socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Jeff Lee , a senior associate at San Diego- and Los Angeles-based Mission Ventures , has quietly left the firm to head up a newly founded, stealth startup, according to Lee's LinkedIn profiles and bounced emails to his Mission Ventures address.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based RotoHog , the online fantasy sports software firm headed by Kelly Perdew, has scored a number of recent deals, the firm told its supporters recently in an email. Rotohog is backed by Mission Ventures and DFJ DragonFund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment , a venture-backed startup developing 3D animation technology used to create avatars, said this morning that the firm has created a new application which works on the Apple iPhone. The firm said that users can also post and share that content to Facebook, MySpace, or via email.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM.

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