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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? We've never not gotten into a deal that we wanted to invest in.

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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. or $2M on a round.

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MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. Where are you planning making investments? Derek Norton: We're investing in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and New York. Our investment thesis we refer to as the connected consumer.

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 29, 2013

Should you subscribe to Digita LA or TechZulu or SoCalTech you will see that there is some kind of networking event, panel discussion or fast pitch taking place practically everyday of the week. When I was at Kline Hawkes & Co we would receive approximately 1,500 business plans a year meet with about 200 of them and invest in about four.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

You know this, but before, you couldn't just put an ad on socalTECH saying that you're raising money, and you certainly couldn't say what terms, such as you were raising 2 million on a 10 million post money valuation. The market will prove otherwise, but we think that as a point of reference, that will be the minimum threshold.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

A digital marketing tag is typically also referred to as a page code, which customers put on their websites when they want to deploy certain digital marketing solutions. As an example, if you're deploying Google Analytics, the way you deploy it is copying and pasting a page code on your website, also referred to as a tag.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Also, we had an investment in a company that went public this year, BroadSoft, which is one of 2010's best-performing IPOs. Most of the new investments we made this year -- and the ones in the pipeline we're most excited about -- were referred to us by founders with whom we've already invested.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. What do you invest in? We spent six plus years at a local firm, Palomar Ventures, doing Series A and Series B investments. Let's start with an overview of the fund.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

Russell Stern: Most semiconductor companies have to have to do board designs anyway, for reference designs, and to further qualify them, certify them, and get them through agency approvals. Oak Investment Partners are our largest investor. We were working with Wall Street to deploy our NICs, along with the technology we call OpenLoad.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

San Francisco-based investment firm Saints Capital , and Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners said Tuesday that they have formed a new fund, Saints Rustic Canyon, L.P., Unterman said that--without referring to the Chandler trust by name--that they "(remain) the largest investor in our second and new third fund.".

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APRIL 7, 2011

Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. Two years ago, they put out an RFP to provider of modular and manufactured housing, to design modern, green manufactured houses--which are traditionally referred to as mobile homes.

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MARCH 19, 2014

We are trying not only to be the first-to-market provider, but one that everyone feels comfortable referring to their friends. The customers we are going after are largely ignored when it comes to compliance. We''d like to build out our brand equity so that people know we are going to be here for a long time.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

It's not something that you could put a million dollar infusion or major investment into and be able to skyrocket your business quickly. We really want to take a personal approach.

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Startup Encino Los Angeles Ventura 100

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We're not investing in ideas and trying to turn them into companies. We're investing in incredible teams that have built minimum viable product and need our help with game changing, bizdev deals, fundraising connections, or mentorships. Sam Teller: I'd like to say they should be more than a PowerPoint, and less than a Series A.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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JULY 31, 2013

We''re reducing the cost at the access point level and at the endpoint level, and continuing to invest to bring our cost points down. So far, we''ve put lots of investment into the engineering and technology side, and we''re now shifting to sales and marketing. They''re North America''s largest transporter of natural gas and oil.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. Dreamhammer is one of a number of robotics and drone-related startups here in Southern California. What''s Dreamhammer? READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. This gives you some idea, and there actually might be a lot of people you might be able to help accomplish their dreams, either by referring them to others or encouraging them.

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

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AUGUST 7, 2014

I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. We discovered that the model didn''t really scale, because the frame of reference of an individual is so unique, and also because business professionals don''t have all that much money to spend. What''s the story behind the company?

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APRIL 27, 2009

We sat down with Managing Director Scott Lenet last week, ahead of the announcement, to chat about the new fund and what the firm is investing in now. What kind of investments are you targeting with this new fund? For example, one of our investments was Boom Studios, the company that publishes comic books and turns those into films.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team. We have invested in our relationship with the universities in the city, and have done lots of training both locally and bringing people here.

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JULY 15, 2015

Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment. That got us the attention of Bain Capital Ventures for our next round, which, combined with our prior investors, gave us another $17M, for about a total of $20M in investment.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: The name is a reference, actually, to Thomas Edison and the research lab he created. How much are you investing in the companies who are part of the program? Part of what we're building out are more resources and funding opportunities for companies who are pre-series A, which currently has a big gap.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

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MAY 10, 2017

When Mucker found out about us, they invested in us, even though it was just me out there in the streets running around Home Depot, unemployment offices, and staffing companies, handing out business cards. I figured if we could do it right, we could engage a broader population trying to find work. That's really how it started.

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Startup Orange County Platform Capital 100

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Every single one of our clients who has used us, whether they''ve hired a lawyer or not, loves the product, and they are referring it to family and friends. Lawyers are very interested in checking out something new. The hard part, is getting in front of those people at the right time.

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Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

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JUNE 23, 2009

Semiconductor startups seem to be quite rare in today's environment, with few companies being funded or launched, due both to the difficulty of bringing products to market, lack of investment capital, as well as lots of established, large companies in the industry. How far along are you to production shipments of your chips?

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Those guidelines include creative information, such as what shades and colors to use and colors to avoid, creative references, and similar, which we prepackage to create a brand profile. The big thing with our raise is we've been investing pretty heavily on predictive content. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M

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APRIL 24, 2015

We have a number of other strategic media companies investing in this, as well, and we're now gearing up for next fall. We were also able to go to social media, and cross reference the data. However, those local newspapers have a really hard time getting those scores, because they just don't have the resources to cover all those games.

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Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

We have a number of other strategic media companies investing in this, as well, and we're now gearing up for next fall. We were also able to go to social media, and cross reference the data. However, those local newspapers have a really hard time getting those scores, because they just don't have the resources to cover all those games.

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Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. We know you're doing this as a dog lover, but it might be interesting to talk a bit about your past background in the venture investing industry? First, there's the social layer, where we use Facebook Connect to identify users.

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Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. It's something that is really neat which we invested in, which we've never seen anywhere else. If our users run into a predatory publisher, or an agent charging fees, they can include that into their comments.

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Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. We know you're doing this as a dog lover, but it might be interesting to talk a bit about your past background in the venture investing industry? First, there's the social layer, where we use Facebook Connect to identify users.

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Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. We refer to them as plastic solar panels. Let's start on the technology side--can you tell us about the technology, and its origins?

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159