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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the venture capital fund led by serial entrepreneur Kelly Perdew, is ramping its investment pace, with the first two formal investments out of its new fund. The two investments, both announced in January, were cyber-defense firm Threatcare , and bot detection developer New Knowledge.

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MAY 9, 2017

Dell Technologies Capital , a new venture investment fund announced at Dell EMC World on Monday, says it is an investor in Irvine-based Cylance , according to the fund's new website. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Irvine-based SmartLabs , the parent company of smart home controller brand Insteon and home automation e-commerce site Smarthome , has been acquired by private investment firm Richmond Capital Partners. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced, however, Richmond Capital Partners said it is investing $7.3M

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MAY 8, 2012

The site relies on advertisers, who upload content they want to promote and then run campaigns to encourage users to share links and content to their friends on Facebook, Twiter, and other sites. The funding came from Tice Capital, the Los Angeles Syndicate of Technology, and angels. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Los Angeles-based ranking and polling website Ranker , the startup led by Clark Benson and backed by Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, Lowercase Capital, BullPen Capital, Data Collective, TenOneTen Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, and Pasadena Angels, said today that it hit 11.5

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a new, Series A $4M funding round for a new, video game developer called Knock Knock Games , according to the company on Thursday. As part of the funding, March Capital's Gregory Milken joins Knock Knock's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the new venture investment fund founded by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, is on an investment roll, and has made another investment from its fund. As part of the funding, Craig Cummings, co-founder and General Partners of Moonshots Capital, has joined Complai's board.

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MAY 19, 2014

The funding came from Tencent, Shasta Ventures, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. Whisper''s site pairs confessional-style statements from people paired with photos, which can be browsed by other users but are not attributed--or traceable--to any person. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Laguna Niguel-based Vereco , a hospital and healthcare document management provider and outsourcer, has been acquired by private equity investor Stella Point Capital. The acquisition was financed by a senior credit facility from Monroe Capital LLC. Financial details of the deal were not annoucned.

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MAY 23, 2012

The site allow early stage startups to gain capital from anyone, using the new JOBS Act to raise money from anyone interested in a startup, and not just professional investors and banks. Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform for "serious startups".

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

Macquarie Capital , the investing arm of Macquarie Group, says it has provided $100M in a debt financing, to back development of a new battery-based energy storage project in Southern California. According to Macquarie Capital, the debt funding is part of a 52.5

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MAY 13, 2014

Los Angeles-based Swagbucks , the web-based rewards and offers site, said this morning that it has raised $60M in funding--the company''s first, external capital round--and also appointed Chuck Davis as CEO of the company. capital venture online shopping shopzilla davis chuck executive rewards swagbucks' READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Look out, Pinterest -- Pasadena-based LoveIt is looking to unseat the popularity of the photo sharing site, with its new platform, and $6M in funding. LoveIt, headed by former PriceGrabber President Ron LaPierre, said today that it raised a Series A round from Juvo Capital and PG Ventures, to bolster its "visual curation and sharing platform."

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APRIL 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. The seed funding was worth $800K, and led by Moonshots Capital, and also included individual angels from the pet industry. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2012

WePlay, which is headed by Lane Soelberg, said the deal will launch it into the fantasy sports sector, allowing users of its site to create their own teams and play in fantasy leagues. Mission Ventures, DFJ Dragon and Sports Capital Partners Worldwide, but had begun shopping around its assets in October. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2013

GumGum''s in-image advertising serves up advertising within photos embedded on a publisher''s sites; those ads typically show up when a user mouses over an image they like, allowing them to click to another site or view additoinal related content. GumGum is backed by NEA, GRP Partners, First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based crowdfunding site Crowdfunder.com , the equity crowdfunding site led by Chance Barnett, has raised $3.5M Crowdfunder said its equity crowdfunding site has been used in such startups as GoCoin, Social Rewards, Bitvore, and others. capital venture finance equity crowdfunding crowdfunder' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

BICS said it paid $230M, however, March Capital Partners, one of the investors in TeleSign, said that as a result of additional cash and earn out the deal now has a total valuation of $335M. TeleSign was venture backed by Adams Street Partners, March Capital Partners, Summit Partners, and Telstra Corp. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2011

The site allows companies to manage their investor communications, including venture capital fundraising and other efforts. The firm said it has grown the platform's users by over 2,000 percent, year-to-date, taking user accounts from only 2,000 at the beginning of the year, to over 55,000 accounts today.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Enjoius offers up an online site where users can browse photos and party plans, get expert advice, shop for party supplies, and connect with event professionals. Enjoius said the new funding goes towards product development and marketing.

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MAY 13, 2013

According to Greentoe, it will use the funding for marketing of the site, including a multi-platform advertising campaign across the web, television, and mobile. greentoe venture capital angel ecommerce retail retailer seed' The funding came from Parker Thompson from 500 Startups/Dave McClure. Size of the funding was not announced.

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JULY 13, 2015

Carlsbad-based iZSearch said this morning that it has raised a round of seed funding, and also launched its web-based Internet search site. According to iZSearch, the company recently closed a seed funding round from the Tech Coast Angels and Integrity Applications Incorporated (IAI). Size of that funding round was not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Monica-based Visio Internet , which develops Internet sites for governments, has raised a round of growth capital, according to the company. vision internet private equity government venture capital services development executive velocify' The funding came from Caltius Equity Partners. Nachman as its CEO. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Los Angeles-based peer-to-peer commercial real estate investment site AssetAvenue said Friday that it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. According to the company, the funding was led by Matrix Partners and NetEase, with other investors, including Vectr Ventures, Russ Meyer (Grandpoint Capital); Bam Ventures; and LaunchpadLA.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Retention Science develops software which uses big data to help analyze and predict the behavior of consumers on a web site, which can be used to drive offers to those customers. Retention Science is venture backed by Baroda Ventures, Mohr Davidow Venutres, Double M Capital, along with angels Paige Craig, Clark Landry & Bong Koh.

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MAY 7, 2011

Jeff Atwood is the person responsible for product and user experience across all of their sites. Within a small startup with 3 engineers, everyone will work on all aspects of the site. Dave Winer would read the posts as they were written on the site and drive traffic to posts he liked. There is no perfect structure.

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APRIL 24, 2014

The startup said the funding round was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included Rincon Venture Partners, Daher Capital, Double M Partners, TenOneTen Ventures, Eytan Elbaz and SLP Ventures. Connectivity--which runs local serach sites YellowBot.com and weblocal.ca--is led by Matt Booth. The company was previously named Solfo.

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MAY 7, 2014

Beauty Noted , an online beauty and cosmetics social discovery site founded by USC student Sarah Kortschak, said Tuesday that it has raised $2.2M The startup--which is based in San Francisco--said the funding came from Kortschak Investments, as well as IDG Ventures and Crosslink capital. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 22, 2013

in funding from Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Index Ventures, First Round Capital, and 500Startups--uses on-site surveys to collect feedback from users, and helps improve the experience of those users based on the data form those surveys. The company--which is backed by $5.5M

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Monica has just gotten yet another boost in its bid to become the capital of Silicon Beach, as Microsoft said this week that it is opening up a new, 125-person strong entertainment studio in the city as part of an effort to create interactive content for the Xbox. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all. building a web site for him. from photographers and artists.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2018

“We’ll have 1,000 cell sites up and operating on the global standard,” McAdam said on the cable network. would be the first of 12 cities to receive 5G technology, while Sprint is bringing its 5G services to Kansas City, Phoenix and New York City (the millennium capital of the world).

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

The funding came from Ron Conway, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Chicago Ventures. BloomNation lets floral designers post their designs online, and then connects customers with those designers, avoiding the cookie-cutter designs currently found on floral broker sites like FTD, 1-800-Flowers, and Teleflora. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2014

The new cases will be sold through AT&T''s retail stores and through AT&T''s online site. Pelican Products is owned by private equity investor Behrman Capital. The cases retail between $40.00 depending on model. READ MORE>>. pelican products case phone iphone smartphone'

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APRIL 25, 2017

TeleSign is venture backed by Adams Street Partners, March Capital Partners, Summit Partners, and Telstra Corp. The company's services are very widely used among top tier cloud and Internet companies, to power the mobile authentication features of those sites, as well as to prevent e-commmerce fraud. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Ideas posted on the site include "Pizza Bot" -- mobile app for pizza delivery; "Trashnado" -- mobile app for garbage removal; "Power Belt" - a wearable belt to charge your cell phone--and others. All of those ideas have a pre-commited amount of capital from investors willing to back those ideas. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2013

We''ve created a marketplace that allows these business to instead access capital from individual and institutional investors, who get a return and also get to support small businesses in a way they couldn''t do so before. How''d you come up with the idea for the site? The site itself is the most efficient way to create a request.

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