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MAY 10, 2011

Carlsbad-based Scentsa , a developer of an out-of-home advertising network, has scored a Series A funding from San Diego private equity fund Huntington Capital , Huntington said Tuesday. Size of the equity funding deal was not disclosed. The funding by Huntington was led by Tim Bubnack. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2012

Monday, August 13, 2012 -- Tech Coast Angels (TCA) - Southern California Tech Company Screening. Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor network in the United States and one of the leading sources of funding to early-stage companies in Southern California.

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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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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Robotoki , a Los Angeles-based game developer headed by Robert Bowling, formerly working on Call of Duty, has raised a funding round from NEXON Co., Nexon said the investment will go towards developing games based on Robotoki's multi-screen, cross-platform games. Nexon said today. Financial details of the investment were not announced.

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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. One of the most important aims of a fund-raising process is to keep similar firms at the same stage of your process. Why 8–10 and not just 3–4?

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Los Angeles-based rental screening app developer HomeMe dislosed this morning that it has raised $3.2M in a funding round. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures. HomeMe develops a mobile app which lets renters find apartments, and then get pre-approval for those apartments. The company is led by Steelhouse founder Mark Douglas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

First, no matter what anybody tells you (people don’t want to believe that we’re influenced by the crowd), social proof is hugely important in fund raising. So even if you’re not getting funded by everybody you’re instantly on the who’s who radar of the investment world. So how does this apply to you?

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Bolstering Freebinar's efforts is new funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Financial details of that funding were not disclosed, however, CEO Costin Tuculescu confirmed that it just saw a first close on its Series A. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Access 360 Media , a New York-based digital advertising firm with operations in Los Angeles, said Wednesday that it has raised $12M more in a Series C funding round. The firm said the funding will go towards acquisitions, new hires, and organic growth. Access 360 provides out-of-home advertising on kiosks and screens at retailers.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Tech Coast Angels announced this morning that it has had a first close on its Angel Capital Entrepreneurial (ACE) Fund 1, the firm's new early-stage investment fund. The fund--which has been in the works since last year--is aimed at making it easier for the TCA to move quickly to invest in companies. fundraising.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

There is a mythology amongst some LPs (funds that invest in VCs) and some VCs that “entry price doesn’t matter – only investing in the absolute best entrepreneurs.” Bimodal returns are a fallacy, many great VC funds are built on the power law curve. Being a radar screen of a buyer helps.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Irvine-based NeoMatrix , a developer of a noninvasive breast cancer screening device, said Friday that it has completed a C2 funding round, worth $15M. According to the firm, the round was oversubscribed, exceeding an initial target of $10M in the new funding round. Investors in the round were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

in a funding round. The funding was led by Mucker Capital. According to the company, the funding will go towards global expansion of its product, Jurny Virtual. The startup is led by Luca Zambello, Co-Founder and CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Your friends and advisers tell you that this means you need revenue because in this economy VC’s will only fund businesses with revenue. Now there are some firms that have strict rules about not funding pre-revenue companies – that’s different. Fund raising is an ongoing process and not an event on a workplan.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based District2 , a startup which is developing a business-to-business marketplace for fashion suppliers and designers, has raised a round of equity funding, from Saandaga Capital Corporation. Size of the funding was not announced. The startup wa part of the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Precellerator program.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works. . brb walking out.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In designing GUI interfaces for people coming from the green-screen world we built applications that would be great for desktop publishing, not customer service reps. You can always hide complexity into configuration screens rather than the out-of-the-box features.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. Sending out a follow up deck with a lot of images is silly – no one remembers the “meat.&# But writing lots of words on a slide you put up on a big screen so that later people will be able to understand what you said is also suboptimal. Far more expedient. Big pet peeve.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based DataPop , the developer of advertising targeting technology headed byJason Lehmbeck, has raised $7M in a Series B funding round, the firm said today. The funding was led by MK Capital, and also included prior investors Rincon Ventures, IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, and Accelerator Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. What is the Pipeline Fellowship?

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AUGUST 20, 2010

What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. What we find, especially in the mobile world, is you've only got one or two screens to get a consumer to make a purchase, before they abandon the visit. How is the company funded?

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of a cross-screen advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $13M in a new funding round. According to the company, the second round of funding came from S3 Ventures, Performance Edge Partners and Zeitgeist Capital.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which supplies ad optimization software to web publishers, announced today that it has released a new version of its VANTAGE Firefox browser plug-in, which helps provide its publishers with revenue and impressoin statistics and other information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. Amount of funding provided is usually not enough. Investors are not prepared for the high risk of startups.

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Berkonomics

JULY 17, 2014

Sometimes, you will have an opportunity to present to several levels of an investor organization, from first prescreening, to a screening session with many present, to the final meeting of the members or partners. Plan to incorporate the appropriate responses to earlier questions in the presentation to avoid those being repeated.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

PICS Auditing , a software-as-a-service developer which provides contractor screening and credentialing software, has raised $35M in a funding round, the firm sai dtoday. The minority funding came from Norwest Venture Partners. PICS said the new funding will go towards expansion into new sectors and geographies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. Amount of funding provided is usually not enough. Many fail spectacularly after exceeding their funding objectives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2023

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?” Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Yet according to the latest data from AngelSoft , only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” are eliminated during due diligence.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2013

Pixicle, a photo sharing device that makes it easy for users to view photos with their friends and family on the big screen instead of the frustrating smartphone screen passed around the room has raised $10K of its $38K Indiegogo goal to make photo viewing less strenuous. Why do you need the funds? How much are you raising?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Irvine-based medical equipment maker Masimo said today that it has received $4.95M in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Masimo said the grant will go towards its efforts to develop a low-cost, pulse oximeter for use in pneumonia screening outside the U.S. Masimo said the device is still in development.

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JULY 15, 2010

If so, you very likely watched in on a RealD-enabled movie screen. Evolver--funded by Rho Ventures--is applying 3D animation software to the avatar creation market, under the leadership of Brian Nilles, who last headed 3D motion capture firm Vicon Motion Capture. . RealD - Los Angeles- Michael Lewis, CEO [ profile ].

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

No investor wants to wait that long for his return, or fund the years of waiting. If the entrepreneur and team were that proven, they probably would be funding others rather than asking for money. A world-class CEO will be joining us after the funding event.” Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.”

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Venice, California-based startup Vyng , which develops software which turns calls from friends into cute "video ringtones" that show up on your lock screen when a friend calls, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said on Thursday.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. I told him that he needed to ship product before we could fund it. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. I LOVED the first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2013

The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?” entrepreneur startup funding angel investors presentation business' Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation. Marty Zwilling.

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