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Irvine-based NGD Systems , a company developing "computational storage" devices which can run AI, machine learning, and analytics functions within data storage devices, has raised $20M in a Series C funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by MIG Capital, and also included Western Digital Capital Global, Ltd. the strategic investment fund of Western Digital Corp.), The company has now raised a total of $45M in funding. MORE
healthcare lifescience testing diagnostic urology strategic equity private funding capital venture pathnosticsIrvine-based Pathnostics , which offers up diagnostics tests and services in for urology, women's health, gastroenterology and cancer, has received a strategic investment from Chicago-based private equity investor Water Street Healthcare Ventures, the companies said on Wednesday. Financial details of that investment were not announced. MORE
We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? MORE
Laguna Hills-based Centercode , a developer of software used for managing product and customer testing efforts, has raised $4M as part of an ongoing, $6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company this week. Details on the funding have not yet been announced. hggc parallax capital venture testing customer product funding centercode MORE
La Jolla-based biotechnology developer Avidity Biosciences , which is developing treatments for rare muscle disorders and other diseases, has raised $100M in a Series C funding, according to the company this morning. Avidity Biosciences said that Eli Lilly and Company also particpated in the funding, contributing $15M in connection with a research collaboration between the two companies. As part of the funding, RTW Investments managing partner Roderick T. MORE
The funding was led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, and also included existing investors Andera Partners, Gimv, Legend Capital, NeoMed Management, RMM, Valiance Life Sciences and VI Partners. As part of the funding, Bain Capital's Andrew Hack, MD, Ph.D., The company said the new funding will supports it ongoing clinical program. Irvine-based JenaValve Technology , which develops aortic valve replacements, said last week that it has raised $50M in a financing round. MORE
Securities and Exchange Commission to raise its third growth-stage investment fund. One of the oldest VCs rooted in LA, Upfront previously closed on $400 million for its sixth flagship early-stage fund in 2017. MORE
billion emergency funding package.” For families’ health security, #FamiliesFirst increases federal funds for Medicaid to support our local, state, tribal and territorial governments and health systems, so that they have the resources necessary to combat this crisis. MORE
Corona Del Mar-based Miramar Digital Ventures is in the midst of raising a new, $100M venture capital fund, according to a filing from the firm this week. According to the regulatory filing, the firm has raised $68.75M from 14 investors as part of an ongoing fundraising for the firm's second fund, Miramar Digital Ventures II, L.P. , in what appears to be the first close on the fund. No details on the fund have yet been released by the venture capital investment firm. MORE
San Diego-based SGI-DNA , a biotech company which is developing synthetic genomics and dna data storage technology, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Northpond Ventures, and also included Oxford Finance and BroadOak Capital partners. funding venture capital synthetic genomics syntheticgenomics analysis lifescience biotech biotechnology sequencing MORE
The company said the funding was led by Boston Millenia Partners, and also included existing investor Upfront Ventures. Glendale-based Reveleer , a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, has raised a Series C found of financing, the company said this week. Reveleer provides its software to healthcare payers, such as health plans and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), helping them to manage their risk quality and quality improvement programs. MORE
Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. The seed funding was worth $800K, and led by Moonshots Capital, and also included individual angels from the pet industry. According to eTailPet, the funding will go to accelerate its business. moonshot ecommerce petstore funding seed capital venture etailpet MORE
Virgin Group Richard Branson invests in M13’s $175 million fund MORE
Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile lifestyle games aimed at women and others, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The funding was led by LVP, and also included 1Up Ventures, Alpha Edison, Everblue Management, firstminute Capital, Greycroft Tracker Fund, Hearst Ventures and Third Kind Venture Capital. robin games women mobile seed funding venture capital lifestyle MORE
The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). For entrepreneurs, friends and family money usually represents the smallest increment of funding, yet requires the most time to manage. MORE
San Diego-based AristaMD , a developer of telehealth software, which allows primary care providers to conduct and document electronic medical consultations, has raised $18M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Cigna Ventures and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF), and also included Avalon Ventures, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund and Stanford Health Care. MORE
Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. Size of the funding was not announced. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital. etailpet venture capital seed funding petstore ecommerce moonshot MORE
San Diego-based Clarify Medical , a developer of light-based systems for treating chronic skin conditions, has raised $18M in a new funding, according to investor H.I.G. Biohealth Partners said it was the co-lead on the funding, which it called a "commercialization round" for Clarify Medical. therapy light home commercialization funding capital venture medical clarify MORE
Irvine-based Mica Energies announced Wednesday afternoon that it has received a seed funding, and says it is working on a "proof of concept" for ite technology, focused on harvesting radio frequencies from the environment. Source and amount of that seed funding was not announced. The company claimed that the seed funding values the company at $39M. mica energies seed funding venture capital radio frequency MORE
The Orange County arm of Southern California's largest, angel investment group--the Tech Coast Angels --said today that it has opened up a new fund, the TCA OC Fund 20 , the first in a set of annual funds which will go to invest in startups in the region. According to the Tech Coast Angels Orange County (TCA OC), the fund will be replenished each year. The new fund will take investments from the TCA's accredited members only. MORE
in funding for its cryptocurrency effort, which also included Blockchange Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, the Tezos Foundation, CoinShares, Digital Currency Group, and Capital Factory. Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in Zabo , a developer of software which helps financial institutions link bank accounts to cryptocurrency wallets. Zabo recently raised $2.5M MORE
in what looks like a convertible note funding, based on a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding round, which is likely a bridge into a full equity funding, have not been announced. The funding was disclosed on Friday in a publicly available filing. According to the filing, the funding came from a single investor. heytutor venture capital convertible note funding investment scop market marketplace seed MORE
Los Angeles-based LegalMation , a startup which develops artificial intelligence and machine learning-based software for litigation and law practices, has raised a round of funding, according to the company. Size of the funding was not announced. litigation legal software learning machine intelligence artificial funding capital venture legalmation MORE
San Diego-based venture investor Finistere Ventures has just raised the first $65M in a funding round, which looks to be the first funds as part of an effort to raise $250M in total for the company's third fund, Finistere Ventures III, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. As expected, Finistere has not announced any of the details of the new fund, due to restrictions placed upon venture capital fundraising efforts by the SEC. MORE
capital venture social platform video funding strategicLos Angeles-based Vid , a startup developing a social video platform, announced late Monday that it has received a strategic investment from Ontology, a developer of blockchain technology. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. Vid--which has yet to launch its product--says it is developing a video journaling application, where data is secured through "zero-knowledge" encryption and which is powered by Blockchain. MORE
The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund. The timing is ripe for a fund like ours to capitalize on the opportunity.” MORE
I had originally signed up to talk about the “VC Market Trends” overall but it seemed inauthentic to speak about VC funding without addressing the virus in the room. So I wrote a brand new deck outlining some Upfront views on what we may see in the funding markets ahead. MORE
Providence Strategic Growth is the growth equity fund of Providence Equity Partners. chatmeter private equity funding venture capital local search marketing reputation managementSan Diego-based Chatmeter , a provider of local search marketing and reputation management services for multi-location businesses, has raised a round of investment from private equity investor Providence Strategic Growth (PSG). Financial details of the investment were not announced. MORE
West Hollywood-based Casa Verde Capital said this week that it has raised $45M in its debut, investment fund, which will specifically invest in the "ancillary cannabis" industry. broadus calvin rapper snoop fund agtech cannabis investment venture capital verde casa MORE
Beverly Hills-based Kairos Venture Partners , which is led by General Manager James Demetriades, is looking to raise $250M in its third fund, Kairos Venture Partners III, L.P. According to the filing, the fund has yet to make its first sale in the new fund. kairos ventures venture capital fund technology transfer scientific advancement MORE
more in funding, the company announced on Tuesday. The funding came from prior investor Crosscut Ventures. The company said the new funding will go towards expanding its services. Los Angeles-based Retina has raised $2.5M Retina develops customer lifetime value software which companies used to determine how much their customers are worth to them, helping them to optimize their cost-per-acquisition. The company's CEO is Michael Greenberg. MORE
AOL co-founder and former chief executive officer Steve Case’s venture capital fund, Revolution , deploys capital to companies “outside of the hotbeds.” Today, Washington, DC-based Revolution is announcing its latest fund. MORE
VC funding. We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. MORE
Pasadena-based Thin Line Capital announced this morning that it has launched a brand new, energey and sustainability fund, which will invest in cleantech investing. The new firm, led by serial entrepnd investor Aaron Fyke, said its seed stage fund has had its first close of over $5 million. Thin Line Capital is linked with venture capital firm Wavemaker, which is partnering with Thin Line Capital to establish the new fund. MORE
Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The funding was led by LVP, and also included 1Up Ventures, Alpha Edison, Everblue Management, firstminute Capital, Greycroft Tracker Fund, Hearst Ventures and Third Kind Venture Capital. lifestyle capital venture funding seed mobile women games robin MORE
Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over twice as many companies, according the Crunchbase. funding sources super angels trends venture capital MORE
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JULY 3, 2019
Securities and Exchange Commission to raise its third growth-stage investment fund. One of the oldest VCs rooted in LA, Upfront previously closed on $400 million for its sixth flagship early-stage fund in 2017.
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
AOL co-founder and former chief executive officer Steve Case’s venture capital fund, Revolution , deploys capital to companies “outside of the hotbeds.” Today, Washington, DC-based Revolution is announcing its latest fund.
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MARCH 13, 2020
billion emergency funding package.” For families’ health security, #FamiliesFirst increases federal funds for Medicaid to support our local, state, tribal and territorial governments and health systems, so that they have the resources necessary to combat this crisis.
socalTECH
MARCH 12, 2020
Irvine-based Mica Energies announced Wednesday afternoon that it has received a seed funding, and says it is working on a "proof of concept" for ite technology, focused on harvesting radio frequencies from the environment. Source and amount of that seed funding was not announced. The company claimed that the seed funding values the company at $39M. mica energies seed funding venture capital radio frequency
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 5, 2020
I had originally signed up to talk about the “VC Market Trends” overall but it seemed inauthentic to speak about VC funding without addressing the virus in the room. So I wrote a brand new deck outlining some Upfront views on what we may see in the funding markets ahead.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 22, 2020
The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). For entrepreneurs, friends and family money usually represents the smallest increment of funding, yet requires the most time to manage.
socalTECH
APRIL 4, 2019
Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. The seed funding was worth $800K, and led by Moonshots Capital, and also included individual angels from the pet industry. According to eTailPet, the funding will go to accelerate its business. moonshot ecommerce petstore funding seed capital venture etailpet
socalTECH
MARCH 20, 2020
Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The funding was led by LVP, and also included 1Up Ventures, Alpha Edison, Everblue Management, firstminute Capital, Greycroft Tracker Fund, Hearst Ventures and Third Kind Venture Capital. lifestyle capital venture funding seed mobile women games robin
socalTECH
APRIL 4, 2019
Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. Size of the funding was not announced. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital. etailpet venture capital seed funding petstore ecommerce moonshot
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The funding was led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, and also included existing investors Andera Partners, Gimv, Legend Capital, NeoMed Management, RMM, Valiance Life Sciences and VI Partners. As part of the funding, Bain Capital's Andrew Hack, MD, Ph.D., The company said the new funding will supports it ongoing clinical program. Irvine-based JenaValve Technology , which develops aortic valve replacements, said last week that it has raised $50M in a financing round.
socalTECH
MARCH 2, 2020
Corona Del Mar-based Miramar Digital Ventures is in the midst of raising a new, $100M venture capital fund, according to a filing from the firm this week. According to the regulatory filing, the firm has raised $68.75M from 14 investors as part of an ongoing fundraising for the firm's second fund, Miramar Digital Ventures II, L.P. , in what appears to be the first close on the fund. No details on the fund have yet been released by the venture capital investment firm.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
capital venture social platform video funding strategicLos Angeles-based Vid , a startup developing a social video platform, announced late Monday that it has received a strategic investment from Ontology, a developer of blockchain technology. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. Vid--which has yet to launch its product--says it is developing a video journaling application, where data is secured through "zero-knowledge" encryption and which is powered by Blockchain.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 19, 2020
Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over twice as many companies, according the Crunchbase. funding sources super angels trends venture capital
socalTECH
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Los Angeles-based LegalMation , a startup which develops artificial intelligence and machine learning-based software for litigation and law practices, has raised a round of funding, according to the company. Size of the funding was not announced. litigation legal software learning machine intelligence artificial funding capital venture legalmation
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Virgin Group Richard Branson invests in M13’s $175 million fund
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
San Diego-based Clarify Medical , a developer of light-based systems for treating chronic skin conditions, has raised $18M in a new funding, according to investor H.I.G. Biohealth Partners said it was the co-lead on the funding, which it called a "commercialization round" for Clarify Medical. therapy light home commercialization funding capital venture medical clarify
socalTECH
MARCH 20, 2020
Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile lifestyle games aimed at women and others, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The funding was led by LVP, and also included 1Up Ventures, Alpha Edison, Everblue Management, firstminute Capital, Greycroft Tracker Fund, Hearst Ventures and Third Kind Venture Capital. robin games women mobile seed funding venture capital lifestyle
socalTECH
JANUARY 24, 2020
The company said the funding was led by Boston Millenia Partners, and also included existing investor Upfront Ventures. Glendale-based Reveleer , a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, has raised a Series C found of financing, the company said this week. Reveleer provides its software to healthcare payers, such as health plans and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), helping them to manage their risk quality and quality improvement programs.
socalTECH
JULY 10, 2019
Providence Strategic Growth is the growth equity fund of Providence Equity Partners. chatmeter private equity funding venture capital local search marketing reputation managementSan Diego-based Chatmeter , a provider of local search marketing and reputation management services for multi-location businesses, has raised a round of investment from private equity investor Providence Strategic Growth (PSG). Financial details of the investment were not announced.
socalTECH
MARCH 30, 2020
in funding for its cryptocurrency effort, which also included Blockchange Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, the Tezos Foundation, CoinShares, Digital Currency Group, and Capital Factory. Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in Zabo , a developer of software which helps financial institutions link bank accounts to cryptocurrency wallets. Zabo recently raised $2.5M
socalTECH
MARCH 10, 2020
The Orange County arm of Southern California's largest, angel investment group--the Tech Coast Angels --said today that it has opened up a new fund, the TCA OC Fund 20 , the first in a set of annual funds which will go to invest in startups in the region. According to the Tech Coast Angels Orange County (TCA OC), the fund will be replenished each year. The new fund will take investments from the TCA's accredited members only.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
Beverly Hills-based Kairos Venture Partners , which is led by General Manager James Demetriades, is looking to raise $250M in its third fund, Kairos Venture Partners III, L.P. According to the filing, the fund has yet to make its first sale in the new fund. kairos ventures venture capital fund technology transfer scientific advancement
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
healthcare lifescience testing diagnostic urology strategic equity private funding capital venture pathnosticsIrvine-based Pathnostics , which offers up diagnostics tests and services in for urology, women's health, gastroenterology and cancer, has received a strategic investment from Chicago-based private equity investor Water Street Healthcare Ventures, the companies said on Wednesday. Financial details of that investment were not announced.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
La Jolla-based biotechnology developer Avidity Biosciences , which is developing treatments for rare muscle disorders and other diseases, has raised $100M in a Series C funding, according to the company this morning. Avidity Biosciences said that Eli Lilly and Company also particpated in the funding, contributing $15M in connection with a research collaboration between the two companies. As part of the funding, RTW Investments managing partner Roderick T.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
more in funding, the company announced on Tuesday. The funding came from prior investor Crosscut Ventures. The company said the new funding will go towards expanding its services. Los Angeles-based Retina has raised $2.5M Retina develops customer lifetime value software which companies used to determine how much their customers are worth to them, helping them to optimize their cost-per-acquisition. The company's CEO is Michael Greenberg.
TechCrunch LA
MAY 23, 2019
The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund. The timing is ripe for a fund like ours to capitalize on the opportunity.”
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2014
We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund?
socalTECH
JANUARY 28, 2020
San Diego-based venture investor Finistere Ventures has just raised the first $65M in a funding round, which looks to be the first funds as part of an effort to raise $250M in total for the company's third fund, Finistere Ventures III, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. As expected, Finistere has not announced any of the details of the new fund, due to restrictions placed upon venture capital fundraising efforts by the SEC.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 20, 2015
VC funding. We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser.
socalTECH
MARCH 14, 2018
West Hollywood-based Casa Verde Capital said this week that it has raised $45M in its debut, investment fund, which will specifically invest in the "ancillary cannabis" industry. broadus calvin rapper snoop fund agtech cannabis investment venture capital verde casa
socalTECH
JULY 12, 2019
Laguna Hills-based Centercode , a developer of software used for managing product and customer testing efforts, has raised $4M as part of an ongoing, $6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company this week. Details on the funding have not yet been announced. hggc parallax capital venture testing customer product funding centercode
socalTECH
JANUARY 28, 2019
in what looks like a convertible note funding, based on a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding round, which is likely a bridge into a full equity funding, have not been announced. The funding was disclosed on Friday in a publicly available filing. According to the filing, the funding came from a single investor. heytutor venture capital convertible note funding investment scop market marketplace seed
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
San Diego-based SGI-DNA , a biotech company which is developing synthetic genomics and dna data storage technology, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Northpond Ventures, and also included Oxford Finance and BroadOak Capital partners. funding venture capital synthetic genomics syntheticgenomics analysis lifescience biotech biotechnology sequencing
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Irvine-based NGD Systems , a company developing "computational storage" devices which can run AI, machine learning, and analytics functions within data storage devices, has raised $20M in a Series C funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by MIG Capital, and also included Western Digital Capital Global, Ltd. the strategic investment fund of Western Digital Corp.), The company has now raised a total of $45M in funding.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Pasadena-based Thin Line Capital announced this morning that it has launched a brand new, energey and sustainability fund, which will invest in cleantech investing. The new firm, led by serial entrepnd investor Aaron Fyke, said its seed stage fund has had its first close of over $5 million. Thin Line Capital is linked with venture capital firm Wavemaker, which is partnering with Thin Line Capital to establish the new fund.
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