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JULY 6, 2010

An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 billion invested in Q1, and up from $1.0 in investment), Energy ($190.2M in investments) and Medical Deviecs ($128.1M in investments in Q2). billion in Q2 of last year.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

invested in Southern California in Q4. was invested in Southern California, as well as Q4 of last year, when $508.2M was invested in the region. However, nationally, venture capital numbers were much worse, with venture investments dropping to the lowest level in more than a decade. in investments. in investments.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M Southern California's investment totals bucked the national trend, which found that there was a 9 percent drop in dollars to $4.7 of the total invested in Q1.

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Nationally, there was $13.0 READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Luxe is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures, Google Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Foundation Capital, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, Data Collective, Eniac Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, as well as others. Upfront made its investment in Luxe in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

invested in Southern California in Q4. was invested in Southern California, as well as Q4 of last year, when $508.2M was invested in the region. However, nationally, venture capital numbers were much worse, with venture investments dropping to the lowest level in more than a decade. in investments. in investments.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary 's Sound Ventures, which is based in Los Angeles, has made an investment in the Series B funding round for San Francisco-based software development provider Gigster , in a round that also included basketball legend Michael Jordan.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Machinima.com , an online entertainment site focused on video gamers, has raised $9M in a investment from Redpoint Ventures, the firm said this week. As part of the investment, Geoff Yang of Redpoint will join the firm's board.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Sonos is backed by KKR, as well as Index Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. per share, indicating less institutional investment interest in the IPO than the company had hoped. The company's IPO was underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co, Allen & Company, RBC Capital Markets, Jeffries, KKR, Raymond James, and Stifel.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

thredUP said this morning that the $81M, Series E funding was led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP). The funding also included prior investors Trinity Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Upfront Ventures. The new round brings thredUP's total funding to $125M. thredUP is based in San Francisco.

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JUNE 24, 2013

A report from AllThingsD says so , saying that Machinima is looking for an investment of more than $70M. Machinima last raised funding in May of last year, raising $35M from such backers as Google, Redpoint Ventures, and MK Capital. Machinima has not said anything about its fundraising plans in public.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

along with Redpoint Ventures, MK Capital, Coffin Capital and Allen DeBevoise. investment employment jobs layoff warner capital venture machinima' Los Angeles-based YouTube network Machinima revealed last week that it has raised $24M in a funding round from Warner Bros., READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

in angel funding, according to the firm's angel investment backers. The site--which was originally a project of Namesake--gained funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Redpoint Ventures, Atlas Venture, Paul Kedrosky, and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. Chill was spun up out of Namesake on August 10th.

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MARCH 23, 2015

According to Cyanogen, Qualcomm joins Premji Invest, Twitter Ventures, Telefonica Ventures, Smartfren Telecom, Index Ventures, Access Industries, Rupert Murdoch, and Vivi Nevo, plus prior investors Benchmark, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, and Tencent Holdings Ltd.

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MARCH 24, 2016

The last time Forbes has placed a Southern California venture capitalist on the Midas List appears to have been in 2009, when Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures made the list.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The funding came from Burbank-based The Walt Disney Company, Evolution Media Partners--the investment joint venture which involves the CAA's Evolution Media Capital, TPG Growth and Participant Media--and Chine Media Capital (CMC), along with ProSiebenSat.1

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APRIL 5, 2010

The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. Interestingly, only Redpoint, Domain, Anthem, and DFJ Frontier have local offices in Southern California. in deals tracked by our database.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Groww, an investment app for Indian millennials, raises $21M. Seed investor Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures and Redpoint Ventures general partner Annie Kadavy will show up to give founders tips on how to raise VC. Vianai raises $50M seed to transform machine learning. HappyOrNot nabs $25M for its customer satisfaction terminals .

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Services Startup Venture Capital Redpoint 207

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JANUARY 20, 2012

in a round from Rustic canyon, Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator, and Blumberg Capital. Rustic Canyon had led the September 2011 investment in Mertado. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, however, the acquisition comes only four months after Mertado raised $2.3M Mertado develops a social shopping service for Facebook.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Local investments funds have had issues raising their new funds, and venture investors had started to hunker down with their portfolios, waiting for some sign of a thaw in the exit environment. investment investor capital venture angeles' For several years, the phrase "Los Angeles Venture Capitalist" had almost become an oxymoron.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

in the round at that time, led by Redpoint Ventures. The new filing seems to indicate an additional $353K has so far been invested in the round, with a target round size of $9.1M. According to the filing, BetterWorks is now looking to raise a total of $9.14M in the firm's Series A round, which had been announced in August.

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JUNE 21, 2012

Sonos had raised $41M in funding--mostly from BV Capital, the investment fund of Andreas von Blottnitz--before this late stage injection from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Elevation Partners, and Redpoint Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2018

The Forbes' list hasn't included a Southern California venture capitalist since around 2006 , when it included Jim Armstrong (then at Clearstone Venture Partners), Brad Jones (then at Redpoint Ventures), Andrew Senyei of Enterprise Partners, Bill Elkus, also of Clearstone, and James Blair of Domain Associates.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Krikorian is also investing in the firm. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. Clicker is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, and was founded by former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone. Kirkorian joins Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital and Geoff Yang of Redpoint on Clicker's board. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Lee was involved in Mission's investments in SodaHead, Access 360 Media, and Active Storage, among other companies. Lee has previously served in associate and intern roles at Riordan, Lewis & Hayden and Redpoint Ventures, and prior to that was at Cisco Systems. Lee has not yet announced what he his new startup is up to.

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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. in investments.

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APRIL 23, 2013

To do that, it has snagged the funding of Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, a new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. Size of the funding round was not announced.

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Southern California Funding Google Redpoint 164

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the firm developing online video programming guides for the Internet, said today that it has raised $11M more in a Series B investment round. The new funding was led by JAFCO Ventures, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Find out what they are looking to invest in. Moderated by Scott Alderton, Stubbs Alderton, and Markiles LLP; panelists include Greg Martin, Redpoint Ventures and others. Come meet LAVA's newest VC board member firms and their representative. Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. See [link] (more).

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Prior to founding Archer, Greg was a partner with Redpoint Ventures for 11 years, which grew out of Greg's original firm, Brentwood Venture Capital. Greg focuses on early, growth stage and secondary technology investment opportunities. His current active investments include: Sovrn, Zyp Media, and QMerit.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. Thanks for the time today.

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MARCH 12, 2010

Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Middle Market Investment Banking. It's time again for us to thanks all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible. Please let them know how much you appreciate their support of socalTECH! Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Startups Made Simple.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

NIM, which was acquired last week for $170M, had been backed by venture firms Redpoint Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures. According to OVP's site, it was approached in 2005 by the CFO of a former portfolio company, who had made money for the firm twice before, begging the firm to invest.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

I left a great firm, Redpoint Ventures (after 11 years), to start a new firm, Archer Venture Capital. Leaving Redpoint and starting a new firm was a daunting prospect, but now that I am out on my own as an entrepreneur again it's been incredibly rewarding. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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JULY 8, 2010

Backers: Charles River Ventures, Kinsey Hills Group, Redpoint Ventures. . Backers: ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, The Quercus Trust of California. Backers: Rustic Canyon Partners, Scott Walcheck, Brett Brewer, Robin Richards, Matt Coffin. In the other corner: Scribd - Profile. Funding: $12.8M.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Middle Market Investment Banking. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Middle Market Investment Banking. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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