socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based Singularity 6 , a new game studio founded by Riot Games' veterans Aidan Karabaich and Anthony Leung, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed on Thursday. The funding came from London Venture Partners.

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MARCH 1, 2017

The Foundation said it already has been organizing roundtables and dinners with executives from tech companies like Snap, Riot Games, Mitu, Omaze, Headspace, as well as local venture capital firms, to help engage them with the nonprofit company and help educate them on issues facing Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2016

It wasn’t so long ago that venture capital was a suburban California phenomenon. Los Angeles didn’t have much in terms of a real tech scene — and even San Francisco only had a few VCs or tech companies. Now, VC offices have sprung up in San Francisco, moving more of the investment energy up there.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

My colleague at the time James Bailey was bugging me to take a meeting when it was an unknown company because he had younger family members and friends obsessed with Snapchat who were in university at the time. To be fair to TigerText they build a company focused on the healthcare industry and HIPAA compliance.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. Blizzard has been one of the founders of e-sports, an created many of the early e-sports games, and Riot Games is well known for League of Legends.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Those are two big gaming companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Clinton Foy , General Partner and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc). Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? Crosscut Ventures celebrated our 10th year anniversary in 2018 and that came with a lot of change.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

The company raised $46 million last year—its first year operating—with the vision that owning the infrastructure for competitions and expanding it to encompass other social elements of gaming can make it the largest gaming company in the world. And then two additional franchises.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We are fortunate to have great new institutional LPs and investors, including foundations and endowments who are well known in the venture capital industry and have backed some great, high quality funds. We feel this is a great validation for the LA and SoCal venture market place, and for the startups and founders in LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Rick Heitzmann. Click here to Register ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. And this is true. LA has only just begun.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

Yesterday a company that Upfront backed since its earliest days, Ring, announced that it won’t be bullied by the industry giant ADT who has filed a baseless lawsuit against the company to try and impede our progress. With a company that had shut down and an innovator ready to take them on board nearly every employee joined.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Dave is an investor in over 30 startup companies including: Mint (acquired by Intuit), SlideShare, Twilio, Credit Karma, UserVoice, Bit.ly, CrowdFlower, KissMetrics, TeachStreet, RichRelevance, Mashery, and Simply Hired, among many others. . .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Once a buyer decides they want to make a purchase the first thing most companies will do is check out what other options are out there to make sure they’re not making an uninformed decisions. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly.

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