socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

billion funding round for Snapchat. The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M in investments in the quarter, followed by $197.5M Another $28.68M was invested in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, plus Ventura. for San Diego, then $189.0M in funding in Orange County.

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Southern California Orange County Report Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M in its seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. I’m super proud of the work produced by Gravity , a local #LATech company I invested in who was recently sold to AOL for $90 million. LA has a serious technology scene. And I’m proud of that, too. Maker Studios. FullScreen.

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Startup Santa Monica Snapchat Yahoo 318

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. Fund I was fully deployed by June 30th of 2017, and we went out to raised Fund II, which was a wet close, where you invest as you close. Those investments have really broken out. They're all big winners.

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JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Maker Studios, SnapChat, Tinder). These are most notable in late-stage, D-round, investments.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Melani Gordon , Taphunter (San Diego, mobile apps).

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

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JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. Where are we today?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

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 saw the impact that the rise of mobile was having on linear. “We looked at mobile and we saw the massive animation gap. ”

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Social Media Content Media Artificial Inteligence 261

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Our mobile phones are capable of doing almost anything these days. Which I have shown to do, but anybody who invests in tech, invests in team. To pay for convenience and to value how mobile can shape your every day. Where do you see the mobile landscape going in the future? It’s a huge challenge for me.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I’d sooner people have my mobile phone number than my email address because as a society we know the social norm that just calling or texting somebody you don’t know isn’t acceptable. It’s why the only rude or unexpected mobile phone calls I get are from telemarketers. that’s where I go to chill out and look at photos of friends.

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Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Brad Brooks: Locally, I think Snapchat's IPO is going to spawn a massive ecosystem in the Southern California tech community. In healthcare, I think the impact of mobility is still in its infancy as far as the enterprise is concerned. Prior to that, Brad worked for investment banking corporation Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette.

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Southern California Social Media News Entertainment 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Social Media: Snapchat. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Speakers included Mayor Eric Garcetti , Snapchat influencer Jake Paul (fresh off his 60 Minutes appearance), Loot Crate cofounder Chris Davis (whose company just topped the Inc 5000), and early Snapchat & Riot Games / SF-based investor Peter Lasky. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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Snapchat Lootcrate Riot Games Downey 40

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JANUARY 12, 2014

While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. The fees generated from speaking engagements and consulting can be worth several times the investment of getting your book on a best seller list. What about mobile?

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

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JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence.

Startup 325

Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). I do believe we are entering a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs. Now is the time to float your own.

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Ideas Snapchat Social Media Entrepreneur 55

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

For example, Lookout is a mobile security company that was founded by three talented graduates of USC. And consider Snapchat – one of our hometown favorites as they’re based in LA (Venice Beach). Locally we call it “the Snapchat effect.” .” Boston is still a great tech hub.

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Company Companies Startup Snapchat 369

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The fact that Twitter built a product around the mobile phone culture right out of the gate is significant: it created a new social pipeline.

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Platform Startup News Content 40

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JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. We had a studio and invested in content creation. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers.

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Content Snapchat Platform SEO 150

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why Invest? Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

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JANUARY 13, 2016

The company that I invested in – Maker Studios – became the largest and covered video games, music, comedy, women’s life style, mom’s, animation and the like. I wrote about my investment 18 months ago when we led a $10 million round in Mitu Network , the largest Latino online video company.

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Company Companies Netflix Content 150

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210