socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association, and VentureOne will release their quarterly nationwide results of venture activity later this month. Numbers from those firms will differ--sometimes drastically--due to sources of information, timing of funding events, and classification of data.

Southern California 140

Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

Vator is bringing its popular Splash event to LA. The inaugural Splash LA event will be held on the evening of May 26, 2011, at The Highlands Hollywood. The Splash event, hosted by Vator, is a celebration of entrepreneurship. Not ready to submit your company or just want to take part of this event? The TZ Hookups.

Rustic Canyon 61

Rustic Canyon Venture Capital ReachLocal Anthem 61

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Icarus Studios is a provider of white-label, massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds; The Venue Network is a developer of yet-to-be-launched software for conducting virtual events. Big Stage is backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Venture, and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Sample Pasadena 100

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

Other active investors were Prospect Venture Partners, DAG Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, In-Q-Tel, American River Ventures, Saints Capital, and Mission Ventures, all with two investments each.

Southern California 100

Southern California Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital Technical Review 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources.

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Raised $61mm from investors including Mission Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Sun Microsystems and SAP Ventures. We discussed: 1. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm. TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 242

Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The conference, which does not unveil the names of the companies pitching until the day of the event, rolled out a lineup of Southern California companies ranging from email and instant messaging aggregator Orgoo, to virtual avatar firm mEgo.com. READ MORE>>

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In LA there has typically been a small handful of firms actively making investments in tech, they include: Rustic Canyon , GRP Parners , Clearstone Venture Partners , Redpoint Ventures , Mission Ventures , Anthem Venture Partners , Greycroft , Crosscut , Palomar Ventures , and Rincon Ventures.

Company 111

Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. I see you were at Gluecode, and also were in the venture world at Mission Ventures--can you talk about how you've bootstrapped this firm and how it compares? Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Among other things, they get an opportunity to pitch to investors and industry representatives at Plug and Play’s quarterly “expo” event. Companies that participated in the program include Airbitz, Rock My Run, TipNetwork, Vioozer, Raynforest, Stretchr, and Ahorro Libre. It’s really cool.”. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 40

San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Before the event I wanted to find out what I could about the students. I spotted my fellow VC Leo Spiegel (from Mission Ventures) who had spoken previously to the same group and asked about his experiences. But seriously her book is spot on.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362