Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

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JULY 22, 2013

In the big-fundings-we-recently-missed category, Los Angeles-based Topline Game Labs recently announced that it has raised $25M in a funding round for its fantasy sports and social gaming marketplace. The funding came from Cantor Ventures, the venture capital arm of New York investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

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Yahoo Venture Capital Content Los Angeles 138

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Venture capitalists, or VCs, are the folks with millions upon millions of dollars to invest in companies such as theirs. This includes the folks that funded Google and Yahoo and Netflix and Ebay, and many of the great recent companies which were able to start and grow to massive scale in just a short period of time.

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Venture Capital Capital Invest Entrepreneur 93

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JUNE 9, 2014

in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Canaan Partners, and also included A Grade Investments, Pejman Mar Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Jerry Yang (Yahoo). The company has now raised North of $13M in funding, including an earlier seed funding announced in January. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Seed Funding Yahoo Venture Capital 193

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Product Manager at Yahoo!

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Beverly Hills Funding SaaS Yahoo 145

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

A new, Altadena-based startup, Rexter , has scored some funding to help it build its software algorithms and tools to help manage a user's professional relationships. The company--co-founded by Andy Wilson (Momentum Venture Partners, Yahoo) and John Slade (Yahoo)--apparently recently raised a round which included Siemer Ventures.

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Help Altadena Yahoo Ticketmaster 147

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JUNE 30, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , the venture capital firm of GeoCities founder David Bohnett , has invested in gay social networking site Fabulis. Baroda Ventures Partner Peter Lee confirmed the investment in the New York company, which was worth $250,000. billion to Yahoo.

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Beverly Hills Funding Yahoo Social Network 150

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Huntington beach-based SurflineWavetrak , the parent company of Surfline , the go-to site for surfing forecasts and information, has raised $30M in a funding round, the company said today. The funding came from private equity investor TCG. As part of the funding, the company said it has appointed Kyle Laughlin as CEO of the company.

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Yahoo Equity Funding Sites 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In retrospect, our decision was both perfectly rational and completely lame. Unicornless.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. These are the permanent members of a VC. The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied.

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Venture Capital Sales Entrepreneur Startup 308

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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JUNE 26, 2013

Metacloud , a provider of managed, Openstack-based private cloud services, announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Storm Ventures and AME Cloud. The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services.

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Services Cloud Computing Ticketmaster Southern California 187

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, and angels.

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Yahoo Paid Search GRP Partners SoCalTech 145

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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based FamilyFinds.com , the new daily promotions site headed by former LowerMyBills.com founder Matt Coffin, said today that it has raised $5.75M in a funding round, and has officially entered the online daily deal space. The funding had been uncovered by socalTECH back in October. FamilyFinds.com was formerly dailyD.

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Yahoo Santa Monica SoCalTech Venture Capital 145

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AUGUST 23, 2012

This is one of the best episodes of This Week in VC for a long time. And they invest n select VC funds. 3:00 You were running corporate development for Yahoo before this? 6:30 Do you disclose which funds you’ve invested in? 25:00 How should entrepreneurs approach you for funding? That they own Reddit?

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Media Company Companies Venture Capital 285

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&# Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some advice on how to do that was covered in this link – Getting Access to a VC. Remember that most fund raising takes time. Why don’t VC’s follow up?

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Venture Capital Startup Email News 277

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. in its new round of funding, which was led by Emergence Capital Partners. Other investors, aside form Anthem and DFJ Frontier, were RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and Square 1 Bank.

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Anthem Draper Yahoo Venture Capital 154

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JULY 17, 2012

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures is backing a Bay Area gift card-based, payment network, Openbucks , as part of a Series A funding for Openbucks. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M

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Clearstone Santa Monica Yahoo Venture Capital 159

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! Burstly is a Santa Monica-based team that I also proudly funded.

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Startup Santa Monica Snapchat Yahoo 318

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based Hello Music , a new startup looking to help identify musicians and help them distribute their music, said Friday that it has raised $4M in a private equity funding. The funding came from KVG Partners. Tags: hello music distribution musician private equity venture capital funding. READ MORE>>.

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Yahoo Equity Venture Capital Los Angeles 133

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. I hope that when you’re presenting to a VC this will give you some sense of what might be going on in our minds. He had spent many years at Yahoo!

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Why do VC’s care about these years? They are not just for fund raising. portfolios. They are your map.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! And precisely because buyers usually prefer to have limited money go to investors – investors almost always have the ability to say “no” to transactions in the terms of their funding documents (aka “blocking rights”). Does Yahoo!

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Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Imagine that you funded Larry & Sergey, Chad Hurley & Steve Chen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Pincus or Evan Williams. The best angels or angel funds will do tremendously well. We talked about her desire to sell the company for personal reasons rather than raise a large round of VC. He was meeting with Yahoo!

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Yahoo 280

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JANUARY 7, 2019

And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help. Matt Stodder is Co-Director of Startup Boost Los Angeles , an intensive program helps qualified early stage companies prepare for raising seed funds or apply for accelerator programs. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Coach 157

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APRIL 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based HipGeo has raised $500,000 in an initial round of funding, the firm is announcing this week. The funding comes from Morado Venture Partners, a seed stage fund run by ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez. READ MORE>>.

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eHarmony Yahoo San Diego Los Angeles 164

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based Vicente Capital Partners said Wednesday that the investment fund has raised $150M for the firm's Growth Equity Fund. The firm said its new fund will invest between $5M and $15M in equity in expansion capital or buyout deals, to companies who have $2M to $25M in revenues and up to $5M in EBITDA.

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Capital Funding Yahoo Equity 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! You guys did a lot of self-funding before you approached the venture capital community. The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!,

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Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The firm--best known until now for its effort to recruit employees with the promise of $11,000 wrapped in bacon, free beer, and more--said that the funding also included a long list of angels, including Terry Semel (Yahoo), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, Honest Company), Michael Lazerow (Buddy Media), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), Red Swan Ventures, Mark Mullen (..)

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Anthem Yahoo Mobile Los Angeles 203

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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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Yahoo Advertising Screening Examples 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, And of course we had, TheMan.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Your goal should be to turn your VCs into extended members of your team to get real value from them. Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

94 new startups have launched since January 2013 to June 2013 and the startup ecosystem has raised $500 million in funding in 2013 so far. With Yahoo!, Communication and growth will bring more capital and investors to start new businesses and ideas to create more opportunities, thus continuing the circle of startup life.

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Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Clinton Foy , General Partner and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc). Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. When I first joined Crosscut Ventures five years ago, the firm had $20 million under management and was just starting to invest out of its second fund.

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Riot Games Southern California Startup Santa Monica 133

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

ReachLocal helps local businesses--who otherwise would not have the knowledge or time--to place ads on online ad programs such as Google's AdWords and Yahoo. in venture capital from VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures and Galleon Crossover Fund. The firm is backed by $67.9M READ MORE>>.

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ReachLocal Advertising Woodland Hills Yahoo 100