Gamma Medica raised $24.0M

Southern California 140

Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference). READ MORE>>

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Downtown Works is a co-working space for technology startups that opened last month in a completely renovated office building at the corner of India and West B streets. The co-working space occupies the top floor and mezzanine of the building, and includes shared desks, offices, conference rooms, kitchen, and rooftop deck. It’s really cool.”.

San Diego 40

San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

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.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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.

Company 111

Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111