Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

At Upfront, our partners have been fortunate enough to be part of 18 companies that have reached north of $1 billion and the average tenure of an investment that exits at this scale is more than 10 years. We have invested in every round and as a result our ownership has actually gone up over time. Over the past 2.5

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Designed to be a collaborative startup company incubator alongside corporate partners, Launchpad focuses on developing new consumer tech businesses focused on M13’s main investment areas: health, food, transportation, and housing. M13, for its part, is developing a strong team of women partners who are investing at the firm.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Because of the rapid pace with which Venture Capitalists review investment opportunities, they must employ pattern matching techniques which include identifying common fundraising deal breakers. Surprisingly, most venture investments do not break down over valuation. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

For years, AT&T invested more than $1.9 billion Investment. billion Investment. McNeely said,“I’m proud of the investment AT&T continues to make in California. Toebben added that this investment by AT&T will help more people and businesses stay connected in today’s fast-moving technological world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Because I invest in “ lines, not dots ” it’s actually the delta that I’m investing in.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 26, 2016

Belkin said it will transfer its IP, staff, and non-monetary assets into Phyn, with Uponor investing $15M for a minority stake in the company. Wemo Water is a water sensing device, which uses a single connection in the home to sense water usage across the home. Belkin will own 62.5

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

San Diego-based CyberFlow Analytics has raised $2M in a seed round of funding, to go towards its software for protecting corporate IP from corporate espionage and malware. The company said it will use the investment to commercialize its security technology. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gaikai , the streaming game service run by David Perry, is one of seven software companies which Intel announced it had made investments in today, for a total of $24M invested by the company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2012

Malibu-based MalibuIQ and HRL Laboratories , the former research and development arm of Hughes Aircraft which was previously known as Hughes Research Laboratories, said Tuesday that they have tied together to commercialize inventions and IP from HRL. Size of the investment was not disclosed. Plant, and General Motors Holdings LLC.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Middle Market Investment Banking. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Middle Market Investment Banking. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Customer Acquisition – social media, SEO, SEM, etc Economies of Scale – not as big a barrier in web world Investment – little to none required to get started Pricing – free or freemium makes trial simple Distribution – syndication and APIs make partnering easier IP – in general the battle has been over users and less on IP many more (please comment (..)

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been going through the startup journey, and just finished our Series D investment. What does TenOneTen Ventures invest in? Minnie Ingersoll: We do early stage investing. Minnie Ingersoll: My most recent investment was actually in a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company. Minnie Ingersoll: That's a good question.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2009

in a Series A funding round, for the firm's voice-over-IP services. According to XCast, the funding includes an investment by Siemer and Associates, as well as Frontera Capital and the Pasadena Angels. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs is announcing this morning that it has raised $2.7M

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2009

in a Series A funding round, for the firm's voice-over-IP services. According to XCast, the funding includes an investment by Siemer and Associates, as well as Frontera Capital and the Pasadena Angels. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs is announcing this morning that it has raised $2.4M

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. He was doubling down on his investment and also gave me a great lay of the land on handicapping how all of the other seed investors saw the company. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? It was impressive.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Comcast led our investment round, and the former CFO of Dreamworks joined us soon after. Investing along with Comcast was a Chinese theme park operator, Songcheng, which has the second largest theme park in China with north of 25 million guests. About two and a half years ago, we spun out of Dreamworks.

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Steve Reich

DECEMBER 31, 2014

IP events have brought great focus to the area, and we’ve been glad to both attend and financially support their events. It’s hard to exaggerate the impact IP is having in Pasadena. Members have also invested in Cross Campus, and are delighted with the progress on their new offices in Pasadena.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Middle Market Investment Banking. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. I think you’d really enjoy meeting her wether you decide to invest or not. A few weeks have slipped by. I’ll come to you and promise to be fast.”

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Maine Medical Center, Maine’s largest hospital, is investing in their employees and giving them a chance to act on their innovative ideas that could transform healthcare. Questions of IP. You need to share ideas, invest jointly, and work in teams to get anything off the ground,” she said. “I The Program.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

“The way I look at it… a lot of it is going to be like any kind of content studio,” says Peter Rojas, a partner at the New York investment firm Betaworks Ventures. “We understand how much money you can make from the IP. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" It gives stakeholders an opportunity to assess the benefits and challenges before making additional investment on iterative improvements. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

The deal is worth $63M after accounting for Catapult's cash and investments. Ixia said the acquisition will complement its IP performance test systems and service verification products. According to Ixia, it will pay $9.25 per share in cash for publicly traded Catapult, or approximately $105M.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 1, 2009

They will join those representing the investment community and entrepreneurs on a panel discussion about 'Common mistakes entrepreneurs make regarding intellectual property'. The workshop will include case studies on how these subjects are utilized to protect actual products or services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. By March, a month after Mr. D’Angelo agreed to invest, CodeFights had raised $2.5 ” Uhhuh.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

Pre-money ($8m) + investment ($2m) = Post-money ($10m) and the investors now own 20% of your company $2m / $10m. This was until about 2009 because most the investments in companies came from one, maybe two, sources. How much am I willing to invest in your company? How much do I want to own % wise of your company?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. That's why it's so exciting to see P&G making an investment here, and understanding that women have been massively undervalued assets as entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Me: When an investor signs a note with a cap they must assume they are willing to pay the cap or why would they invest? Me: So, who was willing to invest in that? Doesn’t their investment determine the price of the next round? They are investing in your relationship in hopes that you do an A, B and C round.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

The other thing we do is continue to invest in products and build really new, innovative technology in the markets we already serve. They are IP acquisitions with some amount of channel and product, and are really meant as an IP acquisition into our core platform. We always like to buy companies like Anue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. We started working on the new IP, and that's the game we announced the deal with Zynga on. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

That's securing the network, looking at endpoints, and making other security investments across the board, and on such things like mobile device management for mobile phones. What we're looking for, is if people are coming from a suspicious computer, or are anonymous, or if they're coming from a known anonymous or criminal IP address.

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