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JANUARY 21, 2022

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Bonfire Ventures is looking to raise $165M in its third fund, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The regulatory filing says the firm has yet to sign up any limited partners on the new fund.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Santa Monica-based direct-to-consumer brand Outer, which sells outdoor living furniture and related products, has raised $50M in a Series B funding round, the company said this week. The company said it has now raised a total of $65M in funding. The company is led by CEO Jiake Liu.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Druva Software , a developer of continuous data protection and disaster recovery products, announced today that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round, and will be setting up its corporate headquarters in Santa Monica. According to Druva, the funding came from Sequoia Capital and the Indian Angel Network (IAN).

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

A new, Santa Monica-based venture fund, UP.Partners, said on Monday afternoon that it has raised a $230M, early stage venture capital fund focused on transportation and logistics.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep, an academic testing and tutoring preparation company, has scored private equity funding from Apax Digital Fund. Size of the funding was not announced.

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JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion.

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APRIL 15, 2020

Pasadena-based Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health , a healthcare innovation fund led by Jay Goss and Dr. John Nackel, says it has launched a new venture capital fund, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health Fund II. Size of the new fund was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

and opened up a new office in Santa Monica. The new funding came from BRTech Holding, a Sao Paulo-based technology investment firm. Realtime , a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S.,

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JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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APRIL 12, 2017

billion in venture capital dollars were invested in the Southern California region in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report , issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB Insights. billion to US, VC-backed startups in Q1, across 1,104 deals, which was up 15 percent in dollars and 2 percent in deals from Q4 of 2016.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Of these 19 have received funding (10 have received significant amounts of VC funding) and 5 have been acquired (2 for more than $30 million).

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Santa Monica-based Tala , the fintech startup led by CEO Shivani Siroya, has raised $110M more in a Series D funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by RPS Ventures, and also included GGV Capital, IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, Data Collective VC, ThomVest Ventures, and PayPal.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Santa Monica-based Halogen Ventures , a brand new, female-focused venture capital fund which is focused on consumer technology, has raised $10.4M as part of its first fund, Halogen Ventures LP. She's also well known for the TV series "The Valley Girl Show". READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based VY Esports , a new startup focused on connecting esports, brands, and media companies, said on Thursday that it has raised a seed funding round. Size of the funding was not announced. Blair Ford of Raine Ventures joins the company's board as part of the funding.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Santa Monica-based Tuition.io , which helps employers offer up student loan repayment assistance as part of their employee benefits, has raised $7M in a Series B funding round, the company said today. says so far that it has signed up such clients as Live Nation, Staples and Fidelity Investments to its programs. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Announced at the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., the new financing came from Verizon Ventures (the investment arm of TechCrunch’s parent company’s parent company) and March Capital Partners a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm. The […].

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Early-stage venture capital investor Upfront Ventures, based in Santa Monica, led a $14 million investment round for MetaCx, an Indianapolis-headquartered developer of e-commerce management software.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Another, new venture capital firm, with an office in Los Angeles, NordicEye , has set up an office in Santa Monica, and has been targeting investments in the growing Silicon Beach region.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Santa Monica-based Boulevard a developer of cloud-based software used by salons and other appointment-based businesses to automate the process of booking appointments, has raised a seed round of funding, according to one of its investors. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Santa Monica-based Arrowroot Capital Management announced today that it has raised a $177M, third fund, Arrowroot Capital II, L.P. , Arrowroot Capital said the fund was oversubscribed. to invest in growth equity for enterprise software companies.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the local venture capital investment fund led by Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery, is looking to raise a total of $300M in two new funds, according to regulatory filings from the firm released today.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Santa Monica-based Luxury Travel Hackers said today that it has launched a new company, focused on helping the "mobile millennial" book "influencer-curated" trips via social media, with a seed funding. Size of the funding was not announced. According to Luxury Travel Hackers, the funding was led by Thomas B.

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JULY 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based Mobalytics , a startup developing tools that help videogame players improve their hardcore gaming on such titles as League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra, has raised $11.25M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The leads in the round were Almaz and Cabra.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Location: Cross Campus 929 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, CA 90401 Date: Thursday March 28, 2019 Time: 5:30pm-8:30pm Speakers: Moderator: Joe Daniels, McCarter and English Robert Mai, Scopus Ventures Andrew Ly, Angel Investor Brandon Maier, Quake Capital Mark Linao, AET Fund Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital Richard Sussman, Nordic Eye VC.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based Wavemaker Ventures has raised a new, $66M venture capital investment fund, for its Southeast Asia efforts, the company said this week. According to Wavemaker, the fund exceeded what had been an initial $50M initial target for its investment fund.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Santa Monica-based GotCast , the online casting and talent site run by Alec Shankman, told its supporters this morning that it has raised a new round of venture capital funding. In an email, Shankman said that the firm closed a round of additional venture capital funding through NCT Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Arrowroot Capital is the lead investor in a funding round for parking technology developer ParkHub , in ParkHub's first instituional funding. According to the company, the funding is its first institutional funding round.

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MAY 24, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the venture capital investment firm founded by venture investment veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery, said this morning that it has had a final close on its first fund, at $240M.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based investment bank "Siemer & Associates and venture capital investment group Frontera Group said Tuesday afternoon that the two have joined forces, and have created a new venture group called Siemer Ventures.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Santa Monica-based BlockFraud , a developer of machine learning and artificial intelligence software used for detecting mobile fraud, has reportedly raised $5M in a Series A funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The funding was led by Palisades Venture Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Santa Monica-based Red 6 , a startup which is developing augmented reality training systems for the aerospace and defense market, said it has received a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures. Size of the funding was not announced.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a developer of cloud networking technology, VeloCloud Networks , as part of a new $27M funding round for that company. VeloCloud develops software-defined, wide-area-networking (WAN) technology. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Santa Monica-based drone data management software developer DroneBase announced on Wednesday morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series C funding. DroneBase has now raised a total of $32M in funding. DroneBase is led by CEO and Founder Dan Burton. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter company Bird has raised $75M more, and acquired a Berlin-based Circ , which operates its own scooter business in Europe. According to Bird, the acquisition of Circ will add more than 300 employees to its European operation. Bird says that Circ has operations in 43 cities in 12 countries.

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MAY 1, 2019

Santa Monica-based advertising startup VideoAmp said on Wednesday that it has raised a big $70M funding round, led by the Raine Group, and also included Ankona Capital, Mediaocean, and RTL Group. As part of the funding, Peter Liguori (former CEO of Tribune Media) joins the company's board of directors.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Santa Monica-based Quid , which offers up a way for private company employees to gain liquidity even before their startups are purchased or have an initial public offering, said on Monday that it has raised $320M in a second fund. Quid is managed by Josh Berman, Anthony Tucker, and Samit Varma.

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JULY 16, 2014

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures said Wednesday that the venture capital fund has launched a new, $45M third fund, and rebranded itself as Wavemaker Partners. The new fund is larger than the company''s second fund, which was raised in 2011 and was worth $28M. READ MORE>>.

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