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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners , has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. GRP's investment was led by Mark Suster, who announced the deal on his blog. The deal was worth $600,000.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. of the fund.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Los Angeles-based Weblife , a developer of secure, employee web browsing software, has been acquired by Proofpoint , in a $66M all cash deal, the companies announced today. Weblife was venture backed by a new, venture capital investment firm in Los Angeles, Nordic Eye, which has offices in both LA and Copenhagen.

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MAY 30, 2019

Los Angeles-based Mission , a startup providing managed services and consulting for Amazon Web Services, has raised $15M in a funding round, from private equity investor Great Hill Partners. Mission says that so far, Great Hill Partners has committed up to $75M, with approximately $40M now invested in the company.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Aaron Fyke: I believe we're in a second wave of clean tech investing. Talk about the new firm and the new fund?

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JULY 13, 2020

who is based in Los Angeles--has launched a brand new startup accelerator called Product Club , which is aiming itself at accelerating a small class of product-focused startups. The new accelerator said it will invest $100K in three companies, taking 5 percent equity, and run its accelerator entirely remote. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself. I wasn’t.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com. Coolspotters is a web site which highlights which products celebrities are buying and wearing.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based Reliam , which provides managed services to help companies manage their operation on public cloud services like Amazon Web Services, has received a $75M commitment from private equity investor Great Hill Partners. Reliam was founded by Nate Johnson, who becomes President of the company.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com) has figured out one way--which is to connect those mobile users with ads from app developers, who have the opposite problem of trying to boost their user base. By the next morning, they asked us if we wanted them to invest. What is Kixer? What''s your background?

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JULY 5, 2016

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media has just raised $2.5M more, according to a regulatory filing from the company, in the form of debt funding. No details on the new funding for the company have yet been announced. READ MORE>>.

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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. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. in Computer Science.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investment firm Moonshots Capital , which is led by Kelly Perdew, has seen a big exit via the acquisition of San Diego's Harvest.ai by Amazon Web Services. Moonshots and fellow investors, including Trinity Ventures, had invested only $2.3M

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MARCH 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Invested.in , the developer of web-based software for managing crowd funding efforts, has connected its service into the popular AngelList service, saying last week that it is launching Crowdcelerator.com , a new service which uses AngelList's API to help startup companies raise funds and close their fundraising rounds.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. Pixellot has now raised more than $40M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a new funding round for gaming software development kit (SDK) developer Genvid , according to Genvid. March's investment in Genvid was led by Gregory Milken. Genvid said it raised $2.5M The startup is based in New York. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based startup accelerator MuckerLab , which is headed by Erik Rannala, has tapped Brea-based Dreamhost , the web hosting company, as the "official" web hosting and application hosting provider for the accelerator, the firm is announcing today. Dreamhost has been in the area since it was founded in 1997.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based web hosting firm Media Temple said today along with web analytics firm Webtrends , that Media Temple Ventures, its investment arm, has sold real time analytics firm Reinvigorate to WebTrends. Culver City-based Reinvigorate is a developer of web visitors tracking and anaytics software.

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MARCH 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based video editing tools developer Vyclone has inked a big deal to connect the tools into Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 browser, Microsoft announced this week. Microsoft announced the latest version of Vyclone's collaborative, web video editing software, saying that the tool "truly comes to life" with IE10.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based FastPay , which offers up financial products specifically aimed at advertising driven businesses, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round. gofastpay investment publishing gaming finance capital venture fastpay' The company, which is led by Jed Simon, said the funding came from Oak HC/FT.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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APRIL 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based web content management software developer CrownPeak has raised $50M in a funding round, and merged with UK-based ActiveStandards , according to the two companies. The investment round came from K1.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based venture investor Rustic Canyon Partners has re-upped on an investment in cancer portal developer Navigating Cancer , in a new, $10M investment. Navigating Cancer--which is based in Seattle--develops web-based portal software used by cancer treatment centers and programs. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2022

million in pre-seed investment from investors including Liberty City Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Coinbase Ventures. Even though markets are highly volatile, two-thirds of all hedge funds surveyed that are currently investing in the space plan to deploy more capital into the market by the end of 2022, it said.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based Beats Electronics , fresh off of a big investment from The Carlyle Group , is getting set to launch its new music streaming service, according to a report Monday.

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MARCH 10, 2015

The White House has named Los Angeles as one of 21 communities around the nation which are part of a new technology job and training effort called TechHire , the administration announced Monday.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Los Angeles billionaire entrepreneur Patrick Soon Shiong has made an investment in a healthcare technology firm Net.Orange , Net.Orange said today. The Texas firm provides a suite of web-based applications for the healthcare industry. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2014

General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company. IVP''s Todd Chaffee joins the company''s board.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

There's a lot of startups being built in Los Angeles around content, and it appears the consensus is that you indeed, can create a big business around video for the web. Calacanis said that it didn't make sense to invested in a business which had "limited upside." READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Launchpad LA , the Los Angeles startup accelerator program which is run by Sam Teller, and was founded by venture capitalist Mark Suster, is gearing up for another class, to start next month. LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based online and mobile advertising technology developer OpenX Technologies has launched a new system it says helps publishers forecast their traffic and manage their advertising inventory. OpenX is venture backed by Accel Partners, Index Ventures, SAP Ventures, and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Los Angeles-based LendAmend , a developer of online software for managing the amendment of leveraged loans, has raised $750,000 in a Series A funding round. The round came from the Tech Coast Angels. The TCA's investment in the firm was led by Doug Swets. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Los Angeles-based Payoff.com , a new startup led by Scott Saunders, said Tuesday that it has officially launched its free, social finance site. Payoff.com's web site centers around sharing dreams and saving goals with others, and earning special badges for reaching steps along the way to those goals.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Among the new features of the social promotion tool released by Los Angeles-based PromoJam earlier this week: a new link to demographic data from Esri in it analytics. That group has been focused on startups, investments, and acquisitions, including the recent buys of startups SpotOn, GeoIQ, and GeoLoqi.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

What do you get when you combine a technology investment demo day with a Hollywood-style story pitch session? It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. the camp is the second in the Los Angeles area.

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