socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Snowball Factory , the startup behind awe.sm , the url shortener and analytics service, tweetpo.st , which updates Facebook from Twitter, and other tools, has raised $500,000 more, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the funding is part of an ongoing $1.0M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Venture Partners , which is led by General Manager James Demetriades, is looking to raise $250M in its third fund, Kairos Venture Partners III, L.P. According to the filing, the fund has yet to make its first sale in the new fund. according to a regulatory filing by the firm.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2019

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Ventures , a venture capital investment firm which focuses on commercialization of scientific advances, has raised $24.6M in the first close of a new fund, Kairos Venture Opportunities I, L.P. The fund is targeted at an overall capitalization of $100M, per those regulatory documents.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Hydra Media , the cost-per-action (CPA) advertising network, has new funding in hand and legal issues behind it, and is now looking upmarket, the firm told socalTECH in an interview Thursday.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Venture Partners , a venture capital investment firm that specifically focuses on commercialization of scientific discoveries, has raised $74.6M as part of an ongoing fundraising effort for its second fund, Kairos Venture Partners II, LP. The funding was disclosed via a regulatory filing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Beverly Hills-based Vision Esports has raised $38M in a funding round, and said it invested in 3 Esports companies--Echo Fox, Twin Galaxies and Vision Entertainment. Vision Esports says it will specifically target and invest in complementary companies spanning the entire esports ecosystem.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , an early stage venture capital fund, has hired on Peter Lee as a new Partner at the firm. Baroda Ventures is the venture capital firm run by Geocities founder David Bohnett; the firm's investments have included LowerMyBills, Stamps.com, UnitedOnline, XDrive, and MediaVast.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2017

in a Series A funding, which was led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) and DCM Ventures, and also included the United Talent Agency, Gallo Digital, Zach Coelius and Array Ventures. The United Talent Agency is based in Beverly Hills. ART19 said today that it has raised $7.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2016

The company looks to have set up its Beverly Hills offices and took a big funding from Goldman Sachs in August. eKomi is led by Michael Ambros, and says it is headquartered in Berlin and Los Angeles with additional offices in London, Paris, and Madrid. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. GRP’s offices are near Beverly Hills. And it’s not just the movement from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2009

Irvine-based Fisker Automotive , a startup hybrid electric automobile manufacturer which is venture funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Palo Alto Investors and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), said Tuesday that it has signed up a network of dealers to carry the firm's automobiles. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The announcement of the new service came in conjunction with a strategic investment from BMW, from BMW i Ventures. In fact, at least two of ZIRX's initial customers for the on-demand parking--Live Nation and Insomiac--are in the LA area.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Beverly Hills-based OVGuide.com , an online site focused on video discovery and search, disclosed today that the firm has received $5M in funding from Baroda Ventures LLC, the investment firm of former GeoCities founder David Bohnett. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses. What is BloomNation?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

They were a group of really great young guys out of Beverly Hills, who understand how to build a brand, and figured out how to do it very quickly, and manufacture for a very low price. Michael Jones: I think with EventUp specifically, which we funded internally, we'll be raising external capital in the near future.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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JULY 26, 2016

The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. Did you take investment initially? Fundraising was something we just weren't investing in. So you were able to fund your growth just from customer? How did the company start? Ryan Disraeli: Yes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We were able to boot strap the company on only $800, and scaled it to millions in revenues without investment, because of the efficiency of our marketing. However, because of our marketing and how efficient we are, we're able to make it work.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2010

Nate is a neurotic, recently laid-off investment banker. A half-hour dramedy centering around two publicists - the sexy and savvy Karen James, a failed actress/writer from the Midwest, and Brett Sloan, the silver-tongued jaded trust fund kid from Beverly Hills. Best Writing: “Odd Jobs” Jeremy Redleaf.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. David Sacks, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, owns a Beverly Hills house where Quentin Tarantino filmed "Pulp Fiction.". MSN Money Investing. Investment Land For Sale. Investing Tools. MSN Money Homepage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And also why today Mitu attracted $27 million in funding from AwesomenessTV (DreamWorks/Hearst), WPP, Verizon and Upfront Ventures. The company that I invested in – Maker Studios – became the largest and covered video games, music, comedy, women’s life style, mom’s, animation and the like.

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