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APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. Read more: Index Ventures and TechCrunch.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors. Why not Los Angeles?

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JUNE 24, 2020

San Diego-based Carlsmed , a developer of medical devices to improve complex spin surgery, has raised $2.5M in a funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The seed funding was led by Cove Fund II, and also included Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health and Device of Tomorrow Capital, as well as un-named angels.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The change has caused me to reflect a bit on the state of finance in biotech and in San Diego biotech particularly. During the process of arranging early funding for Organovo in 2008-2010, I worked with angels in San Diego, all over the country, and around the world. About 40 percent of my financing at.

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MAY 15, 2017

San Diego-based Truepic , a company developing mobile apps which help to certify that images--such as those for real estate, car rentals, home rentals, and online dating--have not been modified or altered before uploading, has raised $1.75M in a seed funding round.

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MAY 3, 2018

in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. Washe has been in Southern California since at least July of 2016, when it started offering its services in San Diego and Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based Saucey , a provider of an on-demand, alcohol delivery app said it has raised $4.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Blumberg Capital, Structure Capital, Altpoint Ventures, T5 Capital, HashtagOne, as well as individual angels. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

San Diego-based GoShare , the developer of an on-demand, moving and delivery app, has raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company said on Friday. The company said it will use the funding to improve its product and expand into new cities. The startup is led by Shaun Savage. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5 aims to create a network of support and mentorship along with access to capital where people can build on creative ideas with the help of successful business people, and connect with investors to get their concepts off the ground. We designed K5Launch to fill the void left behind by local angel and VC investors.

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APRIL 26, 2012

San Diego angel investor Howard Lindzon , via his Social Leverage fund, has backed a provider of SMS messaging services, SendHub as part of an angel funding round for the company. Lindzon runs stock messaging service StockTwits , and is a fairly active angel investor in Silicon Valley and other startups.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

San Diego-based Open Listings says it has raised $1M in a seed funding round, for the company's home buying service. The funding came from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, ChinaRock Capital, I/O Ventures, Joe Montana & Liquid2 Ventures, Kevin Hale, Josh Guttman, Kevin Moore, along with angels.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The team at Trust & Will, a San Diego-based startup founded in October of 2017, is betting that a good chunk of those people would shell out some money to outline an estate plan if the process were cheaper and easier. million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized.

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MARCH 27, 2012

San Diego-based Mob Science , a developer of social Facebook games, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The round came from David Young, the CEO of Joyent, Mark Surfas of GameSpy Industries, along with other angels.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5 aims to create a network of support and mentorship along with access to capital where people can build on creative ideas with the help of successful business people, and connect with investors to get their concepts off the ground. We designed K5Launch to fill the void left behind by local angel and VC investors.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Venture firms invested $21.5 billion in 1,699 startups nationwide during the quarter, maintaining a pace that could reach a decade high by the end of 2017 in terms of overall funding. The quarterly Venture Monitor report is set for release today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago.

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