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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Costa Mesa-based Payoff.com , which operates a peer-to-peer, lending site led by Scott Saunders--and whose Chief Scientist is Galen Buckwalter, who was the Chief Scientific Officer at eHarmony--has raised $12M in a funding effort. The funding was led by Mohamed El-Erian, the finance guru who was at Pacific Investment Management Co.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based HipGeo has raised $500,000 in an initial round of funding, the firm is announcing this week. The funding comes from Morado Venture Partners, a seed stage fund run by ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez. HipGeo said the new funds will go to expand its development team, and develop new features.

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MARCH 19, 2013

in a seed funding round, which included local high profile technology executives Ted Meisel, Gil Elbaz, Sean Moriarty, Jarl Mohn, along with Siemer Ventures. Rexter , a brand new, Pasadena startup looking to put business contact management on steroids, said today that it has raised $1.5M

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JANUARY 26, 2012

HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo! executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, Galen Buckwalter, the former Chief Scientist of eHarmony, and San Diego angel investor Robert Bingham. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

more in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. The firm's advisors include Dr. Galen Buckwalter, founder and Chief Scientist at eHarmony. Payoff.com has a significant number of angel investors in the firm, and raised $3.5M READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

HipGeo is backed by Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 2, 2011

Pasadena-based Triptrotting , a new startup funded by Idealab, is launching its service today, to help match travelers to like-minded local hosts. The firm said the algorithm was developed with the help and expertise of former eHarmony Chief Scientist Galen Buckwalter. Triptrotting's founders are Aigerim Duiseneyeva and Shana Zheng.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

HipGeo is venture backed by Morado Venture Partners, the investment fund of Yahoo execs Ash Patel and Michael Marquez; the firm also is backed by angel investors Galen Buckwalter of eHarmony, and San Diego angel investor Robert Bingham. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 2, 2011

eHarmony [ profile ]. Backers: Elon Musk, Founders Fund. Southern California has had its own share of IPOs over the last year, including Demand Media, Active Network, and Boingo Wireless. However, a number of Southern California firms have been rumored to be seeking IPOs, who have not yet filed. Those firms are: 1. SpaceX [ profile ].

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

SharesPost's site features in-depth analysis of privately held firms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tesla Motors, eHarmony, and other popular privately held firms. SharesPost is the latest company funded and started by BrightHouse, an incubator of early stage businesses started by Greg Brogger and Scott Painter. Research and VC Experts.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

of seed funding and launching our popular subscription service for kids ages 4-10. Grant was formerly an executive at eHarmony and Idealab and lives near Pasadena with his author wife and 3 kid coders. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2008

Andrew Warner from Mixergy posted - Before Looking for Funding, Get an Advisor. He recommends that early stage companies get input from people who know the funding process, know the vertical, etc. eHarmony for start-up / advisor relationships? That's great advice. Of course, it's sometimes hard to find advisors.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Douglas joins the firm from eHarmony, where he was the firm's Vice President of Technology. The firm is venture backed by Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners and IDG Ventures. Rubicon said that it has hired Mark Douglas as Vice President of Engineering, and Seizo Welch as Vice President of Finance. READ MORE>>

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JULY 16, 2013

We''re taking a fairly unique approach to program development, however, in that we will get involved with nonprofits and people with program ideas, and figure out how to fund them. My own history, is I was here when Overture was doing great things, and Citysearch, Earthlink, and eHarmony were all here. Andy Wilson: Great question.

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APRIL 29, 2009

de Silva, who is a General Partner at Highland based out of its Menlo Park offices, pointed specifically to companies like LowerMyBills, eHarmony, and MySpace. de Silva and Cremin joined a panel, which also included Richard Wolpert of the Mail Room Fund and which was moderated by Craig Collar of Morgan Stanley.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Help these companies get funded and let them know that if they stayed in LA there was an ecosystem to support them. I set out some simple objectives, picked 13 startup CEO’s, planned a series of events, spent time personally trying to coach people through their fund raising processes and waited to see where it went.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Earlier this month, Fullerton-based HipGeo (www.hipgeo.com) announced a $500,000 funding round from Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. Finally, with this funding, what's your next goal?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. This is something Ive always wondered about.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

That's how I came up with the concept of bringing them all together, sort of an eHarmony for green businesses. Nikhil Jain: The company is completely self funded, by myself. As I mentioned before, the budget for launching our companies is small, so I've been able to fund it myself. Do you have any investors yourself?

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MARCH 26, 2012

One of our advisors is Galen Buckwalter, the former Chief Scientist at eHarmony. We were then invited to join LaunchpadLA with Mark Suster, the accelerator in Santa Monica, and we also just raised funding in the last two months. What are your plans with the new funding? Aigerim Duiseneyeva: I think a couple of things.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony has settled a class action lawsuit over its lack of support for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, the firm reported Tuesday evening. According to eHarmony, it is in an agreement to settle Carlson, et. eHarmony, Inc., eHarmony, Inc., which was filed in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 1, 2013

That's the idea behind Rexter (www.rexter.com), which recently raised seed funding to ramp up its software to put "LinkedIn on steroids". Those are people like Galen Buckwalter, who you probably knjow is the Chief Scientific Officer of eHarmony. He's helped us put together the psychographic scoring for relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? Even with a good CFO, your CEO is the top fund raiser. Also, trusted advisors and experienced investors should be polled for good candidates.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

You come to our site, take a match quiz--a lot like eHarmony--to find the right trainer. The other founding investors are Ron Conway, who you know, and Polar Capital Group, Tim Armstrong fund. With FitOrbit, we bring real, one-to-one, human-based personal training and meal planning to the Internet for the first time.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

If you’re complaining that its too hard to raise money as the founder of an LA tech company, stop bitching about a lack of funds and focus on being a bigger badass. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography. In fact Paige Craig has coined it Silicon Beach.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). My fund was an early investor in Overture.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. He blogs here and tweets here. 1B+ Revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? Even with a good CFO, your CEO is the top fund raiser. Also, trusted advisors and experienced investors should be polled for good candidates.

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