socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based The Gores Group , the private equity investment firm, reported this morning that it has completed its acquisition of touch screen technology provider TE Connectivity. The deal was worth $380M in cash. Elo Touch was based in Menlo Park, California. Gores said that Elo Touch Solutions had sales of $413M in fiscal 2011.

Screening 140

Screening Company Companies Equity 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based District2 , a startup which is developing a business-to-business marketplace for fashion suppliers and designers, has raised a round of equity funding, from Saandaga Capital Corporation. Size of the funding was not announced. The startup wa part of the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Precellerator program.

Funding 100

Funding Screening Design Equity 100

socalTECH

MAY 13, 2014

GenMark said Mendel joins the company from Active Network, where he had been CFO of the company, up until its sale to Vista Equity. GenMark is a developer of automated, molecular diagnostics testing equipment for detecting disease via DNA screening. He also had previously served at General Electric, in GE''s Healthcare IT division.

Screening 138

Screening Activity Equity Networking 138

Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. The company also sells gadgets, such as mobile devices with large screens and big buttons, wearables that can work with those devices, and emergency alert products.

San Diego 68

San Diego Screening Equity Mobile 68

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2011

Carlsbad-based Scentsa , a developer of an out-of-home advertising network, has scored a Series A funding from San Diego private equity fund Huntington Capital , Huntington said Tuesday. Size of the equity funding deal was not disclosed.

Funding 145

Funding San Diego Advertising Screening 145

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Irvine-based HireRight , a provider of employment screening software and services, has merged its brands with US Investigations Services, LLC, the firm said this morning. The companies offer employment screening and background check services for employers. Tags: usis hireright employment screening. READ MORE>>.

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Screening Equity Services Software 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2011

Poway-based First Advantage , a provider of employment background screening, occupational health services, recruiting, business tax consulting, and other workforce management services, has been acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

Technology 133

Technology Screening Equity Services 133

socalTECH

MAY 29, 2012

San Diego-based Skinit , the developer of the wrap-around, customized "skins" and protective products for electronics devices, announced today that it has expanded into hard consumer electronics cases, covers, and screen protectors. The firm is venture backed by ABS Capital Partners, Norwest Equity Partners, among others.

San Diego 133

San Diego Screening Design Equity 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Eva Helene Yazhari: The cohort goes through a process and the education of selecting, screening, and analyzing those companies, and selecting a company in which they want to place their collective capital. Or, screening out those companies involved in tobacco or alcohol. How does that investment process work? READ MORE>>.

Angel 276

Angel Invest Mentor Technical Review 276

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Rubicon--which is backed by a health $42M in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund--said the new software includes such features as allowing publishers to screen ads being shown on their web sites, ability to see what kinds of ads will show on their sites depending on which (..)

Tool 145

Tool Clearstone Statistics Screening 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Work-life balance is not about equity, but about escape. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Networking relationships still drive most promotions, jobs, and new clients. The battle between work and life is no contest – work still wins. It could be a family, sports, hobby, or TV.

Startup 106

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Screening 106

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Work-life balance is not about equity, but about escape. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Networking relationships still drive most promotions, jobs, and new clients. The battle between work and life is no contest – work still wins. It could be a family, sports, hobby, or TV.

Startup 153

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Screening 153

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money and equity for qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year. million Series A led by Puma Private Equity, a U.K.-focused Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage). Rethinking value. The business has attracted about $4.5

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Line up an experienced team.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

Do they have positive equity in their home? If you just bought a big screen television from Best Buy, it's like you're not going to be buying a new home soon. Some of the counterintuitive things we learned, is we thought our user base would be Millennials, who are used to doing everything through an app or a computer screen.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Woodland Hills Orange County Startup 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money for equity in qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

When companies come into our incubator, we take no equity, we take no stake in the company, it's completely free for the participant. Is there a screening process or criteria for firms to use the facilities? They screen and score companies based on their application, and if that looks good, they come in for a face-to-face interview.

Incubator 212

Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. Who cares what my equity is. I wrote about there here. When you want press, it will come.

Venture Capital 407

Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. Instead of advertising, their large, colorful screens are a direct result of these core values. By the way) They also send professional photographers food and products for their venues, then design these bits of media into collages for their clients’ screens.

Social Media 106

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Entrepreneurs should leverage the screening performed by B-schools and not dismiss MBA applicants outright. Thus, if you encounter an action-oriented MBA who has practical startup experience, is willing to accept equity in lieu of a market salary and exhibits a collaborative attitude, ignore their MBA handicap and hire them immediately.

Entrepreneur 279

Entrepreneur Technical Review Case Study Class 279

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. million of a new financing round intended to bring in $62.8

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Beverly Hills Funding 40

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. Pitching at a screening in slow months can result in delayed response from investors or even lack of interest at lightly attended screenings. By Monica Mehta. The group invested $8.7

Tips 100

Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Even non-profits need money to scale, but their pitch should be to philanthropists, not equity investors. Equity investors are buying a chunk of your company at today’s value, not what you think it may be worth in five years. Facebook spent over $100 million to kickstart the process.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Innocal Entrepreneur 98

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. Instead of advertising, their large, colorful screens are a direct result of these core values. By the way) They also send professional photographers food and products for their venues, then design these bits of media into collages for their clients’ screens.

Social Media 81

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

You company is the product and you’re selling an equity ownership in your company but much more broadly you’re selling trust & confidence that you’re going to build something enormously valuable and that you’re going to be enjoyable to work hand-in-hand with over the coming decade of each other’s lives.

Venture Capital 314

Venture Capital Technical Review Invest Slides 314

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. are eliminated during due diligence.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If watching the video is too distracting, simply minimize the screen and listen to Len’s insights as you would a podcast. In this capacity he worked with U2′s Bono, as well as Steve Jobs and a number of other notable celebrities whom Len encouraged to lend their brand equity to bolster RED’s cause. ”

Google 220

Google Technical Advisors Technical Review Equity 220

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

We weren't working with main street and small businesses, but public and private equity backed companies. Why this is working out so well, is if you think about us, as humans, is we have been face planted into a screen for 18 months. So they all need to get back out there and tell their story.

Marketing 113

Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Work-life balance is not about equity, but about escape. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Networking relationships still drive most promotions, jobs, and new clients. The battle between work and life is no contest – work still wins. It could be a family, sports, hobby, or TV.

Startup 93

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Screening 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. are eliminated during due diligence.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. We spent our future since the equity was artificial. So why the ’09 bounce? See point 2 below.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Agtech investment firm Finistere Ventures; private equity firm Cloud Break Advisors; and Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd contributed to the new accelerator. Before making an investment, Radicle says it screens technologies and can quickly vet and validate technologies through its farm connections.

Funding 68

Funding Research San Diego Incubator 68

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. If this will be a hands on role, then you need to conduct some kind of Technical Screening/test. There's a lot on my blog already around this topic.

CTO Hire 282

CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 282

Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, just like her fellow black turtleneck wearer Steve Jobs, will get the big screen treatment.

Incubator 67

Incubator Thousand Oaks Screening Pricing 67

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. If this will be a hands on role, then you need to conduct some kind of Technical Screening/test. There's a lot on my blog already around this topic.

CTO Hire 225

CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 225