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JULY 1, 2013

Has Los Angeles finally made it as a technology hub? Last week I had the pleasure of spending time at the various Silicon Beach Fest activities in Santa Monica. My conclusion: Los Angeles is a serious tech hub. But overall, the quality of the new companies being funded has improved dramatically.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Location: Cross Campus 929 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, CA 90401 Date: Thursday March 28, 2019 Time: 5:30pm-8:30pm Speakers: Moderator: Joe Daniels, McCarter and English Robert Mai, Scopus Ventures Andrew Ly, Angel Investor Brandon Maier, Quake Capital Mark Linao, AET Fund Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital Richard Sussman, Nordic Eye VC.

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JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Based in Santa Monica, California and founded by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel, ParkMe , a leading provider of parking information to navigation companies and smartphones to simplify parking using dynamic and real-time parking data has partnered with Los Angeles and Santa Monica cities to help motorists find available parking quickly.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based VY Esports , a new startup focused on connecting esports, brands, and media companies, said on Thursday that it has raised a seed funding round. Size of the funding was not announced. Blair Ford of Raine Ventures joins the company's board as part of the funding. VY Esports is led by Oleg Butenko.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Power Supply , a food startup which provides weekly menus from chefs to local customers for pickup at local locations and gyms, has raised $5M in a seed funding, the company disclosed Wednesday. The funding came from Upfront Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Santa Monica-based Surf Air , the startup, membership-based airline, has raised $9.1M more in the first part of an ongoing funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company on Thursday. funding round, with at least four investors participating in the new funding round. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Los Angeles-based membership-based airline Surf Air said today that it has raised a Series B round of funding, and also received its FAA Operating Certificate -- a huge step in getting the company''s services off the ground. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital has raised $45 million for its third fund, Mucker III. The Silicon Beach firm said that it will continue to invest in software and services startups and continue to focus on the greater Los Angeles area. “We are founders, just like the… Read More.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Good Eggs , an online, local grocery delivery service which has been piloting its services in Los Angeles, has raised $8.5M in a funding round from Sequoia Capital, the company said Thursday. The company is based in San Francisco, and also has been piloting its service in Brooklyn and New Orleans.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Los Angeles- and Chicago-based venture capital firm MK Capital is the lead investor in Texas-based ReachForce , a provider of data quality software for marketers. GSA Venture Partners (formerly Greenhill SAVP) also participated in the funding. MK Capital has its Los Angeles offices in Santa Monica.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based cloud-based talent management software solutions firm with over 13 million users, Cornerstone OnDemand has launched Cornerstone Innovation Fund , to invest in disruptive LA-based cloud startups building cutting-edge solutions for organizations. Applications to the fund are now open and available online here.

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JULY 11, 2012

A virtual currently startup, Pocket Change , with links to Southern California has just raised $5M more in funding. The new round apparently was led by Google Ventures, and also included former investors First Round Capital, Baroda Ventures, and angels, including Los Angeles investors Mike Jones of Science Inc.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , which operates a network of "last mile" electric vehicles for connecting users with public transportation like buses and subways, has raised $100M in a Series B funding, the company said on Friday. City Operations. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 6, 2012

The startup--which is developing a subscription-based, all-you-can-fly airline which connects Palo Alto and Los Angeles--did not announce the size of the round, which is rumored to be somewhere in the range of $14M.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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MAY 18, 2015

Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital , the seed stage investment fund led by Erik Rannala and William Hsu, has just booted up fundraising efforts for the group's third venture capital fund, Mucker III, L.P. The filing indicates that Mucker Capital is looking to raised $50M in the new fund.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

In an unusual move, Santa Monica game development studio Naughty Dog is donating all of the proceeds of its "Limited Run" sales of four games--Jak and Daxter, Jak 2, Jak 3, and Jak X: Combat Racing--to charitable organizations, including at least one in the Los Angeles area.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

That’s right folks, we are now just a day away from Los Angeles Startup Weekend held at Coloft in Santa Monica. The February Startup Weekend was stated to “The Best Los Angeles Startup Weekend (LASW)&# ever, now I have a hunch that this upcoming LASW will surpass it in awesome.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Santa Monica-babsed Tyffon , a developer of immersive entertainment technology started in Japan, said this morning that it has raised $2.17M in a funding round, to set up its first location in Los Angeles. The first interactive experience will be at a location somewhere in Los Angeles.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Santa Monica-based TenantBase , which is developing a technology-enabled, commercial real estate brokerage firm, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $10.7M in a funding round. The company said it will use the funding to accelerate technology and brokerage hires, plus for nationwide expansion. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners announced this morning that it has raised a fourth fund, worth $200M, and also renamed the firm Upfront Ventures. upfront ventures partners venture capital fund startup msuster suster launchpadla' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active , organized angel investment group, has a goal: cut down the time it takes to fund a startup presenting to the organization.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based Launchpad LA , the business acceleration program headed up by Mark Suster of GRP Partners, said today that it has expanded the program, and added $50,000 in funding for startups in the program, plus actual physical office space. The acceleration progrma has set up space in Santa Monica.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

San Francisco-based Livefyre , one of the many companies backed by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig , has scored a new round of funding, the firm said today. Paige Craig is now heading up Santa Monica-based BetterWorks. LiveFyre said it raised $4.5M READ MORE>>.

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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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MARCH 9, 2018

” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based “It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.”

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MARCH 9, 2018

” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based “It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.”

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AUGUST 5, 2013

One of the hotter topics at the last Silicon Beach Fest (SBF) in Santa Monica was the exodus of homegrown tech talent. The idea with the most momentum was an effort to change the tax code to offer greater incentives for startups and venture funds to headquarter in L.A. Some refer to it as “brain drain.” And for good reason.

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MARCH 10, 2014

A new, Los Angeles-based venture capital firm-- TYLT Lab --said Monday that it has raised $20M in an initial close towards its early stage, seed investment fund. The venture capital fund was founded by Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale. The venture capital fund was founded by Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Allan Jones’s first startup was Fourth and Grand , a Trunk Club-like service backed by the venture studio and accelerator, Science, out of Santa Monica. “When I was a kid my dad owned a small minimarket and got sued for wrongful termination and he had to dip into my college education fund.”

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Another, new venture capital firm, with an office in Los Angeles, NordicEye , has set up an office in Santa Monica, and has been targeting investments in the growing Silicon Beach region.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Los Angeles-based online employment marketplace operator ZipRecruiter says it is expanding into a brand new headquarters in Los Angeles, as it says it has hit nearly 1,000 employees. ZipRecruiter has taken over the space that has previously held Google and ROC on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. For the past 2.5 Report Card.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Are you one of the companies in Los Angeles that just doesn't have enough parking for your employees? One of the on-demand, parking services that serves Los Angeles Zirx , said this morning that it is specifically looking to solve those issues for companies, with the launch of a new service.

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APRIL 10, 2017

Santa Monica- and Singapore-based Wavemaker Partners is one of the investors in Saleswhale , a Singapore startup developing artificial intelligence software for managing sales leads and sales conversations. in a seed funding over the weekend, which came from Monk's Hill Ventures, Gree Ventures, and Wavemaker Partners.

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