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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this morning that it has raised a new, $675M fund. The company said its new fund, Diversis Capital Partners II, exceeded its target of $500M. The company said it reached the $675M in commitments just three months after its formal launch.

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JULY 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based Cake, a consumer products company that develops lubricants and other (NSFW) products it bills as designed for "sexual wellness", has attracted the rare attention of venture capital investors, saying that it has raised $4M in a seed funding round. The company said it has now raised $5.7M in total funding.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Leonardo DiCaprio is making a significant commitment to the Los Angeles-based investment firm, Struck Capital , as part of the actor’s commitment to building LA into a tech development powerhouse. DiCaprio has already made a number of investments in startup companies that have done very well for the Academy Award-winning actor.

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MARCH 14, 2019

West Hollywood-based Backstage Capital , a venture capital investor which focuses on minorities--including women, People of Color, and LGBT founders, said recently that it has launched the Backstage Accelerator , a three month, startup accelerator which will provide in-person resources and support to its portfolio of companies.

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JUNE 26, 2013

A new, startup incubator-created by the Art Center College of Design and the California Insitute of Technology --said this morning that it has launched a brand new, design-focused incubator, housed at Idealab. Breitenberg is special assistant to the president of Art Center College of Design. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

March Capital Partners , the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has raised $300 million for its latest fund. ” Those two themes are borne out in the support March Capital has provided for The Hive , an artificial intelligence-focused incubator, and The Fabric , an infrastructure and internet of things-focused incubator.

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JULY 20, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital said this morning that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, BLUE Software , to software company Esko. Esko is owned by Danaher, and develops software and hardware for package design. Diversis says its focus is on companies in the lower and middle markets.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2019

Earlier this year, Spartan, the French manufacturer of a silver-lined underwear designed to block EMF radiation from cell phones and wireless routers, relocated to the U.S. and raised some capital from the Los Angeles-based investment firm, Science. The company also plans to launch a line of t-shirts later this year.

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JULY 16, 2019

Los Angeles-based Bellco Capital , a new investment firm founded by Drs. According to the firms, the effort will combine biotechnology entrepreneurship and scientific research experience from Bellco Capital to boost real estate development efforts from Tishman Speyer in a new company, Breakthrough Properties. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2021

Techstars LA, the startup accelerator headed up by Matt Kozlov, announced its 2021 class this week, drawing an international group of twelve new companies to its startup accelerator in Culver City. Companies this year in the program come from as far as Canada, India, and Ukraine.

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JULY 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based Homee , a startup which helps connects consumers with interior designers, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, the company disclosed on Tuesday. Homee is led by Beatrice Fischel-Bock, and lets you chat with an interior designer about furniture and get other interior design help.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. We just launched a third, $100M fund focused on seed to Series A investments in transformative science and technology companies.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Futuris Automotive , an automotive supplier which designs, engineers and manufactures seating and interior systems. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia. supplier auto automotive futuris acquisition merger capital clearlake'

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JULY 7, 2014

Aliso VIejo-based UST Global , a provider of IT services and outsourcing, said today that it has acquired four different companies over the past six months expanding its workforce in the US, ASia, India, Europe, and Latin America. ustglobal global venture capital strategic investment merger acquisition outsourcing' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

While some of the largest privately held technology companies, like SpaceX and Tesla , have shifted to manufacturing ventilators, smaller companies are also trying to pitch in and relieve scarcity locally. 3D-printing companies are working on new ways to manufacture personal protective equipment and swabs for COVID-19 testing.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The summit is now associated with March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com). What's your role at March Capital? Meredith Finn: I joined March Capital at the beginning of the year. How did you end up joining March Capital? That carried through to March, where the big theme is Artificial Intelligence in the enterprise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that many of you have your most creative ideas for your company’s first big bang , but often get bogged down with details as the company grows. Create and capitalize on a diverse team culture. Yet building and maintaining a creative team is a tough challenge.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Venice, California-based The Bouqs Company , the direct, cut-to-order flower delivery provider led by John Tabis, is announcing today that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding. The funding brings the company's total raised to $20M. according to CEO Tabis. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? The company recently landed a $7.9M How did you two meet?

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JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 That little online book company. Enter Amazon.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

The company has already worked with names as diverse as the Golden State Warriors, the Dallas Cowboys, and pop sensation Billy Eilish on embedding its interactive tools into various live events and promotions. But what started in the gaming world quickly spun out as the company slashed prices to $500 per month for its services.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Irvine-based MARQUE Luxury, which provides wholesale, pre-owned designer handbags and other goods, says it has opened up a new, retail location in Houston, Texas. The company said its new "Re-commerce Hub" will display its product offerings, including designer bags, watches, jewelry, and accessories.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2020

A new initiative from a Los Angeles investor is taking stock of venture firms and their ability to commit capital in an effort to match firms that are still open for business and cutting checks to startups that are fundraising in the age of COVID-19. PLEASE RT to spread the word. — Laurent Grill (@laurentgrill) March 18, 2020.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2020

When former Bill Clinton speechwriter and political wunderkind Andrei Cherny launched Aspiration four years ago , the upstart fintech startup was one of Los Angeles’ early entrants into a financial services market dominated by players from Europe and the financial capital of the U.S. in New York City.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

So the former venture capital investor from the consumer startup brand studio Launch set out to create one. Blueland’s cleaners — a bathroom cleaner, glass cleaner, and multi-purpose cleaner — are sold as tablets that customers add to the cleaning containers the company provides.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

I first heard the term from Chris Fralic at First Round Capital. Feature, not a company. Whether something is a feature or a company is clearly subjective. And sometimes features (say, Twitter) turn into companies. At minute eight I spoke about group messaging companies as “features, not companies.&#

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APRIL 28, 2020

Pasadena-based robotics developer Embodied , led by Paolo Pirjanian, the former CTO of iRobot, said this morning that it has launched Moxie , the company's first product. The company said Moxie is an "animate companion" aimed at helping to promote social, emotional, and cognitive learning for children. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2021

San Diego-based ViaCyte, a company which is using stem cell technology to develop treatments for Type 1 Diabetes, says it has raised $45M in an extension of its Series D funding round. The funding brings its Series D funding to more than $115M. ViaCyte is led by President and CEO Michael Yang.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio , a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. The round propels the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company to unicorn status, valuing it at $1.6 Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The funding came from Shima Capital, blockchain platform Forte, gaming community SNACKCLUB, guild and mod platform Overwolf, plus the founders of gaming companies Illuvium and investors Woodstock Fund, FJ Labs, Bixin Ventures, among others. Los Angeles-based gaming startup Midnight announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Santa Monica-based H Code, which provides digital advertising services to the Hispanic market, said Monday afternoon that the company has received a new, capital investment. The funding came from private equity investor Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), which invests in growth-oriented, middle-market companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Thank you. (if

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JUNE 11, 2019

The company ultimately expects to get 24 of its printers up and running. The company says its technology significantly reduces the time it takes to manufacture a vehicle for space travel and the cost associated with that manufacturing. “We can easily move components back and forth from production to testing. .”

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

The company has been building a title called Blankos Block Party that seems to be Fall Guys meets Roblox meets Funko Pop. While the company has big hopes for Blankos as it onboards more users, the bigger investor opportunity is likely in the game engine that the team is building. The startup has raised a whopping $120 million to date.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. I found this investment strange since normally VC’s hate to bet on gaming companies. Overture sold for $1.6 uh, hello!

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

.” Genies last earned a $1 billion valuation from heavy-hitting tech investors including Silver Lake and Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital during its most recent raise, a $150 million Series C round announced in April. An image of the Genies platform showcasing a fashion collection designed by creator Ian Charms.

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APRIL 24, 2020

The company, which employed about 160 people, laid off 57 workers, according to documents filed with the California Employment Development Department. The company’s No. “This was about making the company as totally weatherproof as possible,” Czinger said. The company’s No.

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