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Parchment Acquired By Brentwood Associates

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Parchment , a company which provided records management, transcripts, grades, and other information for the K-12 and other markets--and which has its roots in the LA area--has been acquired by Brentwood Associates. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Wheels, Started By Founders of Wag, Comes To LA

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The company--which has offices in both LA and San Diego--said it is launching in Venice, Hollywood, Brentwood, West LA, Westwood, Miracle Mile, Mid City and other local LA markets. So far, the company has raised $37M in total funding. The startup is led by Wag co-founders and brothers Jonathan and Josh Viner. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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At Liquid Stock, we were fortunate the IPO market stayed red-hot and we had two successful IPOs with Sumo Logic and Wish along with the filing of Affirm, Marqeta and Robinhood which we expect to go public early in Q1/2021. No longer will you need to be situated in Silicon Valley, or Boston, NY or LA to get venture funding.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.”

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Reflections on 2016: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. But before you think of moving out of SoCal, our 19th deal also closed in 2016, and this was a growth equity investment in Brentwood based Docupace Technologies.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. I own an iPod Touch (not an iPhone – my house in Brentwood gets literally ZERO AT&T bars). So I greeted Apple’s entry into the market with great excitement. &# Finally the hegemony is broken!

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