Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The firm said its team comes from LowerMyBills.com, Mahalo, and HUGE. Tags: shopnation venture capital funding launchpadla fashion shopping ecommerce. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Jason Calacanis , the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in a mobile social networking service, Gowalla , the company said today. Series B funding for the firm. Series B funding for the firm. Calacanis is also an investor in Gdgt.com and ChallengePost.com.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Calacanis, who lives in Santa Monica where he runs Mahalo , apparently has invested in Dyn , which operates a managed DNS and email delivery service, used by such clients as Twitter, Zappos, CNBC and Pandora. The investment came as part of a $38M, Series A fund which has been led by North Bridge, as well as Borealis Ventures.

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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 (..)

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From the Venture Trenches

MAY 21, 2013

This is particularly true if you have never raised investment capital before and do not have a record of exists like Calacanis. Calacanis can champion his new company, Inside.com to potential investors because he is widely known throughout the VC community and already has a string of A players who have baked his other startups such as Mahalo.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.,

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