socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2015

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , the online learning and education company backed by Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity, TPG Capital and Meritech Capital Partners, has bolstered its executive staff in the enterprise area, saying this morning that it has named Erik Nierenberg as General Manager of its Enterprise business. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2014

Los Angeles-based NewsCrafted , a company which provides elementary and middle schools with professionally designed, high quality newsletters -- including content, has raised $1.1M According to the company''s investors, the funding comes on top of an earlier, $1.25M in angel funding for the company. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. When the world gets smaller.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2012

Ojai, California-based Lynda.com , the online education site providing online training on a variety of software, ranging from PhotoShop to AutoCAD and much more which was founded by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, is now topping $70M in annual revenues, according to reports. The new revenue numbers came via TechCrunch. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

There’s also a relatively modest request (of only $4 billion) for funding devoted to pilot projects, startup companies, and public clean technology investment initiatives (like LACI). The funding would include $20 billion for utility upgrades. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2021

Lawson Endowment Fund, which will support Back and Indigenous students in game design and engineering. USC Games, the program at the University of Southern California focused on teaching students how to create videogames and to enter the videogame industry, says it has launched a new endowment, the Gerald A.

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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. Real estate will be the biggest spender on climate tech for no other reason than its contribution to the carbon problem.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. When the world gets smaller.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them. We take those strengths, as determined by our Neuropsychologists, to develop strength profiles and apply them to describing all of ht extracurricular and educational opportunities that we can curate. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. We have live connections to every federally registered apprenticeships, every accredited university and educational institution by zip code.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I always tell people that fund raising is a sales process. everything.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The outcome was especially impressive, as the company was entirely self-funded for its first 17-years. Like a true entrepreneur, even though she was young, she took control of her life and pursued an alternative education. In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The event features an interactive networking roundtable at which more than 30 venture capitalists from California, who will talk with local entrepreneurs about deal flow and the types of investments they're looking to fund. This event series is designed to help investors and entrepreneurs engage with one another.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

An interactive networking roundtable at which more than 30 venture capitalists from California, will talk with local entrepreneurs about deal flow and the types of investments they're looking to fund. This event series is designed to help investors and entrepreneurs engage with one another.

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LAVA Startup Education Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. What''s in this for the offices and talking with reps?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We have a licensing business with that.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. I didn't have any funding.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. So Nolan is behind the design of the games? How is the firm funded? This is my third company.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I had worked along with some of these organization son the ground, who were employing people, providing microfinancing, education, and help. Hiptico also has a Mayan education fund, a great fund they support through purchases, to help put the children of the artisans into school with scholarships.

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socalTECH

APRIL 9, 2020

It's an unusual time for the startup world, however, despite the ongoing health emergency, companies are still announcing funding. Guy Friedman: I'm a startup guy, I had a previous startup in the educational technology space. The whole platform is designed to foster a deeper relationship with the physician for the long term.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2016

Other investors include TEEC Angel Fund and wCapital. In the 2016 Policy Address, the Chief Executive stated that the Government will set aside HKD 2 billion to set up an Innovation and Technology Venture Fund to co-invest in local startups with private venture capital funds on a matching basis. Closing a round of USD 4.5

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company recently raised a new funding round from Student Transportation Inc. Our service is designed from ground up with that level of safety in mind. Let's talk about the new funding round. What you will be doing with the new funding? These are the kinds of services that are specifically designed with kids in mind.

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Orange County Startup Services Design 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

We gained investment money and funding for that, and we''re now at the point of launching the project, most likely in January. This product has been designed to be highly reliable, and well tested and built to scale as a consumer offering from the beginning. Accton is one of our partners, who are building out all of our manufacturing.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Ventures In Which An MBA Education Is A Plus. Not only is Sieva attending Wharton this Fall, he and his partners, Hansae Catlett (Stanford), Hiro Tien (Stanford) and Josh Hoffman-Senn (Harvard), will launch The MBA Fund later this year. MBA’s are trained to design, organize and manage such large-scale, complicated operations.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We caught up with Max to hear about the company, which just announced a $3M angel funding round last week. I was scratching my head, because I didn't understand why I was getting denied, because I had a good income, education, and a bank account for over ten years. Tell us a bit about your funding and investors? What is Float?

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. Their investor bootcamps help educate new investors about due diligence, valuation, and more.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 15, 2016

Seemingly human chatbots , designed to make people happier in China elicit responses of love and friendship. Four entrepreneurs share their observations and predictions for the machine revolution; exploring the advancements in tech with a crossover into finance, education, e-commerce and art. Zoe Turner, Numerai.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I know of at least 2 deals from that cohort that are either funded ( Backupify ) or nearly funded (can’t really disclose, I’m not sure if it’s yet closed and/or announced. Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

When you’re on Fund I or Fund II it is often a founding team that all started together, knew each other before and went through the trenches together to get a fund raised. It was more hedge fund than venture capital. The truth is that the newer the firm the easier that shared mission is. It was stunning but sterile.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

You just finished your education so you know the value of investing in yourself and your knowledge. then you can move into a role designed to maximize your potential income. They told me after they raised a fund they’d be ready to hire me. By the time you raise a fund I’ll be working somewhere else. I’ll make you a deal.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2010

frustration of seeing too many companies receive funding by Northern California VCs and then relocate their teams." You must first go through an application process, then be selected to be part of and gain access to some of the brightest minds in Los Angeles. Founded by Mark Suster and the ".

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

It''s going to be at least a three year program, and is being funded by Ernst & Young for those three years. To some people, automotive might be surprising, but we''re the leading center for automotive design and automotive accessories. The other EIR with me, Amir, is also going to experiment with this over the next year.

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