socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. They have a large-ish fund.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Funding Software Review 283

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. He blogs here and tweets here. Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42