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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Always have been.

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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. VC’s often talk about this term as in the total amount of funds EVER raised by that VC. What is a VC fund? What is total assets under management? -

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JULY 9, 2012

Southern California's largest angel investment group, the Tech Coast Angels , looks to be one of the lead investors nationally in angel-backed companies, according to a report released Monday by the Angel Resource institute.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

If you're a Southern California startup, it's most likely you're going to find funding from local, Southern California startup funds, right? Among the top investors, some of the most active (500 Startups, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners) don't have local investment coverage.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara is the primary backer of a developer of online training software for corporations, which announced a funding round Thursday. during 2012 from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

We very quietly went live with our second fund, Okapi Ventures II, LP, back in March and have already made 4 investments. I also think that 2012 will be "year of the accelerator" in retrospect with 500, YC, Science, Amplify, TechStars, LaunchPad L.A. and the like taking center stage.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. And VCs scrambled to raise their own funds. Fundings boomed.

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JUNE 20, 2014

MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin. She then toured all of the YouTube networks themselves and started forming relationships.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012 -- Business and Financial Outlook 2012. The German American Business Association (GABA) invites you to our Annual Business and Financial Outlook Event to discuss the current state and the 2012 outlook of the economy, financial markets, trade, funding climate and real estate market both in the US and Europe.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

Qualcomm said it awarded the venture financing to MightyText as the top prize in the North American Regional Semi-Finals of its 2012 QPrize venture investment competition. MightyText now goes on to compete with Qualcomm's other regional winners for $1M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, The National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters have tallied up just under a billion dollars in venture capital investments in the Southern California region in Q1 of this year, a very significant uptick from Q2 of 2011. was invested in the region.

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JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. million under management across three funds.

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MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). billion collected in 2012. Investing in startups is a numbers game.

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Camarillo-based Semtech , the develope rof analog and mixed signal ICs, has backed an Irish maker of DC-to-DC power controllers in its latest funding round. in a Series C1 funding. The funding came from existing investors, which include Semtech, along with SEP, Intel Capital, VentureTech Alliance, and Braemar Energy Ventures.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

was raised in the area, and slightly lower than Q3 of 2012, when $724.9M Los Angeles led the region in investments, with $348.6M in investments; San Diego followed, with $205.2M in venture capital raised in Q3; Orange County had $155.96M in investments for the quarter. in investment. in investment.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. One of the things I like the most about Tracy’s businesses is that she is focused on volume & deflationary economics ( which is my main investment thesis as I covered in this post ). How’s that for an ex painter?

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JULY 20, 2012

in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. The region saw the most investments in Los Angeles, with $329.0M in funding, followed by San Diego, with $304.7M in investment, then. The region saw the most investments in Los Angeles, with $329.0M in funding.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

more in a round of funding, the company announced today, via a Series E funding round. The firm, headed by Tim Cadogan, said this morning that the new funding brings its total raised to more than $70M. Global Investment, Inc., Pasadena-based advertising technology firm OpenX has raised $22.5M and Presidio Ventures.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Venture capital investments saw a sharp drop in Q1 in Southern California, according to the latest venture numbers from the MoneyTree report. invested in 81 deals in the Southern California region in Q1 of 2013, down from Q4, when there was $674.2M The local drop in investment was across the board. was invested in 55 deals.

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MARCH 12, 2013

So I began talking to him about joining the fund. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. We knew he had to be an investment partner.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 -- Lunch and Learn: Venture Capital and Investments. How can businesses secure the funds and how should they spend the money? This program will focus on the various sources of fundings such as venture capital and different types of investments. Asian Business Association.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 -- Crowd Funding Tips and Tricks. This class is for any entrepreneur, or future entrepreneur, who is interested in using crowdfunding as a real alternative for early stage funding. Coloft Academy. In this class you? In this class you?ll Instructor: Chance Barnett. See [link] (more)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based, early stage startup accelerator The Precellerator Program , which is associated with legal firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP, says this morning that it will start investing $25,000 in unrestricted cash in the startups which join its program, in addition to the $25,000 in legal services it already provides to participants.

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MAY 12, 2012

Friday, May 18, 2012 -- SDVG Presents: Mobile Venturing- funding without wires. Jeff was formerly SVP Marketing with Qualcomm and he will be joined by a panel of pros such as Qualcomm Ventures and Verizon Ventures in the mobile investing space. Join host Jeff Belk as we explore what's hot (or not) in mobile start-ups.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.

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JUNE 5, 2016

The funding environment for tech startups is an ever shifting ground as we go through predictable shifts that go hand-in-hand with the slowing of the overall market. Explosion in Seed Funds. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. Here is a brief history first to put the changes into context. Rise of Seed. I Leaderless Rounds.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures , the venture investing arm of investment banking firm Siemer & Associates , reported yesterday that it saw the first exit in its portfolio recently, with the sale of company CloudTrigger. The fund also reports that it now has 39 digital media and technology startups in its portfolio.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Fisker said production is scheduled to begin on the new car in late 2012, and will support 2,000 factory jobs and more than 3,000 vendor and supplier jobs by 2014. Fisker said the funding for the plan twill come from the $528.7M, Department of Energy loan it received in September. formerly General Motors Corp.), READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

As part of the funding, Endologix said it has received a $15M investment commitment from Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, which is the majority owner of Nellix. Endologix said the new funding will go towards transition and development of the technology it is acquiring for Nellix, in anticipation of a commercial European launch in 2012.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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JANUARY 22, 2013

San Francisco-based Optimal said it raised $7M in a Series B funding, which included DoubleRock, The Social Internet Fund, Siemer Ventures, Signal Ventures, John Pappajohn, Warren Adelman (former CEO of GoDaddy), Social Starts, James Altucher and Silicon Valley Bank. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In an interesting intersection of LA's world of technology, investing, and sports, Kobe Bryant , the LA Laker star, and technology startup veteran Jeff Stibel have teamed up to create a new, $100M venture capital fund, to invest in technology, media, and data companies. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. I had been hanging around Klout for a year and many of my friends had angel funded the company and were champions. 39:15 Why did you invest in Klout?

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