socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Southern California venture capital investments total $497.8M, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, which were released this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Software investments took second place, with $102.2M

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M was invested in 65 Southern California deals in Q3, compared to $773.3M and 87 deals in Q3 of last year. The biggest deals in the quarter came for San Diego's Roka Bioscience , with a $37.2M

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this morning, finding that there was $587.8M invested in Southern California in Q4. Those numbers were up from both Q3, when $506.9M

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this morning, finding that there was $587.8M invested in Southern California in Q4. Those numbers were up from both Q3, when $506.9M

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

MaxLinear is one of the Southern California companies in the midst of an IPO effort, hoping to list on the NYSE; the firm is venture backed by USVP, Battery Ventures, Mission Ventures, and UMC Capital. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2011

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 -- Annual Venture Capital Panel. Meet the top VCs who are investing in Southern California. Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. Find out what they are looking to invest in. Learn about the hottest trends and the mistakes NOT to make.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

With the IPO of Los Angeles-based RealD , which starts trading this morning on the NYSE as RLD, Southern California now has three successful IPOs on record. RealD said last night that it had priced its IPO at $16.00, and is selling 12.5M shares of its common stock.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 28, 2009

Join us for an informative (and informal) discussion with Dave Ryan of Mission Ventures. Entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to ask many questions and get answers from one of Southern California's most experienced venture investors. This event is for entrepreneurs only.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Big Stage Entertainment is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels and based on technology spun out of the University of Southern California. Barry has also served at Brilliant Digital, Warner Bros., and Intel Corp. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and Tech Coast Angels, and is based on technology developed at the University of Southern California. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Southern California Mission Ventures Entertainment 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The firm said the official launch will allow users to create what the firm calls an "@actor" -- a 3D avatar which can be inserted into movie and TV clips, music videos, still images, and elsewhere. The firm had launched a beta of its site in August.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology is based on research developed at the University of Southern California and for the CIA. READ MORE>>

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology was developed at the University of Southern California. The new deal means that users on VIDiGREET will be able to insert themselves into the firm's funny video postcards.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

How is the instability on Wall Street affecting local venture capitalists? According to some local Southern California venture investors, it absolutely is affecting how they are thinking about the investment environment.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Panel includes Tom Siegel, Shepherd Ventures; Jeff Kearl, Skullcandy; Ted Alexander, Mission Ventures; Paul Stannard, SmartDraw. The format of the event is modeled after the television show "Shark Tank" but is not affiliated with the show. The presenting companies are real, the investors are real, the money is not!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

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.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Moderator: Kevin Jacques, Partner, Palomar Ventures; Panelists: Dave Ryan, Managing Partner, Mission Ventures; Patrick Eggen, QUALCOMM Ventures; Thomas Ellsworth, Chief Executive Officer, GOTV Networks; Colby Goff , SVP Network Strategy and Business Development, Boingo Wireless; Scott Lahman, Founder and CEO, GoGii.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 13, 2009

-based president of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA); Mitchell Kertzman, managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, a leading Bay Area venture capitalist and former chair of the American Electronics Assn.; See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Panelists will Include: Ted Alexander, Managing Partner, Mission Ventures; Russ Mann, CEO and Cofounder of Covario; Allen Drennan, Founder, WireRed; and Peter Dresslar, CEO, Torrey Path. Most important, we'll ask panelists to address what entrepreneurs should be doing to take advantage of the "great" and overcome the "ugly."

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 20, 2011

Use "SocalTech30" for a 30 0iscount on tickets. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

See [link] (more).

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We saw that the company was starting to have some potential to take venture capital, and got a little more involved, recognizing the need to step up management. The board asked me to jump in, and I did, working with Ted Alexander and Jim Armstrong, of Mission Ventures and Clearstone Ventures, respectively.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments.

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