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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Three, local venture capital investors -- Miramar Venture Partners , Okapi Venture Capital , and Qualcomm Ventures -- are part of a group investing $22.1M The investment is the first out of IBM''s $100M "Watson Fund", which aims to invest in companies using its Watson artificial intelligence software.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The event, which is in its 18th year, typically has been a popular gathering for investors and startups from the technology industry as a whole, including the most promising Southern California startups, and was known for attracting a significant number of out-of-area venture capital and private equity investors.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. cloudant venture capital merger acquisition exit cloud software nosql database' Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM). bitvore data intelligence gathering venture capital yuri pikover' READ MORE>>.

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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. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 As noted in What Does VC Traction Really Mean? ,

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

IBM’s planned $34 billion deal to acquire open-source software maker Red Hat is a hefty price to pay to give its cloud computing business a shot in the arm. In some ways, the biggest software acquisition of all time could be a yawner.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. KP used to be a small team doing hands-on company building. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman. “We

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Founded by a former Pixar and DreamWorks animator, Rex Grignon, Nimble launched in 2014 and has raised just under $10 million from investors including the UCLA VC Fund and New Enterprise Associates, according to Crunchbase.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2022

As part of the funding, the company said it has added Rod Adkins to its board; Adkins is former Senior Vice President at IBM and currently Chairman of Avnet, and currently serves on the boards of PayPal, UPS and Grainger.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Morphlabs is the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, who was the founder of GlueCode, which he sold to IBM. The firm is venture backed by AO Capital, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, and Global Gateway Investment Group. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

The nasty and brutish deaths of the unfortunate turtles are disquieting , but the process ensures that the survivors are (on average) strong, healthy and able to capitalize on the ecosystem''s resources. There is a similar Darwinian aspect to venture capital investing.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

At the same time, more capital continues to be raised in LA. has been raised by VC funds and at least $35B has been invested in LA startups from outside the city (Amplify, The Los Angeles Tech and Venture Scene 2019). Since 2010, $6.3B

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that we invest in people, not ideas, new venture owners insist on talking about their latest “ million dollar idea ,” rather than their “ million dollar team.” For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was from their hometown Los Angeles exurb, that Kim and Lee first began plotting how they would turn their experience working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young (respectively) into the software business that just managed to rake in $40 million in financing led by one of venture capital’s most-respected firms, Battery Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Commercial product prototypes.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

This morning's reflections are from Kelly Perdew , managing general partner of at Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com). Raising money as a first-time VC fund is hard.In Many of my friends who are VCs (and some friends who tried to raise a fund unsuccessfully) warned me that raising for a first-time fund would be very difficult.

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JULY 14, 2010

The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. and AO Capital Partners Ltd. Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

According to CoreLogic, it has added Claudia Fan Munch, venture advisor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) to its board, and Vikrant Raina, an investor at BV Investment Partners, to the board, which now has nine members. Munce has also served at IBM READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

“Decades ago, at the peak of Japanese growth as a technology competitor on the global stage, the US government sought to break up IBM. “I don’t think at the end of the day venture capital is worrying about competition from these big platform companies. “That plan is like taking a bazooka to a knife fight.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

MorphLabs is venture backed by AO Capital, BroadBand Tower, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, Global Gateway Investment Group, and Siemer Ventures. The firm's CEO, Winston Damarillo, is an open source veteran who has been involved with such companies as Gluecode Software (sold to IBM).

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Photo courtesy IBM Business Coaching. If the coach is also a significantly large investor such as a VC fund, the board member-coach will offer a limited amount of time outside of board work at no extra cost, all for the good of the investment. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Even IBM (the #1 in US Patents) sold over 1000 of its patents recently. See how to fund a company with IP Funding, as an alternative to VC funding. Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12B to get access to their 17,000 patents. Nortel sold its 6000 patents for $4.5B to Apple, Sony, Microsoft, EMC consortium. See [link] (more)

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In fact, I put myself through NYU Stern while working for companies like IBM, Prudential, and Merrill Lynch, and joined Goldman Sachs upon graduation. As a native New Yorker, it may not come as much of a surprise that growing up I wanted to work in finance.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

The funding came from Greenspring Associates, Industry Ventures, and UTIMCO, as well as Morgan Stanley and Foundry Group. Oblong said its customers now include NASA, PwC, and IBM, along other Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies. John Underkoffler is CEO of Oblong. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Commercial product prototypes.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based investor Black Diamond Ventures said today that it has named John Kispert as a Managing Partner at the company. Kispert was most recently CEO of Spansion, and also served at KLA-Tencor and IBM, and also sits on the boards of Cypress Semiconductors, Gigamon Inc., Extreme Networks, TriNet and Tela Innovations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle.

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JULY 27, 2016

The startup, led by Ryan Detert, says it helps marketers reach more than 7,000 top influencers on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Vine and YouTube, using artificial intelligence technology from IBM Watson. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us in the technology, media and VC world sit on panels at lot. I’m a venture capitalist. Obviously you don’t have to pass an IQ test to become a VC.&#. They must all want VC, right? Many of them are painfully boring. Jogged to get a cab. Arrived at the right hotel (The Mirage).

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MARCH 6, 2012

One family partner works for a startup, and the other sticks with a large enterprise company like Intel, HP, Apple, IBM, or Fujitsu. Visit venture capital websites. Most VCs list the startups they are funding, with pointers to their websites. Start here for a list of VC organizations. Peruse startup directories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

In the last few decades, the paternal image of large multi-national company leaders like Thomas Watson at IBM and Henry Ford is gone. As best, you should reserve this option for later stage VC discussions, once you have a well-proven business model, large market following, and substantial revenue.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group. If you want to buy something for less than $2000 from IBM, that's a very difficult thing to do.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? People who comment to me privately about how surprised they are by how rapidly I’ve “built a name for myself in VC&# remind me of this fallacy.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

MeLLmo's Roambi app allows users to access business data from their mobile phone, connecting those phones to IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Endeca, Google, and Salesforce data visually. MeLLmo said the new round will go towards product innovation and go-to-market strategy. MeLLmo is headed by Santiago Becerra. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Damarillo is known for founding GlueCode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, Logicblaze, which he sold to Iona Technologies in 2007, and for founding Webtide, which was sold to Intalio in 2009. Morphlabs also said it anticipates additional funding announcements before the end of the year. READ MORE>>.

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