SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 17, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009 -- FundingPost's SoCal Angel and Venture Conference. At our next event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing:How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! There will be plenty of time for networking with the Investor panelists.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Thursday, March 28, 2019 -- Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Angel Conference 100

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MARCH 20, 2019

Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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San Diego Venture Capital Conference Angel 100

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MARCH 21, 2019

Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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Orange County Venture Capital Conference Tech Coast Angels 100

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JUNE 21, 2019

Minnie Ingersoll: I grew up here in Southern California, in Pasadena, and have been in the Bay Area for a number of years, and just became a new partner at TenOneTen Ventures. TenOneTen Ventures is an early stage, seed investor here in Southern California. What does TenOneTen Ventures invest in?

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This morning's reflections are from Richard Wolpert , a longtime Southern California investor, and now author of The Soul Of A Deal ([link].

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MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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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. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund.

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MARCH 25, 2011

Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Come hear him talk about about SoCal startups, entrepreneurship and the investment scene. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies.

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. As you probably know, two thirds of our investments go into Los Angeles. Tell us about the new fund? Mark Suster: It''s a $200M fund.

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When should a VC invest? Every single one of our professional decisions is about timing, and yet, we do so little to practice and perfect it. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. It’s the only way forward in capitalism, and it’s worth every investment you can make. All appears well.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

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JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

At our next event the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing (VCs and Angel investors), and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Tuesday, October 9, 2018 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VCs, Angels, Crypto and ICOs Event.

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Los Angeles Angel Venture Capital Writing 100

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

At our next event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Register for the FundingPost event on Thursday, September 28th, 2017. See [link].

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Orange County Venture Capital Conference Angel 100

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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MARCH 28, 2018

At our next event the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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Orange County Angel Writing Course 100

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I want to relay to you my deep concern regarding S.1276 1276 (a.k.a. the Private Fund Transparency Act) and any other such legislative proposals that will, unnecessarily, impose new regulatory burdens on the venture capital industry whole-scale.

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Venture Capital Southern California Startup Writing 133

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

At our next Orange County FundingPost event at the Eureka Building in Irvine, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing (VCs and Angel investors), and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! ICOs raised a global record 6.7

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Orange County Tech Coast Angels Angel Oracle 100

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MARCH 29, 2018

At our next event the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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Los Angeles Angel Writing Course 100

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MAY 5, 2010

Yossi, who is co-chairing the upcoming Israel Conference (www.theisraelconference.org) here in Los Angeles next month, recently sat down with us to talk about entrepreneurship, why Israel has been able to become such a center of high tech--and what Southern California might be able to learn from the Israeli culture.

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High Tech Southern California Writing Conference 150

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We are in phase three of the influencer economy,” Bain Capital Ventures senior principal Jamison Hill, who led the firm’s investment in the influencer shoutout marketplace Cameo , tells TechCrunch. 2020 will be a watershed year for investment in businesses around the creator economy,” Neil Robertson tells TechCrunch.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? A few reasons. You should read this post. Deep pockets.

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and currently is chair of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (link is external), co-chair of Startup Colorado (link is external), and on the board of Path Forward (link is external).

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Activity 100

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JUNE 12, 2012

How do they make decisions on what to invest in? How do they decide how much to invest? Bob Aholt is a successful tech entrepreneur, prolific Angel investor, and "investment screener" for the Pasadena Angels. Ever wonder how an investor would view your startup? Less than 1 0.000000e+00ven get close. See [link] (more)

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Startup Pasadena Angels Pasadena Writing 147

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). What's the theme of your investments? That's why we have investments in Heal, Saucey, and FragMob.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 100

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JANUARY 15, 2010

In my next post I will write about one of the five companies. I think most great angel investing is done at a local level. Seriously, it kinda stinks) it is a legitimate funding source for Southern California entrepreneurs and has produced successes including GreenDot and MyShape.

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Angel Startup Tech Coast Angels MyShape 254

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. The traditional way to handle that is to write code. He spent a number of years with another, Southern California bootstrap, Goldmine.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

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JULY 15, 2010

I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. Crosscut is a seed-stage fund based in Southern California that has been in some hot local deals like ShoeDazzle (Rick discusses how they get in when it was a super competitive deal – great story), DocStoc, GumGum and others. Beyond The Rack.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Southern California 210

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. Neal Roche: I worked the trail of angel investors around Southern California. We're there to help with that. READ MORE>>.

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Help Startup San Fernando Southern California 178

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JANUARY 21, 2010

This is stuff I tell people verbally at least twice / month so I’m glad to finally get it into written format. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2019

The panels of seasoned and newer investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! At this San Diego Event, we will be showcasing some of the newest early-stage venture funds and angel groups in the San Diego area!

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San Diego Venture Capital Angel Summary 100

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313