socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2018

Bird previously only offered up its services in Santa Monica, San Diego, and some other parts of Los Angeles. Bird is venture backed by Valor Equity Partners, Index Ventures, Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures. The company's CEO is Travis VanderZanden.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

So far, it’s operating in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Seattle. The company claims it can deliver an ADU in as little as 30 days in San Jose and Los Angeles thanks to the cities’ pre-approval process. Next, Abodu is eyeing the San Diego market.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investment firms and executive teams behind the Los Angeles-based delivery liquor delivery company, Saucey , along with Inception Companies, the backer of marijuana distribution company, Emjay , have formed Pacific Consolidated to merge their two companies and build what’s likely the largest “vice” company in the world.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2018

The funding was co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Index Ventures, and also included Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, plus Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures. Bird currently offers up its services in Santa Monica, Venice, UCLA, Westwood, and San Diego, and is looking at a nationwide expansion with the new funding.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

San Diego-based private equity firm TVC Capital , which is led by Jeb Spencer and Steven Hamerslag, has closed on a new, $75M growth equity and buyout fund, the firms said today. The new fund, TVC Capital II came from private equity fund of funds, institutional asset managers and family offices. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Today, Apple News offers local news coverage in 11 markets, including San Francisco, the Bay Area, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Miami, Charlotte, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.,” ” my colleague Aisha notes. Crypto startups are making it easier to build crypto clubs.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

San Diego and Dallas-based Liquid Environmental Solutions , a provider of non-hazardous liquid waste collection and treatment, has received $20M in an investment from Los Angeles private equity firm Craton Equity Partners. Craton Equity is focused on clean technology investments.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the portfolio firms of Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon , Trion World Network , is reportedly prepping for an IPO, according to reports over the weekend. Rustic Canyon's investment in Trion World Network is managed by Nate Redmond; the firm also has part of its game studio in San Diego.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

billion in investments in Los Angeles, near $125M in Orange County, and $106.6M in investments in San Diego. The numbers in Southern California were significantly helped by two, mega-funding deals in Los Angeles, including $485.6M San Diego''s largest deal was nearly $22M invested in BioNano Genomics.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Los Angeles investor Mark Suster, a general partner with Upfront Ventures , has been beating the drum for Los Angeles as a new tech hub for a while — and billion dollar exits for Ring and Dollar Shave Club, in addition to the public offering for Snap, lend credence to his position.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. In 2018, many of them sold their companies or raised massive equity rounds. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Here are the venture firms who have been most active in SoCal (Santa Babrara - Los Angeles - Orange County - San Diego) in the last twelve months, based on the number of deals: 1. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows. Upfront Partners - 11 deals.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Locally, the report totaled $201.28M in deals in the Los Angeles area, $191.89M in the Orange County area, and $100.0M in San Diego. Frontier , the Tech Coast Angels , and New Enterprise. The most active investors for Q1 in Southern California were DFJ. Associates , all with three deals each.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. So they will have allocations to US public equities, international public equities, emerging market public equities, real estate, mining, minerals and so forth.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

As part of the program, up to 30-minute rides will be free for members of critical workforces through April 30 in Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, the Washington D.C. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Two existing investors, Millennium Technology Value Partners and DSC Investment, also participated in the round.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The startup does its R&D and design in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Nogales Investors announced today that it has acquired a controlling interest in San Diego-based DR Technologies , a developer and manufacturer of advanced composite structural products for the aerospace and defense industry.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. We are planning to expand to Texas at the end of January, San Francisco soon after, and Denver, Colorado on March 1. Do they have positive equity in their home? Where is the company now in terms of the service?

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

To give you an overview, there are something like 6,000 equities in the U.S. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. It was interesting for us to see that, in addition to equity, you also turned to crowdfunding. However, in the Muni bond market, there are 1.25

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

We sat down with Wong--professor emeritus at UCLA--and Liu to talk about the company's roots from research at UCLA, and how it's trying to get past the poor reputation of products in its segment, the debate over whether radiation from cell phones does or does not affect humans, plus its private equity backing by Bridgewater Capital Partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

A month ago, I participated in my first ever Startup Weekend event in Los Angeles, California in the co-working spaces at Coloft. IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, TRY & TRY AGAIN: Startup Weekend San Diego was held two weeks later at a beautiful venue in the heart of Balboa Park at the Hall of Champions.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Dallas —Partners with a deep well of subject matter expertise and capital are on the top of any entrepreneur’s wish list. Now an accelerator tailored to sports technology startups might be giving those founders a connection to the ultimate in sports and marketing royalty: the Dallas Cowboys.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships.

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