socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Today, we're featuring Marc Averitt , co-founder and Managing Director of Okapi Venture Capital. We very quietly went live with our second fund, Okapi Ventures II, LP, back in March and have already made 4 investments. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I think "enterprise 2.0" READ MORE>>.

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Venture Capital Capital Southern California High Tech 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Cloud Computing 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Irvine-based cloud computing services provider Caylent has raised $16M in a growth equity investment round, the company said on Monday. The company said the funding came from East Los Capital. Caylent is led by CEO JP La Torre.

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Cloud Computing Equity Demand Web 113

Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015.

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Venture Capital Capital Technology News 77

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2010

San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has led an investment in a cloud computing company, Standing Cloud , based in Boulder, Colorado. According to Standing Cloud, it received a $3M, Series B financing from Avalon, which also included the firm's prior investor, The Foundry Group.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud computing software run by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has released a "significant upgrade" to its mCloud Controller product. The firm said the release simplifies the process of building and managing internal cloud computing environments.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Here's a rundown of some of the venture capital investors who have set up shop in Southern California, plus those with big new funds, which have been announced so far since January of this year. Watertower Ventures. Managing Director: Ryan Blair Investment interests: Companies which leverage direct-to-consumer model.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 7, 2018

The Fabric, an early-stage investment company developing new infrastructure technologies, has raised $15 million for its third investment vehicle. Announced at the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., Announced at the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., The […].

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Santa Monica Technology Venture Capital Los Angeles 213

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Redpoint Ventures , said late Monday evening that the firm has closed on Redpoint IV,a $400M, early stage venture capital fund specifically aimed at the social and mobile Internet, cloud computing, and clean technology. Tags: redpoint venture capital investment. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint Cloud Computing Funding Southern California 145

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2012

The latest MoneyTree Survey, from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters, tabulated. in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. The region saw the most investments in Los Angeles, with $329.0M in investment, then.

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Southern California Orange County GRP Partners Funding 145

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , which develops software for managing public and private cloud computing infrastructure, said this week that it has launched a new product called mCloud On-Demand. The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud.

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Manhattan Beach Cloud Computing EC2 Platform 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Patrick Soon-Shiong, has scored an investment from Verizon Investments , the investment arm of Verizon Communications. NantHealth is looking to provide advanced, next-generation healthcare services by using fiber networks, cloud computing, and wireless technology. Size of the funding was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

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. Morphlabs is developing a cloud-based computing appliance which is used to manage and deploy elastic computing clouds. READ MORE>>.

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El Segundo EC2 Cloud Computing Venture Capital 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. Below, we collect the thoughts of Jim Andelman , a venture capitalist at Rincon Venture Partners. Also, we had an investment in a company that went public this year, BroadSoft, which is one of 2010's best-performing IPOs. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

NantHealth, which is based in Los Angeles, is apparently working to provide advanced, next-generation healthcare services by using fiber networks, cloud computing, and wireless technology, based on an earlier announcement by the firm in October. The company's existing investors include Verizon Investments. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software&# as depicted in the simple logo to the right. It emphasizes both cloud computing and salesforce.com’s differentiation – they’re not “software.&#.

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Cloud Computing Competition Press Startup 320

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing). TX Zhuo , Karlin Ventures (Los Angeles, investor). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Indianapolis -based company is one of the latest spinouts from High Alpha Studio, an accelerator and venture capital studio formed by Scott Dorsey, the former chief executive officer of ExactTarget.

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Chief Technology Officer SaaS Metrics Customer 145

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency. Investors that do not invest beyond their pro rata share are relatively indifferent as to a follow-on funding round’s valuation.

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Entrepreneur Cloud Computing Invest Funding 140

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. Some larger VCs felt they were being “scooped&# by some younger, nimbler and smaller VCs.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Funding Software Review 283

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency. Investors that do not invest beyond their pro rata share are relatively indifferent as to a follow-on funding round’s valuation.

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Entrepreneur Invest Funding Capital 157

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. “People still want calls …&#.

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Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. .

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Long Term Value – Look at your adVenture objectively, in the same manner as a Venture Capitalist (VC). VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Long Term Value – Look at your adVenture objectively, in the same manner as a Venture Capitalist (VC). VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Combine this with the increasingly active angel investment and venture capital communities and you’ll discover that Arlington is at the hub of an emerging startup ecosystem,” Wellman said. Justin Antonipillai, founder and CEO of WireWheel, relies on the business connections and talent in Arlington to grow his business.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Product Cloud Computing 70

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

One of the many great things about having Jason on our team is that he’s got a lot of experience raising money and many contacts in the VC community, so he was able to set up all the right meetings. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. Full Disclosure: I am on RingRevenue’s Board, representing Rincon Venture Partner’s investment.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. In San Fran you find more recently established VCs like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle, Kii Capital and others.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Find sources of capital— friends & family, business bank loans , angel investment , venture capital or even crowdfunding ( Crowdfunder , Fundable ). Determine storage options, such as cloud computing ( Box , DropBox ). Financing and Business Planning. Recommended. Recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industry. All have been fascinating. This month’s presentation was truly mind boggling so I wanted to be sure to share the entire presentation with all of you.

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Slides Southern California Social Network Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I’m now a VC. The power of the web increased dramatically and “Cloud Computing&# began to take a huge leap forward. I hope to soon announce an investment that relies on the mobile application infrastructure in the short-to-mid term. It required content sites to develop totally new content. Enter Apple.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. If Skype continues its growth eBay should at least see a return on its investment. I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. The company plans to do more acquisitions with the capital, according to Newton. The company plans to use its new capital to continue investing in its platform as well as toward strategic partnerships.

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