socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2010

The Open Angel Forum , the new angel investment group run by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis , is expanding into Colorado with a new event, the group said Friday. The Colorado chapter is being headed up by David Cohen of TechStars , a Boulder-based incubator and Internet seed investment effort by local Colorado angels and venture investors.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Calacanis, who lives in Santa Monica where he runs Mahalo , apparently has invested in Dyn , which operates a managed DNS and email delivery service, used by such clients as Twitter, Zappos, CNBC and Pandora. The investment came as part of a $38M, Series A fund which has been led by North Bridge, as well as Borealis Ventures.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Tags: jason calacanis angel investment mahalo venture capital finance.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

The firm has backing from such investors as Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and OReilly AlphaTech Ventures. Mahalo / Jason Calacanis - Calacanis, often known better in Silicon Valley than Southern California, had his last success in Weblogs, Inc., which he sold to AOL. Let us know in the comments below!).

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2010

is an investment of GRP's Mark Suster, who hosts This Week in Venture Capital along with Mahalo's Jason Calacanis. The deal was announced by Sean Pervical, Director Content Socialization for MySpace, who also runs LA technology blog Lalawag; Ad.ly Suster also runs Launchpad LA.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2011

The Open Angel Forum , the angel investment group started by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, is looking to expand, according to the group. The group said Wednesday that it is looking to add five more chapters on top of existing chapters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boulder, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London and Seattle.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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