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AUGUST 26, 2019

CrowdStrike , the cloud-based cybersecurity software developer which has substantial operations in Orange County, said today that it has launched a new, early stage investment fund called the Falcon Fund. The new fund will make seed and Series A investments, according to the company.

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JULY 11, 2018

Pegasus Solar , the startup developing rooftop mounting systems for solar installations which is backed by Orange County's Okapi Ventures, has raised new funding, bringing its total raised to $10M in its Series A. The company announced the additional funding on Tuesday.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Startups in the Internet-of-Things (IoT), analytics, and security areas looking to join the EvoNexus startup incubator, need to submit their applications by Friday, August 23rd, according to the startup incubator. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2021

Capsule--a well funded, venture funded startup with more than $270M in funding and backing from TCV, Thrive Capital, and Glade Brook Capital, as well as local investors M13 and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures--has expanded into Los Angeles, part of a big expansion push by the company.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Orange County-based fintech startup Happy Money, which operates a service to help consumers better manage their money and pay off credit card debt, says it has named Jeff Winner as the company's Interim CEO. The company said its founder, Scott Saunders, will remain Chairman of the company.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Laguna Hills-based See Jane Go , a startup which operates a ridesharing service driven by, and which serves just women, has raised $2.47M in an angel funding, the company said Tuesday. See Jane Go currently offers it service in Orange County and Long Beach, with plans to expand to the rest of Southern California using the funding.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Grocery delivery startup Good Eggs is announcing that it has raised $100 million in new funding, and that it’s planning to launch in Southern California in either the summer or fall of this year. “I think of [Southern California] not as one big region, but as several small sub-regions,” Hall said.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Irvine-based Mavenlink , a startup which develops business process management software and related tools for services businesses, has raised $48M more, in a Series E funding round. The funding came from Carrick Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2019

Furniture subscription rental service, Feather , is heading to Los Angeles and Orange County, California with $12 million in new funding and “thousands” of customers in New York and San Francisco. Deliveries to Feather’s new, LA and Orange County geographies will begin on May 20.

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MAY 11, 2017

Liqid said Wednesday that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding, in a round from Market Hill Capital, and also included Phison Electronics Corporation. Kingston Technology is an Orange County-based maker of flash memory cards and solid state storage. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Orange County-based KGrid , a cleantech startup working on electric car charging stations, said it has received an investment from German utility RWE , via RWE New Ventures LLC. Financial terms of the investment were not announced.

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JUNE 13, 2019

San Diego-based Atlazo , a startup developing systems-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors aimed at used in healthcare and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, has raised $3.4M in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. in the round. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2017

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) has just received $5M to fund a new initiative, called Energize California , to help boost clean technology startups.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Last week, a group of four angel investors here announced their plans to create a new, accelerator program to spur the creation of an entrepreneurial community in the area around new startups. We spoke with two of the founder of K5Launch, Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, to learn more about their efforts to start up its accelerator here.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Are you a startup looking to find funding in Southern California? It's often tough to figure exactly who the venture capital funds are who are funding startups in the area. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Ever wonder what the origins were of some of the most successful local startups? Look no further than the seed round pitch deck for SendGrid , one of the biggest exits of a company founded in Orange County in recent years. SendGrid had a successful IPO in 2017 , and was acquired for $3 billion in February. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2019

Feather , an online, furniture rental service which lets people subscribe to gain access to fashionable furniture, said on Tuesday that is expanding its service to Los Angeles and Orange County. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2017

The report tallied up $926.4M invested across 71 deals in Q2 of 2017 in LA and Orange County, and $202.37M invested in San Diego for the quarter across 32 deals. Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M invested in Q4, with San Diego also up from $175.73M in Q4. Nationally, investors invested $13.9

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region.

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APRIL 5, 2018

OCTANe , the industry group which focuses on Orange County life sciences and technology companies, and the California Life Sciences Association (CLSA), said on Wednesday they are launching a new Life Sciences Growth Accelerator Program , which it says will help emerging life sciences companies. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2016

Vinny Smith , the founder of Orange County's Quest Software , has put his backing behind a new data integration sofware startup, Grow. Grow said this week that it has raised $11M in a Series A funding, which came from Toba Capital, the investment funding company run by Smith. Grow is based in Utah.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Preact , a developer of software to help software companies reduce churn in their subscription customers which came out of Los Angeles-based startup incubator/accelerator Launchpad LA , has raised $4.6M in a funding round. The company said the funding came from Trinity Ventures. The company is now based in San Francisco.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Vinny Smith , the former CEO of Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software , appears to have become one of the most active investors in recent months in enterprise software, after starting up a new venture capital firm, Toba Capital. Vinny Smith formed Toba Capital from his gains for selling Quest Software to Dell in September, for $2.4

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MAY 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based Survios , a developer of virtual reality technology, announced Monday that it has raised $4M in a Series A venture funding round. The startup was spawned out of Project Holodeck, a demonstration effort at an Orange County virtual reality conference.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Orange County, Calif. Earlier this year, Postmates raised an additional $100 million in equity funding at a $1.85 For now, the company’s party feature will only be offered in a handful of the nearly 3,000 U.S. and Philadelphia.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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JUNE 22, 2012

Santa Monica-based BlockBeacon , a new, venture backed startup developing mobile applications to help connect users with local restaurants and bars, has released a new iPhone app aimed at helping locals discover interesting, socially active places nearby.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Sherman Oaks-based SERVIZ , a new, on-demand home services startup led by ReachLocal founder Zorik Gordon, said Wednesday that it is connecting consumers with holiday lighting installation services--and also revealed a funding round from Groupon. The startup said it raised $10.7M

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

The data consistently confirms that: (i) venture capitalists are typically not adventuresome, and (ii) most startups lack the three intoxicating factors which cause venture capitalists to pull out their checkbooks. The Three Enthralling Factors Of Venture Funding. LOCATION: I Wish They All Could Be California Companies.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Irvine-based Pivotshare , a new startup offering up a service to help content creators publish and monetize their video or audio via subscription or pay-per-view, said today that it has raised $1M in a Series A funding. The company was founded by Adam Mosam.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

in a new funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Venturs, and Accel partners. HelloTech said it will use the funding to aggressively expand its tech support service. As part of the funding, Len Jordan of Madrona Venture Group joins the company's board.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker are no strangers to the world of high tech startups and angel and venture capital--Risheq was formerly CEO of Celllynx, Thacker was co-founder at Datallegro--but the way they're funding their newest startup is unusual, and a testament to the growing popularity of crowdfunding.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. Los Angeles has a diverse area of startups.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

The financing came from the Tech Coast Angel''s ACE Fund, as well as angel investors from Orange County. The startup--led by Mark Nielsen--it targeting utilities, municipalities, and academic institutions with its product.

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APRIL 14, 2016

Southern California startups raised $810.5M in funds invested, across 47 deals; Orange County had $158M invested across 15 deals; and San Diego had $253.5M funding round, and $60M in Ventura-based advertising technology developer TradeDesk. Southern California venture totals were down significantly from the $1.38

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Cylance , a new security startup based in Irvine, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round. Foundstone was a provider of intrusion prevention software and related services; fellow co-founder George Kurtz has his own, security startup, Crowdstrike, which raised $26M in February of last year. Fallon, U.S.

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