socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp. billion in liquidity was generated in the sector.
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MAY 4, 2010
Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. We also talked about Elevation Partners who invested in Palm and how this deal really salvaged their investment, which was a VERY big bet on Palm.
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socalTECH
JANUARY 26, 2011
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, RBC Capital Markets Corporation, Pacific Crest Securities LLC, Raine Securities and JMP Securities LLC. The firm's investors include Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Zogenix, Green Dot, MaxLinear and ReachLocal.
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APRIL 17, 2012
ReachLocal, founded by Zorik Gordon, publicly traded company helping small businesses across America use the Internet for marketing [Woodland Hills. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. I know that I call them often to co-invest.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.
SoCal Delicious
MARCH 10, 2010
IPO successes (as measured by the market capitalization at the close of the first day of trading) include Entropic ($500M IPO in 2007), Divx ($625M IPO in 2006), eToys ($7.8BM IPO in 1999) and Xylan ($2.3B Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture. IPO in 1996).
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MARCH 17, 2010
Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal. But we have a great city for building technology companies. LA investors are more pragmatic.
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