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JULY 10, 2018

Los Angeles- and London-based MTech Capital , a brand new venture capital fund focused on the insurance technology, or "InsureTech" market, says it has raised a new, $75M venture capital fund. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fisker , the new developer of electric vehicle and solid state battery technology which was crated by Fisker Automotive founder's Henrik Fisker, has received a strategic investment from Caterpillar Venture Capital. According to Fisker the funding will go towards the development of its solid state battery technology.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Santa Barbara- and New York-based Lead Edge Capital, a private equity investor which focuses on growth stage investments in technology companies, said on Wednesday that it has raised $150M in a new fund. According to the company, the new fund will be used for public equity investments.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Santa Barbara-based Live Data Technologies said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. Source of the funding was not announced. The company says it is developing software to verify B2B contact data for people, tracking people as they move jobs.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Santa Monica-based Luxury Travel Hackers said today that it has launched a new company, focused on helping the "mobile millennial" book "influencer-curated" trips via social media, with a seed funding. Size of the funding was not announced. According to Luxury Travel Hackers, the funding was led by Thomas B.

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MAY 25, 2021

Monrovia, California-based SiLC Technologies, a developer of machine vision tools, says it has raised $17M in a Series A funding round. The company says it has now raised $30M in total, including an earlier, $12M seed funding last year.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a move which adds some additional capital to the Los Angeles clean technology market, utility company Southern California Gas Company said Thursday that it has created a new, $1M innovation fund to help companies develop clean technology. socalgas company utility investment fund cleantech incubator accelerator laci'

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Santa Monica-based early stage venture fund UP.Partners launched its inaugural $230 million fund focused on mobility technology, the company announced on Oct.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based rocket and spacecraft developer SpaceX has acquired Swarm Technologies, a developer of "smallsat" (small satellite) technology. Swarm had raised about $25M in total funding. Financial terms of the buy were not announced, and no details of the acquisition were announced. Swarm has a network of 120.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. ” TAE Technologies Michl Binderbauer standing next to the company’s novel fusion reactor. .”

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Newport Beach-based OnSite Waste Technologies has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding round, according to the company. The funding round was led by Mark IV Capital, which also is based in Newport Beach. The startup says it is developing technology for immediate sterilization of medical waste.

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JULY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Fifth Wall Ventures , an investor in real estate-related technology, says it has raised $503M for its second fund, Fifth Wall Ventures II.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. Technology pilots. They believe in you above all else.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

San Diego-based Dexcom, which develops equipment for continuous glucose monitoring for people with diabetes, has launched its own venture capital fund, Dexcom Ventures. The new fund specifically is aiming at initiatives in glucose sensing technologies and in adjacent fields of metabolic monitoring.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pasadena-based Thin Line Capital announced this morning that it has launched a brand new, energey and sustainability fund, which will invest in cleantech investing. The new firm, led by serial entrepnd investor Aaron Fyke, said its seed stage fund has had its first close of over $5 million.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Wavemaker Partners, the investment firm which has oeprations both in Los Angeles as well as Singapore, has launched a new climate and sustainability fund, Wavemaker Impact. According to the new fund, it is currently raising $25M for its new fund, which will focus on startups which are looking at climate technology and sustainability.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Huntington beach-based Newlight Technologies , a developer of an ocean-degradable biopolymer, which can be used like plastic but decays with exposure to seawater, has raised $45M in the company's Series F funding round. The funding came from private equity firm Valedor Partners, as well as GrayArch Partners.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

San Diego-based MicroPower Technologies , which develops wireless, solar-powered surveillance hardware, has raised $5.7M 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.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this morning that it has raised a new, $675M fund. The company said its new fund, Diversis Capital Partners II, exceeded its target of $500M. The new fund is led by Managing Partners Ron Nayot and Kevin Ma.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Newport Beach-based startup OnSite Waste Technologies , which is developing counter-top, on-site medical waste sterilization products, says it has signed on a supplier of products for the senior living industry. in a Series A funding round last week. OnSite Waste just announced a $3.5M READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Now it’s picking up some funding along with an endorsement Europe to further its growth. The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. The funding from the EIB ticks a couple of different boxes for the EU.

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MARCH 26, 2014

Los Angeles-based MediaAlpha , a developer of performance-based, real-time bidding advertising technology specifically aimed at insurance ads, has raised a round of funding and launch of its product. which will go towards its advertising technology platform. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Carlsbad-based Airspace Technologies , which is developing technology for the logistics market, says it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Defy, and also included Qualcomm Ventures (the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated), Cross Culture Ventures, and Schematic Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Levine Leichtman announced this morning that one of its portfolio companies, BigHand Ltd, has acquired legal software developer Iridium Technology from private equity investor Polaris Growth Fund. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 6, 2020

Welcome Technologies, a Brentwood-based software technology company, raised an additional $8 million in institutional funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined a long time ago from a funding perspective. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Funding or rollout stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Restaurant Revolution Technologies , a firm developing restaurant order management technology, has raised a round of venture funding, according to BR Venture Fund , a MBA student run venture capital fund based out of Cornell University. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 11, 2021

raised $20 million in a Series A funding round toward the development of its hologram technology. TetaVi USA Inc.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Irvine-based Mica Energies announced Wednesday afternoon that it has received a seed funding, and says it is working on a "proof of concept" for ite technology, focused on harvesting radio frequencies from the environment. Source and amount of that seed funding was not announced.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Santa Barbara-based C-Zero, a startup developing natural gas decarbonization technology--based on research out of UCSB--has raised $11.5M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The company said the funding will go towards accelerating its first commercial-scale deployment of its technology.

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MARCH 14, 2018

West Hollywood-based Casa Verde Capital said this week that it has raised $45M in its debut, investment fund, which will specifically invest in the "ancillary cannabis" industry.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Santa Barbara-based NEXT Energy Technologies, a developer of a transparent, photovoltaic coating which turns commercial windows into energy producing solar panels, has raised $13.4M in a Series C funding. The funding was led by Alon Blue Square Israel, Ltd.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Los Angeles-based Impervios Technologies, a developer of a software layer built on Bitcoin to enable "cryptographically secure, streaming, and censorship-resistant applications", said on Friday that it has raised a pre-seed financing. Size of the funding was not announced.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles-based Flo Technologies , a new startup in the water monitoring and conservation area, said on Monday that it has launched a new device and system which uses artificial intelligence and a special sensor to monitor what going on with a home's water system. The startup was founded by mechanical engineer Henry Halimi. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

Food Rocket has taken an unconventional route, striking a funding deal with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. The new $25 million in Series A investment, led by Alimentation Couche-Tard via its Circle K Venture Fund, will enable Food Rocket to deliver in 26 countries and territories, including more than 7,000 U.S.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

San Diego-based Genalyte, a developer of laboratory diagnostics and analytics products, announced on Monday that it has raised $50M in a funding round. The funding was led by Verily, an Alphabet company, and also included Provenio Capital, Redmile, Khosla Ventures, HBM Partners, Samsara and others.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Santa Monica-based March Capital (formerly March Capital Partners) announced on Thursday that it has raised its third fund, March Capital Fund III, which it closed at $450M in commitments. According to the firm, the new fund is focused on enterprise software companies, and included both existing and new investors.

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