socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The funding was led by Future Fund, and also included Greenspring Associates, Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC (Data Collective), Promus Ventures, K1W1, pluse the Accident Compensation Corporation of New Zealand. The funding brings its total raised to more than $288M.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm DFJ Frontier is bolstering its ranks, and has snagged an entertainment and media veteran as a new Venture Partner at the company. frontier venture capital partner executive investor media hollywood' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2020

A new initiative from a Los Angeles investor is taking stock of venture firms and their ability to commit capital in an effort to match firms that are still open for business and cutting checks to startups that are fundraising in the age of COVID-19. PLEASE RT to spread the word. — Laurent Grill (@laurentgrill) March 18, 2020.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With lead investors like Fika Ventures and Fathom Capital, and co-investors, including Toyota AI Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Riot.vc, Osage University Partners and Stage Venture Partners, Elementary Robotics is readying itself for commercial pilots with a few undisclosed customers as it proves out its technology.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2013

The company said the funding included Canaan Partners, ProQuest Investments, InterWest Partners and Domain Associates, as well as new investors Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) and RusnanoMedInvest (RMI). Revision optics is developing a medical device which is designed to reduce or eliminate the need for reading glasses.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Venture backers : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2011

San Diego-based Genomatica , the venture-backed developer of sustainable chemical technology, said this morning that it has achieved demonstration-scale fermentation using its process, on schedule. The announcement comes a day after the Department of Energy said it will be providing $5.0M to Genomatica to further develop its technology.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

However, Redondo Beach-based StaffRanker (www.staffranker.com) has rolled out a system to help those companies better manage what is a notoriously difficult segment of the labor market, which has a lot of turnover and which just doesn''t match existing, corporate performance management systems. Who is your ideal customer?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The startup--backed by Quest Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Sienna Ventures, and others--not only will help you impress your romantic couple this Friday--the startup also has a feature to help you keep that romance alive by reminding you, and automatically sending flowers for things like birthdays and anniversaries.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Palomar Ventures is in a new funding with Soros Fund Management, in a deal worth $128.4M ExteNet designs, builds and operates distributed wireless networks. Tags: palomar ventures extenet soros wireless. to Illinois wireless firm ExteNet Systems. Palomar is represented on ExteNet's board by Kevin Jacques.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

The latest company to expand into the market is H.Bloom , a venture backed luxury floral delivery and gifts company based out of New York. Essentially, we focus on customers who view flowers as living art, and want amazing flowers in their space, either corporate customer in a work environment, or consumers in their home.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2020

While at Facebook he’d down pour overs in the morning and espresso shots throughout the day, but the side effects left him… “tweaky” So, like any good product designer and engineer, Sharon set out to try and make a better cuppa. the two co-founders began dropping off their brews at corporate offices.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Such service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time).

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. It's been around for about 20 years.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

Create A Prototype – Decades before AutoCAD, the McDonald brothers spent hours designing their restaurant’s layout by drawing each workstation on a tennis court. They tested each design iteration by having dozens of teenagers walk through the motions of rapid food preparation. Laurie Anderson, American Musician.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

In many ways, this was like all the other Tesla events I’ve attended: the pumpy music and mood lighting, the designed-to-inspire kick off video, the Tesla superfans (pictured below), and the long lines for a brief test ride. The city is prepping for coming deluge by creating designated parking areas and other signage.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2009

Arcadia-based Siimpel Corporation , which is developing MEMs-based components for mobile cameras, announced Monday afternoon that the firm has raised an additional round of investment from LG Innotek. Siimpel develops MEMs modules which are used to design higher quality, mobile phone cameras. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. So the company turned the ship, slowly it seemed, as R&D worked to develop an appropriate product using the base of the original design.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shares of Switchback II Corporation are off more than 14% in morning trading today, appearing to sell off sharply in the wake of news that the blank-check company’s merger with scooter company Bird has been approved by shareholders. Shares of the SPAC were off as far as 20% before recovering. So what?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. The most common business entity used for startups is a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), which is the cheapest and simplest to manage. Marty Zwilling First published on Predictable Designs on 06/10/2020.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

This workshop is specifically designed to address key issues in the formation, organization and execution of any early stage company. Mr. Robert Ochtel, founder of the Traverse Angels, will be presenting business planning processes and methodologies from his recently published book: Business Planning, Business Plans and Venture Funding.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 30, 2009

This workshop is specifically designed to address key issues in the formation, organization and execution of any early stage company. Mr. Robert Ochtel, founder of the Traverse Angels, will be presenting business planning processes and methodologies from his recently published book: Business Planning, Business Plans and Venture Funding.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2009

Westlake Village-based Inphi Corporation, which develops high speed analog semiconductors, said Monday that the firm has scored validation from Intel. Inphi is backed by Cadence Design Systems, Dali-Hook Partners, Flextronics, Mayfield, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Walden International.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

This exciting event will draw an array of industry entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and RandD executives, as well as university scientists, researchers, and venture capitalists. OCTANe will host the Fourth Annual California Medical Device and Investor Forum in Orange County on November 9 - 10. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

This exciting event will draw an array of industry entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and RandD executives, as well as university scientists, researchers, and venture capitalists. OCTANe will host the Fourth Annual California Medical Device and Investor Forum in Orange County on November 9 - 10. See [link] (more).

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Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This exciting event will draw an array of industry entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and RandD executives, as well as university scientists, researchers, and venture capitalists. OCTANe will host the Fourth Annual California Medical Device and Investor Forum in Orange County on November 9 - 10. See [link] (more).

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Orange County OCTANE Competition Research 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The best prototypes will enter into a 15-week program at Wearable World to further incubate the concept, and work with potential customers and corporate partners to help achieve product/market fit. Wearable World, Inc. , Nominations for the IoT Innovation Council are currently being accepted now through November 30.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2014

Steven Holmes, VP of New Devices Group and GM of Smart Device Innovation, Intel Corporation. Casper De Clercq, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Rob Coneybeer, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures. Kate Drane, Design, Tech & Hardware Lead, Indiegogo. Marco Della Torre, VP Product Science, Basis.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies. In addition, Idealab provides advice on strategy, branding and corporate structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. The Walt Disney Corporation. It is what Seriously was designed to do. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures' But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere. This is so clearly our future.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As an independent startup backed by the corporate venture arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), Brain Corp. The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures. The system is designed so that a human driver “trains” the module to operate autonomously by simply driving the floor-cleaning route.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2013

Over $20bn funding on stage from Blue Chip Investors like Mayfield, Samsung Ventures, Rising Tide Ventures, DN Capital, KPCB, Quallcom Ventures, Spark Capital, Bloomberg Capital and Softtech VC. Industry Experts from Mobile weighing in and interpreting how to Design, Build, and Monetize for success.

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Conference Press Journal Mobile 87

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers. Farbod Shoraka: We''re really excited.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2013

Over $20bn funding on stage from Blue Chip Investors like Mayfield, Samsung Ventures, Rising Tide Ventures, DN Capital, KPCB, Quallcom Ventures, Spark Capital, Bloomberg Capital and Softtech VC. Industry Experts from Mobile weighing in and interpreting how to Design, Build, and Monetize for success.

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Conference Press Journal Mobile 77