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JUNE 29, 2017

Fund size: $400M (Fund VI) Managing Partners: Mark Suster, Yves Sisteron Partners: Greg Bettinelli, Kara Nortman, Kobie Fuller, Kevin Zhang Investment interests: Seed or A-Round investments with a median check size of $2.8 Greycroft Ventures. Okapi Ventures. so far in investments. Watertower Ventures.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation. Maybe that’s USV, too.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 21, 2012

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 -- 2012 Venture Capital and New Media Summit. Variety is pleased to announce the return of its Venture Capital and New Media Summit on June 27 at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. It would be easier in terms of getting access to angels, VCs, the media, whatever. Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Kardashian is launching private equity firm SKKY Partners in conjunction with ex-Carlyle consumer head Jay Sammons to invest in business across consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Serena Williams’ next act in venture capital is essential in this moment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2014

Southern California''s venture capital investments totaled a little more than $598.4M in the fourth quarter, according to the latest number from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, in its MoneyTree report. The investments were a drop from Q4 of 2012, $711.8M For Q4, $8.4

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APRIL 23, 2021

Hawke Ventures, a new, venture capital fund that is part of marketing company Hawke Media, said Friday that it has raised $5.6M for its first, venture capital fund. The new fund is being managed by Erik Huberman, Tony Delmercado, and Managing Partner Drew Leahy, along with angel investor Paige Craig.

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JULY 8, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based 3L Capital , a new venture capital investment fund co-founded by former Demand Media CEO Shawn Colo, has raised $217M in a new investment round, the firm said today. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2013

The United Talent Agency is ramping up its outreach to early stage, digital media companies, with a new hire from the Los Angeles technology industry. united talent agency hollywood content venture capital investment betterworks docstoc' READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 -- Fireside Chat With VC Mark Terbeek - Partner At Greycroft Partners. Greycroft Partners is one of LA's leading venture capital firms, which has $800 million under management. See https://firesidechatwithvcmarkterbeek-partneratgreycroftpa.splashthat.com/.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. Media relationships.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor OCV Partners has received $200M from j2 Global--and added outgoing j2 Global CEO Hemi Zucker--to ramp up its investments in technology companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In a major move for Los Angeles-based j2 Global is planning to turn over operation of the company to Vivek Shah, as current CEO Hemi Zucker plans a move to a new, venture capital investment firm called OCV Management. According to j2 Global, Shah will take over the CEO role from Zucker on January 1st, 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

“Kobe was loved in Los Angeles,” wrote Mark Suster , managing partner of the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Upfront Ventures , in a private message to TechCrunch. Bryant launched his venture career with partner and serial entrepreneur Jeff Stibel back in 2013, according to Crunchbase.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m often asked by people, “how do I get into VC?&# Well, I know 3-4 VC jobs that are publicly available. The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup. Often these jobs aren’t even publicized.&#.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Santa Monica-based H Code, which provides digital advertising services to the Hispanic market, said Monday afternoon that the company has received a new, capital investment. The funding came from private equity investor Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), which invests in growth-oriented, middle-market companies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2016

In an interesting intersection of LA's world of technology, investing, and sports, Kobe Bryant , the LA Laker star, and technology startup veteran Jeff Stibel have teamed up to create a new, $100M venture capital fund, to invest in technology, media, and data companies. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. billion invested in the region.

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APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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MAY 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm DFJ Frontier has significantly bolstered the company''s team, saying Tuesday that it has added Merrill Brown --former founder of MSNBC--as a Venture Partner. msnbc media executive capital venture frontier' READ MORE>>.

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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.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This form of thinking has been unusually true during the current rise of social media platforms, where market share became the primary goal of a company, with revenues and profitability to follow later. Many, many companies accepting venture capital lost it all following this instruction. But beware.

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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. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Others I have not. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

Los Angeles-based print and newspaper distribution provider ACI Media Group said Tuesday afternoon that it has made an investment in software company MyDistrict.net. MyDistrict.net develops software used to manage the distribution of newspapers. Financial terms of the minority stake acquisition were not announced by the companies.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based Watertower Ventures has raised a new, $5M investment fund, which will focus on companies in the Internet infrastructure, next-generation e-commerce, digital media, gaming, augmented reality and artificial intelligenec, and consumer Internet areas. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA. Candidly all three were on our short list of VCs that we secretly wanted to poach (seriously, they were!)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

TechZulu is proud to announce that we are a sponsor of the Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit and will be there in full force bringing you all the action. Variety is pleased to announce the return of its Venture Capital and New Media Summit on June 27 at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 18, 2019

With an inaugural investment into the Los Angeles-based entertainment startup Culture Genesis , Clifford Harris Jr., ”, has launched a new syndicated investment vehicle called Tech Cypha. billion in 2018, a record for the region, according to data from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Most of the venture capital firms covered in TechCrunch and other tech publications compete for a spot on the cap table of the hottest Bay Area, New York or Los Angeles companies of the moment. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

A new Los Angeles investment group, AngelVision Investors , said this morning that it has launched, and is looking to invest in startup and emerging growth-oriented companies, in the entertainment, marketing and new media. The firm said it is looking to make investments of between $100K to $2.5M.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Beverly Hills-based Catch Media , a provider of software used for digital rights management, has scored a strategic funding from Motorola Mobility Ventures , the strategic investment arm of Motorola, the firms said Thursday. Catch Media provides rights registry, tracking, routing, and other technology for digital content.

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