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APRIL 7, 2014

For several years, the phrase "Los Angeles Venture Capitalist" had almost become an oxymoron. The IPO of education company 2U also greatly benefited Los Angeles, with the company''s extensive operations in LA, plus backing from former Redpoint Ventures'' (now Archer Capital) investor Greg Martin. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. He’ll discover the value. OTHER STUFF.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based Internet search site Mahalo , has signed on several angels for his new angel group, the Open Angel Forum - Los Angeles. Coffin is the founder of LowerMyBills, Dayton is the founder of Earthlink, and Woodward is a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Los Angeles continues to be a hotbed for new, finance-related startups this morning, as Santa Monica-based CARD.com announced it has raised $3M in a Series A funding. The Series A funding was led by QED Investors, and also included Resolute Ventures, Anthem Ventures, and angels such as Adam Press and Greg Steiner (BeachMint, eHarmony).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the startup co-founded by Eytan Elbaz , Eytan Elbaz , Walter Driver and Ankur Bulsara, which is developing social and mobile games, said this morning that it has raised $8.5M It looks like all that bacon paid off. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 10, 2013

The new flights make Santa Barbara as close to San Francisco as it is to Los Angeles, and could help bolster the area''s high tech companies. SurfAir said it will connect Santa Barbara with nonstop service to Silicon Valley, with the first flight leaving this morning at 8:15 a.m. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2013

A number of Los Angeles investors are behind a first round of funding today for Panna , a developer of a video cooking magazine for the iPad and iPhone. Anthem and Launchpad LA are in Los Angeles. panna cooking ipad iphone mobile food foodie venture capital' READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 12, 2013

For venture capital investors and entrepreneurs, used to making the commute between Silicon Beach and Silicon Valley, the distance--and time--between the two technology centers has just dropped, thanks to the launch of Surf Air , an all-you-can-fly membership airline. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

San Diego-based Embarke has raised $1.25M in a funding round, which the company''s founder said came from a number of venture capitalists and angel investors. embarke venture capital funding seed email marketing optimization' The company is led by Al Bsharah. READ MORE>>.

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Email Anthem San Diego Venture Capital 174

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

A new, venture capital firm, founded by Jon Bauch and Brian Mesic, has emerged in Los Angeles, called Ankona Capital. Bauch and Mesic--who were previously at Anthem Venture Partners--apparently are aiming at early growth capital investment in software companies.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Viewdle , the developer of cross platform, facial recognition technology backed by Santa Monica-based Anthem Ventures, has scored another round of funding, worth $10M, according to Viewdle. The new round comes from Best Buy, BlackBerry Partners Fund, and Qualcomm, in addition to Anthem Ventures, which was the original investor in the company.

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JULY 6, 2010

An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 The most active investors in the region, by number of investments, were the Tech Coast Angels (9 tracked deals); followed by clean tech investor Angeleno Investors (3 deals). in investments in Q2).

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DECEMBER 24, 2012

Santa Monica-based Surf Air , the startup airline headed by Wade Eyerly looking to create a subscription-based, all-you-can-fly airline between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, has raised around $2.6M, part of an ongoing funding round worth $7.0M, according to a recent regulatory filing by the company. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Anthem Los Angeles Angel 178

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APRIL 5, 2010

A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 Interestingly, only Redpoint, Domain, Anthem, and DFJ Frontier have local offices in Southern California. Tags: southern california angeles venture capital diego santa barbara startup investment finance.

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APRIL 13, 2010

The round was led by Canaan Partners and also included Anthem Venture Partners and un-named angels. Tags: tweetphoto venture capital twitter social networking software photo photography tweet. According to the firm, the new funding will go to introduce new products and to expand its developer relations program. READ MORE>>.

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Social Network Anthem San Diego Venture Capital 160

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JUNE 26, 2012

The round came from Anthem Venture Partners, Daher Capital, DFJ Frontier, LaunchPad LA, New World Ventures, The Media Farm and Social Starts, and angels Diego Berdakin, Dave Goldberg, Peter Gotcher, Clark Landry, Adam Lilling and Dan Murray.

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Anthem Hollywood Entertainment Content 145

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JULY 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based social shopping site ThisNext announced this morning that it has raised a new round of funding, and inked a partnership with online advertising firm Federated Media. Clearstone Venture Partners and Anthem Venture Partners also participated. Tags: shopping social capital venture thisnext. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Anthem Clearstone Advertising 145

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

in a funding round, from Anthem Venture Partners, Simon Equity Partners, Third Wave Capital, Wavemaker Partners and ZenShin Capital. The company says it already has more than 20 engineers in its Los Angeles offices. videoamp video advertising venture capital ross mccray' READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Platform Anthem Santa Monica 138

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Santa Monica-based Surf Air , the startup airline which is looking to remake air travel with its unlimited, subscription-based air flights between Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and a few other select locations, told its supporters today that it is now readjusting its timeline for launch, and anticipates flying by the end of 2012.

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Anthem Santa Monica Los Angeles Startup 159

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based FileTrek , a developer of cloud-based, enterprise, file sharing and tracking software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Anthem Venture Partners, Telesystem, and the Ontario Emerging Technologies Funds. READ MORE>>.

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Anthem Los Angeles Content Software 145

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based Cocodot , the online invitations service run by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, has raised $4.25M out of an ongoing $6.0M The firm has previously received funding from Anthem Ventures, Mailroom Fund, and Rincon Venture Partners. funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Anthem Los Angeles Sites Funding 147

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APRIL 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based AwesomenessTV --which is now part of Dreamworks--has acquired Big Frame , another local YouTube network operator. According to AwesomenessTV, it will pay $15M in cash, including repayment of outstanding debt, for Big Frame, which will go to help bolster AwesomenessTV''s talent roster, executives, and talent managers.

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JUNE 6, 2012

The startup--which is developing a subscription-based, all-you-can-fly airline which connects Palo Alto and Los Angeles--did not announce the size of the round, which is rumored to be somewhere in the range of $14M.

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Funding Anthem Santa Monica Los Angeles 154

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MARCH 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , the new adventure travel booking site run by Kelly Tompkins, announced this morning that it has acquired a competitor, Adventure Central. According to AdventureLink, the all-stock deal also included a new investment from Allegis Capital. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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JULY 10, 2012

I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. I’m sure there’s a lot of truth to that. And with startups so go VCs.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

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JUNE 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based VideoAmp, which provides video measurement software for the advertising industry, said today that it has named Cameron Meierhoefer as Chief Product Officer. Meierhoefer was previously CEO of SignalFrame, and also had been COO of Comscore, where he spent more than 17 years.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest. Here’s how to do it.

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JULY 29, 2010

AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett. This bootstrapped firm, based in Los Angeles, is the brainchild of Eric and David Bjorndahl. Adventurelink [ Profile ]. The firm is run by Billy Fried. . TravBuddy [ Profile ]. Trails.com.

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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 : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners.

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Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

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JANUARY 22, 2009

Zag has previously received funding from Anthem Ventures, Arcturus Capital, Capital One, Capricorn Management, GRP Partners, and the Tech Coast Angels. Tags: automobile venture auto capital funding. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2009

Zag is venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Arcturus Capital, Capital One, Capricorn Management, GRP Partners, and the Tech Coast Angels, along with USAA. Tags: automobile auto venture funding capital. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com.

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JULY 7, 2009

Zag has previously received venture capital from such firms as Anthem Ventures, GRP Partners, the Tech Coast Angels, Capricorn Management, Capital One, and Arcturus Capital. The firm did not say what drove the growth, and did not provide any financial details on its sales or profitability. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Email Copilot was formerly known as Embarke, and had been venture backed by Anthem Ventures, La Costa Investment Group, Promus Ventures, Right Side Capital Group, Social Leverage, along with angels Howard Lindzon, Eric Otterson, and Steve Macbeth. Al Bsharah, was co-founder and CEO of Email Copilot. READ MORE>>.

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Email Anthem San Diego Acquisition 100

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MAY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. AdventureLink is venture funded by Anthem Venture Partners, The Mailroom Fund, and Allegis Capital. Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, READ MORE>>.

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Yahoo Allegis Anthem Los Angeles 100

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JUNE 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based membership-based airline Surf Air said Wednesday morning that it has acquired RISE , a Texas-based membership airline. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Surf Air said the expansion would unlock new growth opportunities in California, Texas, and beyond. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , which operates an online booking system for adventure travel, announced today that it has raised a Series A funding for the firm. The funding came from Anthem Venture Partners and The Mail Room Fund. Tags: travel adventurelink mailroom venture capital adventure fund. READ MORE>>.

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