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JULY 15, 2016

Southern California companies raised $2.49 billion round for Venice based Snapchat. Other big fundings contributing to the total included a $220M funding round for San Diego biotech firm Human Longevity Inc. , $111M raised by Marina Del Rey-based Thrive Market , and $100M raised by Irvine cybersecurity sofwtare developer Cylance.

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APRIL 3, 2018

The report said the move is related to an effort by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to help train Saudi youth to develop content for the market. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. Everybody now knows that LA produced SnapChat, Tinder and Maker Studios. The report on the LA Tech Market can be found on this link.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place. But it wasn’t to be.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA. It’s not just Snapchat, although there’s that. Don’t we know it. And I constantly have to remind people that the largest tech startup employer in LA is actually SpaceX and that, yes, Elon Musk does live in LA.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Venice, California-based early stage, pre-seed investment fund and accelerator Amplify.LA pointed at all of the companies in Los Angeles that came out of the demise of MySpace, and argues that the growth of Snap is about to trigger another wave of startups in the market. billion, with so far 9 of its companies acquired.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator sponsored by Walt Disney and being run by TechStars, had its demo day Tuesday, showing off the nine companies to emerge out of the accelerator. Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Lensabl , the company that has built a business putting prescription lenses into any style of glasses frame , has raised $3.7 “We are the preferred prescription provider of Snapchat Spectacles,” says Lensabl chief executive Andrew Bilinsky. million in a new round of funding. . ” Powering that effort is the new $3.7

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

Think DropBox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Maker Studios, SnapChat, Tinder). The costs to start are much lower than ever (90% reduction in infrastructure costs to start a company through open source & web services) and large companies being created in many geographies. These are most notable in late-stage, D-round, investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Identify the total investment required for profitability. Even the popular Snapchat is still struggling to generate revenue and profit.

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JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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MARCH 11, 2014

Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. Maker Studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2016

This is a huge moment for Michael Dubin who had the vision, the market genius, the operating chops and the perseverance to prevail even after the venture funding markets had wrongly written off eCommerce as a category. I really enjoyed reading his analysis of why he backed the company. This is a big win, for sure.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. Fund I was fully deployed by June 30th of 2017, and we went out to raised Fund II, which was a wet close, where you invest as you close. Those investments have really broken out. If so, they will be adopted.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

My company Putta Crown On It has the opportunity to have a place to do classes, promotional shoots and more,” Sykes told TechCrunch via email. Currently, the studio is funded in part by partnerships with Monster Energy and Snap’s 523 program , which supports small content companies and creators from underrepresented groups.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 It was the 10 th consecutive quarter that venture firms put at least $10 billion into startups and other high-tech companies, including a $3.5 Still, the amount invested marked a 12 percent drop from the $17.4

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

I understand this instinct for more capital and I have two very different personal experiences: In my first company we raised an A-round of $16.5 million and in my second company we raised only $500,000 by choice. You will build out features or expend to platforms — often before you have enough market feedback to warrant it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2017

NBC Universal has invested $500M, as part of the big IPO of Venice-based Snap Inc. yesterday, the company disclosed on Thursday. NBCUniversal said the IPO investment was part of a strategic investment and partnership. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The world’s top tech companies have heavily invested in AR/VR and are persistent in broadcasting the technologies’ potential to blur the lines of how consumers interact with the digital world. Beyond the tech titans, it’s the small startups that are dialing into what’s missing in the ecosystem right now.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Brud , the company behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela , is now worth at least $125 million thanks to a new round of financing the company is currently closing. Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. And he’s not alone.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. That's the first time organized, institutional, managed capital is coming into a company, right after friends and family. Where are you planning making investments?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Marketing: SteelHouse. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. 70–80% of the costs of most startups are employee costs so what you’re really talking about when a company is unprofitable is that they are growing their staff ahead of their revenue. Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster!

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. In the Early Days.

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JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. What is one to do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Identify the total investment required for profitability. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). There are also many movers and shakers here in the industry -- Jason Nazar at. Adam Goldenberg , Intelligent Beauty/JustFab (El Segundo, fashion).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

To that end, we brought in Kelli Castellano as Chief Marketing Officer, formerly with NextGen Healthcare, and Kirk Paul Kirkman as President of the TigerText Client Organization, from athenahealth, to drive our healthcare integration. Prior to that, Brad worked for investment banking corporation Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 13, 2016

Reaching Hispanic Markets. SNAPCHAT Showing Phenomenal Growth ( link ). Snapchat’s #1 Channel ARSENIC TV Featured by Bloomberg ( link ). Daqri, Snapchat, SpaceX Make CNBC ‘s Disruptor 50 ( link ). Hack for LA. Influencer Economy. SM New Tech. Maria Giudice. Wednesday, June 15. BAWSE ( -6/16). Friday, June 17.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

We've attempted to do that for the last three years, trying to ferret out exactly who the people--not companies--are to watch in the region's technology industry. Here are this year's winners, along with the companies they are associated with: Brett Bouttier , AwesomenessTV. Phillipe Browning , SnapChat. Chad Billmeyer , Panjo.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. How does one come up with the right idea to start a company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy. Do your homework before you begin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Identify the total investment required for profitability. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

” Case in point: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SnapChat. The company with no revenue and a $150k burn rate that raised $2.5 I with every entrepreneur would forward that article to their favorite journalist so we could stop having this conversation of “yeah, but company so-and-so isn’t profitable!”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

The company is selling 4,000,000 shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as ANAB. AnaptysBio is backed by Frazier Healthcare, Novo A/S, Avalon Ventures, Alloy Ventures, Biotechnology Value Fund, HBM Healthcare Investments, and others. and $16.00 as early as Thursday.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Csathy was most recently CEO of Manatt Digital Media, and also was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, CEO of Sightspeed, President and COO at MusicMatch, in addition to serving at companies like Universal Studios and New Line Cinema. We are an innovation, investment, and advisory firm. The word firm is not even a word we like.

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