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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Rincon Venture Partners , the venture fund which was led by Jim Andelman before Bonfire Ventures, has seen an exit of its portfolio, at San Francisco-based Rentlytics. Andelman has since combined Rincon Venture Partners with the venture firm of Mark Mullen, Double M Capital, to create Bonfire Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Los Angeles-based venture investor Bonfire Ventures , the venture capital fund led by SoCal VC veterans Jim Andelman and Mark Mullen, has launched a fundraising effort for a new fund, Bonfire Ventures Select I , according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

According to the filing, the managing directors of the new fund are Jim Andelman, Mark Mullen, and Brett Queener. Los Angeles-based venture capital investment fund Bonfire Ventures is looking to raise a new, $100M investment fund, Bonfire Ventures II, L.P., according to a regulatory filing by the firm.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As part of the funding, Jim Andelman of Bonfire Ventures and Damir Becirovic of Index Ventures join the company's board. Los Angeles-based Boulevard , a startup offering up software to help salons and spas manage their business, have raised $11M in its Series A funding round, the company said today.

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MAY 9, 2017

Qordoba said the $5M funding came from Upfront Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners, with both Upfront Ventures' Kara Nortman and Rincon's Jim Andelman joining the company's board. Two, Los Angeles-based venture capital investors have backed a developer of machine learning software, Qordoba , in its first investment funding round.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

A new, Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, Bonfire Ventures --founded by venture veterans Jim Andelman and Mark Mullen, and assisted by Leah Volger--has made its first public announcement of an investment, after stealthily making investments in the region over the last few months.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

The funding came from Greycroft Partners, Comcast Ventures, as well as Crosslink Capital, Upfront Ventures, Cornerstone OnDemand, Nate Redmond, Lowercase Capital, Accelerator Ventures, and Jim Andelman. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

As part of the funding, Jim Andelman of Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire will join Fuel50's board of directors. According to Fuel50, the new funding brings its total funding to $4.6M. Fuel50's software is used within businesses to help their employees manage their career path. Fuel50 is led by CEO and co-founder Anne Fulton.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some of the funds announced recently include a new $66M fund for Wavemaker (focused on Asia); a $105M fund for Pontifax AgTech; Akatsuki's LA-based $50M entertainment fund ; and a new firm, Bonfire Ventures formed by Jim Andelman and Mark Mullen --just to name a few. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Rincon Ventures' Jim Andelman is on the board of Keen IO, and the company is one of the original investors in Keen IO, which has now raised $30M in total. Keen IO, which is based in San Francisco, said it raised $14.7M Keen IO develops software APIs used for data analytics and data visualization.

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JULY 3, 2014

Jim Andelman of Rincon is on the board of Keen IO. According to Keen IO, it has raised $11.3M in a Series A funding, which was led by Sequoia Capital. The San Francisco company also said it received investments from Pelion, Amplify Partners, and Rincon Ventures, along with Cloud Power Capital and angel Morris Wheeler. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Jim Andelman of Rincon Venture Partners has joined the company's board, which also includes Peter Lee of Baroda Ventures, according to the filing. The funding is a Series B, and was led by Rincon Venture Partners and Greycroft Partners. Steelhouse also counts prolific angel investor Ron Conway as a backer.

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APRIL 4, 2012

As part of the funding, Jim Andelman at Rincon joins the company's board. SoftTech, Google Ventures, Matt Coffin, CrossLink, and Morado. WittleBee offers up a monthly subscription for children's clothing, including onesies, t-shirts, leggings, socks, and other apparel.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Rincon Venture Partners , the Santa Barbara-based venture capital fund run by Jim Andelman , John Greathouse , and Brian Kelly , has led the investment in a developer of social recruiting software tools for companies, The Resumator.

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JUNE 14, 2012

The company said that Jim Andelman of Rincon joins the company's board with the funding. Santa Monica-based GraphEffect , the provider of social marketing software headed by James Borow and co-founded by Clark Landry , announced this morning that it has raised $12M in a new financing round. The round was led by Rincon Venture Partners.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Judges of the event were Naval Ravikant (Angel List), Scott Sangster (TechCoast Angels), Matt Thompson (Microsoft), Paige Craig (BetterWorks), and Jim Andelman (Rincon Venture Partners). Other companies who pitched at the event included Aadroid , Badgeville , Foodme , Nevolution , Sharethrough , Sonicangel , and Wanelo.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Hosted by Jim Andelman and Hamet Watt. Please join LAVA, Jim Andelman of Rincon Venture Partners, Hamet Watt of True Ventures and a distinguished group of Internet Company experts for their insights on capital sources for Internet Companies. Tuesday, June 8, 2010 -- An Evening with Internet Companies.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Confirmed Panelists: Jim Andelman, Managing Partner, Rincon Venture Partners; David Casares, Principal, Vicente Capital Partners; Dana Settle, Partner, Greycroft Partners. Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. Learn about the hottest trends and the mistakes NOT to make. See [link] (more)

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

The firm said that judges for the competition come form Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus, including Idealab's Alex Maleki and Rincon's Jim Andelman. Winners of the pitch-off will gain time with CapLinked's founders, press releases and other promotion from CapLinked, and will be featured in a video from TechZulu.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

If you want to know more about Rincon Ventures you can see my two separate interviews with their main partners: Jim Andelman & John Greathouse. If you have any problems downloading deck from above SlideShare presentation you can try this link.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

OCA's James Dugan and Rincon's Jim Andelman have joined the firm's board along with the funding, according to the filing. No details on the funding have been announced, however, the firm now lists OCA Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, and Baroda Ventures as backers on its web site. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. Los Angeles-based Burstly announced Tuesday afternoon that the firm has raised $1.8M in a venture funding. The funding round came from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures.

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MAY 6, 2013

Jim Andelman, my Partner at Rincon Venture Partners , aptly describes the genesis of the Series A crunch, stating that: "Over the next 12-to-18 months, a lot of good companies that have been Seed financed are going to have a tough time raising a Series . A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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APRIL 6, 2011

Moderators: Jim Andelman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Rincon Venture Partners; Hamet Watt, Entrepreneur in Residence, True Ventures. The hottest young companies in the Consumer Internet space are experiencing unprecedented growth. Come hear their founders discuss how they achieved it and how they plan to sustain it.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Moderators: Alan Spatz, Attorney, TroyGould PC; Matt Crowley, Attorney, Crowley Corporate Legal Strategy; Current Confirmed Panelists: Dana Settle, Partner, Greycroft LLC; Leo Spiegel, Managing Partner, Mission Ventures; Jim Andelman, Managing Partner, Rincon Venture Partners; Neal Hansch, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners; Moninca Dodi, Co-Founder and (..)

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MARCH 2, 2011

Moderated by Randy Churchill, Pwc; Panel includes Robert Kibble, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Mission Ventures; David Travers, Principal, Rustic Canyon Partners; Jim Andelman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Rincon Venture Partners; and Greg Martin, Managing Director, Archer Venture Capital. See [link] (more)

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Current Confirmed Panelists: Sumant Mandal, Managing Director, Clearstone Venture Partners; Kevin Jacques, Partner, Palomar Ventures; Jim Andelman, General Partner, Rincon Venture Partners; Mark Suster, Partner, Los Angeles, GRP Partners; Klaus Koch, Managing Partner, Vicente Capital Partners. See [link] (more).

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JULY 25, 2008

Jim Andelman, Rincon Venture Partners John Babcock, Rustic Canyon Partners. Wow, what a prestigous list of Southern California venture capitalists, angel investors, and conference sponsors! We’re fortunate to have such a talented group that will ensure a very exciting software and IT capital conference this year.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. Jim raised another venture fund as did I at Upfront Ventures. So we went for it.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

People like Dana Settle, Jim Andelman, Nate Redmond, Rick Smith and others have all been super supportive and helpful in the fund raising process as investors looking at our community always seek feedback and input from our peers. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)?

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

As my Partner at Rincon, Jim Andelman , often tells entrepreneurs, "You will always encounter more tasks each day than you have the time or energy to complete. I''ve seen a lot of weird stuff.". Competition Is A Lie. Time and money are usually an entrepreneur''s two most significant resource constraints.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

We had a great fireside chat with Brock Pierce and had a panel with Richard Wolpert, Jim Andelman, Mark Mullen, Peter Liu and Buck Jordan. We had a ton of amazing speakers like Robert Herjavec and James Altucher come out. We also got the LA VC community involved as well which was a lot of fun.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Special thanks to Jim Andelman, Co-Founder and General Partner of Rincon Venture Partners for his insightful suggestions. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. I promise I will never tweet about cute kitten videos or that killer burrito I just ate. Share and Enjoy.

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AUGUST 20, 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.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

For instance, at Rincon Venture Partners , my Partner Jim Andelman compliments my operational history with 15-years as a professional investor. I would be a well-meaning, but far less effective investor without the benefit of Jim's experiences. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Jim Andelman , general partner of Rincon Venture Partners. Finalists will be invited to make a live presentation in an online pitch-off, where they will be evaluated by the competition’s all-star panel of judges, including: Alex Maleki , member of the New Venture Group at Idealab.

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JUNE 11, 2012

Jim Andelman, Rincon Venture Partners , Managing Partner. William Hsu, MuckerLab , Co-Founder. Adam Lilling, Launchpad LA, Director. Aber Whitcomb, io/LA , Co-Founder. Jason Nazar, DocStoc , CEO / Co-Founder. David Travers, Rustic Canyon Partners , Partner. Ken Chung, Viddy , CTO. Darren Rush, Pose , CTO.

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