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Los Angeles-based Uncovet, the online fashion deals and discovery site backed by Science, Inc., said it has raised $1.3M this morning. The new funding came from Javelin Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and Paige Craig. Uncovet, which was ...

Los Angeles-based Prevoty, a developer of security tools for preventing cross-site scripting (XSS), a security issue for websites, has raised $700,000 in seed funding, the firm disclosed today. The funding came from Plus Capital, MM Capital...

Irvine-based Alteryx, a developer of "big data" analytics software, announced today that it has raised $12M more for its efforts. The new funding came from Toba Capital, the venture capital fund recently founded by Quest Software founder Vi...

San Diego-based eFFECTOR Therapeutics said today that it has raised $45M to go towards the development and invention of small molecule drugs, specifically aimed at treating cancer. According to the firm, the Series A investment included U.S...

In some what-did-our-spam filter eat-recently funding news, Santa Monica-based Privlo recently raised $2.1M in a seed funding round, for its online marketplace for private mortgage loans. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said ...

What's the best way to connect physicians with their patients? A new, Glendale-based startup, SnapMD, is hoping to do that through a smart phone, tablet, or your home PC, via a new service. The firm has just raised $175,000 in a seed fundin...

Santa Barbara-based Active Life Scientific, a developer of life sciences research and diagnostics tools, said this morning that it has raised $500K in a Series A follow on investment. The funding came from members of the Tech Coast Angels. ...

For today's Insights and Opinions section today, we tap into the wisdom of Ivan Nikkhoo, an experienced entrepreneur, investment banker and VC at Siemer & Associates, and who is an advisor to Siemer Ventures. Nikkhoo gives some insights i...

Looking to build your own unmanned aerial vehicle? A new, Newport Beach-based startup, Airware, has raised $10.7M to develop all of the infrastructure for buildling your own, commercial drone, from Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. A...

Skift, the online travel publishing site started by Rafat Ali--the founder of Paidcontent.org, which was based in Santa Monica--has raised $1.1M in a new funding round. The funding came from Lerer Ventures, along with Ironfire Angel, MESA+...

Los Angeles-based Kite Pharma, a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies for cancer, said today that it has raised $35M in its Series A funding round. The firm said that the funding came from Alta Partners, David Bonderman, Pontifa...

Los Angeles-based fashion video producer StyleHaul, the YouTube network headed by Stephanie Horbaczewski, has raised another $6M in funding, the firm disclosed Tuesday. The funding came from RLG Group, a European media company. StyleHaul's ...

Los Angeles-based Greentoe.com, which operates an online marketplace which lets people name their own price for electronics and other items, has raised a round of angel funding, the firm said today. The funding came from Parker Thompson f...

Los Angeles-based Inktank, the developer of the open source, massively parallel, distributed file system Ceph, has added $13.4M into its coffers, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. The filing says the funding--in the form ...

uParts has a mission: revolutionize the auto parts procurement business. The Irvine-based startup also now has $2M in the bank to help it with that goal, announcing this morning that it has raised a Series A funding from GRP Partners, Fra...

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen said Thursday that it is in a joint venture with Chinese company Zhejiang Beta Pharma, to commercialize the firm's Vectibix (panitumumab) product in the Chinese market. Financial arrangements of the j...

Santa Monica-based OUYA--which is developing a low cost, video game console--said today that it has raised $15M in a funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and including Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures, and Occam P...

Los Angeles-based business transactions and dealroom service CapLinked has rounded up some new investors today, saying that it has added additional investors in its Series A funding. The firm said it has brought its Series A up to $2.1M, an...

Los Angeles-based Yektra announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. Yekra says it is a digital entertainment distributor connected with an affiliate marketing system. The funding came from Maurice Gallagher, ...

Forbes Magazine has released its latest Midas List, its listing of the top venture capitalists, and--once again--Southern California's venture capitalists have been shut out of the list. However, two, Southern California firms drove the inc...

Chromatik, the music software company which is revolutionizing sheet music, has raised $5.7M in funding, part of an ongoing $8.8M fundraising effort by the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The Santa Monica startup, whi...

San Diego-based Lumena Pharmaceuticals announce today that it has raised $23M in a Series A funding round, to go towards developing oral therapeutics for rare liver diseases. The funding came from Pappas Ventures, RiverVest Venture Partners...

A report Tuesday from AllthingsD says that once-hot Los Angeles startup Viddy is recapitalizing, and will return $18M of the $30M it raised a year ago. The report says that investors New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures, and Goldman S...

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm DFJ Frontier has significantly bolstered the company's team, saying Tuesday that it has added Merrill Brown--former founder of MSNBC--as a Venture Partner. DFJ Frontier said that Brown will ...

Los Angeles-based TenFarms, the mobile application development startup headed by Nils Forsblom, announced this morning that it has raised $2.7M in an angel funding round, to launch a new mobile advertising product called Adtile to the marke...

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. Panna, which is based in New York, said it raised $1.35M in funding from Anthem Ventures...

Newport Beach- and Philadelphia-based InstaMed, which operates an online electronic payment clearinghouse for the healthcare industry, said today that it has raised an internal round of funding. Size of the round was not announced. The firm...

Publicly held biotherapeutics developer Arrowhead Research said this morning that it has raised $36M in a private offering. The Pasadena-based company said the new financing was led by RA Capital, and included new investors Camber Capital, ...

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there's still a shortage of local, venture capital. In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and...

San Diego-based Qualcomm has backed a developer of advanced photo and camera array technology, Pelican Imaging, with a strategic investment today. Pelican Imaging, which develops camera array technology for mobile phones, said it raised $20...

Santa Barbara-based Local Market Launch, a new startup founded by former ValueClick founder Brian Coryat, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Rincon Venture Partners. According to Local M...

So you're not in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Seattle, or one of the other hot areas for venture capital--but you need to raise money. What do you do? In our Insights and Opinions section today, where we share th...

In a bid to help bring its products to market, San Diego-based Topera Medical said Thursday that it has raised $25M in a Series C financing, which will go towards its 3D analysis and mapping system for treating atrial fibrillation. The new ...

San Diego- and Palo Alto-based venture capital investor Correlation Ventures said this week that it has so far funded eight companies in Q1, and had its first portfolio exit, at Virsto Software. The $165M venture capital fund said it now ha...

Los Angeles seems to be cementing itself in as the capital of celebrity and e-commerce, with the latest deal being Moonfrye, a new, "celebrity mom" startup featuring Soleil Moon Frye, best known to the rest of us as Punky Brewster. The new ...

Los Angeles-based EV Connect, a new startup which helps install, manage, and integrate electric vehicle charging stations for the commercial and government market, announced an initial round of funding this morning. Size of that funding was...

Silverpop, an Atlanta-based email marketing automation provider which also has operations in Irvine, said today that it has raised $25M in a venture debt funding. The funding came from Escalate Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. Silv...

Los Angeles-based Nativo, the online advertising technology firm led by Justin Choi, has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding round, the firm announced Tuesday. The funding was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included e.ventures and Signi...

Despite the level of venture capital activity in Southern California, the region--according to informal discussions with venture capitalists over the years--continues to suffer from a dearth of local, indigenous capital--at least, compared ...

The world of search technology is constantly evolving, with new features like autosuggestion, "instant search", autocorrect, mobile support, and more constantly showing up in such services like Google. But, if you're not one of the giants i...

Los Angeles-based MarketShare, the developer of predictive analytics software for the marketing industry, has raised a big, $38M funding round, the firm said Monday. The funding was led by FTV Capital, and also included Elevation Partners a...

San Dieog-based GroundMetrics, which develops electromagnetic sensing technology for the oil, gas, mining, geothermal, and environmental market, said late Monday that it has raised $1.5M in a second round of financing. The new round was led...

FastSpring, the fast growing Santa Barbara-based e-commerce payment services provider headed by Dan Engel, said today it has scored a funding round from Pylon Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Size of the funding round was not d...

Venture capital investments saw a sharp drop in Q1 in Southern California, according to the latest venture numbers from the MoneyTree report. The report, released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association over...

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast quietly raised $23.775M sometime in the last quarter, according to numbers released in the MoneyTree report over the weekend by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Cap...

Studio City-based Seechangehealth has raised a $15.0M funding round, from Psilos Group and Maverick Capital for its health plans and technology geared around preventative care. The Series C investment was actually disclosed in January, but ...

Los Angeles-based media and communications investor Saban Capital Group announced Thursday that it has opened up an office in Singapore. The investment group--headed by Haim Saban, the head of Univision---said it has five investments in the...

In a turn from the usual formula of Silicon Valley investors backing a Hollywood, celebrity-driven startup, a Silicon Valley startup has scored the backing of a group of Hollywood insiders. San Francisco-based The Hunt said this week that i...

Calabasas-based Music Mastermind, the interactive entertainment firm headed by Matt Serletic, has raised $11.3M, as it has inked a deal with mobile games publisher Chillingo to publish a new music creation game called Zya. Music Mastermind ...

Venice Beach-based Bitium, a new startup out of LA's Amplify accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M in a seed funding round. The new startup--founded by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson--said the funding was led by Mike H...

Booker, the developer of a cloud-based system for automating operations and marketing for small and medium sized businesses and others, has raised $27.5M in a funding round, the firm announced this morning. The company--which has a substa...

The Tech Coast Angels, Southern California's largest angel investment group, is ranked number two in the nation this year in terms of the number of deals the group did, according to the latest 2012 Halo Report. The report, a national survey...

There's been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to he...

Irvine-based Local Corporation, the operator of the network of online, local directory websites, said today that it is in an agreement to raise $5M from The Tail Wind Fund Ltd. The firm said the funding will come in the form of convertible...

Two, Orange County venture capital investors are behind a developer of socially-driven, healthcare software aimed at helping health plans encourage healthy activity by their members. Welltok said today that it has raised $18.7M in a Series ...

Donuts Inc., the startup which is taking on the new, generic top-level domain name market, announced a new round of funding today, a Series B round. Size of the round was not disclosed. The firm, which has offices in Southern California a...

Culver City-based Fullscreen, which operates a multi-channel youTube network, and is led by George Strompolos (formerly of YouTube/Google), has raised $30M in a new round of funding, according to reports today. The funding round reportedly ...

VisibleBrands, a startup developing an in-store, digital promotions network which presents consumers with coupons which automatically show up at the checkout line, has raised $4.6M. The firm--which is based in Kirkland, Washington but also...

A stealthy, Santa Monica-based startup, WhisperText has raised $3.0 from what looks like a number of high profile investors. According to a regulatory filing from the company--which develops an iOS app that allows users to share their secre...

Two, Southern California investors are part of a new funding round today for EAT Club, a startup which automatically delivers lunch to professionals' desks every day based on their preferences. EAT Club said it raised $5M in a Series A fund...

San Diego-based Tealium, the developer of tag management software headed by Ali Behnam, has raised $15.6M in a new, Series C funding, the company said this morning. According to Tealium, the new funding comes from Tenaya Capital, Battery Ve...

Are you a fashion startup? It looks like Los Angeles has become the hotbed of new fashion and e-commerce startups, with the latest being DailyLook, which disclosed Tuesday that it has raised $2.5M in a funding round, from GRP Partners, RRE ...

Need to find a ukulele or blues harmonica teacher? San Diego-based TakeLessons, the online marketplace for music lessons, said that it is seeing a jump in interest in the firm's marketplace for online music lessons. The startup--which is ba...

San Diego-based Algenetix, a startup, industrial biotechnology firm, announced this morning that it has raised $2.0M in a Series A-1 funding. The firm said it is developing technology which improves the oil productivity in microbes, for the...

Solana Beach-based OneHealth, a developer of technology-based patient health services, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Lemhi Ventures. OneHealth says it uses game mechanics, social netwo...

San Diego-based Proximal Data, which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. The funding came from Divergent Ventures...

Playdek, a Carlsbad-based mobile game developer, disclosed Thursday that it has raised $3.8M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also included IDG Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Deep Fork Capital, Greycro...

Idealab-based solar energy startup eSolar has just raised $12.8M in a new funding, part of an ongoing $30M funding for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The funding--which included at least two prior investors, incl...

More details on the University of Southern California's new Viterbi Startup Garage, the brand new startup accelerator being backed by the United Talent Agency and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, have emerged, with the school saying th...

San Diego-based ZeaKal, a plant sciences startup focused on developing technology to increase the yield and oil content of crops, said this morning that it has raised $3.8M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Finestere Ventures, Two...

Ladera Ranch-based EmiSense Technologies, a developer of ceramics-based, particulate matter sensors for smog measurement, said today that it has raised $6.5M in a third round of funding. The funding was led by 9th Street Investments. Accord...

Ladera Ranch-based EmiSense Technologies, a developer of ceramics-based, particulate matter sensors for smog measurement, said today that it has raised $6.5M in a third round of funding. The funding was led by 9th Street Investments. Accord...

A new, San Diego-based startup, Apmetrix, said yesterday that it has launched a new, software-development kit aimed at providing analytics to videogame developers. Apmetrix said it is developing a real-time, game analytics platform aimed at...

In what can only be good news for local startups, venture capital investment firm Greycroft Partners said this morning that it has named Mark Terbeek as a new Partner in its Los Angeles office. Terbeek will help current LA partner Dana Sett...

Two, Southern California investment groups have backed a developer of treatments for infections in cystic fibrosis patients, Savara Pharmaceuticals, they announced today. Both the Tech Coast Angels, Southern California's largest organized a...

San Diego-based private equity investor JMI Equity has put more capital into AppNeta, a Boston-based provider of cloud-based, IT performance management software. AppNeta said it raised $16M in a Series C, which was led by Bain Capital Ventu...

Rexter, a brand new, Pasadena startup looking to put business contact management on steroids, said today that it has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round, which included local high profile technology executives Ted Meisel, Gil Elbaz, Sean...

Need to build a web application, and wish you could do it in a more intuitive, visual way? Divshot, one of the startups out of Los Angeles startup accelerator Launchpad LA, said today that it has raised $1.1M in a seed financing round, for...

San Diego-based Domain Associates is thinking outside the box. The venture capital box, that is. The venture capital investor said Wednesday that it has linked with Chinese advisory firm Elite Consulting, to bring advanced healthcare produc...

San Diego-based Qualcomm has named the winner of its annual, Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Venture Investment Competition, the company said this morning. Qualcomm said it has awarded $150,000 in convertible note funding to iOnRoad, and Israeli c...

Santa Barbara-based HG Data Company announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, for its cloud-based, business intelligence database service. The new startup said the funding was led by EPIC Ventures, and also include...

Beverly Hills-based talent agency and entertainment giant William Morris Endeavor looks to be busy with investments this week. The firm as backed a mobile application development company, Chaotic Moon Studios, as part of a strategic partner...

GRP Partners, the Los Angeles venture capital investment firm, said Tuesday morning that it has added former HauteLook CMO Greg Bettinelli as a Partner at the firm. Bettinelli was Chief Marketing Officer at HauteLook, having taken it form s...

Irvine-based disk drive maker Western Digital announced this morning that it has made a strategic investment in Skyera, a developer of enterprise, solid state storage systems. WD said it co-invested in the recent, $51M funding round annou...

Two, Hollywood heavyweights--the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and William Morris Endeavor (WME)--are backing an online site which provides live workshops from experts. According to creativeLive, it has raised $8M in a funding round, which ...

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm Auspex Pharmaceuticals has scored a new credit facility, from Square 1 Bank, the firms announced today. According to the firms, Auspex has received a term loan to supplement the firm's working capital...

In what might be one of the more unusual sources of funding for a startup, Santa Paula-based fruit grower Calavo Growers announced this morning that it has backed a new startup, FreshRealm, which will develop a new, cloud-based technology p...

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is no...

Think you need to find a venture capitalist or angel investor to help you fund your great new idea for a videogame? Think again. A Newport Beach-based videogame publishing firm, inXile, has just raised $1.9M (and counting) in funding on t...

Beverly Hills-based Visualnet.com, which operates an online marketplace for production services for the film, TV, and video production industry, said Thursday that it has raised $1M in a funding round. The company said the funding came from...

Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital arm of San Diego-based communications chip maker Qualcomm, has made an investment in a developer of 3D scanning tools. Matterport said today that it has raised $5.6M in a Series A round, which was led ...

Howard Lindzon, the San Diego angel investors who also heads up stock micro-messaging site StockTwits, has invested in another private company--Discoverly. Discoverly disclosed a seed round of funding worth $750,000 which included Salesforc...

SharesPost, the private company marketplace headed by Greg Brogger, which had been incubated and started in Santa Monica via Brighthouse, the startup incubator run by Brogger and Scott Painter, is in a joint venture with NASDAQ OMX, the two...

Santa Monica-based Beats Audio, the headphone and audio equipment maker, has raised $60M in a funding round, to spin out its streaming music service 'Daisy', the firm said late Tuesday. The new funding was led by Len Blavatnik's Access Indu...

Is the world short in happiness and joy--and how can a mobile app change that? Los Angeles-based Cheers, the new startup from Bizrate founder Farhad Mohit, disclosed Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $2.5M in a Series A from investors to...

San Diego-based Carolus Therapeutics, a developer of biopharmaceuticals aimed at treating acute and chronic inflammation, has scored $2.25M in a debt funding round, according to financing provider Square 1 Bank. According to Square 1, the n...

One of the hottest sectors in Southern California's high tech world in the last couple of years has been video--namely, Internet video and content creation. With the rise of an increasingly large number of companies, producers, individuals,...

FindTheBest, the online comparison and research site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said this morning that it has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by New World Ventures, and also included Mo...

There's a new venture investor in town, thanks to Dell. Vinny Smith, the former CEO of Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software, appears to have become one of the most active investors in recent months in enterprise software, after starting up a ne...

Is Amgen the next source of the healthcare industry's venture capital deals? It might be, on news that Kevin Sharer, the former CEO of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, has joined venture capital investment firm Foundation Medical Partners. Accor...

San Diego-based OneRoof Energy, which provides financing for solar power projects, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $100M in new financing for residential solar projects. The funding comes from MS Solar Holdings, which is a subsid...

San Diego-based personalized medicine developer Ignyta has raised $1M in funding, via a capital term loan from Silicon Valley Bank, the company disclosed this morning. The firm--which is focusing on treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), lupus...

Los Angeles-based OpenX Software has a new investor, the firm said today, Japanese company cyber communications, inc. According to OpenX, cyber communications, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dentsu Inc., joined in providing additiona...

Valencia-based Sanguine Biosciences, a startup developing a service around blood sample collection for research and development, said Thursday that it has closed on a seed financing round. Size of the round was not announced. The funding wa...

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara is the primary backer of a developer of online training software for corporations, which announced a funding round Thursday. Mindflash, a Silicon Valley-based developer of online software for learning m...

Xirrus, the wireless hardware provider based in Thousand Oaks, has just raised $10.1M in a funding round, part of an ongoing $11.0M funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announc...

There's been a lot of talk about the boom in Southern California's startup world. Driven by success in the sector, accelerators, serial entrepreneurs, and more, there are more startups starting and relocating here than ever. However, local ...

Crowdfunder, the Los Angeles startup led by CHance Barnett, has launched another crowdfunding event aimed at the local industry, saying Wednesday that it has launched CROWDIMPACT LA, a pitching competition which will award $20,000 in a top ...

Newport Beach-based Jeda Networks, a new startup in the storage networking arena, said today that it has unveiled its technology, with the backing of U.S. Venture Partners and Miramar Venture Partners. The firm said it is developing softwar...

Irvine-based Aviir, a life sciences startup developing laboratory tests for cardiovascular disease, said today that it has signed a distribution and expansion pact covering 19 Middle Eastern and North African countries. Aviir said it has in...

Can you pour me another one? You'll soon be asking a machine that question--if Newport Beach-based iPourIt gets its way, thanks to technology which the firm has developed to let people get their own refills on beer. The local company announ...

Science Inc., the technology startup incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones, has raised around $30M in funding from Hearst Ventures, the venture capital arm of Hearst Corporation, Hearst said this morning. Science I...

Goleta-based medical device developer BAROnova announced this morning that it has raised a big, $27.3M funding round to fund clinical trails for its weight loss device. The firm said the Series C funding was led by Sante Ventures and Boston...

It looks like there's a new startup accelerator in town today: MediaCamp, an entertainment-focused startup acceleration program backed by Turner Broadcasting, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment. According to Warner Bros., its Media Ca...

Glendale-based startup incubator, accelerator, and investment fund VoiVoda is one of the investors in mobile optimization firm Leanplum, Leanplum said today. Leanplum announced it raised $825,000 in an angel funding round, which came from T...

Cylance, a new security startup based in Irvine, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round. The round came from Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital. Cylance is headed by Stuart McClure, a former McAfee executive, and bo...

San Diego-based DriveCam, the developer of driver monitoring systems for commercial automobile fleets, said this morning that it has received a strategic investment from Volvo Group. Financial details of the investment were not announced. A...

Verve Mobile, a developer of location-based, mobile advertising services, said today that it has raised $14M in a Series C funding. The firm--which has an office in Carlsbad, but is based in New York--said that Qualcomm and Nokia are new in...

Location-based analytics company MomentFeed, which is in Los Angeles, has confirmed the details of its funding round, saying that the $1.8M raised by the firm earlier this month came from existing investors Gold Hill Capital, DFJ Frontier, ...

Santa Barbara-based RightScale, the developer of cloud computing management software headed by Michael Crandell, has raised $15.6M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not y...

Irvine-based Aviir, a developer of cardiovascular disease testing technology, said today that it has raised $10M in a second financing tranche, after meeting a revenue milestone. According to Aviir, the round was led by Merck Global Health ...

Venice Beach-based Snapchat, the developer of a popular mobile application which lets users take "self destructing" mobile photos of themselves that they can send to friends, has raised $13.5M in a Series A funding, according to multiple re...

Laguna Hills-based Glaukos, which is developing a medical device for treating glaucoma, said this week that it has raised $30M in a funding round. The Series F funding was led by Meritech Capital Partners, and also included Versant Ventures...

Health Data Vision, a new startup based in Burbank, said this week that it has raised a Series A funding round, to go towards its software-as-a-service platform for medical records analysis. Size of the funding was not announced, however,...

MyTime, which operates an online service focused on online deals for appointment-focused businesses like chiropractors, personal trainers, housekeeping, and more, has raised a round of funding to expand its service beyond Los Angeles. The r...

Los Angeles-based Club W, the subscription wine club service out of the Amplify accelerator in Venice, disclosed today that it has raised $3.1M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Crosscut Ventures, Guild Capital, Siemer Ventur...

FreedomPop, the provider of free, broadband Internet services backed by the founders of Skype, has just fueled up with some additional capital, saying this morning that it has raised $4.3M in a Series A1 round. The funding came from exist...

EcoATM, the developer of those automated machines which lets you cash in your used phones, has some big plans--and some big money--as it plans to expand out its network of machines nationwide. EcoATM announced late Wednesday afternoon that ...

Sotera Wireless, the developer of medical devices for wirelessly monitoring patients, has raised $14.8M in a funding round, the firm said this morning. The funding round came from Safeguard Scientifics, and also included Delphi Ventures, Sa...

Interested in getting some help in getting your startup off the ground and funded? Launchpad LA, the Los Angeles startup accelerator program which is run by Sam Teller, and was founded by venture capitalist Mark Suster, is gearing up for ...

Los Angeles-based Siemer Ventures, the venture capital investor led by Eric Manlunas and David SIemer, has been one of the most active local investors lately--and is continuing that trend, with the investment in Ribbon. Ribbon, the develope...

How do you capture the interest of male users, and not only capture their eyeballs--but drive some e-commerce revenues? In the case of Tapiture, you create a Pinterest-inspired, visual, social discovery service which surfaces photos of me...

San Diego-based private equity investor JMI Equity has backed a developer of website security tools this morning. WhiteHat Security, which is based in Santa Clara, said this morning it raised $31M in a new funding round, which will go towar...

DogVacay, the online peer-to-peer marketplace which helps pet owners find dog sitters, has been one of the favorites of local Los Angeles investors, having picked up funding from such firms as Science Inc., Andreessen Horowitz, Baroda Ventu...

Legend3D a developer of 3D visual effects and 3D conversion technology, announced this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding round. The Carlsbad-based company said that the funding was led by Augustus Ventures Limited and Nor...

Science, Inc., the startup incubator headed by Mike Jones, has just tossed its ring into the another e-commerce category: women's activewear. Science just launched Ellie, a site which offers up clothing for activewear for women, via subscri...

MomentFeed, the developer of location-based analytics software headed by Rob Reed, has raised $1.75M in new funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. Details on the funding have yet to be announced. Santa Monica-base...

Glow Digital Media, a developer of a Facebook advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $1.3M in a seed funding round, and set up its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles. The UK-based company did not disclose the source of the fun...

San Diego-based Take Lessons, an online marketplace which helps people find local teachers for music and singing lessons, disclosed today that it has raised $4M in a Series A follow on funding. The funding was led by Triangle Peak Partners,...

Riverside, California- and Albuquerque, New Mexico-based TruTouch Technologies, which develops biometric, alcohol detection systems, said today that it has raised $4.3M in its Series B-1 funding round. The funding came from iTulip Community...

Ivantis, an Irvine-based developer of treatments for glaucoma, said today that it has raised $27.0M in a Series B funding round. According to Ivantis, the round was led by Ascension Health Ventures, and also included prior investors New Ent...

DB Networks, a developer of a firewall specifically designed to counteract SQL injection and database denial of service attacks on websites and web applications, has raised $4.5M in a funding round. The San Diego company said it raised the ...

ChaCha, which operates an online, human-powered questions and answer site, said today that it is planning a new office in Los Angeles, after scoring $14.0M in a funding round. The service, which is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, already ...

San Diego-based Qualcomm is the lead investor in a developer of cloud-based, HD video conferencing services. Zoom Video Communications, which is based in Santa Clara, California, said this morning that it has raised a Series A financing rou...

Fans of the once-cancelled soap operas "All My Children" and "One Life To Live" have a good reason to cheer today, as Hulu, the streaming video service based in Los Angeles, said it would bring the two soap operas to the service. Hulu said ...

A new startup looking to revolutionize the sharing of information on electronic parts for hardware designers, CircuitHub, launched today, looking to bring an open source, collaborative community to the sharing of electronic part libraries. ...

Los Angeles-based Gobbler, the cloud-based media backup, file sharing, and collaboration software provider run by Chris Kantrowitz, has raised $1.5M in a funding round, the firm said today. The funding came from celebrities Ryan Tedder (One...

San Diego-based OneRoof Energy, an operator of residential solar finance programs, said Wednesday that it has raised an additional $30M in a funding round. The round came from current investor Hanwha Group, which is based in South Korea. A...

ParkMe, the startup provider of parking information and data founded by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel, announced this morning that it has raised a new round of funding, from Angeleno Group, Fontinalis Partners and IDG Ventures. As part of th...

Los Angeles-based investor Siemer Ventures has backed social media advertising and analytics firm Optimal, Optimal said Monday. San Francisco-based Optimal said it raised $7M in a Series B funding, which included DoubleRock, The Social Inte...

Irvine-based Kareo has raised $20.5M in a Series F funding, led by Stripes Group and also including Western Technology Investment. Kareo develops software that provides medical office for small practices. The firm has previously raised fund...

Los Angeles-based Atlas Powered, a developer of software for managing calendar, task, and contact data on iOS and Android, has raised $700,000 in a funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and also inc...

Last week, Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced one of the biggest investments in the region in the last few years--a $103M, growth equity investment in the company, which came from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity. The firm operates a...

If you're a Southern California startup, it's most likely you're going to find funding from local, Southern California startup funds, right? Maybe not. According to data from the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report, the fund...

Jason Calacanis, the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo, is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five. 15Five, a San Francisco company developing an online platform t...

In the second set of venture capital numbers released today, Dow Jones VentureSource has released its tabulation of Q4 2012 venture capital financings, reporting similar numbers to those from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Cap...

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report were released today, finding that a total of $683.7M was invested across Southern California in Q4 of 2012. That total was less than ...

Telcentris, the San Diego-based developer of unified communications app VoxOx, has raised $5.3M in a funding round, the firm announced Thursday evening. The funding came from SBD Global Fund. TelCentris develops both consumer and enterprise...

San Diego-based TVC Capital, the growth equity investor which specializes in software companies, is the lead investor in a round of funding for Levels Beyond, the two announced today. Levels Beyond said it raised $4.5M in a Series A from TV...

Pasadena-based advertising technology firm OpenX has raised $22.5M more in a round of funding, the company announced today, via a Series E funding round. The firm, headed by Tim Cadogan, said this morning that the new funding brings its t...

NextSpace, the co-working space developer which has locations in Culver City and Venice, announced this morning that it has raised $825,000 more in a funding round, to go towards expansion in Northern California. NextSpace is one of a numbe...

Los Angeles-based venture firm GRP Partners announced Wednesday that it has hired a new, entrepreneur-in-residence for the company, Sam Rosen, who was formerly the founder of SpeakerGram in New York City, was involved in 500Startups in San ...

San Diego-based venture investment fund Avalon Ventures has made a seed investment in a developer of a social shopping service, LoopIt, according to the companies. Size of the funding was not announced. LoopIt is based in Cambridge, Mass., ...

Venture capital fund Redpoint Ventures, which has an outpost in Los Angeles, has some new cash in the bank, after announcing $400M in a new fund today, Redpoint V. The firm--which has investments in such local companies as Gravity, Chill, S...

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures, the venture investing arm of investment banking firm Siemer & Associates, reported yesterday that it saw the first exit in its portfolio recently, with the sale of company CloudTrigger. The fund also repo...

PICS Auditing, a software-as-a-service developer which provides contractor screening and credentialing software, has raised $35M in a funding round, the firm sai dtoday. The minority funding came from Norwest Venture Partners. PICS said the...

The massive, $103M funding round for Carpinteria-based Lynda.com might have been a surprise for some, except perhaps readers of this publication, who over the years have gotten a glimpse of the growth rate of the company in recent years. ...

MuckerLab, the Los Angeles startup accelerator headed by Erik Rannala, is presenting its newest startup class today in a Demo Day. The accelerator said that the demo day is a culmination of its latest three month program, which included ten...

Lynda.com, the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. Lynda.com said today that it has raised...

ChowNow, a startup which provides social, mobile, and web-based online ordering for restaurants, said this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Double M Capital, Daher ...

NantHealth, the advanced, next-generation healthcare services startup which is part of NantWorks, the startup incubation effort of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has raised $6.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by...

Two local venture capital funds here in Southern California have backed Janrain, a developer of user management software tools used by websites to better manage registration and site visitors. According to Janrain, it has raised $33M in fun...

Convertro, the online advertising targeting and optimization technology developer headed by serial entrepreneur Jeff Zwelling, has raised $5M in a Series B funding round, the company said this morning. The firm said the funding came from Be...

Los Angeles-based Tongal, an online platform which helps brands crowdsource video for their advertising, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Insight Venture Partners. Tongal, which was foun...

It looks like competition is heating up in the smart parking market--and for local parking technology firm Parkme, which is based in Santa Monica--as yet another company announced Thursday more funding for giving consumers real-time informa...

Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics, the headphone and audio equipment maker co-founded by Dr. Dre and Interscope Geffen's Jimmy Iovine, has snagged high profile CEO Ian Rogers away from Topspin Media. Beats said today that it has named Ia...

Online advertising firm YieldMetrics said Thursday morning that it has raised $1.7M in funding, which was led by GRP Partners, and also included Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin...

San Diego-based Sorteo Games, which develops electronic lottery systems and services, said this morning that it has received an investment round from Carolwood Games, an affiliate of Brener Group. Size of the funding was not disclosed. Bren...

Irvine-based Auction.com, an online real estate marketplace focused on foreclosure sales and bank owned homes, has raised $91.7M in a private equity funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the capital cam...

A new, biotech startup focused on delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics, Solstice Biologics, said last week that it has licensed technology developed at UC San Diego, and received $18M in a Series A funding. Solstice, which is based in San ...

HeyZap, the developer of mobile applications used to connect people with social games and each other, has scored an investment from Qualcomm Ventures. According to a regulatory filing and multiple sources, HeyZap raised $4.3M in a funding r...

San Diego-based PatientSafe Solutions, a developer of mobile platforms used for running healthcare operations and accessing patient data, said today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Merck Global Heal...

Santa Monica-based startup accelerator LaunchpadLA has just opened up its spring 2013 class applications, and bumped the amount it invests in startups. The accelerator--run by Sam Teller--is one of a crop of startup accelerators which have ...

SolarFlare, the developer of high speed networking devices, has raised a new, big $22.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. According to the filing, the firm has raised $22.0M out of an ongoing $23.8M funding rou...

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley LLP made some big waves in July with an expansion into "Silicon Beach" and a new office in Santa Monica. Today, a report says that a number of the firm's attorneys have created a new startup investment fund, t...

San Diego-based BioSurplus, a supplier of pre-owned scientific instruments and equipment, has raised $1.75M in a debt financing. The debt financing was announced over the holidays, and came from Square 1 Bank. Terms of the debt were not ann...

San Diego-based Ignyta has raised $6M in a Series B funding, the firm said over the holidays. The firm said the funding included $5.5M in a Series B equity funding and $500,000 in a capital term loan from Silicon Valley Bank. The first clos...

If you're a startup, one of the popular ways to reach out to angel investors is through the site AngelList. However, it's often difficult to sort through the many angel investors and others on the site in a useful way. To solve that, Southe...

San Diego-based Independa, the developer of electronics products and software to help seniors live independently longer, has raised $5M in its Series A funding round, the firm announced this morning. The firm said the funding came from City...

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, inv...

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has backed goBalto, a developer of clinical trial workflow software. goBalto said it raised $12M in a Series B funding, which was led by Singapore Economic Development ...

San Diego-based AwarePoint has raised $4.0M, part of an ongoing, $10.4M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the round is a convertible round for the company, and includes JAFCO Technology Partne...

Temecula-based Sightly, a startup which helps local business create and market themselves with online video, said Friday that it has raised $5.6M in a funding round. The funding was led by Bright Capital Digital, and also included Foresight...

GoPro, the maker of the very popular line of action sports cameras, has just received $200M from Apple iPod manufacturer FoxConn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), in a deal that values GoPro at $2.25 billion. GoPro--which has operatio...

Culver City-based Maker Studios, which develops YouTube channels and content, said today that it has raised $36M in a funding round. The investment was led by Time Warner Investments, and also included Greycroft Partners, Downey Ventures (R...

San Diego-based MEI Pharma, a publicly traded developer of oncology drugs, said today that it has completed a $27.5M private placement. The new funding was led by Vivo Ventures and New Leaf Venture Partners. MEI Pharma said the new funding ...

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals, which is developing treatments for central nervous system and neurological disease, said this morning that it has received funding from Fast Forward LLC, a nonprofit established by the National Multiple Sclerosis Soc...

San Diego-based venture capital firm Domain Associates and its Russian partner, Rusnano, have put part of their $760M, late stage investment fund to work, investing a total of $93M in funding in three portfolio companies of Domain. The two ...

Tubular Labs, the developer of analytics tools for YouTube networks--which is backed by a significant number of Los Angeles angel investors--has added another, $2.5M to its warchest in a new funding. The firm--which was seeded by Allen DeBe...

Lake Forest-based Newport Media, a developer of wireless semiconductors for the broadcast media industry, has received $10M in a venture loan, according to the firms providing the financing. The loan came from Horizon Technology Finance Cor...

Venice-based Tapiture, an online, male-focused site which bills itself a "Pinterest for Men", has raised $450,000 in what looks like a convertible debt funding. The funding came via an SEC filing. Tapiture has not yet announced the funding,...

Helinet, a provider of flight services to the entertainment, media, and other industries which is based in Van Nuys, said Thursday that it has acquired Shotover Camera Systems, a developer of a gyro-stablized, camera systems used for shooti...

EvoNexus, the San Diego-based startup incubator, has opened up application for its next program, with a deadline of January 23rd. EvoNexus, which is run by CommNexus, said it will provide fully furnished open space, mentorship, and access t...

MiTu, a Los Angeles-based YouTube network focused on Latino content, said today that it has closed a round of funding. The funding was led by The Chernin Group, and also included Allen DeBevoise of Machinima, Juan Cristobal Ferrer of Ferrer...

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm ACADIA Pharmaceuticals said today that it has raised $86.4M in a private placement. Source of the new funding was not announced. The firm said the new funds will go towards completing its Phase III pr...

Irvine-based Enevate, a developer of rechargeable lithium ion batteries, has raised $24M in a Series B funding, the company said this morning. The round came from CEC Capital, Tsing Capital, and Presidio Ventures, along with prior investors...

Farmigo, a startup developing an online marketplace connecting local farmers with consumers, said Tuesday that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding, and is eyeing Los Angeles as one of its next markets. The startup--based in Palo Alto--d...

Online home furnishing retailer One King's Lane said today that it has raised $50M in a new funding, which brings its total raised to $117M. The e-commerce and flash sales operator--which has an office in Los Angeles--said the funding was l...

Yet another, Silicon Valley venture capitalist is headed to Los Angeles--this time, David Lee, co-founder and managing partner of prolific angel investment fund SV Angel. The move--first reported by PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy--apparently comes...

San Diego-based Avelas Biosciences has raised $7.65M in a Series A funding round, which it says will go towards clinical studies for its technology for real-time tumor visualization. The funding came from Avalon Ventures. Avelas is developi...

San Diego-based Biomatrica, a developer of technology for stabilizing DNA, RNA, and protein samples, has raised $5M in a funding round, the firm said today. Source of the new funding was not announced. Biomatrica develops ambient temperatur...

One of the most recently graduates of the DreamIt Ventures accelerator in Philadelphia--which is holding its Demo Day today--is none other than Los Angeles company NinjaThat. The startup operates an online marketplace that allows businesses...

What are some of the things you ought to avoid when raising money for your startup? David Ehrenberg or Early Growth Financial Services shares some in this article for our Insights and Opinions section this afternoon. Of course there ...

Irvine-based clean technology investor SAIL Capital has added a former US Environmental Protection Agency expert to its advisory board. SAIL said it has added Paul Anastas, Ph.D., the former Assistant Administrator of the US Environmental...

How often do you run into a top tier, Silicon Valley-backed grilled cheese sandwich shop in LA? Well, visitors to Hollywood's Sunset and Vine are about to see just that, with the expansion of The Melt, a Silicon Valley, venture-backed grill...

Frank Slootman, the CEO of San Diego's ServiceNow, has made an investment in a developer of data storage products. According to ScaleIO, a Palo Alto developer of software-defined storage products, it raised $12M in a funding round, which ca...

Shopatron, the San Luis Obispo-based e-commerce software and services firm headed by Ed Stevens, has just scored $4M in a venture debt financing, according to venture debt fund Multiplier Capital. According to Multiplier, the funding will g...

Prolific angel investor Jason Calacanis has backed the operator of an online service which provides parents with information about local activities, restaurants, stores, and more, Red Tricycle. Red Tricycle, which is based in Seattle, said ...

Newport Beach-based private equity investor Clearlight Partners has raised $300M in a new fund, Clearlight Partners III, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The firm invests in mid-market, profitable companies. Clearli...

Three active angel investment groups--The Tech Coast Angels, the largest and most active angel investment group in Southern California; Maverick Angels, and Keiretsu Forum, have backed a developer of transcription services, TranscribeMe. Tr...

San Diego-based wireless technology giant Qualcomm has made a strategic investment in Macheen, a provider of services and technology to provide always-on, connected devices. Financial details of that strategic investment were not disclosed....

Irvine-based CardiAQ, which is developing medical devices used in percutaneous mitral heart valve replacement, said this morning that it has raised $37.3M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Orbimed, and also included Versa...

CapLinked, the Los Angeles, cloud-based financial software firm founded by Eric M. Jackson and Christopher Grey, announced this morning that it has scored a new, Series A funding round, worth $1.6M. The firm said the funding brings its tota...

Web conferencing serivce AnyMeeting said today that it has reached over 250,000 registered users for its service, which is aimed at small businesses, and also added additional funding. The firm, which is based in Huntington Beach, said that...

Don't know what to make for dinner? The latest startup out of Santa Monica-based technology incubator Science, Inc., Fresh Dish, launched this morning, saying that it will solve that problem, by providing meal delivery service to families e...

One of the more active venture capital firms in Los Angeles, Greycroft Partners, said today that it has closed a $175M, third fund, Greycroft III. The venture firm said its LPs include JP Morgan, BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Fairview ...

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue, which develops call marketing automation technology, said Wednesday that it has raised $3.25M in a funding round. The round was led by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners. RingReveue said the new fundin...

It seems like combining Hollywood and venture capital is the rage in Silicon Valley this week, as news came Tuesday of a new, seed-stage venture capital fund--run by former Mashable blogger Ben Parr--looking to raise money from Hollywood ce...

The latest, Silicon Valley venture capital investor trying to get into the Los Angeles technology market, Lowercase Capital, has decided to tap a former Creative Artist Agency executive to head up its efforts here. Lowercase Capital disclos...

A new, Los Angeles startup is looking to help users take those videos on Viddy, as well as photos they've taken and shared on Instagram--and turn those into products such as t-shirts, decals, mugs, wall art, and more. Cap That said it just ...

San Diego-based MabVax Therapeutics, a developer of immunotherapies aimed at preventing recurrent cancer, said today that it has raised $5.25M in a funding round. The round was led by Numoda Capital Innovation, and also included Burrill Cap...

A report this morning from Business Insider says that Irvine-based Specific Media, the parent company of MySpace, is seeking to raised $50M to turn MySpace into a "Spotify killer". The report says that Specific Media is hoping to re-launch ...

The Kive Co., the mobile applications developer behind ARTKIVE, an app which helps parents save their kids' artwork, and turn that art into photo books or keepsakes, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, according to the company. The fund...

Los Angeles-based Chromatik, a developer of iPad applications which replace traditional sheet music for musicians, has raised $1M in a funding round, the firm disclosed today. The funding came from musician Bruno Mars, Jeff Ayeroff of Virgi...

Los Angeles-based Postcard on the Run, the mobile app developer founded by Josh Brooks, is broadening its focus today, saying it has formed a new, parent company called On The Run Tech. The company said the new company will specialize in bu...

Urban Remedy, a new startup focused on delivering healthy juices, meal replacements, and snacks to consumers, has raised $1M in a funding round, the firm said today. The startup said the funding came from Santa Monica-based Science Inc., t...

Los Angeles investment firm The Chernin Group, the media holding and investment group founded by Peter Chernin, has made an investment in European online video company Base79. According to Base79, the strategic equity investment included bo...

Santa Monica-based solar energy project developer SolarReserve has raised $586M in a combination of equity and debt, for two South African projects, according to reports today. The funding came from FirstRank Bank Ltd, with equity from Kens...

DogVacay, the online marketplace which lets pet owners connect with others to find dog boarding, has raised $6M in a Series A round, the firm announced this morning. The funding came from Benchmark Capital, and comes on top of earlier, seed...

Aliso Viejo-based Consumer Brands, a company that acquires domain assets and brands and develops them as individual properties, said today that it has scored a "multi-million" dollar financing. The funding came from Black Diamond Ventures. ...

San Diego-based Epic Sciences, a firm developing cancer diagnostics technology, announced today that it has raised $13M in a Series B equity round. The round came from Domain Associates, Roche Venture Fund, and Pfizer Venture Investments, a...

For our Insights and Opinions section on a quiet holiday Monday, we're featuring some background on the concepts behind anti-dilution and how it's used by venture capital firms in fundings. This piece comes from Louis Wharton, Partner wit...

Los Angeles-based The Chernin Group, the media holding company and investor led by Peter Chernin, said Thursday afternoon that it has received a "significant" equity investment from Qatar Holding LLC. Size of that investment was not disclos...

Looking for some funding for your new Menlo Park venture capital fund? Apparently, according to Variety, that source is increasingly Hollywood, and its stars and executives. In an article talking about where Hollywood's elite is putting its...

A Silicon Valley startup is looking to take on Pop Up Pantry in its home market of Los Angeles, saying today that it has raised a funding round which will go towards expanding in Los Angeles, as well as Seattle and New York City. Munchery, ...

San Diego's TVC Capital has made another investment in a growing software firm, this time in Washington State. Limeade, a developer of software-as-a-service tools to manage employee wellness programs, said today that it has raised $5M in a ...

Camarillo-based Transonic Combustion, which is developing high efficiency, fuel injection systems for internal combustion engines, said today that it has raised $32M in a Series D funding round. The firm said the round will go towards expan...

NuORDER, a developer of e-commerce software for fashion brands and retailers, has scored a round of funding led by GRP Partners, the company said this morning. The Los Angeles software provider said the $3M, Series A financing round was led...

San Diego-based biotechnology company Genoa Pharma announced this morning that it has raised $1.2M in a finacing round, to help advance its treatments for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). Source of the seed funding was not announced. IP...

San Diego-based Auspex Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has raised $25M in a funding round, a Series D financing for the company. The round was led by Panorama Capital, and also included Thomas, McNerney & Partners, CMEA Capit...

Qualcomm Labs, the incubator subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, has announced the first set of companies funded through its new QualcommLabs@EvoNexus program today, saying that it has funded three companies with a round of seed funding. Q...

San Diego-based BUMP Network, a developer of online software used by membership programs to manage registrations and partnership programs, has raised $2.3M in a funding round, the firm said today. The funding round came from Eric Schmidt vi...

San Diego-based Ambit Biosciences announced this morning that it has raised $25M in the first tranche of a $50M preferred stock financing. The round will go towards supporting its lead drug candidate. The round was led by Orbimed Advisors, ...

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue has raised $3.25M in a Series B-2 funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. The company--which provides call tracking technology for the affiliate marketing industry--said in the fil...

mSIGNIA, a developer of mobile security tools, has quietly been funded by the Tech Coast Angels and Gold Hill Capital, it was revealed by the TCA last week. mSIGNIA, which is based in Irvine, apparently islooking to help manage the identity...

Nanoogo, an online service focused on helping encourage creativity in kids, has scored a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels, according to a report today from the group. Size and timing of the round was not announced. Nanoogo ...

The Tech Coast Angels was the most active group in the first half of the year, in terms of investments, the group said Friday, citing a the HALO Report from Silicon Valley Bank, Angel Resource Institute and CB Insights. The Tech Coast Angel...

Another, Silicon Valley investor--Chris Sacca--has his eyes on investments in Los Angeles, saying that his super angel fund, Lowercase Capital, has just hired a full time director in Los Angeles to make investments in local startups. The ne...

Club W, the personalized wine subscription service at AmplifyLA, has doubled down with accelerators, and is part of a new class of startups announced by 500Startups earlier this week. 500Startups said that ClubW--founded by Xander Oxman, Ma...

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen and venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have put their backing behind a new, Westlake Village based drug development firm, Atara Biotherapeutics, in an unusual spinout of technology from the biotech giant...

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY has raised a big, $35M venture capital round this morning, led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), along with Catalyst Investors (Catalyst) and Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP). MINDBODY provides online, s...

Dollar Shave Club, the subscription razor delivery service headed by Michael Dubin, has raised $9.8M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Venrock, and also included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Forerunner Ventures, Andreessen Ho...

GRP Partners, the venture capital firm managed by Steven Dietz, Brian McLoughlin, Yves Sisteron, and Mark Suster, seems to be making good progress on its newest fund, GRP IV, according to a regulatory filing from the firm filed Wednesday. T...

You've got your elevator pitch, but how much are you really engaging potential investors? For our Insights and Opinions section this morning, Steve Reich tells why it's as important to tell the whole story of your startup to close the deal ...

San Diego-based Thesan Pharmaceuticals said today that it has raised $16M in a Series A round, for the firm's developing of treatments for dermatological disorders. The firm said the funding was co-led by Novo Ventures and Novartis Venture ...

A new, Altadena-based startup, Rexter, has scored some funding to help it build its software algorithms and tools to help manage a user's professional relationships. The company--co-founded by Andy Wilson (Momentum Venture Partners, Yahoo) ...

Aliso Viejo-based videogame developer Red 5 Studios has just raised $15M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. Red 5 develops massively m...

Rincon Venture Partners, the Santa Barbara-based venture capital fund run by Jim Andelman, John Greathouse, and Brian Kelly, has led the investment in a developer of social recruiting software tools for companies, The Resumator. According t...

Santa Ana-based Health Essentials, a provider of post-acute care for the frail and elderly, has scored a round of growth capital from two Silicon Valley venture investors. Health Essentials said it raised a round of funding from SV Life Sci...

Los Angeles-based NanHealth, the subsidiary of NantWorks, the incubator of LA billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has scored an investment from Verizon Investments, the investment arm of Verizon Communications. Size of the funding was not ...

Venice, California-based comedy startup Laffster said this morning that it has raised $750,000 in a funding round, which came from Greylock Partners, Howard Lindzon, Adam Nash (LinkedIn), Chris Williams (Maker Studios), Samer Hamadeh (Vault...

What's behind that report this morning by Cool Planet Energy Systems and progress on its ability to produce $1.50 per gallon gasoline from biofuels? According to a report from GigaOm this morning, an effort to raise $100M to build out its f...

Tradesy, a new website and mobile app developed by Recycled Bride's Tracy DiNunzio, is launching Wednesday, with $1.5M in funding from Rincon Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Dany Levy (DailyCandy), Daher Capital, Bee Partners, Double M Capi...

San Diego-based Independa, the provider of technology which helps to connect and remotely monitor seniors, to help them live independently longer, has raised $1M in an angel funding round. The funding was first publicly disclosed in a regul...

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a ...

Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its 10 percent stake in Hulu, the firm said Friday morning, getting a nice return on its investment in the online video streaming site. Providence Equity Partners had invested $100M in...

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $...

Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, is keeping the faith in one of its portfolio companies, Validity Sensors, a developer of fingerprint sensors for the PC, mobile, and tablet market. Qualcomm was one of the return inves...

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has backed a developer of video advertising products, Selectable Media, to the tune of $2M. Selectable Media, which is based in New York, lets users opt into branded video advertising in exch...

La Jolla-based Cebix, a biopharmaceutcials company that is developing treatments for complications due to diabetes, said this week that it has raised $30.9M in a Series B investment round. The funding came from its existing investors, which...

Ad Hoc Labs, the developer behind the Burner mobile app, has just scored a round of angel funding. Size of the round was not disclosed. Burner is a mobile app which allows users to create disposable phone numbers, which they can hand out to...

textPlus, the maker of the popular texting application by the same name, said today that it has raised $18M in a new funding round, led by The Raine Group. Prior investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Matrix Partners and GRP Partners als...

Ventura, California-based outdoor clothing manufacturer Patagonia said Monday that it has made an investment in Teas-based AeonClad Coatings, a developer of water-repellent coatings and other specialty coatings technology. Financial details...

An online marketplace for babysitters, UrbanSitter has just scored new funding Los Angeles-based venture investor Rustic Canyon Partners, as part of a Series A funding, UrbanSitter said this morning. UrbanSitter said it raised $6M in a Seri...

Lettuce, a developer of software to help manage order capture, inventory, and accounting for online businesses, has raised $2.1M in a seed funding round. Funding for the Santa Monica company came from Crosscut Ventures, 500 Startups, Launch...

San Diego-based healthcare investor Domain Associates has made an investment in a Philadelphia provider of hospital discharge planning and readmission management software this week, RightCare Solutions. RightCare said it has raised $1.72M ...

New World Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Pritzker Group, is the lead investor in a big, $90M funding round for a developer of data center technology and services. Phoenix-based IO, which develops modular data center technology, sa...

New World Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Pritzker Group, is the lead investor in a big, $90M funding round for a developer of data center technology and services. Phoenix-based IO, which develops modular data center technology, sa...

Laguna Hills-based LoneStar Heart, a firm developing cardiac restorative therapies for patients with heart failure, has raised $20M in a funding round, the firm revealed today, from Chinese investor Themes Investment Partners. The firm said...

What's the best way to share competitive intelligence and company announcements with your employees? Flud, a San Diego startup developing mobile apps to let teams privately share news with their co-workers and others in the company, recentl...

A new, angel investment group based in the Phillipines is basing its effort on the model set by Southern California's Tech Coast Angels, according to a report today from Phillipine publication Sun.Star Cebu. Sun.Star said that a new group--...

Anametrix, which develops cloud-based, digital analytics software, said today that it has raised $4.4M in a Series A funding round. The round came from San Diego's TVC Capital. According to Anametrix, the investment is the first out of TVC ...

As part of our Insights and Opinions section on our site, we regularly feature advice from entrepreneurs, investors, attorneys, and many others on a variety of topics of interest to high tech companies. Today, we have an article from Greg A...

Mojave-based Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceflight firm owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, said late Friday that it has acquired 100 percent ownership of its sister company, The Spaceship Company (TSC). Virgin Galactic said ...

Tubular Labs, a stealth mode starting which is developing a marketing and analytics platform for YouTube channels, has raised $650,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The Silicon Valley firm is back...

Santa Monica-based ShoeDazzle, the online e-commerce and celebrity site that is back in the hands of Brian Lee, and whose co-founders include Kim Kardashian, has raised $6.0M in a combination of equity and debt, according to a regulatory fi...

Los Angeles-based NewAer, a startup developing software which enables phones, tablets, and computers to automatically perform actions based on the proximity on who or what is nearby, has scored funding from Intel Capital, according to Intel...

Angel investor Jason Calacanis has made another angel investment and scored another board seat this morning -- this time, all the way out in Manchester, New Hampshire. Calacanis, who lives in Santa Monica where he runs Mahalo, apparently ha...

Santa Monica startup, Gravity--headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M in a Series B financing round for its personalization technology. The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also include...

San Diego-based Givit, which develops social video sharing applications and services, announced this morning that it has raised $2.5M in a funding round. The new round came from ATA Ventures and JK&B Capital. According to Givit, the funding...

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investor...

Peer-to-peer car sharing service Wheelz has expanded into the Los Angeles, saying that it has added four college campuses in Los Angeles to its list of local schools where it lets students share their cars with others. According to Wheelz, ...

Beverly Hills-based Actv8, a developer of mobile applications for Hollywood and the television industry, has raised $3.2M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding and details have not be...

Goleta-based Transphorm, the developer of power conversion technology being aimed at motors, power supplies, and solar power inverters, announced today that it has raised $35M in a Series E funding round. The round was led by Innovation Ne...

Los Angeles-based NantWorks, the technology incubation and investment firm run by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, and Malibu-based toy firm JAKKS Pacific announced this morning that the two are in a join venture to create anew company, Dre...

Los Angeles-based FreedomPop, a new startup backed by Mangrove Capital, DCM, and Atomico, said this morning that it has launched a beta of a free, wireless Internet service based off of Clearwire's 4G wireless network. The firm said it will...

Kred, a company which it tabulating social media influence, released its list of top venture capitalists this week, with only a single representative from Southern California: Mark Suster of GRP Ventures. Suster was the sole Southern Califo...

San Diego-based Vital Therapies, a biotechnology firm focused on treatments for acute liver failure, said Thursday that it has raised $16M, part of a $76M mult-stage commitment to the firm by its investors. The firm said the funding will go...

Irvine-based electric car maker Fisker Automotive has just raised $103.7M as part of an ongoing, $150M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. Details on the funding have yet to be announced by the company. Th...

San Diego-based Freedom Meditech, a developer of opthalmic medical devices being used to detect disease and measure patient health, said Thursday that it has secured a $2M line of credit. The credit line came from Silicon Valley Bank. Terms...

In a proof that it's not all social media and e-commerce here in Southern California, number two ranking startup in The Wall Street Journal's ranking of the "Top 50 Startups" is none other than wireless hardware provider Xirrus, based in Th...

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus, the developer of high speed, high performance wireless networking hardware, has raised another big chunk of financing, saying today that it has raised $23.5M in a Series E funding round. The round came from its e...

One of the companies recognized in Qualcomm's QPrize annual business plan competition has scored a series A funding, four years after being named a finalist in the Qualcomm effort. Singapore-based Capillary Technologies, a developer of mobi...

Corona del Mar-based venture investor Miramar Venture Partners has backed portfolio firm SwiftTest in its Series B funding, according to SwiftTest. SwiftTest said it raised $7.25M in its Series B, led by Azure Capital Partners, and also inc...

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems, the developer of video-based, driver safety systems, has scored a venture debt financing, according to finance firm Wellington Financial. Size and terms of that debt financing were not announced. Wellingt...

DealCurrent, a developer of software used for managing local coupons and daily deals offers, has scored private equity funding from a private equity firm. Canal Partners, an Arizona private equity company, is funding Deal Current, to help t...

Los Angeles-based Wedge Buster said this morning that it has launched its new, social sports gaming and mobile company, focused on developing a wide portfolio of sports games on both platforms. The firm said it has raised $2.2M in a Series ...

Marina Del Rey-based Tribogenics, the developer of X-ray technology being aimed at enabling handheld, ultra-miniature portable x-rays, has raised $6.2M in a Series A funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by the Founders Fund...

San Diego-based PCN Technology, a developer of Ethernet and IP networking hardware, said this morning that it has raised $5.25M in a funding round. The firm said the round included its existing investors, executives, and board members, alon...

It looks like all that bacon paid off. 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 i...

San Diego-based Skylight Healthcare Systems, a developer of interactive patient care systems, said today that it has raised $5.0M in a funding round. The Series D round came from Duchossois Capital Partners. Skylight said the funding will g...

Irvine-based Aviir, a developer of laboratory tests for detecting cardiovascular disease, said it has raised $8M in funding from Silicon Valley Bank. The firm said the round included $5M in growth debt, plus a $3M line of credit. The new fu...

Los Angeles-based RGM Group, which provides online media services for premium advertisers, said today that it has raised $21M in a funding round. The round came from Riordan, Lewis & Haden (RLH) Equity Partners. As part of the funding, the ...

BigMachines, a developer of cloud-based software for product configuration, pricing, quoting, and proposals, has scored funding from San Diego private quity investor JMI Equity. Financial details of the new funding were not disclosed. The f...

Los Angeles-based Response Genetics, a publicly held provider of molecular diagnostic testing services for cancer, announced this morning that it has raised $8.8M in a private placement of its stock. The new funding came from GlaxoSmithKli...

San Diego-based GlySens, a startup developing implantable, long-term glucose monitoring sensors, has scored an investment round, according to investor West Health Investment Fund. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. La Jol...

San Diego-based private equity firm TVC Capital, which is led by Jeb Spencer and Steven Hamerslag, has closed on a new, $75M growth equity and buyout fund, the firms said today. The new fund, TVC Capital II came from private equity fund of ...

Exagen Diagnostics, a venture-backed developer of molecular diagnostics testing which operates its main laboratory in Vista, California, said it has raised $5.3M. The funding was led by Tullis Health Invesotrs, and also included Sun Mountai...

Los Angeles-based Inktank, the open source software firm developing the distributed storage system Ceph, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a convertible note financing. The financing came from Mark Shuttleworth, who founded Canoni...

How do you handle it when a venture capitalist rejects your pitch? Steve Reich, a Southern California angel investor, tells the story of how one startup handle dit, and gives some advice. A billion dollar established market. Incumbent...

Torrance-based storage developer Active Storage, which develops Mac- and media-oriented storage arrays, has raised $1.2M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details of the funding--which looks to be a...

Wellington Financial, a provider of venture debt and growth capital to high tech startups and other companies, said yesterday that it has closed on a $177.5M, fourth fund. Wellington is based in Canada, but has its U.S. offices in Santa Mon...

Los Angeles-based online celebrity media publisher BUZZMEDIA said Wednesday that it has linked with Suri's Burn Book, an online Tumblr blog focused on celebrity children and fashion mishaps. Financial details of the joint venture were not d...

Calabasas-based FaceCake Marketing Technologies, a developer of 3-D, virtual dressing room technology, has raised a round of funding from XG Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm whose founders are former Google execs. Amount of the fundi...

The POP Charger project on Kickstarter, the electronics charging device being developed by local serial entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff, closed out its funding effort on Kickstarter over the weekend, raising a total of $139,170 out of a $50,000...

In what is a rarity nowadays for a Southern California venture capital fund, San Diego- and Cambridge-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has just closed on $201.6M in commitments for a $250M fund, Avalon Ventures X. The funding was ...

MightyText, a Silicon Valley startup which develops Android applications to let users send SMS messages from their computer via the cloud, and syncs those messages between an Android phone and computer, has scored $100,000 from San Diego's ...

Pasadena-based Wallaby, the digital wallet startup out of MuckerLab, has scored $1.1M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The firm--which is led by Matthew Goldman--said the funding came from the Founders Fund Angel and ...

Los Angeles-based Kidworth, the online service which makes it easy for kids to offer their services and start a business, said today that it has renamed itself Bizinate. The firm said the name change came as it found that entrepreneurs of a...

Who are the latest folks looking to connecting into the Los Angeles technology scene? No other than the Winklevoss Twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, according to a report from TMZ today, which said the two have purchased a house in the H...

Los Angeles-based vintage fashions firm Nasty Gal has raised $40M in a funding round, from sole investor Index Ventures, the firm disclosed over the weekend. According to Forbes, the company, headed by Sophia Amoruso, is set to hit $128M in...

A list of the top ten cities for startups was released by USA Today and the National Venture Capital Association today, naming both Los Angeles and San Diego among the best cities for startup companies. Los Angeles was ranked number 4, and ...

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor Clearstone Ventures has re-upped in a developer of biometric identity verification technology. Campbell, California-based AOptix announced a $42M, Series E funding round today, which came from Cle...

Los Angeles-based MYMUSAIC, a new startup, said this morning that it has just closed an angel funding round, and launched an online software service to turn photos and music into movies. The startup did not provide details on its angel roun...

Los Angeles-based My Damn Channel, the online comedy site headed by Rob Barnett and Warren Chao, has raised $1.0M as part of an ongoing, $3.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the new funding have no...

El Segundo-based Fuhu, which is developing an Android tablet specifically aimed at kids, has raised $10M in venture debt. The funding was announced by venture debt provider ORIX Ventures. Fuhu develops the nabi tablet, which it says is spec...

In an unusual move, Carlsbad-based MaxLinear said today that it has reached a private deal to repurchase a significant number of its shares from its venture capital investors. The publicly held firm said it will repurchase 1.65M shares of i...

Think fundraising for your startup is easy? Think you just pitch investors, and get a check? Think again. Miron Lulic, one of the co-founders of Swagsy learned all about the difficulties of getting angels and investors to invest in your fir...

Swagsy, an online, celebrity-focused service which it tying together celebrities and e-commerce, has raised $100,000, in a convertible note, angel funding round. Name of the investor was not disclosed. The Los Angeles startup was founded by...

OCTANe, the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M...

Publicly held biopharmaceuticals firm MediciNova, which is based in San Diego, said last night that it has raised $20M in funding in a deal with Aspire Capital Fund, LLC. Medicinova said that Aspire will purchase the $20M in common stock at...

CapLinked, the online, cloud-based service which helps startups and others manage their fundraising, has added a new sharing feature which makes it easier for users to share their information via email, Skype, and AngelList. The firm said i...

Modern Meadow, a firm whose founders were previously co-founders of San Diego's Organovo, has scored funding to make manufactured, 3D printed meat a reality. The funding came from Breakout Labs and The Thiel Foundation, Breakout Labs said T...

Little Black Bag, the women's merchandise and online commerce site that is a take on the Japanese concept of a "lucky bag sale", has raised $8M in a Series B round, just six months after its Series A funding. The firm, which is based in Los...

Sibling Capital, a brand new venture capital based in Rancho Santa Fe, said this week that it has formed to invest in the areas of chemistry, medicine and material sciences. The new fund said it made its first investment, part of an $80M ...

EcoMom, the online e-commerce site focused on organic and eco-friendly products for children, disclosed this week that it has raised $4.7M in an additional funding round. The round came form Blue Pacific Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Cue Bal...

Venice-based Movieclips, the online movie clips site and content site founded by Zach James and Richard Raddon, said today that it has raised $18.9M in a Series C funding round, and has rebranded itself as ZEFR. The new funding round was le...

Los Angeles-based Pagewoo, the mobile advertising startup founded by Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly, has quietly scored a round of funding, which was disclosed by the Tech Coast Angels this morning. Financial details of the angel funding...

The Tech Coast Angels said today that it has totalled up its investments for the first half of 2012, and found that it invested $4,571,000 in direct investments--as part of $10M in funding--for 17 companies. The angel investment group, whic...

San Diego-based Elcelyx Therapeutics, a developer of biopharmaceuticals aimed at both the weight loss and diabetes area, said this morning that it has raised $4M of a $7M extension of its Series B equity funding round. The new funding came ...

Southern California has the one of the largest gathering of organized angel investment groups, and a huge crop of startup accelerators: there's only one problem, which is they don't naturally work together. For our Insights and Opinions sec...

Los Angeles-based Postcard On The Run, the developer of mobile apps which let people send their mobile phone photos to people as real, printed postcards, has raised $1.8M in an ongoing funding round, according to a regulatory filing from th...

In what looks like some good news for Irvine-based electric auto firm Fisker Automotive, the supplier for that firm's electric batteries, A123 Systems, said today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a Chinese firm, t...

Realtime, a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S., and opened up a new office in Santa Monica. The firm, which was previously known as Internet Busi...

A new, Los Angeles based startup focused on developing original media for YouTube, AwesomenessTV, announced Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $3.5M in a Series A investment round. The round was led by MK Capital, and also included Greycr...

A list issued Thursday by Twitter analytics firm PeekAnalytics identifies the top, influential high tech investors based on their key Twitter metrics, and--perhaps unsurprisingly--only a small number of local investors show up on the list. ...

It looks like the trend--started in Los Angeles--to partner celebrity with e-commerce has spread to Silicon Valley. A San Francisco startup, Personalized Retailing, is joining the dozens of Los Angeles celebrity-with-e-commerce-subscription...

Connexity the online advertising startup headed by former Fastclick co-founder Dave Gross, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Rincon Venture Partners, and also included Siemer Venture...

Is crowdsourcing donations a reasonable alternative to seed funding? Based on the experience so far of POP Charger, the Kickstarter project being run by local entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff, it seems to be. According to the project's page Wed...

Los Angeles-based CapLinked, which operates an online platform for managing fundraising by startups, has linked with the Startup America Partnership. According to CapLinked, it will make its premium capital raising and investor reporting to...

Avalon Ventures, the La Jolla- and Cambridge-based venture capital firm, has backed a new startup, Pingup, which lets consumers text nightclubs for reservations and information. According to Pingup Tuesday, it raised $1M in a seed funding r...

Los Angeles-based Instacanvas, the MuckerLab startup which allows any Instagram user to print photos from their stream to a real, canvas print, revealed today that it has raised $1.7M in a funding round. The round came from Founders Fund, F...

One of the portfolio companies of Los Angeles-based venture capital investor DFJ Frontier has scored a big, $15.6M funding round this morning, to bolster its development of digital entertainment systems for fitness treadmills. Netpulse, whi...

Los Angeles-based PayDragon has raised $1.35M in its seed funding, the firm disclosed Friday. The firm--which had earlier disclosed the seed round, but without dollar amounts--said the funding included Rustic Canyon Ventures, SV Angel, and ...

El Segundo-based JustFab, the fashion subscription site led by Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler, announced Thursday morning that it has raised a gigantic, $76M in a funding round. The new funding for the site was led by Rho Ventures, and als...

Los Angeles-based Pop-Up Pantry, one of the companies in the Launchpad LA accelerator, has disclosed a $1.7M seed funding round, led by GRP Partners, CrossCut Ventures, Adam Goldenberg (JustFab), and Michel Daher (of Daher Foods). The start...

Apptopia.com, a new startup which allows developers and others to buy and sell the ownership of mobile applications, said this morning that it is getting set to close out a $1M round of funding, led by Mark Cuban. The company, which has off...

San Diego-based CoDa Therapeutics, which develops biopharmaceuticals aimed at wound care, said today that it has added $20M to its Series B financing round. The new funding, a second close, came from RusnanoMedInvest. CoDa Therapeutics said...

Los angeles-based NantWorks, the technology thinktank of Los Angeles billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, said Tuesday that one of its companies, NantPharma, has received $125M in an investment by private equity firm Blackstone. NantPharma ...

WhoSay, which operates an online, media management platform used by agents, celebrities, and studios to manage celebrities, has raised $12M in a funding round, the company said today. The firm--which has offices in Los Angeles, but is based...

Los Angeles-based StackSocial, the e-commerce software developer out of the Amplify accelerator, has announced $800,000 in a seed funding round this morning, from 500 Startups, Siemer Ventures, EchoVC Partners, Amplify LA, as well as angels...

There's been a surge in startup accelerator activity in Los Angeles in the last year, as interest in starting a company in the region has grown, and a wide range of experienced entrepreneurs and investors have pitched in to help companies g...

The POP Charger, the Kickstarter project run by former Unsubscribe.com CEO Jamie Siminoff, has blown past its fundraising efforts on Kickstarter, and as of this morning has racked up over $66,000 in donations out of an original target of $5...

Goleta-based Calient, a developer of 3D MEM-based, optical switching equiment, has raised $14.8M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details and source of the new funding was not announced. Calient's equ...

Los Angeles-based LuxeYard, which operates a flash sales site focused on home furnishing and decor, said today that it has scored what it says is its first round of funding, to help expand in India. The company--which now is listed on the O...

The latest MoneyTree Survey, from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters, tabulated $837.3M in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. According...

Venice-based MovieClips, the online site which allows people to share and view clips from movies, has raised a Series C funding round, according to reports. No details on the funding, which was first reported by Dan Primack at FORTUNE, have...

San Diego-based Obalon said Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $16.5M, in a Series C funding. The funding was led by InterWest Partners, and also included Domain Associates and Okapi Venture Capital. Obalon is a developer of gastric ba...

Los Angeles-based Media Temple, the web hosting firm, is partnering with Virb to help small businesses, artists, musicians, and others to create their own web sites, the firms said this morning. According to the two, they have integrated th...

Santa Monica-based Retention Science, a new startup out of the MuckerLab accelerator, is announcing this morning that it has raised $1.3M in a seed funding. The firm, which is developing big data software for helping e-commerce sites to att...

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures is backing a Bay Area gift card-based, payment network, Openbucks, as part of a Series A funding for Openbucks. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M in a Series A for the co...

The California Institute of Technology is backing, Coursera, a startup in the area of online education with an equity investment, plus the promise to put some of its courses online for free, in a deal worth $3.7M, the school announced this ...

San Diego-based BioSurplus, a provider of equipment management services and pre-owned laboratory instruments, said this morning that it has closed its Series A financing round, bringing the total raised in the oversubscribed round to $2.4M....

San Diego-based Tealium, a developer of tag management software for online marketers, said this morning that it has raised $10.5M in a Series B funding. The firm said the round was led by Battery Ventures, and will go towards funding growth...

The founding Executive Director of the USC Stevens Center for Innovation, Krisztina Holly, is leaving the center to pursue other interests, USC said late Friday. According to the university, Holly decided to leave USC this month to pursue o...

Los Angeles-based TeleSign, the provider of telephone-based, Internet fraud prevention and authentication services headed by tech vet Steve Jillings, has raised $29.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thurs...

An Illinois firm whose technology is based on, and licensed from Pasadena-based Materia and Caltech, has raised a whopping, $104M funding round. Woodridge, Illinois-based Elevance Renewable Sciences, a developer of processes for creating sp...

Remember Santa Barbara-based Callwave, the onetime developer of Internet call waiting and Internet fax services? It turns out the company still exists--albeit under another name and management--and just became, again, a venture backed start...

San Diego-based Qualcomm has backed an online e-commerce company in India, Big Shoe Bazaar India Pvt Ltd.. According to Big Shoe, it has raised INR 100 Cr. (approximately $1.8M US) in a Series C funding round, which was led by Fidelity Grow...

Los Angeles-based Poptent, which is harnessing crowdsourcing to help brands and agencies to develop advertisements, said this morning that it has raised $5.5M in a funding round. The round was leds by MK Capital. Poptent, which is led by An...

Los Angeles-based StackSocial, which is developing and e-commerce platform focused on flash sales of software, apps, tutorials, and more--currently on a number of Mac software packages--has quietly raised a round of angel funding, socalTECH...

A virtual currently startup, Pocket Change, with links to Southern California has just raised $5M more in funding. The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founde...

Los Angeles-based SteelHouse, a startup developing e-commerce software to provide special offers and pricing to consumers based on their online behavior, has raised $8.25M more. The funding came from Qualcomm Ventures and Daher Capital. Ste...

Irvine-based Micardia, a developer of medical devices used for treating cardiovascular diseases, said Tuesday that it has raised a round of funding, which will provide it with $4.4M during 2012 and 2013. The firm said the round was an inter...

Los Angeles-based Zumbox, the startup providing digital, postal mail services, which is now headed by John Payne, has raised $10.6M in a Series C funding round, the firm said late this morning. The firm said the funding came from existing i...

Athletes' Performance, which maintains major technology operations in Los Angeles, said this morning that it has raised $22.5M for its performance training, nutrition, and physical therapy services for athletes, the military, and corporatio...

San Diego-based On-Ramp Wireless, the developer of wireless communications systems used to connect devices into the smart grid, has scored the backing of Energy Technology Ventures, the venture capital m which is a joint venture of GE, NRG ...

Irvine-based Solarflare, the developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, has raised $10.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the fundraising have not been announced by the company. The regulatory ...

Los Angeles-based Cyber Rain, the developer of smart irrigation controllers, has raised a round of debt funding, according to funder Agility Capital. Size and terms of the debt funding were not announced. Cyber Rain develops smart irrigatio...

Southern California's largest angel investment group, the Tech Coast Angels, looks to be one of the lead investors nationally in angel-backed companies, according to a report released Monday by the Angel Resource institute. The group, along...

It looks like it's going to be a good year for venture capital -- fundraising, that is, according to numbers released by Dow Jones Monday. According to Dow Jones, 82 U.S. venture funds raised $13 billion in the first six months of the year,...

Thousand Oaks-based wireless equipment maker Xirrus appears to have raised $18.4M more in a funding round, part of an ongoing $25.3M funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Xirrus, which makes Wi-Fi switching hardware whic...

Sherman Oaks-based RingDNA, a provider of mobile tools to provide real-time CRM data, social media streams and behavioral marketing information to salespeople, has raised $650,000 in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. No...

San Diego-based private equity firm JMI Equity has backed a developer of medical device technology, Capsule Tech, the firms announced today. Terms of the strategic investment were not announced. Capsule Tech said it has named Gene Cattarina...

Los Angeles-based subscription commerce service Quarterly has raised $1.25M in a Series A funding round, which was led by True Ventures, SV Angel, Initialized Capital, Collaborative Fund, according to VentureWire Friday. Former Redbox presi...

Manhattan Beach-based YBUY, which is developing a monthly subscription service to help users try products before buying them, has raised $1M in a funding round, the firm disclosed Thursday. The round was led by TomorrowVentures, the persona...

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Irvine-based electric autombile maker Fisker Automotive revealed this week that the actor is an equity investor in the company, and is also linking with the firm to help promote "Global Sustainability." According...

San Diego-based Qualcomm is backing a developer of mobile apps marketing products, Fiksu, via its Qualcomm Ventures investment arm, Fiksu said this morning. Fiksu said it has raised $10M in a Series B financing, led by Qualcomm and Charles ...

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software is in a deal to be acquired by Dell, for $2.4 billion, or $28.00 per share in cash, the two firms said this morning. The deal, which was reached after a long, drawn out bidding war between Insight Venture Pa...

Los Angeles-based YourEvent.com, a startup developing a service to help users share photos of their events, has raised a round of angel funding. The funding came from the Billiken Angels Network, an angel group based in Saint Louis. Financi...

Two Southern California venture investors have re-upped their investment in a Northern California maker of spin repair devices, Benvenue Medical. Benvenue said it raised $25M in a Series D funding yesterday, led by its existing ivnestors, w...

Laguna Hills-based Sonnendo, a firm developing medical devices for the use in root canals (endodontic therapy), said Thursday that it has raised $9.2M in an initial close of a $20M equity funding. e firm said the round was led by OrbiMed Ad...

The Tech Coast Angels, the largest angel investment group in Southern California, has backed a developer of treatments for the flu., According to Gemmus Pharma, it raised an angel funding round led by the Life Science Angels, and also inclu...

Los Angeles-based Dogvacay, the online marketplace which helps dog owners find people to pet sit their dogs, is announcing this morning that it has added Andreessen Horowitz as an investor at the company. Size of the investment was not disc...

Los Angeles-based Chill, the social video sharing and chat site led by Brian Norgard, has raised another $8M in funding, the firm said today. The firm sai the new funding was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and William Morris Endea...

A new, financial education and family organization website, DoughMain, said yetserday that it has raised funding from a private equity fund managed out of Los Angeles and Boston. DoughMain, which did not disclose details of its funding, sai...

Hollywood-based Big Frame, a new startup focused on providing content programming and marketing of YouTube talent, has raised $3M in a funding round, the firm said Tuesday. The round came from Anthem Venture Partners, Daher Capital, DFJ Fro...

Los Angeles-based FastPay, which provides receivables financing for digital media businesses, said this morning that it has raised $25M in funding. The funding included a senior credit facility from Wells Fargo Capital Finance and a subord...

The bidding war for Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software, the developer of IT management software, continued this morning, as the firm reported that an un-named, strategic bidder has upped its proposal to acquire the company to $27.50 per share...

Santa Monica-based BlockBeacon, the developer of mobile apps headed by Brandon Mills, former co-founder and Head of Product at SocialVibe, has raised $500,000, the firm disclosed Friday. The funding was led by Resolute.VC, the new venture f...

San Diego-based On Ramp Wireless, a developer of networking and communications equipment aimed at smart grid and other sensors networks, is in the process of raising up to $30M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thur...

Aliso Viejo-based Avanir Pharmaceuticals, the biopharmaceuticals firm focused on treatments for central nervous system disorders, has received $30M in a debt funding round, according to lenders Oxford FInance and Silicon Valley Bank. Avanir...

When is a funding also an exit? When part of that funding is used to pay off early investors. The $135M funding for Santa Barbara-based wireless music system maker Sonos appears to be just that, rewarding such investors as Andreas von Blott...

Los Angeles-based CapLinked, the startup which provides an online site to help companies manage their fundraising process, is announcing this morning that it has raised $400,000 in a new funding round. The new round included Hercules Techno...

A trio of online advertising vets are heading up a new, mobile advertising firm, Gradient X, which said this morning that it has raised $3.75M in a seed financing round. GradientX, led by Brian Baumgart and co-founded by Julie Mattern and M...

Aliso Veijo-based Quest Software said late Tuesday that Insight Venture Partners and its affiliates have raised their offer for the firm to $25.75 per share in cash, up from their original offer of $23.00 per share in cash. The increased of...

Los Angeles-based HypeMarks, the developer of a service which helps users find new places to explore on the web, has raised $350,000 in a funding round, socalTECH has learned. According to Tim Sae Koo, the firm's founder, the funding came f...

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked, the developer of software used by companies to manage their fundraising process, said today that it recently released a new feature, which allows accredited investors and advisors to preview and request acce...

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems, which develops driving safety systems for managing driving fleets, said Monday afternoon that it has raised $47m in a new funding round. The firm said the round was led by Oak Investment Partners and New ...

Santa Barbara-based Sonos, the maker of user-friendly, whole house music systems, has raised $135M in a funding round, according to reports today. According to AllThingsD, citing "sources close to the situation", the funding included both p...

San Diego-based Astute Networks, a developer of a flash-based iSCSI networking device used in the data center market, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Samsung Venture Investment Cor...

Santa Monica-based GraphEffect, the provider of social marketing software headed by James Borow and co-founded by Clark Landry, announced this morning that it has raised $12M in a new financing round. The round was led by Rincon Venture Par...

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software, the developer of IT management software, reported this morning that it has received a proposal from a strategic bidder to acquire all of the firm's outstanding shares for $25.50 per share in cash. The new o...

San Diego-based Qualcomm has re-upped its investment in a maker of an electriocardiogram (ECG) device which connects into iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. According to AliveCor, which is based in San Francisco, it has raised $10.5M in a s...

Westlake Village-based Row 44, the provider of inflight Wi-Fi and entertainment services headed by John LaValle, announced today that it has raised $45M more in financing. The round came from Advanced Inflight Alliance AG (AIA) and prior in...

One of the portfolio companies of Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has filed for an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC late Friday. Silicon Valley based enterprise security and compliance software firm Qualys said it...

Look out, Pinterest -- Pasadena-based LoveIt is looking to unseat the popularity of the photo sharing site, with its new platform, and $6M in funding. LoveIt, headed by former PriceGrabber President Ron LaPierre, said today that it raised a...

What's the latest startup to launch of out Santa Monica-based business "studio" Science Inc., run by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones? That would be appear to be Gumhouse, which just raised $6M in a funding round, from such venture firms as Po...

Los Angeles-based technology incubator Curious Minds is one of the firms backing Ringadoc, a new startup which offers up medical consultations via phone or computer. According to Ringadoc, it raised $750,000 in a seed funding round, led by...

Los Angeles-based CapLinked, the online service which helps startups manage their fundraising process, announced this morning that it has linked with half a dozen startup accelerators to help those firms' companies help raise their funding ...

San Diego-based Astute Medical, a provider of biomarker-based medical diagnostics technology, reports this morning that it has raised $40.4M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by MPM Capital, and also included new investor Kaise...

Crowdfunder, an online site offering up a platform to help startups raise money for their firms via crowd funding, is dangling $25,000 in a contest open to Los Angeles companies. The firm, headed by Chance Barnett, said that its new crowdso...

Santa Monica-based Surf Air, the new startup out of the MuckerLab accelerator which is headed by Wade Eyerly, has announced its funding round, saying today that it has scored a key round of funding from Anthem Venture Partners, NEA, actor J...

El Segundo-based Dedicated Media, a provider of targeted online advertising, media services and lead generation technology, said Tuesday that it has secured $5M in a credit facility, from Wells Fargo's Technology and Venture Banking Group. ...

It looks like the venture capital business is doing a lot better than the home building industry for Walnut-based J.F. Shea. The homebuilder, which also runs a venture capital arm call Shea Ventures, just scored an exit from one of its port...

A brand new, domain registration startup headed by a set of ex-Demand Media executives, has just raised an astounding $100M for its efforts. Donuts Inc., headed by former Demand Media President and Chief Strategy Officer Paul Stahura, said ...

San Diego-based Awarepoint, which develops real-time, location systems used for tracking patents and assets in a healthcare environment, said today that it has raised $14M in an additional financing round. The firm said the round was led by...

Venice-based Grubwithus, which operates a service which helps connect people in real life with others over meals and food, said this week that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by GRP Partners, and also includ...

Earthlink founder and Southern California entrepreneur Sky Dayton is leading an angel investment in a new startup out of Stanford, which is developing a service which allows developers to track changes and extract information out of web pag...

If you're a startup business owner, how do you get to the next step, and build your first product? One way is getting funding from your potential customers. That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable, headed by serial entrepreneur Wil S...

Ace Metrix, a provider of technology for television advertising analytics, said today that it has raised $8M in a funding round from WPP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Leapfrog Ventures, and Palomar Ventures. The firm, which is headquart...

Santa Monica-based SurfAir, the startup airline headed by Wade Eyerly which is part of the Muckerlab accelerator, is closing in on $14M in its first funding round, according to reports today. The firm--which has been seeing intense interest...

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm Sangart has raised $50M in a Series G funding round, the company announced Thursday, bringing its total venture funds raised to $280M. Sangart, which is developing biopharmaceuticals to treat hemorrha...

Los Angeles-based Crowdfunder, an online crowd funding site headed by Chance Barnett, has raised $400,000 in seed funding, according to reports today. The firm offers up an online web site where companies get solicit funding for their start...

Los Angeles-based Triptrotting, the online site which helps connects travelers with other like-minded, local hosts, has boosted its funding round to $1.5M, and added angel investment group Golden Seeds. The firm, which announced the first c...

Zebit, a microlending and financial transactions platform in the UK which is owned by San Diego-based Global Analytics Holdings, said it has raised $25M in a Series D funding round this morning. According to the firm, the round was led by M...

A new startup, headed by entrepreneur Wil Schroter, has launched this week, looking to make it easier for startups to raise funding. Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform ...

Los Angeles-based RocketFrog, a new startup developing casino games on Facebook, launched Tuesday, saying that it has raised $2M in angel funding, and also added MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson as an advisor. The startup, headed by Brett Ca...

One of the newest accelerator and incubators to open in the Los Angeles area, io/LA, is planning to invest $500,000 in local startups as part of its efforts to incubate 25 companies in its new space in Hollywood. The accelerator, which was ...

Venice, California-based StyleSaint, the new fashion-meets-Pinterest startup headed by Crosscut Ventures' Brian Garrett, has been fairly mum about its recent funding. However, the firm revealed today at TechCrunch Disrupt that its other ven...

Los Angeles-based Machinima, the online video entertainment firm focused on computer gamers, said Monday that it has raised $35M in a financing round. The round was led by Google, along with prior investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital....

Santa Monica-based American Solar Direct, a provider of residential solar lease and power purchase agreements, announced this week that it has raised $5M in an equity investment. The round came from WGL Holdings, inc., along with other exis...

Rakuten, the Japanese e-commmerce giant which owns Aliso Viejo-based e-commerce site Buy.com, has just grabbed a stake in up-and-coming Internet sharing site Pinterest, according to reports today. Pinterest, which allows people to share pic...

Los Angeles-based humor site Funny or Die has received an investment from Turner Broadcasting, as part of a strategic deal between the companies for Turner to manage ad site sales for the company. Financial terms of the investment were not ...

ModCloth, an online retailer of vintage fashion and decor, and which revolves around a community of independent designers, said today that it has raised $25M, in part to grow its operations in Los Angeles. The San Francisco company did not ...

Looking to become the next Instagram--but for video, instead--Los Angeles-based Viddy has just added $30M in funding to its warchest, confirming today reports that it has scored a huge new funding for the mobile video sharing site. Viddy sa...

Moviepilot.com, which runs a movie recommendation and discovery website aimed at covering movies before their release, said today that it has raised $7M in a Series B funding, to expand the German firm into the U.S. As part of the funding, ...

San Diego-based BioSurplus, a provider of pre-owned, laboratory instruments for the life sciences industry, said today that it has raised $1.5M in a capital raise for an expansion into Boston. The firm said the funding came from KI Investme...

EdenIQ, the spinout of San Diego-based Altra Biofuels, the developer of biofuels processing technology, has scored $30M in new venture capital funding, the company said today. EdenIQ, which is taking biomaterials technology being applied to...

The venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has placed more funding into one of its portfolio companies, Sutro Biopharma, which is working on developing a scalable biochemical protein synthesis platform aimed at cancer therapeutics...

Carlsbad-based Verdezyne, which is developing biotechnology used for biofuels production and chemicals manufacturing, has raised $10.6M in a new, debt funding round, according to a filing from the firm last week. Details on the funding have...

Los Angeles-based content developer Machinima is on the verge of an investment deal with Google, according to a report published Monday by AllthingsD. Size and details of the funding have yet to be announced, but according to the report is ...

San Diego-based Celladon, a biopharmaceuticals firm developing a genetically targeted enzyme replacement therapy which helps in the treatment of late-stage, heart failure, has raised $53M in a second close of a funding round, the firm said ...

Santa Monica-based Engrade, a developer of online classroom management tools, said today that it has raised $3M in a funding round. The round was led by Rethink Education, and also included NewSchools Venture Fund, Greg Gunn, Zac Zeitlin, a...

San Diego-based Qualcomm has renewed its investment in Visage, as part of a Series C funding for the enterprise mobility management software provider. According to Visage, the round was led by Motorola Solutions, and also included Palisades...

Forbes Magazine has just published its annual Midas List, its annual ranking of the top 100 venture capitalists, and -- despite a record number of IPOs and exits last year from southern California technology companies -- Southern California...

Forbes Magazine has just published its annual Midas List, its annual ranking of the top 100 venture capitalists, and -- despite a record number of IPOs and exits last year from southern California technology companies -- Southern California...

Ventura-based NetPlenish, the mobile shopping service startup headed by Dave Compton, said today that it has launched with $1.9M in a seed funding round, and has started offering up its service to automatically replenish everyday items for ...

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix announced this morning that it has raised over $25M in a Series C funding round, which it says will go to "significantly expand" its engineering organization. The round was led by Khosla Ventu...

Los Angeles-based startup StageIt, which operates an online web platform which lets musicians interact with their fans through live broadcasts from their laptop, has raised a round of funding. The funding came from DEV (Digital Entertainmen...

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies, the startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg which is focused on celebrity endorsements, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series D funding round. BAT said the new round was led by Ma...

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners has re-upped its investment in social data analytics firm DataSift, in a Series A follow-on announced this morning. DataSift said that existing investors GRP Partners and IA Ventures i...

Paul Bricault, the head of local Los Angeles business accelerator Amplify, is one of the backers of a phone security firm which is looking to reduce phone-based fraud. According to Atlanta-based Pindrop Security, it raised $1M in a seed fun...

San Diego-based EcoATM, the developer of kiosks to help people trade in their old mobile phones and devices for cash, store credit, or gift cards, has raised $17M in a Series B funding round. The round came from Coinstar, PI Holdings, Moore...

San Diego-based Grid2Home, which develops smart energy management software, has raised $2.0M in an equity funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Grid2Home develops network proto...

El Segundo-based NanoH2O the developer of high efficiency, reverse osmosis membranes for seawater desalination, announced this morning that it has raised a total of $60M in equity and debt funding. According to the firm, it raised $40M in...

Six companies started by students at the University of Southern California's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall have been awarded a total of $50,000 in seed funding, after competing in the center's New Venture Se...

San Diego angel investor Howard Lindzon, via his Social Leverage fund, has backed a provider of SMS messaging services, SendHub as part of an angel funding round for the company. SendHub said this morning that it has raised $2M in a seed fu...

The Tech Coast Angels has backed the maker of a medical device to help people with severe disabilities to walk. According to Cadence Biomedical, the Tech Coast Angels are among a number of new investors in a $1.1M, Series A2 funding for the...

The Pasadena Angels have backed developer of protein analysis equipment for the drug discovery and research market, investing $475,000 in a Series B for Wasatch Microfluidics, the group said this week. Wasatch Biofluidics is developing prin...

San Diego-based RainTree Oncology Services, a provider of systems which help oncologists to purchase oral drugs, manage inventories, track prescriptions, and monitor patients, has raised $11.1M, the firm said late Tuesday. The firm said the...

San Diego-based Independa, which develops remote health management and monitoring systems for the elderly, said today that it has raised $2.35M in a convertible note funding. The firm said the round included Miramar Venture Partners and Cit...

Amgen Ventures, the venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, has re-upped on an investment in a biopharmaceuticals developing microRNA-based treatments for cardiovascular and muscle disease. According to miRagen Therapeutics, it ha...

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas, a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cetas was...

Los Angeles-based SocialAnnex, a startup helping online retailers to use social media to spur sales, has scored a round of funding from a who's who of Southern California technology angels, the firm said Tuesday. According to SocialAnnex, K...

Los Angeles-based DataPop, the developer of advertising targeting technology headed byJason Lehmbeck, has raised $7M in a Series B funding round, the firm said today. The funding was led by MK Capital, and also included prior investors Rinc...

Venice-based Viddy, the developer of a mobile app used to share videos over social networks, has added a number of celebrities to its list of investors. The firm--which just raised a $6M venture round in February--apparently has added celeb...

Los Angeles-based Playsino--which, until recently, was known as Titan Gaming--said Friday that it has raised $1.5M in a new funding round. The firm said the firm will go to support building the largest, social casino game publisher on both ...

San Diego-based Qualcomm is backing a developer of mobile video chat services, Tango, via its Qualcomm Ventures arm, the two companies announced today. According to Tango, it has raised $40M in a Series C funding round, led by Qualcomm Inco...

Santa Monica-based LifeCrowd, the social activities website headed by Bong Koh, has raised $5M in a initial funding round, the company is announcing today. The startup, which offers up a website which helps consumers find fun activities in ...

Encino-based uSamp, the online panel and sampling firm founded by Matthew Dusig and Gregg Lavin, has raised $6.0M as part of a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the funding i...

2tor, the provider of online, graduate program and courses which has strong links to the University of Southern California, has scored a $10M revolving line of credit, the firm said today. According to 2tor, the credit line comes from Comer...

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems, the cloud computing software developer headed by Marten Mickos, has raised $30M in a Series C round of funding, the firm announced this morning. According to Eucalyptus, the round was led by Instituti...

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked, the developer of an online service to help companies manage their fundraising efforts, said this morning that it has launched a new type of account on the service. The company said its new TEAM subscription ...

Los Angeles-based EndPlay, a developer of software-as-a-service offerings for content management, said today that it has raised $21.5M in total funding for the firm. The company said it recently closed a round of funding from VantagePoint C...

Venice, California-based StyleSaint, an online site which allows users to create their own collections of styles, photos, and other fashion information, has scored funding from Crosscut Ventures. Details on the funding have not yet been ann...

New York-based online subscription flower delivery service H.Bloom, whose backers include Los Angeles entrepreneur Brian Lee, who founded ShoeDazzle and LegalZoom, has scored another round of funding, the firm said Thursday. H.Bloom raised ...

Los Angeles-based SkuRun, a startup developer of mobile software used to manage sales, marketing, and other collateral, said Thursday that it has raised a seed round of funding. Size of the round was not announced. The firm said the funding...

San Diego-based Tioga Pharmaceuticals, a developer of biopharmaceuticals for treating irritable bowel syndrome, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Thomas, McNerney & Partners, which also inc...

Looking to make it easier to pay for local items using their mobile phone, Los Angeles-based PayDragon said today that it has launched its mobile purchasing app in Los Angeles. The startup--headed by Hamilton Chan, and the team behind Pape...

Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Mention Mobile, a developer of social gaming applications, reported today that it has scored a second round of funding from Mark Cuban. Size of the new investment in the company was not announced. Me...

What's the best way to connect with an angel investor, and how do you get them to pay attention to your company? Steve Reich, a Southern California entrepreneur and investor, says it's all about one thing: respecting their culture. In the l...

San Diego-based E-Band Communications, a developer of 80 GHz wireless backhaul products for the 4G and LTE telecommunications network market, said this morning that it has raised a new round of funding.Size of the funding, and source were n...

Aliso Viejo-based WaveTec Vision, which is developing diagnostic devices for cataract surgery, said monday that it has raised $16.5M more in funding. The funding was led by Burrill & Company, and also included Versant Ventures, Accuitive Me...

Santa Monica-based Kuapay, a new startup aiming at the mobile payments and loyalty markets, has scored $2M in funding, the firm has disclosed. The startup is headed by Joaquin Ayuso de Paul, one of the angel investors in Border Stylo and co...

Santa Monica-based DogVacay, the online marketplace which helps dog owners connect with pet lovers to help watch their dogs, has some new competition today: Rover.com. According to Seattle-based Rover.com, it has just scored $3.4M from Madr...

Los Angeles-based WittleBee, the children's clothing site headed by Sean Percival, announced Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included SoftTech, Google Ve...

Los Angeles-based Ranker, the online rankings website where consumers can rank anything they like, has scored a new round of funding, in an inside round. Size of the round was not disclosed. The funding came from Siemer Venture Capital, Rin...

Los Angeles-based Mogreet, the provider of mobile video marketing services which is run by James Citron, said this morning that it has raised $4.1M in a strategic investment round. The round was led by Black Diamond Ventures, and also inclu...

Los Angeles-based Siemer Ventures, the venture capital firm linked with investment bank Siemer & Associates, has invested in a Hong Kong 3D games startup, Frenzoo. Financial details of the investment were not announced. Siemer said it inves...

Laguna Hills-based Ayannah, a developer of mobile payment products for emerging markets, has scored a round of funding, according to investor Siemer Ventures. Size of the round, and details of other investors, was not announced. Ayannah als...

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked said this morning that it has enhanced its online service for helping startups to manage their fundraising efforts, with a new tool to help find people. The firm said the new tool is aimed at helping users fi...

Los Angeles-based HipSwap, the online, fashion focused marketplace which launched earlier in March, has revealed that it has raised $1.1M in a seed funding round from the Founders Fund and Greycroft Partners. The firm--which launched at SXS...

If the Los Angeles accelerator/incubator market is not yet crowded enough, Hollywood-based io/LA opened its doors over the weekend, looking to recruit a class of five to six companies in a three month mentorship program. The new incubator, ...

Irvine-based Fisker Automotive is hoping to raise $200M more in a current funding round, according to a report today, and has now raised around $1 billion in private funding. The report game from GigaOm, which untangled the pile of regulato...

In yet more money for the subscription e-commerce sector in Los Angeles, Quarterly, a startup which delivers monthly, curated gifts from cultural influencers via subscription, has raised $1.25M in a funding round. The funding was first disc...

Culver City-based Praedicat, a spinout of the RAND Corporation, has raised $8.0M as part of its formation, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The new company--which was announced by the RAND Corporation and Risk Manag...

Games2Win, the provider of online casual games backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, has scored an investment from Nirvana Venture Advisors, according to a number of Indian business publications. The firm is one of the companies which Clea...

Santa Barbara-based Sientra, a developer of FDA-approved, silicone breast implants, said Wednesday that it has raised $65M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by Abingworth, and also included Clarus Ventures, OrbiMed Advisors, ...

Los Angeles-based NantWorks, the business investment and development firm run by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, has invested $30M in Strand Diagnostics, a developer of a diagnostic and DNA testing service for diagnosing cancer. According ...

San Diego-based Mob Science, a developer of social Facebook games, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The round came from David Young, the CEO of Joyent, Mark Surfas of GameSpy Industries, along with other ang...

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature contributions, opinions, and editorials from members of the Southern California technology community, we have an advice piece from venture capital veteran Jon Funk, who gives fiv...

Los Angeles-based ImaginAb, a UCLA spinout which is developing antibody fragments for use in the diagnostic imaging market, said late last night that it has raised $12.5M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by Novartis Venture ...

La Jolla-based Anaphore, a startup biopharmaceuticals developer, said today that it has acquired a Chinese firm, RuiYi Inc., and closed on the second tranche of its Series A financing, worth $15M. Anaphore said it acquired RuiYi to gain acc...

Adding another group to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators and incubators, a new, Orange County incubator, Frost Venture Partners, looks to be gearing up to tackle the "big data" market. The new incubator, headed b...

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless, the developer of mobile publishing software used by newspapers and other local publishers to serve up mobile news and ads, has raised $7.0M as part of an ongoing, $10M funding round, according to a regulatory...

Los Angeles-based PromoJam, a developer of enterprise, social marketing tools, has raised $1.2M in a Series A investment, the firm said today. The round was led by Golden Seeds, and also included the Band of Angels. According to the company...

If you're looking get your startup off the ground in Los Angeles, it always helps to have help from folks with connections to the venture and angel community. One of the accelerators which recently set up shop in town which does is Ampli...

Los Angeles-based Nuage, a developer of social business collaboration software, announced this morning that it has raised $500,000 in a funding round. Names of the private investors participating in the funding was not disclosed. The firm s...

Santa Monica-based Dog Vacay, the online person-to-person marketplace for dog boarding, has formally announced new investors in the firm, who are joining in its $1M seed funding round. The company--which had already disclosed the investment...

Los Angeles-based Gridtest Systems, a developer of measurement tools for the electric vehicle (EV) market, said this morning that it has raised a seed round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Financial terms of t...

San Clemente-based Gen-E, a developer of IT process automation software, said Monday that it has received a private equity investment from Solis Capital Partners. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. According to the compan...

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures, the early stage, venture capital investment firm run by Rick Smith and Brian Garrett, looks to be kicking off a new fund, according to an SEC filing this week. Details on the fund size were not included ...

Los Angeles-based ticketing and concert management firm Live Nation is getting into the early stage investment business, announcing Wednesday that it has established the LN Labs Fund, which will invest in early stage technologies and entrep...

Los Angeles-based reality show producer Mark Burnett, and his company One Three Television LLC announced this morning that it has taken an ownership interest in startup Youtoo. Youtoo operates an online site which allows viewers to upload v...

San Diego-based HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals said today that it has raised $13M in a Series B funding. The firm, which is developing small molecule therapeutics for treating hemoglobin disorders such as sickle cell disease, said the funds come...

San Diego-based Allylix, developer of chemicals used for the flavor and fragrance, food, cosmetics, and other markets, has raised $18.2M in a funding round, according to lead investor BASF Venture Capital GmbH. According to BASF, it invest...

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software plans to go private, in a deal worth $2.0 billion, the firm said this morning. According to Quest, it has reached a deal with Insight Venture Partners, where shareholders will get $23.00 per share to make th...

Los Angeles-based NationBuilder, a startup developing an online system to help political candidates and other organizations to create web sites, organize volunteers, coordinate campaigns, and more, said Thursday that it has raised $6.3M in ...

Los Angeles-based Oblong Industries, the developer of gesture-based user interfaces which inspired the UI in the movie The Minority Report, has raised a Series B round of funding. Size of the round was not announced. The funding came from M...

Pasadena-based Triptrotting, which operates an online service to help connect travelers with local hosts, has raised $1M in a Series A funding, the firm said this morning.The funding came from Google Ventures, Mark Suster, 500 Startups, WI ...

In a bid to spur more startups out of the University of Southern California, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation said Wednesday that it has awarded $498,700 to six research projects. The USC Stevens Institute--which was founded with si...

Culver City-based Eccentex, a developer of a software-as-a-service, enterprise business process management product, has raised $7.5M in an equity funding. The funding came from VTB Capital. Eccentex, which is led by Glen E. Shrank, the form...

Aliso Viejo-based Sequent Medical, a developer of medical devices used to treat aneurysms, has raised $26.0M in a venture financing round. The firm said the Series C was led by Delphi Ventures, and also included Versant Ventures, US Venture...

The LAUNCH Conference, the technology startup launch conference organized by Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, has just surpassed $1 million in prizes, Calacanis said Tuesday afternoon. The conference--which has been stacking up prizes all month-...

Newport Beach-based SignNow, a developer of iPad applications which allows users to legally sign documents from the Apple device, said today that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Khosla Ventures. SignNow i...

San Diego-based life sciences investor Domain Associates has inked a unique lifeline for the later stage life sciences companies its its portfolio: it's brokered a deal worth more than $760M, to help fund its portfolio firms from the Russia...

San Diego-based Aragon Pharmaceuticals reports this morning that the firm has raised $42M in a Series C, funding round. The firm, which is developing treatments targeting hormone-driven cancers, said the round was led by Topspin Fund, the i...

Los Angeles-based Nasty Gal, an online fashion retailer which focuses on vintage clothing, said Monday that it has raised $9M in a funding round. The round came from Index Ventures. Nasty Gal is led by Sophia Amoruso, who started the compan...

Los Angeles-based online content producer Machinima, which produces videogame related content for YouTube, is reportedly seeking $50M in funding, at a $200M to $250M valuation, according to reports today. The firm, which is led by Allen DeB...

Shea Ventures, the venture capital arm of Orange County homebuilder Shea Homes, has boosted its solar installation partner SolarCity, as part of an $81M equity investment in SolarCity. According to SolarCity, the big funding round was led b...

In the case of the kid getting much (much) larger than its parent, Yammer, the one time spinout of Los Angeles-based genealogy and family tree website Geni, has now squarely out-raised venture capital than its parent firm, saying Wednesday ...

Santa Monica-based GoodRx, a new startup backed by Founders Fund, GRP Partners, Highland Capital, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Dawn Lepore (drugstore.com), and Mike Ovitz, has launched its services, saying that it will allow users to compare p...

Mojave-based XCOR, which is developing reusable, rocket powered vehicles aimed at the commercial space market, said Monday that it has raised $5M in an equity round of funding. The funding came from Silicon Valley angels Esther Dyson, Pete ...

Carlsbad-based Luxtera, which develops silicon CMOS photonic semiconductors, announced this morning that it has raised $21.7M in a Series C funding round. The round came from current investors NEA, August Capital, Sevin Rosen, Funds, and Lu...

Meteor Entertainment, a developer of a downloadable, online shooting game called Hawken, has raised $10M in funding, according to reports. Source of the funding included Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. Hawken is being developed by ...

Pasadena-based Punchcard, the newly launched startup developing mobile, loyalty programs for retailers, said this morning that it has raised $1M from Idealab. Punchcard, which is headed by Andy Steuer, offers up iPhone and Android apps whic...

A Bay area developer of social entertainment applications for Facebook, Milyoni, said Friday that it has scored $11M in a funding round, in part to open up an office in Los Angeles. The firm said the Series B funding was led by Oak Investme...

Hollywood-based Fanattac, a developer of an online, social media platform which looks to connect music fans and artists, has raised $1M in a funding round. The firm, which is headed by Dan Faiman, did not disclose the names of the investors...

Los Angeles-based mobileStorm, the provider of mobile messaging and email marketing services headed by Jared Reitzin, has scored a venture debt funding, according to provider Agility Capital. Financial details of the funding and terms were ...

San Diego-based Qualcomm Life, the wireless health-focused subsidiary of Qualcomm, reported today that it has made an investment in wireless healthcare startup AirStrip Technologies. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Q...

Santa Barbara-based OWL Biomedical, a developer of microchip-based disposable cell sorting technology for the biomedical industry, has raised $3.0M, part of an ongoing funding with a target of $16.8M, according to regulatory filings. OWL is...

Los Angeles- and New York-based venture firm Greycroft Partners has backed a UK-based developer of an online, card trading game called Fight My Monster, the firm said Thursday. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Other inv...

Los Angeles-based July Systems, a developer of mobile, cloud-based applications, said Thursday that it has raised $15M in an equity funding round. The round was led by Updata Partners, and also included Intel Capital and WestBridge Capital....

The Backplane, a developer of online community software, which is best known for its work creating Lady Gaga's #Little Monsters website, said Thursday that it has raised $4.5M in a funding round. The round include Sequoia Capital, Greylock ...

Santa Monica-based CODA Automotive, the developer of electric vehicles and battery systems, has raised $21.5M in new, equity funding, with plans to raise a total of $150M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The funding ...

La Jolla-based Celladon Corporation, a developer of biopharmaceuticals targeting cardiovascular disease, said Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $43M in a financing round. The round was led by Pfizer Venture Investments, and also includ...

The Tech Coast Angels, the largest organized angel investment group in Southern California--and the nation--said Wednesday that it was part of $45M in funding in companies during last year, with $11M directly invested across 37 companies du...

Scripted.com, the online marketplace for freelance writers which has a number of Southern California angel investors, said Wednesday that it has raised another $150,000 in funding. The firm--which grew out of the efforts of USC and UCLA gra...

Venture capital firm Greycroft Partners, which is fairly active in the Los Angeles area, said today that it has added a new venture partner, who will spend time in both New York and Los Angeles. The firm said it has added Bo Peabody as Vent...

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 Ontari...

Parchment, the startup which operates Docufide, a service to help transfer high school transcripts to colleges and universities, said Monday that it has raised $6M in funding. Parchment--which started in Los Angeles, and continues to have o...

San Diego-based Qualcomm has backed a developer of remote, healthcare monitoring devices. According to AirStrip Technologies, a developer of medical devices which can be used to remotely monitor the heart EKGs, blood pressure, temperature, ...

A new startup emerged Tuesday with its target on United Online's Classmates.com service, hoping to connect people with their high school classmates. Silicon Valley-based SchoolFeed said it raised $1.75M to create a new service which helps p...

Venice, California-based Viddy, a developer of social video sharing applications for mobile phones, has raised $6M in a new funding round. The round was led by Battery Ventures, and also included Qualcomm and Greycroft Ventures. Viddy is he...

A new report released today tallies up $7.7 billion in IT exits in 2011, the highest since 2000, for Southern California IT firms. The report--compiled by Ocean Road Partners--included both venture-backed and self-financed information techn...

San Diego-based Applied Proteomics, which is developing personalized medicine applications, said today that it has raised $22.5M in a Series B funding, and moved its headquarters to San Diego. The funding came from Domain Associates, Vulcan...

Westlake Village-based Cynvenio Biosystems, which is developing molecular diagnostics systems for cancer, announced this morning that it has received $2.0M in financing, plus scored two Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts fr...

The prize money for Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH Festival technology conference has hit $151,000, after early stage venture investor Venture51 agreed to invest $51,000 in the winner of the conference's "Best in Show" award. Calacanis--who is the...

Los Angeles-based Leads360, the developer of leads management software headed by Nick Hedges, said this morning that it has raised $15M in new funding. The round was led by Volition Capital, and also included Rustic Canyon Partners. Accordi...

Los Angeles-based StyleHaul, an online video network focused on fashion and beauty, said today that it has raised $4.4M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by RezVen Partners, and also included Juvo Capital, Siemer Ventures, Tami...

In yet more attrition from Southern California's venture capital ranks, Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Walt Disney Company, looks to have sharply pulled back on its U.S. investment efforts. According to the...

Los Angeles-based startup Little Black Bag, a new e-commerce startup backed by GRP Partners and DCM, said this week that it has launched its online shopping site--a play on the Japanese concept of "fukobukuro". The startup said it lets shop...

Irvine-based Numecent, a stealth-mode, cloud computing firm run by Osman Kent, said yesterday that it has raised $2M as part of a Series A financing round. The firm said the tranche is part of a $10M, Series A funding round. Names of the in...

Los Angeles-based Response Genetics, a developer of diagnostics test for cancer, said today that it has raised $7.8M in a private placement. The publicly traded firm did not disclose the name of its new investors. The firm said it sold appr...

Los Angeles-based Social Rewards, which operates an online, loyalty program which rewards users for social media activity for brands, has raised $600,000 in a seed funding round. The round came from the Tech Coast Angels, as well as Jeff La...

Irvine-based M86 Security, a developer of web security gateways and filtering devices, has raised $13.6M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the funding have not been announced by the compa...

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Rustic Canyon Partners is backing the developer of a service which uses parents' social graphs to help connect them with babysitters. According to San Francisco-based UrbanSitter, it has raised $1....

Santa Barbara-based InTouch Health, a developer of remote presence technology and robotics for the healthcare market, has scored a $6M investment from iRobot. iRobot said the investment gives it a minority position in InTouch, and is an exp...

Costa Mesa-based SAIL Capital Partners, the clean technology investor, said today that it has created a joint venture in Canada, to invest in early stage cleantech companies. SAIL said that the move comes as part of a joint venture with a C...

Santa Monica-based BeachMint, the e-commerce firm founded by Josh Berman and Diego Berdakin, has raised $35M in another round of funding, the firm said Wednesday, led by Accel Partners, and also including Goldman Sachs, New World Ventures, ...

Los Angeles-based Gobbler, an online media storage service focused on media creators, has raised $7.5M in funding, the firm said this week. The round came from ff Venture Capital, Black Ocean Group, Aber Whitcomb, Dan Rose, Mike Jones, Jerm...

Los Angeles-based LuxeYard, a new flash sales site featuring furniture and home decor, announced today that it has raised $3.5M in funding, and has launched its service. The firm said it will provide home furnishings an design products at a...

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has scored a quick exit at Redwood City-based Mertado, after Mertado said Friday that it has been acquired by daily deals site Groupon. Financial terms of the acquisition were no...

Los Angeles-based HitFix, the online film, TV, and entertainment news site founded by Gregory Ellwood and Jennifer Sargent, said today that it has closed a funding round. Size of the round was not announced. Hitfix said the round included i...

Malibu-based MalibuIQ and HRL Laboratories, the former research and development arm of Hughes Aircraft which was previously known as Hughes Research Laboratories, said Tuesday that they have tied together to commercialize inventions and IP ...

San Diego-based SG Biofuels, a developer of hybrid seeds of Jatropha for the biofuels and specialty chemicals business, said that it has raised $17M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Thomas, McNerney & Partners, and also include...

Azusa-based Contour Energy Systems, which is developing next generation battery systems, is announcing today that it has scored a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Amount...

San Diego-based Tealium, a startup developing software which automatically loads tags onto web pages, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.1M in its Series A financing. The round came from angels Jeff Lunsford (Limelight Networks), Jim MacInt...

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked has scored another $500,000 in angel funding, for the firm's online software for managing capital raising activities. The new funding came from angels Clark Landry, Lok Lee, Stephan Paternot, Jason Portnoy, A...

Los Angeles-based Payoff.com, the online personal finance site headed by Scott Saunders, has confirmed it has raised $2.0M in a venture round today, upping its total raised for the company to $5.8M. The funding came from Anthemis Group, Fir...

San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals, which is developing weight loss and other drugs, said this morning that it has raised $33M in a financing. The publicly held firm said the Series D funding round came from Deerfield Management, a healt...

Anaheim-based Fisker Automotive has just added another, $110M in its Series D-1 financing, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week, taking its total raised to somewhere North of $876M. The electric auto company has not detail...

Los Angeles-based Payoff.com, the online personal finance website aimed at helping consumers pay of their debt, has raised $2.0M more in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The site, headed by Scott Saunders, uses social ...

San Diego-based MicroPower Technologies, the developer of wireless video products used for the video surveillance market, has scored a strategic investment from Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. According to Motorola, the funding came as ...

Los Angeles-based Wemo Media, the company led by Neville Spiteri which is developing the interactive ocean environment TheBlu, said today that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round for the firm. The firm did not announce the investors i...

Tustin-based Uptake Medical, the developer of treatments for emphysema led by R. King Nelson, announced today that it has raised a Series C funding round. Size of the round was not announced. The round was led by Crescent Point Group (Singa...

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies, the online advertising and celebrity sports endorsements startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, has raised $4.5M as part of an ongoing, $7.0M funding round, according to a filing from the firm t...

Los Angeles-based dinCloud, a provider of a hosted, virtual desktop service, said Thursday that it has received a seed round of funding. Size of the funding, and source, was not announced. The firm said the funding will go to grow its core ...

The San Diego chapter of the Tech Coast Angels, the largest angel investment group in Southern California, as well as the United States, said today that it has established a new, memorial fund, the John G. Watson Foundation, which will supp...

Santa Monica-based Nimble, the developer of online, contact and relationship management software headed by Jon Ferrara, the former founder of Goldmine, said last night that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Goo...

San Diego-based NeuroGentic Pharmaceuticals, a firm development treatments for Alzheimer's disease, said today that it has scored an investment round from Abbot Biotech Ventures. Size of the round was not announced. NeuroGenetic said the in...

Los Angeles-based Seismic Games disclosed today that it has raised $2.0M in a first round of funding. The funding came from DFJ Frontier and venture capitalist Tom Matlack. Seismic Games was co-founded by Greg Borrud, Eric Gewirtz, and Chri...

San Diego-based Elevation Pharmaceuticals, which is developing treatment for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), said this morning that it has closed on a $30M, Series B funding round. The round was led by Novo Ventu...

The number of exits by U.S., venture backed companies was down in 2011, according to Dow Jones VentureSource, which said today that it tallied a total of 522 mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, and IPOs during the year. Dow Jones said that thos...

Seal Beach-based Clean Energy Fuels, an operator of natural gas fueling stations, said this morning that it has received more than $150M from investors. The firm said the funds came from Boone Pickens, as well as RJ Capital, Seatown Holding...

Malibu-based NexSteppe, a firm developing renewable feedstocks for the biofuel industry, announced today that it has raised $14M in a Series B round of funding. The funding was led by Braemer Energy Ventures, along with CYM Ventures and Zyg...

Carlsbad-based Razer, the maker of videogame accessories, announced this morning that it has raised $50M in a venture funding round, its first round of venture capital funding. The funding was led by IDG-Accel China Capital Fund. According ...

Irvine-based Aviir, a venture-backed biotech firm targeting cardiac disease assessment, said late Monday that it has reached an agreement to raise up to $30M in a financing round. The firm said the round includes an initial $10M, plus up to...

EnVerv, a developer of semiconductors used for the smart grid metering industry which has offices in San Diego, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a round of funding. The funding was led by Benchmark Capital, and also included pri...

Michael Eisner, the former CEO of the Walt Disney Company, has backed TaskRabbit, the operator of an online marketplace to help connect people with workers to do any number of tasks. According to TaskRabbit, Eisner has agreed to become an a...

San Diego-based Sotera Wireless, a developer of wireless vital signs management products has raised $12.2M in a Series D funding. The firm said the round included new investor Cerner Capital, and also included Sanderling Ventures, Qualcomm ...

San Diego-based KidZui, the developer of a service which provides kid-safe content via a search engine and browser, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M in new funding, and will start creating its own, original video content. The...

Venice Beach-based Amplify, a new startup accelerator headed by Paul Bricault and Richard Wolpert, has uncloaked itself this morning, the latest in a string of startup accelerators in Southern California. Bricault is a Venture Partner at Gr...

San Diego-based Qualcomm, via its venture capital arm, Qualcomm Ventures, is the lead investor in a developer of software for applying cloud technologies to networks. Palo Alto-based PowerCloud Systems said it raised a $6M, Series B funding...

San Diego-based Qualcomm, via its venture capital arm, Qualcomm Ventures, is the lead investor in a developer of software for applying cloud technologies to networks. Palo Alto-based PowerCloud Systems said it raised a $6M, Series B funding...

Los Angeles-based Party Earth, a new startup focused on connecting people to bars, night clubs, lounges, and other night life, announced today that it has raised $4.0M in a funding round. Source of the new funding was not announced. Party E...

San Diego-based Legend3d, a developer of 2D to 3D movie conversion technology, has raised $19M in a Series E funding round. The firm said the round was led by Northwater Capital Management, and also included prior investors PAR Investment P...

Los Angeles-based Encompass Digital Media, a provider of digital media services to the broadcast and cable television market, said this morning that it is in a deal with private equity Court Square Capital Partners, where Court Square will ...

Los Angeles-based Ecomom, an online retailer focused on organic food, eco-friendly clothing, and other similar products for children, headed by Jody Sherman, has raised $4M, according to reports. The funding came from Cue Ball Capital, plus...

A new study compiled by the University of Southern California tallies up $380M raised in capital by USC spinouts in the last three years, and a 15 year total of $800M raised by 39 startups with roots at the school. The study, conducted by t...

Los Angeles-based Start Engine, the business accelerator being spearheaded by Activision co-founder Howard Marks, said today that it has created a new, $15M investment fund for its portfolio of startups, and added former Governor Gray Davis...

Los Angeles-based Gehry Technologies, a developer of architectural design software co-founded by architect Frank Gehry, announced Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a Series B financing round. The firm said the round was led by Autodesk, an...

Los Angeles-based Tribogenics, a startup working on technology to bring elements of Star Trek's "tricorder" to life, said this morning that it has raised $2.5M in a venture funding round. The firm, a spinoff of UCLA whose technology has bee...

Marina del Rey-based Cooking.com has raised $13.5M in a debt and preferred equity round of funding, according to investment firm BIA Digital Partners II, LP. BIA said that the round also included primary equity backer Azure Capital Partners...

Valencia-based H2scan, which develops hydrogen leak detection systems, looks to have raised $5.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The filing says that the round first opened in April of 2011, and included...

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced this morning that it has created a new, wholly owned subsidiary called Qualcomm Life, which will focus on wireless solutions for the medical devices market. The new subsidiary will also backed by a new, ve...

The Tech Coast Angels, the largest organized angel investment group in Southern California, has made an investment in Define My Style, an online community focused on teenagers, to the tune of $140,000. Other investors in the $600,000 seed s...

Los Angeles-based StellHouse, a developer of e-commerce software, said this morning that it has raised $6.3M in a Series B funding round. The round came from Greycroft Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Lighthouse Venture Group, Baroda Vent...

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked said this week that it has made some major updates to the site, overhauling and improving the online service for managing investment activity for companies and deal tracking for investors. The firm said that ...

Maneesh Goyal, formerly a venture capitalist at Corona Del Mar-based Miramar Venture Partners, is now officially head of his own fund--a $50M, healthcare IT fund called MergerTech Capital. The fund, part of investment banking firm MergerTec...

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners is one of the lead investors in a developer of social media analytics software, Awe.sm, Awe.sm said Thursday. Awe.sm has raised $4M in a round which was led by Foundry Group and GRP Partners, and which also in...

Irvine-based Kofax said late Wednesday that it has invested $500,000 in Mobiflex, a developer of software tools for creating iPhone and Android apps without coding. Kofax said the deal includes an OEM agreement where it will gain exclusive ...

Orange County-based Harbor MedTech, a developer of wound healing technology, has raised $600,000 in a funding round from private investors, the firm disclosed today, to help the firm grow and further develop its products. Harbor MedTech is ...

Los Angeles-based Burstly, the mobile advertising startup headed by Evan Rifkin, has raised $5.5M in a Series B round, according to the company. The round came from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank. Rifkin is the former f...

A number of Southern California angel investors, including Jody Mulkey, the CIO of Shopzilla, have backed Scripted.com, a new online marketplace for freelance writers. According to Scripted.com, it raised $700,000 in a seed financing round,...

San Diego-based Endeka Group, a provider of wireless Internet services, announced this morning that it has raised $4.2M in a venture debt round. The round came from Agility Ventures and Trinity Capital. According to the firm, the funding wi...

Rancho Dominguez-based OneStop Internet, which develops e-commerce websites for fashion brands, including True Religion, John Varvatos and Seven For All Mankind, has raised $9.15M in a strategic investment round, the firm said Tuesday. The ...

Goleta-based Soraa, one of the LED research firms spun out of U.C. Santa Barbara and the labs of blue LED inventor Shuji Nakamura, has raised $88.6M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The filing indicates th...

Irvine-based AcuFocus, a maker of corneal inlays for treating presbyopia, announced this morning that it has raised $65M in a funding round. The ronud was led by Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners, and also included SV Life Sciences, Versant...

Burbank-based Network Optix, a startup developing video transport, management, and display technology, said this morning that it has raised $750,000 in a seed funding. The firm said the convertible debt round came from Jor Law, Veracity, Ha...

Los Angeles-based Puma Biotechnology, a developer of biopharmaceuticals aimed at treating cancer, said this morning that it has completed a second tranche of a $60M private financing. The company said that Leerink Swann LLC was the lead pla...

San Diego-based DriveCam, a provider of video-based products used for monitoring driver safety, announced today that it has raised $85M in a funding from a private equity firm, and also acquired a company, RAIR Technologies. The funding cam...

Los Angeles-based Postcard on the Run, the startup headed by Josh Brooks, announced this morning that it has raised $750,000 in an angel round, which included actress Selena Gomez, Crosscut Ventures, Mike Jones, Yves Sisteron, Chris DeWolfe...

Thismoment, a developer of software aimed at digital marketing for brands and ad agencies, said this week that it has raised $7.3M in a funding round. The firm, which has operations in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, said the funding ca...

Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh, a developer of cloud computing management software, announced today that it has raised $15M in a funding round. The round came from Ignition Partners. Servicemesh is headed by former venture capitalist Eric P...

Two, Southern California venture investors have scored an exit this morning with the IPO of Clovis Oncology. San Diego's Domain Associates and Newport Beach-based Versant Ventures are both significant investors in Clovis, which priced its I...

In another switchup for venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures efforts in Southern California, Fouad ElNaggar, who had been covering Redpoint's investment efforts in Los Angeles, has departed the firm. ElNaggar quietly left the firm in Octo...

Orange County-based PortfolioDashboards.com, a developer of software for providing updates and information to angel and other investors, launched today, saying that it is looking to provide angel investors and venture capitalists with regul...

San Diego-based biotech venture investor Domain Associates is the lead investor on a biomarker firm, targeting the detection of preterm birth and other pregnancy complications. According to Sera Prognostics today, it has raised $19.3M in a ...

Corona del Mar-based venture capital investment firm Miramar Venture Partners is losing one of its Managing Director, Maneesh Goyal, who is departing to a new early and growth stage healthcare technology investment firm. Goyal told his cont...

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures has scored an acquisition in its portfolio today, with the acquisition of Apture by Google. Apture announced the acquisition on its website Thursday, but did not disclose any finan...

Irvine-based Mavenlink, a developer of software tools for managing projects with clients, contracts, and consultants, has raised $3.9M in funding from Quest Software and Madden Capital Partners, according to the firm today. Mavelink, which ...

Pasadena-based Idealab has led a round into LA-spawned Mingly, a developer of software which connects Gmail with a user's social networks. Mingly said it raised $500,000 in a seed round of financing from Idealab, Allen Morgan, Alex Karelin,...

Los Angeles-based Phorus, a new startup headed by former Phatnoise co-founder Dannie Lau, said today that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round, and launched its efforts to bring wireless home audio products to market. Source of the...

San Diego-based Rempex Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceuticals firm addressing antibiotic resistance, announced this morning that it has raised $67.5M in an initial close of a Series B financing round. The round came from Frazier Healthcare V...

La Jolla-based Perminova announced Tuesday that it has raised $7M in a funding round, which it will use to develop its web-based cardiovascular procedure software. Perminova's software provides scheduling, workflow, surgical data, and billi...

Los Angeles-based Mentoin Mobile, a developer of social gaming apps, said this morning that it has scored $250,000 in funding from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Mention Mobile said that Cuban gains a minority equity stake in the firm. ...

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has scored an exit at one of its portfolio firms, Las Vegas-based HealthDataInsights. HealthDataInsights was acquired by HMS Holdings, in a deal worth $400M; the deal is split between $384...

Irvine-based YouMail, the personalized voicemail service firm headed by Alex Quilici, has raised around $355,000 in new funding, adding CrunchFund--the investment fund run by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington--as a backer. Details of the...

A new report today monitoring the outlook of Silicon Valley venture capital investors, said that its latest survey finds VCs less confident about the future. The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index is authored by University o...

Investments in U.S., clean technology deals were up in Q3 of 2011, according to a new analysis published by Ernst & Young this week. According to an analysis of data from Dow Jones VentureSource, Ernst & Young found that U.S. venture capita...

Monrovia, California-based Prolatca Bioscience, which supplies human milk-based fortifiers for premature infants, said today that it has closed a Series D funding round. The round came from Health Evolution Partners. Size of the round was n...

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners is looking to raised $250M in its newest fund, GRP IV L.P., according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. According to the filing, the fund is being managed by Steven Dietz, Br...

Ventura-based NetPlenish, a startup which is developing a service which will provide automated replenishment of items, combined with an automatic price comparison engine, has quietly raised funding from 500 Startups. The firm confirmed it h...

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have an article from investment banker Megan Lisa Jones, who addresses the question of how to get funding for a concept (not likely) with a simple suggestion. Yesterday I sat down with an...

La Jolla-based Ortiva Wireless has added another $2.0M in what looks like an inside, convertible debt round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The firm--which is backed by Artiman Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Comcas...

Irvine-based BlueCava, a developer of device identification technology used for both online advertising tracking, as well as fraud prevention, said Tuesday that it has raised $9.5M in a funding round. The round was led by S3 Ventures, and a...

Zaarly, the mobile marketplace firm which was spawned out of the LA Startup Weekend event, said today that it has raised $14.1M in a funding round, and added former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to its board. The new funding comes from Kleiner Perki...

Santa Barbara-based CALIENT Technologies, a developer of photonic switching equipment, said this morning that it has raised $19.4M in a round of venture financing. The round came from both new and existing investors. Names of those investor...

New Hampshire- and India-based PharmaSecure, a developer of pharmaceuticals authentication technology backed by the Tech Coast Angels, has raised $3.9M in a new funding round, the firm said Monday. The additional capital came from Eric Schm...

Santa Monica-based Gumgum, the celebrity image licensing and advertising firm led by Ophir Tanz, has finally disclosed its funding round. The firm has raised $7M in funding from New Enterprise Associates, GRP Partners, and First Round Capit...

Los Angeles-based bLife, the stealth-mode, wellness-related startup headed by Hamet Watt, has raised $1.25M in a seed funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the funding--which actuall...

Santa Monica-based Pose, a developer of mobile apps for shopping discovery, announced Friday morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The round came from GRP Partners, True Ventures, and Mousse Partners. Pose develops bot...

San Diego-based JMI Equity is the lead investor in a first round of funding for online coupons site CouponCabin.com, which said Thursday evening that it has raised $54M in a funding round from JMI Equity. According to CouponCabin.com, JMI w...

What's the latest craze in startups in Southern Califonia? It looks to be startup accelerators. In just the last few weeks, at least five different incubation/acceleration efforts have booted up in the region. Here's a rundown of the latest...

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners, has invested in UK-based TreeHouse, an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. Other investors in the firm include Kevin Rose, Reid Hoffman, David Sze, Josh Elman, and C...

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data pr...

San Francisco-based Livefyre, one of the many companies backed by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig, has scored a new round of funding, the firm said today. LiveFyre said it raised $4.5M in a Series B round, led by Greycroft P...

Irvine-based K5Launch, a new venture accelerator started by angel investors Amir Banafatemi, Ray Chan, David Cheng, and Kai Tao, is looking to spawn the growth of startups in Southern California, saying today that it has launched its effort...

San Diego-based Qualcomm has invested in an Israeli developer of carrier-grade, millimeter wave Gigabit Ethernet radios, used for wireless backhaul. According to Skilu, it has raised $19M in a Series B investment, which included Amiti Ventu...

La Jolla-based venture capital investor Avalon Ventures is the lead in a round for cloud data storage firm TwinStrata, TwinStrata said today. TwinStrata, which is based in Masachusetts, said that Avalon lead its Series B funding round, whic...

Another investor has surfaced in the latest funding round for Santa Monica-based TrueCar, the online automotive pricing and research firm headed by Scott Painter. According to Colorado-based Keating Capital, it participated in a $50M, commo...

San Diego-based CoDa Therapeutics, a developer of biopharmaceuticals for wound care, has scored $6M in a credit facility, according to the firm's lender. Square 1 Bank said that it has provided CoDa Therapeutics with a $6M term loan. Terms ...

San Diego-based Qualcomm is putting its money behind one of the winners of its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, New York-based Enterproid, Enterproid revealed Thursday. According to Enterproid, it has raised $11M in a Se...

Los Angeles-based Xfire, the online community and chat service for gamers, announced Thursday that it has raised $4M in a new funding round. The firm said the round was led by Intel Capital, and also included Tomorrow Ventures, William Quig...

Greener Capital, a venture capital fund focused on clean technology which has offices in Laguna Beach, said today that it has scored a first close on its second fund, Greener Capital Partners II. The fund size is $33M. The firm is headed by...

Irvine-based Kareo, a developer of cloud-based practice management and medical billing software, announced today that it has raised $10M in an equity investment round. The round was led by Greenspring Associates, and also included OpenView ...

Azusa-based Contour Energy Systems, the developer of battery technology based on research from Caltech, announced this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. The company said it added new investor SBI Jeffries Asia Fun...

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks appears to have bumped the size of the funding round it announced in August, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Wednesday. According to the filing, BetterWorks is now looking to raise a total of $9...

San Diego-based ImThera Medical, a developer of medical devices to treat sleep apnea, has raised $16M in an initial funding round from publicly held Cyberonics, plus its other investors Cyberonics said Wednesday. ImThera is developing an im...

Aliso Viejo-based Predixion Software, the developer of predictive analytics software which is headed by Simon Arkell, announced today that it has raised $6M in a Series B funding round. The new, strategic investment came from an un-named in...

WhoSay, a New York-based startup with Los Angeles offices, said this morning that it has raised a funding round from Greylock Partners. The firm, headed by Steve Ellis and which was co-founded by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), said it is lo...

Irvine-based Mavenlink, which provides software-as-a-service tools for online project management, file sharing, invoicing software, expense tracking, and other business functions for users, has raised $3.4M out of an ongoing $3.9M funding r...

Ventura-based Connexity, a developer of Internet advertising and targeting technology, announced today that it has secured $2M in a debt financing. The financing came from Silicon Valley Bank. Connexity said the line will go towards additio...

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting...

San Diego-based SweetLabs, the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. The round was led b...

Santa Monica-based mDialog said Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding. The round was led by the BlackBerry Partners Fund. mDialog said the investment will be used to expand its products across mobi...

Santa Monica-based Parking In Motion, a developer of systems to help drivers find open parking space, said this morning that it has raised a Series A round of funding. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. The round was co-led by IDG...

Los Angeles-based Steelhouse, a provider of behavioral targeting technology for e-commerce sites, has raised $3.8M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. The funding is a Series B, and was led by Rincon ...

Los Angeles-based Breitbart.com, the sometimes-controversial publisher of a network of online news sites, has raised $10M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. The filing did not indicate the source of fu...

Sherman Oaks-based Ebyline, a startup developing an online marketplace to connect professional journalists with online publishers, has raised $5.0M in a new equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Accordi...

San Diego-based One Roof Energy, a developer of residential solar installation services and products, announced this morning that it has raised $50M in a financing round, from a Korean corporate conglomerate, Hanwha International. According...

San Diego-based Entropic Communications has led a strategic investment in a developer of media encoding and decoding chips, Zenverge. According to Zenverge, which is based in Cupertino, it has raised $20.5M in a Series D funding, led by Ent...

San Diego-based Elevation Pharmaceuticals announced today that it has drawn down a $17M, tranched Series A financing for the company, and also appointed a number of executives. The company also said it has named Jaisim Shah as Senior Vice P...

Los Angeles-based FastCall411, the sales automation and analytics firm led by Richard Rosen, said Thursday evening that it has scored a second round of financing. Size of the round was not announced. FastCall411 said the round came form 500...

Los Angeles-based Marketshare, the developer of marketing and advertising optimization software, has raised $5.0M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing form the firm. The funding has not yet been announced. According to ...

Santa Monica-based Get.com, a new startup founded by Jake Gold and Steven Fruchter, has launched, looking to help users make product purchase decisions. According to the firm, it has raised $1M in seed funding for its efforts, which the fir...

El Segundo-based Just Fabulous, a new startup spun out of Intelligent Beauty, the e-commerce firm headed by Don Ressler and Adam Goldenberg, said this morning that it has raised $33M in a Series A funding round, for its "fashion styling" an...

Zimride, a startup which recently launched an online service to promote ridesharing between Los Angeles and San Francisco, said today that it has scored funding. The firm said it raised $6M from Mayfield Fund for its efforts to connect ride...

San Diego-based Independa, which operates a service to help family and professional caregivers monitor loved ones, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round, the firm said today. The funding came from Miramar Venture Partners and CityHill Ve...

Pasadena-based Idealab, the startup incubator run by Bill Gross, has made another external investment in a company, funding London-based Top10. Top10 operates a service which allows users to create their own "best of" lists in a social way....

San Diego-based Nukona, a developer of mobile application management software for the enterprise, said Tuesday that it has closed a funding round. Size of the round was not announced. According to Nukona, the funding came from the Startup A...

Los Angeles-based MobileCause, which operates mobile fundraising, CRM, and communications services for non-profits, revealed today that it has recently raised $3.2M in funding. According to MobileCause, the funding came through "several rou...

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed, the provider of analytics software for tracking location-based check-in and other activity from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Gowalla, said Monday that it has scored an investment from Rockfish Brand Vent...

Los Angeles-based KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, a developer of aesthetic medicine products, said today that it has raised $37.4M in a series D funding round. The round included new investors Foley Ventures and Latham and Watkins, and also inc...

Earlier this week, the Tech Coast Angels, the largest and most active organized angel group in Southern California, announced a new effort to create an angel group network, which will share and syndicate deals between groups--current the TC...

Carpinteria-based Celerus Diagnostics, a developer of pathology analysis equipment, has now raised $10M in a Series C funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. Details on the funding have not been released by the com...

San Diego-based MeLLmo, the developer of the Roambi mobile business apps for the iPhone and iPad, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $30M in a first round of institutional funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital. The firm said...

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon is the lead investor in a round of funding from a social shopping site out of Y Combinator. According to Mertado, a social shopping service which links users with home and kitchen product...

Los Angeles-based RRKidz, a new online startup focused on offering children's books via subscription, and headlined by Reading Rainbow and former Star Trek star LeVar Burton, said it has scored a round of funding today. The firm said it rec...

RF Surgical Systems, a developer of systems used to keep track of surgical sponges during surgery procedures, announced Tuesday that it has raised $12M in funding. The firm--which has its R&D facilities in San Diego--said the round was led ...

Irvine-based JetSuite, a new private jet service startup running Embraer Phenom 100 private jets, has raised $7.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company. The funding included Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos.c...

The founders of Crackle, the online streaming video and movie site owned by Culver City-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, have announced a new venture capital fund. According to Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, the founders of Crackle, they ha...

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen has backed a developer of therapeutic antibodies, via its venture capital arm, Amgen Ventures. According to Seattle-based Theraclone Sciences, Amgen Ventures was one of the investors in a $10.6M, Seri...

Los Angeles-based SOS Online Backup, a developer of cloud-based online backup and data protection services, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Splashpoind Investors. The firm said...

Los Angeles-based Gaikai, the streaming game service run by David Perry, is one of seven software companies which Intel announced it had made investments in today, for a total of $24M invested by the company. Intel said it invested in Dynam...

Santa Monica- and London-based Echoecho, which is developing a service to provide location information to your friends via a mobile application, announced today that it has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The round came from Googl...

Santa Monica-based TrueCar, the automotive pricing website headed by Scott Painter, said this morning that it has raised $200M in new debt and equity financing, plus acquired a company. TrueCar said the financing round included USAA, Capric...

Los Angeles-based Chill, the online video discussion website headed by Brian Norgard, has raised $1.5M in angel funding, according to the firm's angel investment backers. The site--which was originally a project of Namesake--gained funding ...

Venice, California-based Mogreet, the mobile marketing firm headed by James Citron, has raised $2.0M in an ongoing funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, the new equity funding has a targ...

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs, the developer of cloud computing products headed by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding round. According to Morphlabs, the round was led by Japanese strateg...

San Diego-based Daylight Solutions, a developer of high-power, laser systems for the defense and homeland security market, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Northrop Grumman Corporat...

A report today from CNN's Term Sheet says that a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Erik Rannala, is leaving Harrison Metal Venture Capital to set up a new venture capital fund in Southern California. According to the report, Rannala is set...

Santa Barbara-based Restaurant Revolution Technologies, a firm developing restaurant order management technology, has raised a round of venture funding, according to BR Venture Fund, a MBA student run venture capital fund based out of Corne...

Amgen Ventures, the venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, has backed the developer of a biopharmaceutical aimed at treating irritable bowel syndrome, kidney disease, and diabetes. According to Fremont, California-based Ardelyx, ...

La Jolla-based private equity firm JMI Equity has made a big investment in online advertising verification firm DoubleVerify, leading a $33M funding round in the New York company. According to DoubleVerify, the investment funding for the co...

San Diego-based Zeebo, a developer of a wireless, digital entertainment and education system, initially targeted at the global market, has raised $17M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the...

A portfolio company of Irvine-based venture capital firm SAIL Venture Partners, SNTech, has made an acquisition, SNTech announced earlier this week. SNTech--which has quietly been backed by SAIL since at least 2009--said it acquired the $23...

San Diego-based Awarepoint, the developer of real-time, location systems for the healthcare market, announced this morning that it has raised $27M in new financing, as part of a Series F round. The round was led by new investor Kleiner Perk...

Irvine-based PathCentral, a developer of web-based software for managing the practice of community pathologists, has raised $3.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Details on the funding have not yet ...

Los Angeles-based matchmaking site eHarmony is approaching a redemption deadline from its last venture funding round, according to a report today from Reuters. According to the report, eHarmony has a November 5th deadline, after which its v...

Southern California Gas Company the unit of Sempra Energy which supplies natural gas to Southern California, has backed the manufacturer of natural gas, fuel cell equipment. According to ClearEdge Power, it has raised $73.5M in a Series E f...

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures has backed the developer of a mobile electrocardiogram recorder, AliveCor, as part of that company's Series A round. AliveCor said today that it has raised $3M in a Series A for its products, which connect ...

Laguna Hills-based Sonendo, a developer of dental surgery equipment, has raised $5.9M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the $5.9M is part of an ongoing $6.4M equity round. N...

Los Angeles-based Border Stylo, the developer of the Glass browser add-on and GlassThis web site for sharing and conversing about web sites, plus the Retrollect mobile app for social sharing, is in the process of raising the amount of fundi...

Pixoto, a new startup focused on sharing and voting on photographic images which is headed by former Pictage founder Jason Kiefer, has just scored a seed funding worth $360,000, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The fi...

The Tech Coast Angels, Southern California's biggest and most active angel investing group, appears to be backing a developer of prescription drug validation systems, based in Lebanon, N.H. According to a regulatory filing from PharmaSecure...

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. According to Ma...

Maverick Angels, an angel investment group investing in Southern California companies, said today that it has named Patrick Henry as its newly elected Southern California Chapter President. Henry replaces Bill Barber, who continues as a mem...

Santa Monica-based Brighter, the dental care and referrals business started by Jake Winebaum, the founder of Business.com, has raised $8M more in a Series B funding round, the firm said Monday. The round was led by Benchmark Capital, and al...

La Jolla-based Nettle, a semi-stealth mode firm which says it is creating a "next-generation social/local/mobile application and website for the global entertainment market", has raised $500,000 in a seed funding. According to the firm, the...

A trio of United Talent Agency execs said Friday that they have launched a new, media company focused on the intersection of Internet and entertainment. According to Serious Business, it has raised a second round of seed funding from Brave ...

San Diego-based KidZui, the developer of a kid-friendly Internet browser, said this week that it has raised another $2M in funding, and launched a new effort called ZUI.com. The firm said the funding included Mission Ventures, Maveron, and ...

Los Angeles-based Elevator Labs, a new startup headed by ex-Virgin Digital execs Brendon Cassidy and Zack Zalon, said Thursday that it has raised $20M in an initial funding round. The round came from KGC Capital. According to the firm, it i...

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 funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the new funding was not disc...

Venice, California-based MOVIECLIPS, the online provider of licensed movie clips headed by Richard Raddon and Zach James, is announcing today that it has scored $7M in a Series B funding round, and also partnered with Google to feature its ...

Los Angeles-based SendLove.to, a new startup headed by Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, debuted today, saying it will provide a "people-polling" platform which will allow users to rate and share their opinion on people in the news. Lyman and...

San Diego-based Acutus Medical, a developer of medical devices for treating cardiac arrhythmia, said today that it has received $1M in a funding round. The round came form Index Ventures and un-named private investors. Acutus Medical said i...

San Diego-based TakeLessons, a business which helps users connect with music and voice lesson teachers across the country, said this week that it has raised $6M in a funding round. The round was led by Crosslink Capital, and also included S...

Los Angeles-based private equity fund Craton Equity Partners said Wednesday that it has led a $60M round of investment in Bridgelux, a developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technology. Bridgelux, which is based in Livermore, California...

Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. Anthem Ventures, represented by Samit Varma, and DFJ Frontier, represented by David Cremin, are two of the investors i...