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JUNE 13, 2019

The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. According to the TCA, its angel network members invested $2.5M in a seed funding round. in the round.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Nemetschek said the deal will help it reinforce its market presence in North America, and will expand Bluebeam''s access to European and Asian markets. Bluebeam was a spun out of Alliance Spacesystems, and has received investments from both the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2010

Monrovia-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid credit cards which hit the market today, closed up 22.2 The firm had debuted on the market Thursday morning at $36.00 Based on shareholder filing, a number of Tech Coast Angels are reaping multi-million dollar stakes in the firm as a result of the IPO. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Dinesh is a highly entrepreneurial executive with a track record of driving sales through innovative biz-dev and online marketing techniques. Xavor invest through our dependable consulting services.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

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APRIL 26, 2017

The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. Eugene Cho: I saw this market opportunity when I realized that the larger microscope companies, like Nikon, Olympus, and so on were really only focusing their efforts on high end systems, which cost $200,000 plus. How did you start the company?

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JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based Ranker , the online site which lets users rank, view, vote, and share their opinions on a wide range of topics, announced today that it has raised $2M in a follow on investment round. The company said the proceeds will go towards hiring, platform expansion, and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2017

The Angel Resource Institute (ARI) recently published a study conducted by well-respected Rob Wiltbank, quoting that seventy percent of investments made by angel investors to date return less than the amount invested – upon a sale or closing of the business – the great majority of these outright losses as businesses die.

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Startup Statistics Tech Coast Angels Study 266

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JANUARY 9, 2012

San Diego-based MicroPower Technologies , the developer of wireless video products used for the video surveillance market, has scored a strategic investment from Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. MicroPower said the funding will go towards promoting its surveillance devices in new and current markets. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Funding San Diego Venture Capital 162

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APRIL 22, 2013

San Dieog-based GroundMetrics , which develops electromagnetic sensing technology for the oil, gas, mining, geothermal, and environmental market, said late Monday that it has raised $1.5M in a second round of financing. The firm also said it also included financing from investors in Cyprus, Dubai, Great Britain, and India.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Irvine-based WiSpry announced today that it has hired on Lewis Boore as the firm's Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Bass Associates, the Tech Coast Angels, and Western Technology Investment. Tags: marketing wispry semiconductor executive. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In one of the largest rounds for a Central Coast company in recent years--and the largest venture investment in San Luis Obispo ever--cloud software maker MindBody has raised $50M in a funding round. Mindbody first raised funding back in 2009, when it gained backing from the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other local angels.

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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.

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MAY 12, 2015

San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody has filed for an IPO, saying in an SEC filing that it is looking to raise up to $100M on the public markets. The company's IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, UBS Investment Bank, Pacific Crest Securities, and JMP Securities. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based Energy Cache , a new startup backed by Idealab, is eyeing the energy storage and smart grid market with its technology. The firm, which is headed by Aaron Fyke, recently scored one of the top prizes at the recent Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch in Los Angeles.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Los Angeles Invest 190

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MARCH 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Gridtest Systems , a developer of measurement tools for the electric vehicle (EV) market, said this morning that it has raised a seed round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Financial terms of the investment were not announced.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based Pagewoo , the mobile advertising startup founded by Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly, has quietly scored a round of funding, which was disclosed by the Tech Coast Angels this morning. Financial details of the angel funding round, which closed earlier this year, have not been announced.

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Tech Coast Angels Funding Incubator Mobile 190

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MARCH 4, 2015

YouMail said the funding came as a private placement, offered up thanks ot the JOBS Act, where the company was able to market its offering through the Internet, open webcasts, and other similar means. YouMail said those investors join prior investors Vantage Point Capital Partners, the CrunchFund, Wavemaker Ventures, and Tech Coast Angels.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2009

The bulk of all professional Venture Capital is managed out of offices based in Silicon Valley and most of these fund managers like to invest close to home. So how does an entrepreneur based in SoCal get the attention of VC funds today?

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APRIL 26, 2017

The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. Eugene Cho: I saw this market opportunity when I realized that the larger microscope companies, like Nikon, Olympus, and so on were really only focusing their efforts on high end systems, which cost $200,000 plus. How did you start the company?

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Monrovia-based Ondax , a developer of optical filters and laser sources based on research out of the California Institute of Technology, has raised $2M in a Series E investment. According to the Pasadena Angels, one of the investors in the firm, the round also included the Tech Coast Angels and un-named venture capital firms.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California. Read the rest of Jeff's post on on angel and venture capital shareholder liquidity.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The firm--which the Tech Coast Angels revealed last week that it had funded in 2010--also has the backing of well known angel investor Paige Craig, who also sits on the firms advisory board.

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West Hollywood Tech Coast Angels Angel Ticketmaster 199

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A number of investors with strong ties to Southern California have invested in a Silicon Valley firm developing business continuity appliances, QuorumLabs , as part of a $5.3M Cliff Hannel, former VP of Acquisitions & Strategy at Ixia and a member of the Tech Coast Angels, is listed as the firm's VP Business Development and Marketing.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. I’ve got to imagine this makes tracking marketing spend challenging. Anything else you doing from a marketing standpoint that's working well? Love the minis! Great posts.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Need office or Tech Space? Middle Market Investment Banking. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

In 2014, a West Point buddy of mine, and also a serial entrepreneur, Craig Cummings started working together to find entrepreneurs we liked, to help them an invest in them, along with Luis Villalobos of the Tech Coast Angels. We did our first close on the fund, and have made a number of investments.

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Capital Funding Startup Venture Capital 164

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh works with Miramar portfolio companies to identify growth drivers, potential business partners and evaluate prospective investment opportunities. Maneesh focuses on the medical information technology markets. Maneesh’s prior investing experience includes an associate position at El Dorado Ventures. Sean Ellis.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. The group invested $8.7 It’s hard to know just yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2013

Angel Investors look for very different things than more advanced VC’s who’ve been investing for years, who are different still from those who are just getting into the investing world. The bottom line though, is they want to believe in your capability to pull off whatever they’re investing in.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2013

Star-studded panelists at these events have included SoCal and NorCal tech startup gurus like Alex Banayan , a leading venture capitalist with Alsop Louie Partners; Sean Ellis of Qualaroo , first marketer at Dropbox; CapLinked Founder Eric Jackson , the former marketing operations director of PayPal; and ReTargeter Founder Arjun Arora.

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JULY 1, 2013

Given the long time to market for medical products, does acceleration make sense? All of that does add to the time and expense to go to market. We''ll give away some equity in exchange for the license, to the researcher, the founding team and engineers and scientists who are going to get this moving from the lab to the market.

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Incubator Startup USC Tech Coast Angels 217

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., MySpace Connection : Shawn Gold , former SVP Marketing and Content at MySpace. Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway. www.demandmedia.com). Generation Partners.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. I immediately was recruited out into another company in webcasting, CTM Marketing Group, building out their platform for them. I believe the key here is key, and the ability to provide this for free, which is why we took the recent investment.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues? Who would use your equipment?

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Help Startup San Fernando Southern California 178

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MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. So, I wrote the business plan and get investment behind it.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals.

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