TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Snap investment Hardworkers. Yellow investment SketchAR. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

UNest , a Los Angeles provider of financial planning and savings tools for parents including college savings plans and other beneficial investment vehicles for various life events, has raised $9 million in a new round of funding, the company said. . “To me the investment in UNest is a great opportunity to help my community.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2019

When Stackin initially pitched itself as part of Techstars Los Angeles accelerator program two years ago, the company was a video platform for financial advice targeting a millennial audience too savvy for traditional advisory services.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Ross Lipson, the chief executive officer and co-founder of the on-demand marijuana and cannabis delivery service, Dutchie, had thought he was done with the online delivery business. But with online delivery services, a whole city’s worth of restaurant options opened up to consumers (as long as they were in your delivery area).

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. It is not disclosing its valuation with this investment, but Alastair Westgarth said that this doesn’t rule out raising further funding from investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to businesses. Very confusing.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

New research has found that San Francisco and London have become two of the world’s leading hubs for VC investment into tech solutions that address one or more of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), more commonly referred to as “Impact Tech” They are followed by Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Shanghai and Beijing.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Postmates, the popular food delivery service, raised another $225 million at a valuation of $2.4 Groww, an investment app for Indian millennials, raises $21M. Online personal shopping service Lookiero gets $19M. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week. Indian startup Digi-Prex raises $5.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. I wish I did more enterprise software investing because when I attend meetings like this I realize that this is my core DNA – rolling out business software solutions to customers. If they want to invest that’s great.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2021

Who knew building a vertical software as a service toolkit focused on home heating and cooling could be worth $8.3 Rowe Price, Dragoneer Investment Group, and ICONIQ Growth. The market for home services employs more than 5 million workers in the US and represents a trillion dollar global market. Based in Glendale, Calif.,

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 27, 2019

27 it raised a $100 million credit facility led by Ally Financial Services Inc. Online car leasing startup Fair announced Aug. to help finance its existing business and buy cars for its users.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms. Why Did I Invest in Trust?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

So in its first years of existence, Welcome Tech has focused on building out a platform that provides educational resources, information and services that “they need to thrive in a new country.” In particular, Hemmat and co-founder Raul Lomeli-Azoubel recognized that access to financial services was crucial to immigrants’ success.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2020

When former Bill Clinton speechwriter and political wunderkind Andrei Cherny launched Aspiration four years ago , the upstart fintech startup was one of Los Angeles’ early entrants into a financial services market dominated by players from Europe and the financial capital of the U.S. in New York City.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

It’s a strategy that has now netted the company $33 million in financing led by the Silicon Valley-based investment firm Altos Ventures and New York’s Left Lane Capital. Other companies are experimenting with specialization as a way to differentiate from the major delivery services that are on the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. We knew he had to be an investment partner.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2018

Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over four years of service. Pay early stage board members of companies that are not lifestyle businesses one percent of the fully diluted equity in the form of an option that vests over four years of service. Here is my best advice, based upon many boards and many years.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. Hyundai Motor Group has committed to invest $87 billion over the next five years.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s another indicator that the Los Angeles technology ecosystem is coming of age, but also a sign that March’s core investment strategies — to invest in companies applying artificial intelligence to business use cases and investing in the next wave transforming computing infrastructure — are paying off.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Over their longtime personal and professional relationship, the two Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneurs have invested in each other’s companies and investment firms, but never worked together until now. Derek Norton, founder, Watertower Ventures: Image Credit: Watertower Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Scott Kupor of A16Z responded with a comprehensive overview of valuation methodology in a post that while accurate feels more targeted at sophisticated Limited Partners (LPs) who invest in funds. to “How can we hire more staff to keep up with the services they offer?” What’s an LP to do in deciding which funds to invest in?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. We have invested $17.3 Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. CincyTech today has $28.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. Yet the value of real relationships, as with consumer customers, has become critical to your business services growth and success.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 2, 2018

The massage-on-demand service Soothe seems to be rubbing investors the right way with the close of a new $31 million round of funding. The Series C round from late stage and growth capital investment firm, The Riverside Company , caps a busy first quarter for the massage service. some of those places are not like the others).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2023

Every one of you business owners I know periodically introduces new products and services to sustain growth, fight off competitors, or take advantage of new technologies. You will find that customers discount advertising, and look for user testimonials, online influencer reviews, and return-on-investment examples from industry experts.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. Newton said his vertical SaaS company helps legal professionals be more productive, grow their firms and “make legal services more accessible.” This investment allows us to expedite our plans and offer even more to our existing customers.”.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

” The only thing the manufacturer provides is the products and some servicing starter kit so that The Shed and its employees can manage and maintain the product. That company sold to an early stage investment firm out of New York. The Shed founders Karen Rodgers O’Neil and Daniel Perrone. Image Credit: The Shed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

It is in her blood to see this journey through and try to launch her product or service to the world. I only say that because after years as a VC I can always tell when my peer group invested in something because “it seemed like it would make money” versus when they invested out of passion.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. per registered user of ICQ, the early messaging service. Remembering the insanity before 2000. Remembering the insanity before 2000.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in a $120 million round for that the company announced today. million for Ordermark, a takeout order management service. Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5 Image Credit: Ordermark.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

As video commerce becomes the norm and entertainers, brands, businesses, and franchises of all sizes and stripes look to cut out the middle man, the array of services on offer from Maestro may be the scissors these entities need to cut the cord. The one thing that Maestro won’t do is discovery or search services, Evans said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The costs to start are much lower than ever (90% reduction in infrastructure costs to start a company through open source & web services) and large companies being created in many geographies. to raise “opportunity funds” to fund the prorata participation of their best early-stage investments.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

While we were incorporated last year, the company actually came to life this year, with the formation of our team, our initial funding, and the development of our investing portal all happening in the last seven months. What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why?

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience and understood the need. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

More specifically, it’s the contractors that service equipment like the heating, ventilation and cooling systems at commercial and residential properties across the U.S. The two men built a suite of services to help contractors like their fathers manage their businesses.

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