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JANUARY 18, 2013

Jason Calacanis , the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni , the online family tree and genealogy web site started by David Sacks, was hit by unexpected downtime Tuesday and today, the firm told its users Wednesday afternoon. No reason for the downtime was given, however, the downtime at Geni paralleled a similar, more widely reported downtime issues at sister firm Yammer.

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JUNE 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based coworking space operator Cross Campus said Tuesday that it is planning an expansion, and will be opening up a new location in Pasadena. Cross Campus said the new location is owned by Rising Realty Partners (RRP) and technology entrepreneur David Sacks, who was the CEO of Yammer and was the COO of PayPal.

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MARCH 6, 2013

Howard Lindzon , the San Diego angel investors who also heads up stock micro-messaging site StockTwits , has invested in another private company-- Discoverly. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

Los Angeles-based GumGum has snagged a media agency network executive as an advisor, the firm is announcing today, for its in-image advertising platform. GumGum''s advisory board also include David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer; Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, and Vince Thompson, the Managing partner at Middleshift. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founded GumGum, and Amos Elliston, who served as CTO at Geni and SVP of Engineering at Yammer. and Kamran Pourzanjani, who founded Pricegrabber.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , a stealth mode startup headed by well known angel investor Paige Craig, has raised around $1.5M Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders. in a funding round.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , which operates an online platform for managing fundraising by startups, has linked with the Startup America Partnership. According to CapLinked, it will make its premium capital raising and investor reporting tools available to the more than 8,500 startups enrolled with Startup America. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 8, 2019

GumGum , the Los Angeles-based startup that’s spent the past decade applying machine learning technologies to advertising and sports, has spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental industry called Pearl. “This idea was seeded within GumGum,” says Tanz.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? Does advertising work in the social networking world?

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JUNE 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the startup which provides an online site to help companies manage their fundraising process, is announcing this morning thta it has raised $400,000 in a new funding round. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $1.8M.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. Angels have a much lower threshold for returns than do VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I first met Ethan in 2005. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

The Los Angeles based firm in November secured Series A financing from FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, and Peter Thiel among others. Series A Round. The post CapLinked Teams with Quipa to Protect Business Transactions with Military-Grade Security appeared first on TechZulu.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. million Raised.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. I have been in the Los Angeles ecosystem for many years, and have seen it evolve, and there has not been a better time to raise seed money. This was her pain point, back in our early days in 2011, and at that time, social was starting to become big.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? A great opportunity for more visible networking. I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. I consider it INVALUABLE!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $8mm in Series B from RRE Ventures (Will Porteous)(lead), SoftBank, Hearst Interactive Media, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Founder Collective.Total raised: $11.5mm. File sharing?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 9, 2018

“It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.” ” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Los Angeles-based genealogy site Geni.com has been acquired by MyHeritage , an online genealogy website. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, Geni.com's founder, David Sacks, joins MyHeritage's board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. One interesting point about Wonga that I didn’t cover in the show. In business you spend your life in email.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based OneLogin , a new startup tackling the identity and access management software market, said Friday that it has raised $1.5M OneLogin said its single sign-on software is being used by such partners as Yammer, Colby Community College and Transwest. in a Series A funding round. READ MORE>>.

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