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JANUARY 28, 2022

The funding was led by Companyon Ventures, and also included Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund, SixThirty Ventures, Gaingels, Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and CreativeCo Capital. Los Angeles-based NVISIONx, a developer of data risk reduction software, says it has raised $4.6M in a seed funding round.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

This morning's reflections are from Kelly Perdew , managing general partner of at Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com). Kelly Perdew is the managing general partner of at Moonshots Capital , a $20M committed fund, and has previously invested over $12.5M You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital announced today that it has acquired Philips Business Communications (PBC), a leading provider of telecommunication and data solutions in Brazil. Tags: opengate capital brazil merger acquisition philips business communications international.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million. Not Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for future growth. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way. Marty Zwilling.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Montgomery Summit, the investment, business, and technology conference run by Jamie Montgomery, and being run now by March Capital, announced its keynote speakers and presenting companies on Friday, saying it will be running virtually this year--and, for the first time, will be free.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Tewksbery was previously President and CEO of Entropic Communications, and previously also served as President and CEO of Integrated Device Technology, in addition to serving at AMI Semiconductor, Maxim Integrated, IBM Microelectronics and Analog Devices. Eta Copute says it is working on delivering machine learning to mobile and edge devices.

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APRIL 25, 2017

The company is actually backed by Google Capital, Rackspace, Accel Partners, and Warburg Pincus. cybersecurity under the prior administration, alongside executives from IBM, MasterCard, Microsoft, and others. CrowdStrike's founder is George Kurtz, who founded Irvine's Foundstone, and later sold it to McAfee. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

San Diego-based Pathway Genomics has scored an investment from Google , the two said Wednesday, as part of an investment out of IBM''s Watson Group. IBM said the investment comes out of its $100 million fund for Watson-related startups. IBM said the investment comes out of its $100 million fund for Watson-related startups.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Three, local venture capital investors -- Miramar Venture Partners , Okapi Venture Capital , and Qualcomm Ventures -- are part of a group investing $22.1M The investment is the first out of IBM''s $100M "Watson Fund", which aims to invest in companies using its Watson artificial intelligence software. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Truven Health Analtyics , a cloud-based healthcare data provider which has an office in Santa Barbara, has been acquired by IBM Watson Health for $2.6 IBM said that the acquisition will bring more than 8,500 clients to its portfolio. Truven was backed by Veritas Capital. Truven has its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. Cloudant had been backed by Avalon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, In-Q-Tel, Rackspace, Samsung, and Toba Capital, and had only raised around $14.0M

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman.

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MAY 14, 2019

Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. Quinnen was most recently Chief Technology Officer at LumenVox, and also served at Litel Instruments and Qubit Technology.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops human capital management and employee learning software, has cut its sales head count, and shuffled its sales and services organizations, the company said late Wednesday. com, SAP, and IBM. It also named Jeff Lautenbach as President of Global Field Operations. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM). bitvore data intelligence gathering venture capital yuri pikover' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 27, 2016

The funding was led by Capital Zed, and also included ROAR, Paradigm Talent Agency, Europlay Capital Advisors, MSMCi, and Ace Fund, along with angels Alex Welch, Michael Tedesco, Chris Varelas and Ivan Brockman. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for growth down the road. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

The new effort will be chaired by AOl's Steve Case, with funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Case Foundation, Intel Capital, and IBM. Intel Capital has committed $200M of new investment in U.S. Intel Capital has committed $200M of new investment in U.S. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Morphlabs is the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, who was the founder of GlueCode, which he sold to IBM. The firm is venture backed by AO Capital, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, and Global Gateway Investment Group. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Munce has also served at IBM READ MORE>>. According to CoreLogic, it has added Claudia Fan Munch, venture advisor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) to its board, and Vikrant Raina, an investor at BV Investment Partners, to the board, which now has nine members.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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APRIL 16, 2012

Ramakrishnan was most recently at Promise Technology, and also has served at Cisco and IBM. Active Storage is backed by Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, and Valhalla Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Damarillo is behind a number of successful firms based on open source, the most notable of which was Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Tags: capital venture development java software source open morphlabs gluecode damarillo winston maestrodev. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

MorphLabs is venture backed by AO Capital, BroadBand Tower, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, Global Gateway Investment Group, and Siemer Ventures. The firm's CEO, Winston Damarillo, is an open source veteran who has been involved with such companies as Gluecode Software (sold to IBM). READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

“Decades ago, at the peak of Japanese growth as a technology competitor on the global stage, the US government sought to break up IBM. In this case the barrier would be reduced access to capital. “I don’t think at the end of the day venture capital is worrying about competition from these big platform companies.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Oblong said its customers now include NASA, PwC, and IBM, along other Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies. The funding came from Greenspring Associates, Industry Ventures, and UTIMCO, as well as Morgan Stanley and Foundry Group. John Underkoffler is CEO of Oblong. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

It was from their hometown Los Angeles exurb, that Kim and Lee first began plotting how they would turn their experience working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young (respectively) into the software business that just managed to rake in $40 million in financing led by one of venture capital’s most-respected firms, Battery Ventures.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Kispert was most recently CEO of Spansion, and also served at KLA-Tencor and IBM, and also sits on the boards of Cypress Semiconductors, Gigamon Inc., Los Angeles-based investor Black Diamond Ventures said today that it has named John Kispert as a Managing Partner at the company. Extreme Networks, TriNet and Tela Innovations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Commercial product prototypes.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In fact, I put myself through NYU Stern while working for companies like IBM, Prudential, and Merrill Lynch, and joined Goldman Sachs upon graduation. As a native New Yorker, it may not come as much of a surprise that growing up I wanted to work in finance.

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JULY 14, 2010

The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. and AO Capital Partners Ltd. Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

IVT serves clients such as Oracle, Rohm & Hass, IBM, and NEC particularly for corporate communications, investor relations, and training webcasts. Tags: software webcast capital venture video interactive. IVT was formerly known as Interactive Video Technologies, and last raised funding back in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people.

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