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AUGUST 5, 2013

in an equity funding, the firm said this morning. The funding came from Karmel Capital and others. The company said the new funding will go towards product development, sales, and marketing. The devices include both a surveillance camera and wireless, mesh network hub. The company is headed by Aaron Tankersley.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

San Diego-based Rio SEO , the local search software development arm of Covario, said Wednesday that it has raised a new round of funding to take the company independent. The new funding comes after the rest of Covario was sold to Dentsu Aegis Network. Size and details of that investment were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , a content delivery network (CDN) provider, is announcing today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. The new funding will go towards developing and launching new value-added services, expand its network, and for sales and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2013

in a new, Series C funding, the company said this morning. According to Tealium, the new funding comes from Tenaya Capital, Battery Ventures and Presidio Ventures. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $27M. The firm did not disclose actual financial details of that increase, however.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Riot Ventures , the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

San Diego-based Active Network , which operates a network of sports and community registration sites and offers up other related software products, said today along with school photography firm Lifetouch National School Studios Inc. that they have teamed up to create online stores for school yearbook sales. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. Tags: rubicon project news audience network merger acquisition venture capital advertising.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. You are self funded too, we recall.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Very few people fund individuals. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. If you’re really an entrepreneur you’ll find a way to network with the right people. Team: You need a team.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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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. The second piece, is we distribute that across search engines and social networks. That's what we are finding.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

But I continue to learn that there are a host of other factors, maybe not even related to you or your business, that could keep you from getting the funding that you need. Almost 80% of the funding handed out in the US consistently comes from these three locations. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

San Diego-based PacketSled , a developer of cybersecurity monitoring software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, the company announced today. The funding was led by Keshif Ventures, and also included Blu Ventures and JHS Ventures. The company said the funding goes towards hiring in the areas of sales, marketing, and its product.

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JULY 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network EdgeCast has just filled up its warchest, announcing Thursday that it has raised $54M in a big funding round. The new funding was led by Performance Equity Management, and also included existing investors Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 3, 2015

However, that process really hasn''t taken advantage of today''s mobile, always-connected, socially networked world. It''s meant to help moms get stuff done quickly, by leveraging their network. I ran operations, strategy, sales, and technology for the online division of Warner Bros. Why did you start the company?

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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. VC’s often talk about this term as in the total amount of funds EVER raised by that VC. What is a VC fund? What is total assets under management? -

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JANUARY 2, 2013

San Diego-based Independa , the developer of electronics products and software to help seniors live independently longer, has raised $5M in its Series A funding round, the firm announced this morning. The firm said the funding came from City Hill Ventures, strategic partner LG Electronics USA, and other investors.

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MAY 3, 2022

However, although they are providing such significant value, a lot of them operate with limited funding and resources, which ultimately affects the customer experience. All of this is courtesy of a new $1 million seed extension from initial seed leads The Artemis Fund and Mercury Fund, with Bracken P.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

providing freshly packaged salads, heat-and-eat prepared meals and vegan overnight oats, raised $7 million in funding as it goes after the $34 billion fresh prepared foods market. Positive Food’s vertical integration technology is mainly done in-house, including production and a cold-chain logistics network. Positive Food Co.,

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Cylane said it had hired two Enterprise Sales Manager, a Regional Channel Manager, and three Sales Engineers, all for the Australia and New Zealand region. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based Kuapay , a new startup aiming at the mobile payments and loyalty markets, has scored $2M in funding, the firm has disclosed. The startup is headed by Joaquin Ayuso de Paul, one of the angel investors in Border Stylo and co-founder of Spanish social network Tuenti.com (acquired by Telefonica). READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based online content developer Machinima said Thursday that it has laid off 42 people at the company, all from its sales force, as the company continues to struggle with low ad rates and the large chunk of revenues that are claimed by Google from multi-channel networks. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

One Kings Lane , an online, flash home furnishing retailer which has offices and one of its founders (Susan Feldman) in Los Angeles, disclosed that it has raised $112M in a Series E funding round. The funding comes on top of an earlier $117M raised by the company in prior rounds.

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MARCH 16, 2014

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Concentrate elsewhere on the near-term marketing activities (which are also expensive) for this round of funding. business entrepreneur funding marketing budget mission startup' Marty Zwilling.

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MAY 21, 2019

Sales of headsets in the fourth quarter of 2018 topped 1 million for the first time and new, low cost all-in-one models may further move the needle on adoption. In fact, AmazeVR has already partnered with LG U+, the telecommunications network arm of LG to produce virtual reality content. The company was formed and financed with $6.3

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JUNE 19, 2013

But, it looks like being a seed investor has paid off for at least one local investor, Baroda Ventures , the venture capital investment fund owned by GeoCities founder David Bohnett. Baroda was a very early investor in Fab.com , which just today raised $150M in funding at a $1 billion valuation. and oversease. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2011

Torrance-based PixelFish , which provides online video marketing products to local businesses, announced Thursday that it has raised $4M in a funding round. PixelFish said the funding will go towards sales, marketing, and technology. The firm is headed by John McIntyre. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? Krisztina Holly: We are an early stage fund, known for our ability to discovery and cultivate very complex science and technology deals. We just launched a third, $100M fund focused on seed to Series A investments in transformative science and technology companies.

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JULY 31, 2013

Irvine-based Zadara Storage , which develops cloud connected, block and file-based storage devices for the enterprise, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company said today. Zadara said the funding came from Toshiba America Electronics Components. Zadara Storage said the funding will go towards sales, support, and engineering.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

funding round for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The filing indicates the round had a first sale on February 17th. mEgo allows users to create their own online avatars, used for social networking websites.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Sean McDonald is founder of Jute Networks (www.jutenetworks.com), which is in a startup developing highly visual, graphical tools to help people use their professional networks and connections to further their business. What is Jute Networks? Our company, Jute Networks, is a startup that is about a year and a half old.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With each sale, 70% of money raised goes toward a cause of the athlete’s choice. Causes currently listed on the website include Milwaukee Freedom Fund, Girls and Boys Club of Portland and With Us Foundation. The remaining 30% goes to Mov employees and operations.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2013

How do you judge a company’s prospects, if a corporate business-to-business sale has to be your game? Just to be up front, as an investor, I am allergic to companies which rely on making potentially huge sales to corporate clients. The great advantage of the B2B market is the potentially huge size of revenues from just one sale.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The accelerator said that the demo day is a culmination of its latest three month program, which included ten new companies in mentoring, collaboration, funding, and access to its network of investors and entrepreneurs.

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AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. You may have leverage when you DO need to fund raise. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One Kings Lane , the online, home furnishings flash sales site which splits its operations between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, said today that it has snagged former Zappos.com CTO Arun Rajan as its new Chief Technology Officer. The firm just announced $112M in funding. Rajan had been CTO at Zappos for the last four years.

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