TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Riot Ventures , the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch. Marcus has a long background in angel investing and company creation.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2024

While the CEO and management offer the vision, strategies, and tactics as well as the proposed budget, it is the board that controls with its votes the execution of strategy, the expenditure of cash, the taking on of debt or new equity, the very direction of the company as well as its ultimate health. Then who is most important?

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

For our Insights and Opinions section this morning, investment banker Ivan Nikkhoo argues that LA has become a booming technology hub. But overall, the quality of the new companies being funded has improved dramatically. Read the rest of Ivan''s article, The Emergence of Los Angeles as a Booming Tech Hub. Continued.).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 30, 2019

The company, famous for lavish promotions but little substance , has received yet another financial lifeline in the wake of a dispute with key investor Evergrande. billion capital raise that the company believes it can close before the end of this year. Faraday announced on Monday that it had received $225 million in bridge financing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. Tell us about this new program?

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2016

Santa Monica-based investor Clearlake Capital Group said Friday that it has launched a new effort to make investment in emerging food and health & wellness trends, through Better For You Holdings. Clearlake said the new venture is being set up in conjunction with food industry veterans Jason Cohen and Leigh Feuerstein.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

A new Los Angeles investment group, AngelVision Investors , said this morning that it has launched, and is looking to invest in startup and emerging growth-oriented companies, in the entertainment, marketing and new media. The firm said it is looking to make investments of between $100K to $2.5M.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 4, 2016

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 -- Will Crowdfunding Be In Your Company’s Future? With the SEC approving recent rules for Crowdfunding, more startup companies are now being able to take advantage of this capital formation pathway. Thankfully, newer (and crowd-based) tools to monitor online reputations are emerging. OC Tech Alliance.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 9, 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 -- Preparing for Investment. In the current start-up environment, executives need to take steps to prepare their company for receiving outside investment long before approaching potential investors. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

We spoke with Meredith Finn a new Partner at March Capital--who headed up that the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur sessions this year--to hear more about her perspectives on investments, what the Rise of the Female Entrepeneur was all about, March's interests in artificial intelligence and more. What's your role at March Capital?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

Venture capitalists invested more than $1.3 billion in investments in Los Angeles, near $125M in Orange County, and $106.6M in investments in San Diego. billion in investments in Los Angeles, near $125M in Orange County, and $106.6M in investments in San Diego. The report tallied $1.09 The report tallied $1.09

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2020

San Diego-based Cue Health , a developer of rapid molecular testing products, has raised $100M in a Series C funding round, the company said this week. ACME Capital and other investment firms, according to the company. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Ayub Khattak.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 -- Successful Medical Device Company Commercialization Without Venture Capital. Speakers: Jagi Gill - President and CEO, Tenex Health; Peter Voldness - President and CEO, Emergent Financial; Clay Wilemon - Chief Executive and CSO, DevicePharm. A roundtable discussion will follow. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based dating app developer Tinder is getting set to add a new, emergency panic button to the app--in the case a date really goes bad--which will immediately summon emergency authorities and send them to a person's location. Financial details of the investment in Noonlight were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. dot-com bonanza. Seed has become an option factory for many.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

The partners at MaC Venture Capital , the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent the bulk of their careers breaking barriers. We’re going to show them a set of companies that they would not have seen from any [other] VC fund,” said Fenty.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Los Angeles-based subscription air travel provider Surf Air Mobility Corporation --the latest incarnation of Surf Air--says an investor has promised it $200M in investment, if the company manages to go public. Surf Air Mobility Corp. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2020

An order, issued by the Trump administration on Thursday evening, bans TikTok 's parent company--ByteDance--from transactions with US companies beginning in 45 days, as well as banning US business transactions with WeChat and its parent company, Tencent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. The next part of the margin mix online video companies must get control of is talent margins. The best companies look at data to know what time to post.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. When we tune into any stream: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc., Thus, we click!

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Below is a talk on New Venture Investing from the University of California Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program, by Jim Andelman. In this video Jim Andelman explores venture capital investing and the emergence of capital efficient businesses. Jim is a co-founder and General Partner of Rincon Venture Partners.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 19, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010 -- Clean Business Investment Summit. The Summit allows clean tech, green, socially responsible, and sustainable enterprises to present their companies to investors looking for viable, ethical Clean Business opportunities. See [link] (more).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. the sale of the company for $1 billion. I’ve sometimes been right about the market value but too early.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2019

A Chicago-based private equity firm has tapped the former head of NuVasive and finance chief of GreatCall to start a new healthcare company in San Diego. The company, Corza Health, is headed by Greg Lucier, most recently CEO at NuVasive, and backed by the PE firm, GTCR, with money from its $5.25 billion Fund XII.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Most of the venture capital firms covered in TechCrunch and other tech publications compete for a spot on the cap table of the hottest Bay Area, New York or Los Angeles companies of the moment. Few seek out companies in Indianapolis, Milwaukee or Tampa. Revolution Ventures managing partner Tige Savage.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northwest Arkansas is home to Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Rather than spending our time attracting Amazon’s HQ2, we focus our efforts and resources on growing one hundred different $100 million-companies to have a healthy, diversified, thriving ecosystem. Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The thesis is that before investing in an early-stage startup it is close to impossible to know which of the deals you did will break out to the upside. It’s therefore important to have enough deals in your program to allow for the 15–20% of amazing deals to emerge. to start their next company. So is angel investing.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC and the Israel Aerospace Industries company, Techstars and Starburst Aerospace are launching an accelerator focused on the space industry in Los Angeles. billion over the last year. Applications for the accelerator are open today and the program will begin in July.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to businesses. Very confusing.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based Openpath , founded by startup veterans Alex Kazerani and James Segil, have raised another $20M for the company, in a Series B funding, the company said on Tuesday. The new funding was led by Emergence Capital. Those investors made a seed investment in the company in May. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Mostly, no.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Meet Vijay Raman, Managing Director and Founder of more than $1,300,000,000 in venture capital investment funds. Vijay is passionate in his support of startups and emerging industries. His global venture capital funds have been the financial engine behind a large number of global companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2017

A new, Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, Bonfire Ventures --founded by venture veterans Jim Andelman and Mark Mullen, and assisted by Leah Volger--has made its first public announcement of an investment, after stealthily making investments in the region over the last few months. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A venture capital firm will invest tens of millions to develop one and a pharmaceutical company hopes to recoup hundreds of millions by selling it. New brand-name drugs typically grab the life science headlines. But a shortage of one particular chemotherapy is showing the crucial role generic drugs play in healthcare.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2019

The note came from Sofinnova Ventuers, which led the investment, and also included Nova Seeds and Lundbeckfonden Emerge. The company is currently in an ongoing, Phase 2B study. AFYX Therapeutics is developing treatments for mucosal diseases, with its lead compound aimed at treatment of oral lichen planus.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Chicago-based venture capital investor Pritzker Group Venture Capital announced this morning that it is expanding its efforts to invest in early stage companies in Los Angeles, and has moved partner Gabe Greenbaum to Los Angeles. The company also said it will look to invest smaller amount of capital in "unique" opportunities.

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