socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. In 2015 we go back to square one and start to build a brand new portfolio. It’s exciting.

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MARCH 22, 2017

San Diego-based Lightpost Digital , a digital agency which provides online marketing services to local businesses, has raised a round of funding, the company disclosed this week. The company is a spinout of Deal Current, and was founded in 2015. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Yves Sisteron , Stuart Lander & I (depicted in the photo below) have worked together for more than 22 years now and that has taken us through many cycles of market enthusiasm & panic. Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures A question I often hear is “how is Upfront changing given the current market?” The answer is: not much.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And while the grocery delivery market has become increasingly competitive, Hall argued that Good Eggs stands out thanks to the quality and breadth of its products — 70% of its products are locally sourced, and it often delivers them within 48 hours of harvesting. And it sounds like he isn’t in a rush to launch in a bunch of new markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Arteen Arabshahi: While Karlin Ventures has had an excellent first few years as a firm seeing over 6 exits and making 40+ investments within 3 years, what was most exciting in 2015 was the addition of our third team member, Erin Shipley. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

My friends launched a marketing campaign in which they were reaching out to owners of a certain type of lease, in order to offer them more attractive terms. All marketing tactics a company deploys should be consistent with its values and be in accordance with its local laws, as well as those of all the recipients of its marketing materials.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

If you didn’t notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation. You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. I’m not so sure.

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JUNE 16, 2017

The company says it has been developing its systems since 2015. The company's co-founder is Xiaodi Hou. TuSimple says it is the only San Diego company to have a permit for testing autonomous vehicles in California. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Santa Monica-based matchmaking site eHarmony is looking to the overseas market to grow its service, saying today that it is launching a "globalization initiative" this year to add one new country per quarter to its service. The first new market for eHarmony is Singapore. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thus began my marketing campaign. Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). Having been at Battery Ventures for 5 years earlier in her career has given her the investor vantage point and years of seeing booming markets and contracting ones.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

For Key Information Systems, it was building, productizing, and going-to-market with a complete set of data center services. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? It was a great experience and brought back some great lessons to the business. When we returned to the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Gunnar Lovelace and Nick Green , Thrive Market. Donovan Janus , 17hats. Tucker Kain , LA Dodgers Accelerator. Sean Kane , Honest Co. Agnes Koxera , Famebit. Scott Kriz , Bitium. Julie Lee , edtwist. Joanna McFarland , HopSkipDrive. Staci Miller , Momstamp. Brian Nolan , Sellbrite. Steven Oh , The Young Turks. Meredith Perry , uBeam.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

San Diego-based Active Network , the online provider of sports and community websites, said this week that it will provide the online registration and marketing for the Air Force Marathon , which is held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Financial terms of the win were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Remember when the Chevy Nova required a rename, once Chevrolet realized that Nova meant "no go" in the Spanish market (not a great name for a car).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Anchore , which is developing security software aimed at the "container" market, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company disclosed this morning. The funding came from local angel Andreas von Blottnitz, along with Doug Carlisle of Menlo Ventures. Anchore is led by Said Ziouani, a veteran of Eucalyptus and Ansible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. I suspect those days will end soon, and 61% of LPs polled said they felt VCs were coming back to market too quickly.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But the no-longer nascent sneaker and streetwear market is a big market, with the potential to reach $30 billion in sales globally by 2030, according to a recent report by the research firm, Cowen ( cited by The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the financing).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2016

Amid hand wringing about an IPO slowdown in 2015, there's one shining region which had a banner IPO and acquisition year last year: Santa Barbara. billion acquisition of lynda.com by LinkedIn last April, and three companies-- MindBody , Appfolio , and CytomX Therapeutics (founded out of UCSB)--all had their IPO on the NASDAQ in 2015.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

According to SpaceX, it has been awarded two, Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions by the USAF, which will launch on the SpaceX Falcon in 2014 and 2015. The missions also open up a new market for SpaceX: military launch missions.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The obvious slight he made that went largely unnoticed was the lack of Latino representation and it’s a big freaking market gap that is set to explode. Large groups that are cut out of traditional representation are precisely the groups that achieve breakout successes by getting around the system and giving the market what they want directly.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Zirx began offering up valet parking for employees of businesses in September of 2015. The company said it the consumer business was a "very difficult business to scale" and even harder to "scale to great profitability", and that it will officially shut its consumer business on February 29th. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Broadcom said that the microwave backhaul market is expected to exceed $6B, and more than 3 million microwave unit shipments, by 2015. The new system-on-a-chip product is aimed at microwave backhaul, which are used for transmitting data from cell sites to core networks. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Biotech IPO valuation trends have been strong year-over-year since 2015, and significantly more so among. There were approximately 58 biotech IPOs in 2018 (excluding offerings with under $25 million of proceeds) for total gross proceeds of $6.3 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2013

TriQuint says it expects the TWTA market to be worth $600M by 2015. CAP Wireless develops RF amplifiers which replace traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) in communications and defense systems.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

According to the company, it is hiring across marketing, sales, engineering, and product. The company--which currently has offices at ROC in Santa Monica--says it is in the mist to moving to a new office in Santa Monica in order to accomodate that growth in Q1 of 2015.

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MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2014

per share, and has authorized $1 billion in share buybacks in 2015. Broadcom supplies a wide range of semiconductors into the market, and in particular offers up components widely used in smartphones and tablets. According to the company, it is increasing its quarterly dividend by $0.02 READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. But these data points are often lagging indicators and perhaps a better barometer of the future would be to gather data on VC perceptions in the market right now.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2019

The Chief Marketing Officer of high flying, Los Angeles-based job recruiting technology developer ZipRecruiter has resigned from the company, after a story was published last week by BuzzFeed, detailing alleged sexual misconduct at his prior employer, Uber. Eyal Gutentag reportedly resigned on Friday. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Entrepreneurs sometimes minimize customer interaction under the mistaken notion that their personal passion will be shared by everyone in their market segment or generation. Assume that customers are all like you.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2014

What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? More vertical market SaaS solutions show just how big that opportunity is currently and will be in the future. Didn''t learn it in 2014, but several times over the year we were reminded that a great team can make chicken salad out of chicken $hit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how to market our products and company. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Metropolis is a new Los Angeles-based startup that’s looking to compete with BMW-owned ParkMobile for a slice of the automated parking lot management market. His last company, ParkMe, was sold to Inrix back in 2015. Israel, a serial entrepreneur, has spent decades thinking about parking.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Snapchat had reportedly been on track to hit a $100M run rate--a longtime milestone--in 2015, however, has not announced yet if it hit that goal. However, three local startups-- OpenX , Steelhouse , and Thrive Market all have pushed past the $100M mark in the last few months with public announcements. READ MORE>>.

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