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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. This is a trend from 2016 that should gain momentum in 2017. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. Here, we have the thoughts of Michael Terpin of Transform Group. He's also a very active angel investor. Michael Terpin: What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Our last thoughts on the VC funding markets heading into 2016 was published here and I followed up with a little more context on the resetting of the venture industry , some thoughts on how startups are valued and how to think about burn rates at startups. VC survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Conroy was on the board of Sotheby's from 2016 to 2019, and also had served as MGM's President of Digital from 2016-2018, Univision's Chief Strategy and Data Officer from 2009-2016, and AOLs EVP for Product and Marketing from 2001-2008.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

It’s a new year – 2016. 2016 is going to be a tough year. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Happy New Year. I’m so happy to be back! Still, that will lead to a healthier ecosystem.

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MARCH 22, 2021

has been developing mobile-based door lock systems since 2016. Culver City-based startup Openpath Security Inc.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. It will be fun to see what's next over the next few years.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Alon Goren , the co-founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year?

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MARCH 1, 2016

Final upfront lp survey data 2016 from Mark Suster. Any correction will be followed by the long march of technology disruption and the profits disproportionally allocated to the winners. The full presentation can be downloaded on SlideShare or viewed below.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The app, originally developed in Los Angeles, raised national security concerns after it was acquired by Beijing Kunlun in 2016 for $93 million. Reuters reports that the Chinese company sold its 98% stake in Grindr to a U.S.-based based company, San Vicente Acquisition Partners. That ownership was later scrutinized by a U.S.

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MAY 1, 2017

A new report, released by the Angel Resource Institute in the last week, has spotlighted the Tech Coast Angels and the Pasadena Angels as among the top four angel groups in California, and the Tech Coast Angeles as number two in the nation in terms of the number of deals in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The meat processor and marketer invested in Beyond Meat back in 2016. million when it began selling its wares in 2016 to $87.9 Another winner from the Beyond Meat public offering is the corporate investment arm of Tyson Foods. While Beyond Meat has increased its revenues steadily — from $16.2 million in 2018, down from $30.4

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Following this round, Fair now has access to nearly a $1 billion in debt capital since its 2016 founding and has raised over $500 million in equity to date. Car leasing and financing provider Fair announced Dec. 20 it completed a $385 million Series B round, led by SoftBank Group Corp.

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MARCH 9, 2017

For 2016 alone, there are two reliable sources of recent data for us to examine. Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest angel groups in the United States, published its data in 2016, showing sixty-eight percent plunging to less than the amount invested. Restaurant startups would not top my list.

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APRIL 5, 2016

The Techstars Healthcare Accelerator at Cedars-Sinai announced its first class on Monday, saying that it has selected 11 companies to participate in the first accelerator to be held at the Cedars-Sinai campus for the next three months. Demo Day for the accelerator class is June 23rd.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

It may seem hard to believe, but even in 2016, there remain a number of successful consumer brands that are not sold online. I thought it would be interesting to understand the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs who began selling online for the first time in 2016, so I sat down with Heidi Muther, COO at Z S upply , LLC.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Keeping the focus squarely on tools for artists and designers the company talked up its tools like Zync Render, which Google acquired back in 2014 , and Anvato, a video streaming and monetization platform it acquired in 2016. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. Since 2016, some 400 students, almost all women, have completed the course.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

At-Bay was founded in 2016 by Rotem Iram and Roman Itskovich, and is headquartered in Mountain View. But where traditional insurance companies have struggled to acquire the acumen needed to accommodate the growing demand for cybersecurity insurance, startups like At-Bay have filled the space.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It all began in 2016 when Audi launched traffic light information , a system that enables the car to communicate with the infrastructure in certain cities and metropolitan areas across the United States. . And Audi says it’s the first automaker to include this GLOSA feature in its cars.

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JULY 10, 2019

Fair was founded in 2016 by an all-star team made up of automotive, retail and banking executives including Scott Painter, former founder and CEO of TrueCar. Companies like Fair are offering new types of leases combining a traditional auto financing option with modern conveniences.

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JUNE 24, 2021

According to the organization, the prize--first launched in 2016--goes to Zzapp Malaria, with second place going to Aifred Health, and a runner up prize to Marinus Analytics. Zzapp gets $3M, Aifred gets $1M, and $500k goes to Marinus.

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JUNE 26, 2018

The company’s event and blog posts all focus on the various rendering tools like Zync Render, which Google acquired back in 2014 , and Anvato, a video streaming and monetization platform it acquired in 2016. It’s worth noting that Microsoft Azure already offers a region in Southern California, though AWS does not.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Rincon invested in Rainforest QA's Series A round back in 2016. Rainforest QA said this week that it has raised $25M in a Series B funding, which came from Silicon Valley Bank, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Capital, Rincon Ventures, and Initialized Capital. Rainforest is based in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Switch says its power comes from two solar power stations in Las Vegas--which it started building in 2016--which have a combined 179MW of capacity, in addition to other contracted renewable energy sources. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

presidential elections in the summer of 2016, a year before social media companies admitted that those accounts were tied to the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency. The Kremlin has run many classic military disinformation campaigns in the past--including in the Ukraine in 2014 , in Sweden in 2016 , and during the Cold War.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

billion; LinkedIn was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in 2016. It is essential to the exercise of free speech, free thought, and free association". Lynda.com was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The automaker Tuesday said its Maven car-sharing service, which launched in 2016, will shut down for good. GM’s experiment with car sharing is over. Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dozens of executives participated in transformational leaders programs; Maven was one of the fruits that spun out of that.

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MAY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor Upfront Ventures unveiled one of its new startups on Wednesday, a company which has been in stealth mode since 2016.

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APRIL 19, 2017

percent from Q4 of 2016, and 43.8 AmplifyLA said it will be reporting quarterly on seed deals, a change from the annual reporting it did in 2016. Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA reports that seed funding in Q1 of 2017 dropped precipitously, falling 42.2 percent, Year-over-Year. raised, from $2.8M READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

The fund launched in summer of 2016 with $100M from Illumina. The venture capital investment fund said it is focused on genomics, and will invest in companies in the areas of life science research, clinical diagnostics, novel therapeutic platforms, and other technologies impacting human health.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mucker Capital's last fund, Mucker III, was raised in March of 2016, and was worth $45M. No details on the new fund have yet been announced by the venture investment firm, which has not yet signed its first limited partner in the new fund, according to the filing.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Crowdstrike--which has a offices in Irvine--had its IPO in June, and had been hired by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to investigate hacking into the party's servers back in 2016. Crowdstrike was at the center of an investigation into Russia hacking of the DNC servers during the 2016 elections.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Cozzens was most recently CEO of Telogis, which he led from startup to acquisition by Verizon in August of 2016. According to Digital Map Products, it has appointed Dave Cozzens to its board, to help guide the company around strategic growth and positioning. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

s IPO filing on Thursday is the tidbit that the company more than tripled its number of employees in the last year, going from 600 full time employees on December 31, 2015, to 1,859 as of December 31, 2016. The company said in the S-1 that it expects headcount to grow in the foreseeable future.

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JULY 31, 2019

Irvine-based smart television maker VIZIO says it is rolling out support for Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit, including for smart TVs it built as far back as 2016. According to VIZIO, its VIZIO SmartCast 3.0 VIZIO said the upgrade will also allow its users to control its TVs using Apple's Home app or by asking Siri.

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