socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. SoCal tech and life science companies are scaling faster than at any point in history.

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Southern California SoCal Culver City Venture Capital 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2019

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 -- San Diego FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in San Diego, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

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San Diego Venture Capital Angel Summary 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2019

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

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Orange County Venture Capital Angel Tech Coast Angels 100

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

While Google just launched its LA hub, Microsoft has operated a cloud region in Southern California for a while, and started wooing Hollywood last year at the National Association of Broadcasters conference, according to Tad Brockway, a general manager for Azure’s storage and media business.

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Hollywood Cloud Computing Netflix Google 254

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Matt Coffin , the founder of Los Angeles-based LowerMyBills and an active angel investor in Southern California, has joined venture capital firm Split Rock Partners as a Venture Advisor, the venture firm said this week. Tags: lowermybills matt coffin venture capital investment.

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Mahalo Southern California Venture Capital Demand 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

PWC said that among the reasons for the surge was a return of private equity and venture capital portfolio companies using the U.S. PwC did not detail specific IPOs, however, Southern California's technology industry has seen its own share of IPOs this year, including RealD, Inphi, and Green Dot.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Marketing Report Southern California 190

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In a proof that it's not all social media and e-commerce here in Southern California, number two ranking startup in The Wall Street Journal's ranking of the "Top 50 Startups" is none other than wireless hardware provider Xirrus , based in Thousand Oaks. That list included Laguna Hills-based Glaukos at number 7; Donuts Inc. ,

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West Hollywood Thousand Oaks Southern California Journal 145

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Organic Academia.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. technology industry possible: Sponsors. The City of Glendale (www.thinkglendale.com).

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socalTECH

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 really believe in the market.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Startups Made Simple.

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors and advertisers, who make our coverage of Southern. California's technology industry possible. Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. Venture capital for innovators.

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SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. There was also a fair amount of early stage investment, more so than in the past few years, which is a really positive sign. Thanks for the time this morning.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

That program is a partnership of the University, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, which is a top tier VC firm, and United Talent Agency, the premium talent agency. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. READ MORE>>.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. It''s really a Southern California story.

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Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors demand more than that. What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC? Great analysis from John Greathouse: Do You Speak VC? A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital Now that You've Got MVP, It's Time to Think About MVC You can't raise money on achieving an MVP.

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 20, 2011

This upcoming Splash will showcase 10 up-and-coming startups, prominent VCs and founders of the leading LA-based companies - Demand Media and ReachLocal. Hear Shawn Colo, co-founder and EVP of MandA at Demand Media, share his lessons and advice on building Demand from scratch in 2006 to one of this year's hottest IPOs.

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Rustic Canyon ReachLocal Anthem Mission Ventures 100

socalTECH

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. Plus, Babcock says the new money in investments will demand more process, and/or lower valuations.

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Rustic Canyon Invest Technology Southern California 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

A lot of the challenge is in human resources that understands that technology, however, we live in Southern California, which has some of the best universities in the country in that area. They are very few and far between, partially because the demand is not out there. So doing that R&D is challenging.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh’s prior investing experience includes an associate position at El Dorado Ventures. He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components. in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011. Amir Banifatemi.

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Orange County Miramar Startup Tech Coast Angels 106

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital. An integral part of CallFire’s success lies in its entrepreneurial roots.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. Southern California is a great place to be an entrepreneur.

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

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.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

My partner was in product management at Demand Media. I know you’re a VC and we’re not ready for a large round – do you know any angels that might be interested in our space? I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet.

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Startup Content Conference Media 315

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. An entirely new industry is being formed. The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech IP Content 100

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

“Now profitability is sexy,” jokes Carmy, when asked about its approach to financing the business and whether it’s looking to go down a typical startup VC funding route or not. ” It looks like a timely moment to build such a platform, with telehealth seeing a huge demand spike as a result of the coronavirus.

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Startup Los Angeles Platform Research 140

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night. TechZulu captured the entire VC/Angle panel and we also had a chance to interview every StartupDemo startup company that participated. VC/Angel Panel. However, you know we always bring a little something back just in case.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? LowerMyBills, Inc.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

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. So far so good.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. On Demand). Babak Razi - Founder Third Wave Ventures.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. They seem so reachable. Neither can any VC.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

We knew that people cared about it on the government level, and that there was going to be a continuing supply/demand constraint on the generation side of electricity. Jerry Fitch: California is always a bell-weather for this kind of activity. There's similar activity internationally. Jerry Fitch: That's a fair statement.

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Equity San Diego Startup Activity 124