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Calibrate Ventures Raises $80M Investment Fund

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Pasadena-based Calibrate Ventures , a brand new venture capital firm founded by Kevin Dunlap and Jason Schoettler, announced on Tuesday morning that it has raised $80M in its very first venture capital fund, Calibrate Ventures, L.P.

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Calibrate Ventures Adds Two Venture Partners

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Pasadena-based Calibrate Ventures , a venture capital firm that says it invests in advanced technologies, has added two Venture Partners to the company. Leifer is the founder and CEO of PureSignal, a provider of software for businesses; she also previously was at Weave HQ and Intuit, as well as Demandforce.

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Retina.AI Finds $2.5M In Funding

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Retina develops customer lifetime value software which companies used to determine how much their customers are worth to them, helping them to optimize their cost-per-acquisition. Retina's customers include Dollar Shave Club. The company's CEO is Michael Greenberg. READ MORE>>.

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Retina Finds $8M

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The company says its customers include Nestle, Madison Reed, and Dollar Shave Club. According to Retina, it will use the funding for growth, hiring, and to expand the capabilities of its platform. Retina is led by co-founder and CEO Emad Hasan.

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Shasta's Flynn Gets Promotion After String Of Silicon Beach Investments

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Venture capital investment firm Shasta Ventures said Wednesday that it has promoted Sean Flynn --who has been key to that firm''s many investments in Southern California--to Managing Director. Flynn focuses on early-stage investments on mobile-enabled consumer Internet and enterprise software startups. READ MORE>>.

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PlayVS Finds $15M For High School eSports Infrastructure

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The funding was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included startup studio Science Inc, CrossCut Ventures, Coatue Management, Cross Culture Ventures, the San Francisco 49ers, Nas, Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club, Kevin Lin of Twitch, and other angels.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017. www.science-inc.com).