socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this morning, finding that there was $587.8M invested in Southern California in Q4. was invested in the region. in investments.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2011

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 -- Annual Venture Capital Panel. Meet the top VCs who are investing in Southern California. Find out what they are looking to invest in. Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. Learn about the hottest trends and the mistakes NOT to make.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

How is the instability on Wall Street affecting local venture capitalists? According to some local Southern California venture investors, it absolutely is affecting how they are thinking about the investment environment. The question is, what does this mean for entrepreneurs and companies looking for investments? "I

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The round came from current investors, including Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, and Wyndham Exchange & Rentals. The company said the new funding will go towards investments in its technology platform, and also for its sales efforts. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Mission Ventures Pasadena Platform 160

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2010

The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities, UBS Investment Bank, Thomas Weisel Partners, and Needham & Company. MaxLinear is venture backed by USVP, Battery Ventures, Mission Ventures, UMC Capital, and others. The firm is looking to trade on the NYSE as MXL. READ MORE>>.

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Mission Ventures Pricing Invest Capital 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

One Recovery is headed by David Metzler, formerly a venture capitalist at Mission Ventures and investment banker at CIBC World Markets. Tags: recovery onerecovery addiction treatment healthcare lifescience venture capital. According to the filing, the funding comes as part of an ongoing, $2.5M

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Mission Ventures Venture Capital Sites Capital 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M was invested in 65 Southern California deals in Q3, compared to $773.3M billion invested in 637 deals in Q3, up 17 percent quarter-to-quarter, but down three percent in deals.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2009

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an editorial from Robert Kibble , who is a director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), and Managing Partner at Mission Ventures. Tags: capital venture nvca house congress bill extenders opinions insights. Continued.).

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Startup 145

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total.

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Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Size of the investment by LG Chem was not announced. The company's other investors include Mission Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tsing Capital, Infinite Potential Technologies, Presidio Ventures, CEC Capital, Samsung, and Lenovo, in addition to LG Chem. Enevate is led by President and CEO Robert A.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Nexiant is venture backed by The Argentum Group, InnoCal Venture Capital, Inverness Graham Investments and Mission Ventures. The entire software will deploy on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud. The company said deployments will begin in early 2012. READ MORE>>.

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Innocal Mission Ventures Venture Capital Software 124

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 2, 2011

Please join LAVA, PwC and a distinguished panel of industry experts and local VCs for their insights on the results of the Q4 2010 PwC/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report based on data from Thomson Reuters. The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States.

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LAVA Rustic Canyon Mission Ventures Venture Capital 124

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2021

Enevate is backed by Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi (Alliance Ventures), LG Chem, Samsung Venture Investment Corp, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Mission Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tsing Capital, Infinite Potential Technologies, Presidio Ventures -- a Sumitomo Corporation company, Lenovo, CEC Capital, and Bangchak.

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Product Draper Mission Ventures Research 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

OVP Venture Partners , a venture firm in Oregon and Washington, is highlighting its latest "missed deal" in Aliso Viejo-based Networks In Motion. NIM, which was acquired last week for $170M, had been backed by venture firms Redpoint Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The new funding comes from existing investors Mission Ventures and Costella Kirsch. KidZui--which is led by Cliff Boro--said it will invest those new funds in a studio division, Zui Studios, which will create original video content for Zui.com and KidZui. in new funding, and will start creating its own, original video content.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. PwC/NVCA officialy reported $950M invested in Q2 of 2008.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. www.demandmedia.com).

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Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2009

Pathman joins the firm from Lehman Brothers, where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the investment bank's Small Business Finance Division. ID Analytics is backed by Canaan Partners, Investor Growth Capital Ltd., Mission Ventures, and Trinity Ventures READ MORE>>.

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CIO Mission Ventures San Diego Software 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users.

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Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I spotted my fellow VC Leo Spiegel (from Mission Ventures) who had spoken previously to the same group and asked about his experiences. They had more advanced degrees. 50% of them were interested in life sciences, 50% in tech (e.g. much more focused on life sciences than most audiences where I present).

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Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We're investing pretty heavily in people and upgrading systems and tools those folks use to do their job. So, we're happy to make those investments in our operations. I left, and one thing I started doing was angel investing. I invested along with some other people in LeisureLink, and I was sitting on the board, as was Steve.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In the Bay Area, Roudi said about 180 companies pay Plug and Play an annual fee to get an inside track on incubating startups, and in some cases could be making investments in San Diego companies as well. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.). “I billion under management. Downtown Works Interior. It’s really cool.”.

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