socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2013

in venture capital in Q3, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data From Thomson Reuters. was raised in venture capital. was raised in venture capital. in investments; San Diego followed, with $205.2M

Southern California 234

Southern California Orange County Tech Coast Angels Company 234

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

billion in venture capital dollars were invested in the Southern California region in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report , issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB Insights. invested across 71 deals in Q2 of 2017 in LA and Orange County, and $202.37M invested in San Diego for the quarter across 32 deals.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital Southern California Orange County Invest 113

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2015

Santa Monica-based HomeHero , a new startup providing an online marketplace for in-home, senior care services, said Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Graham Holding Company, along with Social+Capital Partnership, Tencent Holdings Limited and The Launch Fund.

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica San Diego Los Angeles Funding 100

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2017

General Atomics - San Diego - (www.generalatomics.com). AirMap - Santa Monica - (www.airmap.com). Slantrange - San Diego - (www.slantrange.com). Skysafe - San Diego - (www.skysafe.com). 5D Robotics - San Diego - (www.5drobotics.com). 5D Robotics - San Diego - (www.5drobotics.com).

Southern California 113

Southern California Company Companies Palmdale 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Santa Monica-based OpenHouse has launched a new site which helps home buyers get personalized, real estate recommendations and information on neighborhoods, the company said today. in a Series A funding from Triangle Peak Partners and March Capital back in November. Bethesda, Miami, and Boston. OpenHouse raised $13.5M

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica Social Media San Diego Sites 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2013

Wilcon said its network now connects Los Angeles, Burbank, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Santa Clarita, Long Beach, Irvine, Riverside, Carlsbad and San Diego. Wilcon said it was supported in the deal by Pamlico Capital; financial details of that backing was also not announced.

Santa Clarita 147

Santa Clarita Woodland Hills Networking Thousand Oaks 147

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , the developer of video-based, driver safety systems, has scored a venture debt financing, according to finance firm Wellington Financial. Wellington Financial said the debt will go towards growth capital, and came in conjunction with the recent, $47M round of equity funding for SmartDrive.

Santa Monica 113

Santa Monica San Diego Equity Capital 113

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Santa Monica-based The Search Agency , which is headed by David Hughes, was listed at number 12, and San Diego-based Covario , which is run by Russ Mann, was listed at number 25. Two Southern California firms have made Advertising Age's annual list of the largest search marketing agencies, released last week.

Marketing 174

Marketing Southern California Santa Monica Advertising 174

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital San Diego Santa Monica Coach 59

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures , the venture investing arm of investment banking firm Siemer & Associates , reported yesterday that it saw the first exit in its portfolio recently, with the sale of company CloudTrigger. CloudTrigger, which was based in San Diego, was acquired by Cloudsherpas over the holidays.

Santa Monica 164

Santa Monica San Diego Report Invest 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

According to the group, a key part of the program is pitch and screening sessions being held every other week at Santa Monica's ROC--one of the area's new gathering spaces --in an effort to reach out to local startups. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 168

Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Funding 168

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. How was it you ended up in San Diego?

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with a large number of the biggest VC deals all located in the area.

Southern California 140

Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C. Rodgers and York Capital participated, as well as an unnamed “major new strategic investor.”

Layoffs 136

Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

San Diego-based Resource Nation , an online business-to-business marketing provider, has acquired the brand name, domain, and assets of Business.com , the firm announced today. Business.com was run out of offices in Santa Monica. The shutdown plans came despite Dex One (then R.H.

Resource 178

Resource Southern California Santa Monica Equity 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based Anthem Venture Partners has scored two exits in the last week, as Los Angeles-based Demand Media hit a homerun with its IPO Wednesday, and San Diego-based Plixi was acquired by Lockerz Thursday.

Anthem 154

Anthem Truecar Santa Monica San Diego 154

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

It's unclear if or how any of Southern California's crop of alternative vehicle firms will be able to capitalize on the interest in electric vehicles, however, it's clear that Silicon Valley does not have a monopoly on firms looking to address the emerging electric and alternative car market.

Southern California 176

Southern California Rustic Canyon Marketing San Diego 176

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 funding round from Irvine's Fisker Automotive , $30M for Irvine's NeoMend , $30M for San Diego's Tandem Diabetes , and $25.0M for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. in a March deal.

Southern California 160

Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. In December, the San Diego company added one of softwares biggest names, Microsoft Chairman John Thompson, to its board of directors.

Southern California 133

Southern California SoCal Culver City Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

Southern California 113

Southern California SoCal Pasadena Riverside 113

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. -The

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M in investments.

Southern California 113

Southern California Orange County Funding Report 113

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Santa Monica, CA-based Ring makes smart doorbells connected to cameras that alert homeowners when someone is at their door. That would make Amazon’s purchase of Ring the third largest in the Seattle e-commerce giant’s history. The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.)

Santa Monica 62

Santa Monica Commerce Report Acquisition 62

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 11, 2020

Lime also raised more money last year with a $310 million round in February led by Bain Capital. Prior to that round, Bird raised more than $400 million in funding and reached a valuation of $2 billion last June. That round valued Lime at $2.4

Mobile 161

Mobile Capital Santa Monica Funding 161

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

Santa Monica-based WorkToday (www.worktoday.com) has created a text-based marketplace to help connect workers with employers. in a funding from Mucker Capital, Social Capital, Hone Capital (formerly CSC Venture Capital), E-Merge, and GAN Ventures. The company recently raised $1.1M What does Work Today do?

Startup 100

Startup Orange County Platform Capital 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Sequoia Capital''s Douglas Leone, was placed at number six for his role in funding San Diego''s ServiceNow ; Bessemer''s Byron Deeter was ranked #36 due to his role in funding Santa Monica''s Cornerstone OnDemand ; Stephen Jurveston, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, was ranked at #59 for his investment in Hawthorne-based SpaceX.

Southern California 159

Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand SoCal San Diego 159

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

The latest venture capital numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters, was released tonight, showing that Southern California had $493.2M invested in Santa Monica-based Coda Automotive. in San Diego.

Southern California 186

Southern California Invest Orange County Tech Coast Angels 186

Both Sides of the Table

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. I live in the city of Santa Monica. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Los Angeles.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. Investing Tools.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44