socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2019

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Ventures , a venture capital investment firm which focuses on commercialization of scientific advances, has raised $24.6M in the first close of a new fund, Kairos Venture Opportunities I, L.P. The fund is targeted at an overall capitalization of $100M, per those regulatory documents.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2020

San Diego-based AristaMD , a developer of telehealth software, which allows primary care providers to conduct and document electronic medical consultations, has raised $18M in a Series B funding round. The company said the funding will go to towards accelerating expansion of its platform across the country.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Today, we share the thoughts of Peter Cowen , Managing Director of Sutton Capital Partners (www.suttoncapitalpartners.com). Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year?

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Section 32, the venture capital fund based in San Diego’s Cardiff-by-the-Sea community, has raised nearly $200 million for its second fund. A document filed with securities regulators Friday shed light on comments made the previous week to Xconomy by Section 32 founder Bill Maris, who started the firm in 2017.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Culver City-based Card Scanning Solutions (CSSN), said today that it has raised a round of equity funding, from Insight Venture Partners, Red Oak Growth Partners, and Egis Capital Partners. Size of the funding round was not announced by the company. The company said the funding will go towards product development efforts.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2017

Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems , a startup that develops a high resolution camera which is used by law enforcement to document signs of drug and alcohol impairment and other issues with drivers, has raised a round of investment from the Pasadena Angels. Ocular, led by CEO Marcus O.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Riot Ventures , the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch. Marcus has a long background in angel investing and company creation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2020

in a Series A funding. According to the company, the funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and also included Cisco Investments, angel investors, and prior investors Neotribe Ventures, Firebolt Ventures and WestWave Capital. As part of the funding, Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed joins the company's board.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

NetDocuments , the developer of a cloud-based platform for managing the documents of law firms and corporate legal and compliance departments which is backed by Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital , has scored a new, strategic funding. Size and terms of that investment was not announced by the companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based Docupace Technologies , a provider of electronic processing technology aimed at the financial institutional and wealth management industry, said today that it has raised a round of funding from RCS Capital Corporation. The new investment gives RCS Capital a majority stake in Docupace. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , the developer of a software-as-a-service tool for managing venture capital and angel fundraising efforts for companies, said today that it has launched a free library of document templates covering the startup process. CapLinked, which is headed by PayPal alum Eric M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you seek funds from an organized investment group such as an angel fund, venture capital entity, or even an investment club, the first thing you want to do is to find one person to buy into your vision, become excited by your enthusiasm and be willing to become the internal champion for your fund-raising effort.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Others I have not. Online peer-to-peer lending.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2016

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of a cloud-based platform for secure, enterprise document sharing for financing and other deal management, has raised $3.5M more in a funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Subtraction Capital, and also included Peter Thiel and Indicator Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital today with Jason Calacanis talking about the big VC deals at the moment and talking about the VC industry. Didn’t discuss much but I love the online document collaboration area that Box.net serves including players like Dropbox, Drop.io, DocStoc, Scribed and SlideShare. Crazy valuation.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2021

Source of the new funding was not announced. Los Angeles-based Narrativa, a developer of artificial intelligence software aimed at helping pharmaceutical companies with FDA drug approvals, says it has raised $1.3M in a financing round. The startup is led by founder and CEO David Llorente.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2018

Glendale-based LegalZoom , which provides legal services and documents for the small business and family market, announced on Tuesday that it has sold a $500M secondary stake in the company to a set of private equity investors.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2012

Are you an entrepreneur looking for funding or to help get your business started? Santa Monica-based Docstoc has a new iPhone app for you, focused entirely on how to raise venture capital and get a business started. Docstoc's online document sharing service is aimed at providing business documents to small businesses.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2015

Carpinteria-based Procore , the developer of construction project management software led by Craig "Tooey" Courtemanche, said this morning that it has raised $30M in a growth funding round. The funding was led by ICONIQ Capital, and also included existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2010

CapLinked's software helps entrepreneurs manage the information they give to their investors, including tracking milestones and documents, storing and exchanging documents, and handle to-do lists for building a business and managing funding efforts. The firm's CEO and co-founder is Eric M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2018

San Diego-based Seismic , a developer of sales and marketing software, has raised $100M more in a funding round, which values the company at $1 billion, the company said on Tuesday. The funding round came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, plus General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2013

in a Series A funding round, to build out its cloud-based platform for enhancing proposals, sales decks, reports, and other materials. The startup said the funding was led by Sigma West, and will go towards fortifying its team and to expand its product for the financial services and insurance markets. Seismic is led by Douglas Winter.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2012

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked has scored another $500,000 in angel funding, for the firm's online software for managing capital raising activities. The new funding came from angels Clark Landry , Lok Lee , Stephan Paternot , Jason Portnoy , Alexsis de Raddt-St. James, and Chris Yeh. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2009

Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , a developer of desktop search software, announced today that the firm has raised new funding from backer Idealab, plus made a few executive changes. According to a statement by Gross, the new funding round will go to "accelerate growth" in X1. Venture Partner re-upped in the new funding round.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2012

in an equity funding. The funding came from VTB Capital. Shrank, the former President and CEO of HireRight, offers up a cloud-based, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for electronic document management applications, case management, customer compliant handling, social services, and more. Eccentex, which is led by Glen E.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 19, 2014

If you seek funds from an organized investment group such as an angel fund, venture capital entity, or even an investment club, the first thing you want to do is to find one person to buy into your vision, become excited by your enthusiasm and be willing to become the internal champion for your fund-raising effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. Commit a source of internal or external seed funding.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

in funding from Quest Software and Madden Capital Partners, according to the firm today. Mavelink, which is headed by Ray Grainger, develops tools used for tracking projects and documents, managing online invoices, time and expense tracking, and more. socalTECH had first uncovered the funding in September. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. The dot.com heydays of free flowing venture capital and supercharged IPOs are not back. Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Los Angeles-based transportation technology developer Hyperloop One is looking to raise up to $250M in funding, according to a report published on Wednesday. The report, from Fortune, cites a leaked document which has been circulating among potential investors and real estate investors. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. What VC’s can and cannot do. The enlightened professional investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. They asked LPs to rush to get into their next side-car fund to have access to this great deal plus the LPs also get the “benefit” of investing in their next fund.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

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. Startup America is the effort launched last year to spur the creation of startups nationwide. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software , a startup developing mobile and cloud-based project management and document control software for the construction industry, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The funding came from Revolution Ventures. The funding came from Revolution Ventures.

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