socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the startup which provides an online site to help companies manage their fundraising process, is announcing this morning thta it has raised $400,000 in a new funding round. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $1.8M. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based Pearl , the machine learning startup which was spun out of advertising AI software startup GumGum , has raised $11M in a funding round, which came from Craft Ventures, as well as un-named strategic investors. Craft Ventures is the investment firm run by former Yammer founder, David Sacks. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. Geni has an interesting executive history, having moved a portion of its team--including Sacks and Yammer co-founder Adam Pisoni--to San Francisco to work on Yammer, which was originally a side project of the company. The firm is now being run by Noah Tutak.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. Geni has an interesting executive history, having moved a portion of its team--including Sacks and Yammer co-founder Adam Pisoni--to San Francisco to work on Yammer, which was originally a side project of the company. The firm is now being run by Noah Tutak.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2016

in a funding round, and launched a new platform to help people compare pay and culture between companies. Nazar was the founder of Docstoc, which he sold to Intuit; his co-founders include George Ishii (Yammer/Geni), Mike Sheridan (DebtMarket), and Yadid Ramot (Investedin). READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

in a funding round. The funding actually occurred in late December, over the holidays. Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders. The firm is a return to Craig's business-to-business roots.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

Discoverly disclosed a seed round of funding worth $750,000 which included Salesforce.com, Bessemer Venture partners, Atlas Venture , Great Oaks Venture Capital, as well as Jim Patterson (Yammer), MJ Elmore, Howard Lindzon (Stocktwits), and Alchemist Accelerator.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2011

in a Series A funding round. The firm said the funding will go towards engineering, sales, and product development. OneLogin said its single sign-on software is being used by such partners as Yammer, Colby Community College and Transwest. The round came from Charles River Ventures, and existing investor in the company.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2012

Manhattan Beach-based YBUY , which is developing a monthly subscription service to help users try products before buying them, has raised $1M in a funding round, the firm disclosed Thursday.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Jackson, and backed by such investors as Peter Thiel, David Sacks (Yammer), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir Technologies), and Dave McClure (500 Startups), as well as Hercules Technology Growth Fund, 7th Rig, and Wasabi Ventures. CapLinked is headed by Eric M. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs seeking funding should emulate Addie''s efficient and focused pursuit of perfection. When securing funding, entrepreneurs must balance the desire for perfection with the urgent need to ensure the process is efficient. Ebay+Soundcloud = us" and "FLIMBY=Yammer+Delicious+Gotomeeting.". One-liners. Math Doesn''t Lie.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. The company was called Red Beacon. Nice sweep!

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. The company was about to close their Series B funding, and the company had just launched the website. This was back when you had to do a couple of rounds of funding to just get your product out of the door.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 25 Years of Writing Code.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. I have never raised outside funding with those companies, and all those companies targeted an acute pain point, but those markets were not as massive. With Kaleo, I figured out from day one that we would need to raise outside funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Judges Prize: $250. Sizhao Yang: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. George Ishii: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Early designer of Paypal. Josh Woods: Senior Engineer at BetterWorks. 8 patents pending, and world programming finalist.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

MyHeritage.com said it has raised $25M in a new round of funding at the same time, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, and Accel Partners. Geni was venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. billion to Microsoft earlier this year. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. Enter Xobni.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. A great opportunity for more visible networking. I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. I consider it INVALUABLE!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# If you are thinking about angel investors please read this piece I did on Angel Funding Advice. Angels have a much lower threshold for returns than do VCs. This is minutes 8-11.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 9, 2018

“It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.” ” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. If you want to read the company’s take on their funding their official announcement is here. Already 2/3rds of our customers are ingesting 2 or more data sources including Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Bit.ly

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? VCs fund people all the time with no traction. They fund people with no customers. They even fund people with no product. They just aren’t funding you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. “Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The trailblazer in the category of course was Twitter and David Sacks quickly spotted the use case for enterprise and launched Yammer, which was purchased by Microsoft for more than $1 billion. Around that time Salesforce launched “Chatter,” which was led by Chuck — so it’s a space he knows well.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But if you are growing uber fast, building for scale and have access to capital to fund your growth then it’s always the smart play. Of course I could go on and on including businesses like AirBnB, DropBox, Box.net, Yammer and so on. It doesn’t work for every business. So instead of maximizing price they kept cutting costs.

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