socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based Wavemaker Ventures has raised a new, $66M venture capital investment fund, for its Southeast Asia efforts, the company said this week. Limited Partners in the new fund include Temasek Holdings, Tim Draper, and the World Bank's International Finance Corp. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2013

The funding came from Crosslink Capital, Draper Associates, PROfounders Capital, Lowercase Capital, Michael Birch, Tekton Ventures and Knight & Bishop, along with Kamran Pourzanjani, Brian Lee, Brad Jones, and other local angels. younity entangled media venture capital personal data storage muckerlab cloud'

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Jason Nazar

MAY 4, 2010

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Raise Venture Capital”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation where we bring in venture capitalists from the top firms across the country to talk about the process and requirements entrepreneurs need to go through to successfully raise money from venture capitalists.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2011

Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. in its new round of funding, which was led by Emergence Capital Partners. Other investors, aside form Anthem and DFJ Frontier, were RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and Square 1 Bank.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based venture investor Wavemaker Partners has seen one of its portfolio companies hit the public markets, albeit via an unusual, reverse merger arrangement. Stellar is a so-called "blank check acquisition company" specifically designed to for reverse mergers. As a result of the merger, Stellar is renaming itself as Phunware, Inc.,

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2013

The funding came from Crosslink Capital, Draper Associates, PROfounders Capital, Lowercase Capital, Michael Birch, Tekton Ventures and Knight & Bishop, along with Kamran Pourzanjani, Brian Lee, Brad Jones, and other local angels. younity entangled media venture capital personal data storage muckerlab cloud'

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firm founders has joined the list of VCs who departed from their positions this year in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2011

Culver City-based Cognition Technologies , the developer of natural language processing technology software, has raised $200,000, as part of an ongoing $500,000 funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. No details on the funding have been announced. Source of the new funding was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

TargetCast said it will rebrand Ripple's existing TV in its fast casual locations, integrate content and advertising delviery into a single format, and use its own hardware and software for additional new locations. Ripple Tv's former CEO, John McMenamin, has become Chief Revenue Officer at TargetCast network. Ripple had taken around $19.0M

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2012

The round was led by Black Diamond Ventures, and also included DFJ Frontier, Ascend Ventures, Bryant Park Ventures and Draper Associates. Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the provider of mobile video marketing services which is run by James Citron, said this morning that it has raised $4.1M in a strategic investment round.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Moderated by 500 Startups founder Dave McClure (who openly admits to knowing nothing about Bitcoin), our panel consisted of a mix of venture capitalists, angel, and accelerator investors: Joyce Kim – VC at Freestyle Capital. Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator.

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired.

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