socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2009

San Diego News Network , an online, local community news site run by Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry, as well as former executives of the San Diego Union Tribune, has raised $707,220 in funding, part of a $2.0M funding effort by the company. The funding was disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Read on to find a financing option that suits you, whatever your business's specialism, needs, and financial profile, or jump to a specific funding type below. Grants can be used at the discretion of the business owner – from marketing to onboarding and beyond, but winners need to use the funds as they pledged to in their application.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nearly six years ago, I was thrilled to invest in Andrew Farah and the team at Density when they had a vision for building anonymous tracking of how people use office buildings, rentals and other public spaces. is changing the way companies, real estate leaders and employees think about and measure these major assets. turns out!?—?knowing

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Apple’s pivot to services has been a mixed bag, and the company is looking to expand the appeal of its Apple News service to a wider swath of free and paid subscribers. This week, the company rolled out a local newsletter in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing bundled local news curated by the Apple team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. A sample of three views is adequate.

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TechCrunch LA

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. — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) March 13, 2020.

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StartUp Beat

APRIL 16, 2024

Pitbull Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm founded by prominent investor Brad Zions, today announced the close of its $5M Fund I. The fund, which is looking to fuel the growth of pioneering startups in the region and take LA’s tech scene to new heights, invests in pre-seed AI-enabled vertical SAAS startups with early traction.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2015

San Diego-based stock messaging service Stocktwits has just raised a new funding, which the company said came from its existing investors, plus strategic Asian financial technology investors, and strategic investors in the fund and ETF business in North America. funding round. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2020

Content includes: Regeneron, Moderna, and J&J’s ongoing battle against COVID-19 How governments and the private sector must step up funding coronavirus R&D efforts Lessons learned from China two months on The need to rapidly ramp-up pandemic vaccine production capacity. Download the report here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Another firm funded them. Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2021

The company said the funding was a combination of cash and "media value". The funding came from The Craftory and Arcadian Capital Management, along with others. The company said those news funds will go to "normalize CBD" in health and wellness products, via scaling, strategic partners, and acquisitions.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? Lawrence Ng: Our biggest news was growing our global incubator, OnRamp. Lawrence C.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. If you don’t believe in your bones that you’re amazing then it’s no wonder you don’t want to sell them on making the investment.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In what is good news for Southern California's venture backed startups, one of the region's most active investors, Greycroft Partners , has raised $200M in its fourth fund. Greycroft says it now has 20 people, split between New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft says it now has 20 people, split between New York and Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

What''s Trending Now , the popular YouTube channel hosted by Shira Lazar, has raised more than $1M in a funding round. The funding came from YouTube network operator Bedrocket Media Ventures. Exact details of the investment were not announced. What''s Trending Now is based in Los Angeles.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? Yet, while many early-stage startups crumbled under the pressure, diamonds also emerged.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Lynda Weinman , the co-founder of online video education site Lynda.com , is one of the angel backers in a funding round for online education-technology news publisher EdSurge. edsurge education news analysis venture capital publishing content lynda weinman angel investment school' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Today's thoughts are from Lawrence Ng , who founded Oversee.net, and just launched the OnRamp Fund (onrampfund.com). What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year? Lawrence Ng: The big news for us was the launch of OnRamp Fund.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Phoenix communities are celebrating because JPMorgan Chase has made several local charitable investments to support underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses with the goal of creating jobs and spark a growing economy. Find business news, stories, insights and expert tips all in one place at Chase.com/forbusiness. .

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

News of the demise of Los Angeles venture capital fund The Mailroom Fund , the joint venture capital effort of Accel Partners, Venrock, the William Morris Agency and AT&T, is finally trickling out. Fund co-founder Paul Bricault recently surfaced at Greycroft Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

There has been much discussion about VCs doing seed funding in the past year. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. Short summary of my posts: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. A sample of three views is adequate.

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Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2018

Santa Monica-based Halogen Ventures , the female-focused venture capital fund run by Jesse Draper, has made an investment in email newsletter and millennial women's news source TheSkimm. TheSkimm is based in New York City. as part of its first fund, Halogen Ventures LP. Halogen Ventures recently raised $10.4M

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Congrats on funding. We make sure that content is available, and linked to current news stores. So, we start with that.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2022

Investment into alternative proteins, for example, plant-based meats and dairy substitutes was $5 billion in 2021, according to both the Good Food Institute and Crunchbase data. Additional participants in the round include returning investors VegInvest Trust, Tenacious Ventures, Cornucopian Capital and Good Protein Fund.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

The pair made a mix of early- and late-stage investments in Los Angeles-based companies like LegalZoom, Scopely, Art of Sport, The Honest Company, RingDNA, FocusMotion, DyshApp and Represent. Last year, the investment firm expanded with a $1.7 And Scopely’s official Twitter account shared a reaction, as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. Clutter is LA based and many of my friends invested. We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In the second big piece of news in Los Angeles from Chinese company Bytedance , Bytedance said on Friday that it will invest $50M in a Series B funding in Los Angeles-based Live.me , a developer of an online livestreaming service. is a subsidiary of Chinese company Cheetah Mobile.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Raising money as a first-time VC fund is hard.In Many of my friends who are VCs (and some friends who tried to raise a fund unsuccessfully) warned me that raising for a first-time fund would be very difficult. What was the biggest news for your firm in 2018? What was the biggest news for your firm in 2018?

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2010

In related news, the firm said it now has over 400,000 registered members on the site, and is getting around 30,000 new members per month. Taltopia is backed by $800K in angel funding; the firm said it is now actively seeking investors in a second round of funding. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

While a good idea can thrust you into the limelight and the right connections can boost your chances of success, startups need funding to survive. Fortunately, there are thousands of options for raising capital, from angel funds and VC firms to crowdfunding campaigns and looking through your couch cushions.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Just as my inbox has been full of cannabis-related pitches, it’s also been packed with descriptions of new…drinks. Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. More Labs, for example, is backed with $8 million in VC funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Santa Monica-based Affordit , an online site which allows low income consumers to buy electronics on installment, rather than through an outright purchase, has raised a round of angel funding. News of the funding came through an interview with Brian Garrett of Crosscut Ventures in this publication.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2018

funding round, so we though we'd catch up with one of its co-founders, Brett Crosby , to learn more about the new funding and the company's growth. That's our bigest news. We also announced we have now funded over $900M in loans, which if you remember, only eight months ago we had announced we had $300M in loan volume.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2013

The coworking trend--which started in part in Southern California and its high tech startup ecosystem--looks to be spreading East, with news this week that NextSpace has raised $500,000 and acquired a Chicago company, to establish its first coworking site outside of California.

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