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Halogen Ventures, Led By Jesse Draper, Find $10.4M For First Fund

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Santa Monica-based Halogen Ventures , a brand new, female-focused venture capital fund which is focused on consumer technology, has raised $10.4M as part of its first fund, Halogen Ventures LP. The fund says it makes early stage venture capital ivnestments in female founded consumer technology companies.

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City of Los Angeles, Goren Holm To Invest In Blockchain Startup

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The City of Los Angeles and investment firm Goren Holm Ventures --the new Blockchain investment firm of Alon Goren and Josef Holm--said they will be funding a blockchain pitch contest at the upcoming CIS blockchain conference. According to the two, judges for the event include billionaire investor Tim Draper.

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Enevate Finds Funding From South Korea's LG Chem

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Irvine-based Enevate , which develops lithium-ion battery technology, said today that it has added South Korean battery manufacturer LG Chem as an investor. According to Enevate, LG Chem participated in its recently anounced funding round. Size of the investment by LG Chem was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Shift Technologies Gets $50M More

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Shift Technologies , the online marketplace for used cars which has major operations in Los Angeles, has raised $50M in new funding for the startup, the company said today. The funding was led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP), and also included Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Highland Capital Partners.

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NeuroVigil Gets Funding

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La Jolla-based NeuroVigil , a firm developing non-invasive wireless brain recording technology and advanced computational analysis techniques, has raised a first round of funding, the firm said this week. Amount of the funding, and source, was not disclosed. The firm was founded by Dr. Philip Low.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). Incubators, at the core level, take basic core level technology and try to build a company around it.

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Synthetic Genomics Brings Funding Up To $35.0M

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La Jolla-based Synthetic Genomics , a developer of genomics technology for the biofuels industry, has now raised $35M of its ongoing $50M funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing from the company. Synthetic Genomics is backed by ExxonMobil, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Meteor Group, Biotechonomy LLC and Plenus, S.A.,

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