16 Articles match "Angel","Palomar"

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix , the online advertising rating and analytics firm run by Steve Goldman , has applied the firm's ad rating service to the Super Bowl XLIV ads. The firm, which is backed by Hummer Winblad and Palomar Ventures, said its ranking service found that the most effective ad during the Super Bowl was for Budweiser's "Fence" ad, followed by Doritos "Dog Collar" spot, Snickers "Game", Doritos "Kid's Rule", and finally Google's "Parisian Love" advertising spot. Ace Metrix operates an online service which ranks and rates television advertising spots by their entertainment value and business persuasion, which the firm makes available to advertisers to help hone their ad strategy.
 
Monday, January 25, 2010
Los Angeles-based Palomar Ventures is in a new funding with Soros Fund Management, in a deal worth $128.4M According to ExteNet, Palomar, an existing investor in the firm, was part of a new round of equity financing led by SSP Offshore LLC, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management and SBA Communications Corporation, which also included Centennial Ventures, Columbia Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, and CenterPoint Ventures. Palomar is represented on ExteNet's to Illinois wireless firm ExteNet Systems . ExteNet designs, builds and operates distributed wireless networks. ...Tags:
 
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
don't know many angel investors interested in food start-ups, the margins are poor. No one at Tech Coast Angels would make such an offer. It reminds me of the advice Palomar Ventures' Randy Lunn offered once, "never take advantage of an entrepreneur". Not as exciting on TV perhaps, but words to live by if you're Am I the last person to watch ABC's Shark Tank ? Thankfully I have better things to do on a Friday night, so through the miracle of TiVo and a rainy Martin Luther King Day, I waded through Episode 106 .
 

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Los Angeles-based Palomar Ventures is in a new funding with Soros Fund Management, in a deal worth $128.4M According to ExteNet, Palomar, an existing investor in the firm, was part of a new round of equity financing led by SSP Offshore LLC, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management and SBA Communications Corporation, which also included Centennial Ventures, Columbia Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, and CenterPoint Ventures. Palomar is represented on ExteNet's to Illinois wireless firm ExteNet Systems . ExteNet designs, builds and operates distributed wireless networks. ...Tags:
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the
don't know many angel investors interested in food start-ups, the margins are poor. No one at Tech Coast Angels would make such an offer. It reminds me of the advice Palomar Ventures' Randy Lunn offered once, "never take advantage of an entrepreneur". Not as exciting on TV perhaps, but words to live by if you're Am I the last person to watch ABC's Shark Tank ? Thankfully I have better things to do on a Friday night, so through the miracle of TiVo and a rainy Martin Luther King Day, I waded through Episode 106 .
Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix , which operates a service to help television advertisers judge the effectiveness of their creative, has raised $1.7M Ace Metrix has previously raised funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures. READ MORE>> ...Tags: in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. Details on the funding were not announced.
Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix is looking to apply analytics to the television advertising market, saying this morning that it has launched a service which helps advertisers measure persuasion and watchability of their advertising. The firm, which is funded by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures, said that the software-as-a-service product is aimed at advertisers and agencies looking to understand and compare the performance of competitive ads across their own market and other industries, and to gain feedback on their ads. The firm was co-founded by Steve Goldman and JuYoung Lee.
Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix , which operates an online service which provides analytics for television ads, announced today that it has raised $6.0M The round was led by Leapfrog Ventures, and also included prior investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures. in a Series B funding round. Pete Sinclair of Leapfrog will join the firm's board along with the funding.
Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix , which operates a service to help television advertisers measure the effectiveness of their creative content, announced this morning that it has added Greg Drew to its board of directors. Ace Metrix is venture backed by Hummer Winblad, and Palomar Ventures. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Drew is the CEO and President of SmartDrive Systems. He previously served as President and CEO of WebTrends, as well as serving at 800 Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, CentralPoint Software, Clientele Software, and NOW Software/Qualcomm.
Los Angeles-based CoreObjects , a provider of outsourced product development services to the venture-backed technology community, has raised $2.0M According to the filing, Palomar Ventures--a prior investor in the firm--still holds two board seats, with Jim Gauer and Scott Walters sitting on the firm's board of directors. READ MORE>> ...Tags: in a equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Details on the funding have not yet been released by the company.
Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix , the online advertising rating and analytics firm run by Steve Goldman , has applied the firm's ad rating service to the Super Bowl XLIV ads. The firm, which is backed by Hummer Winblad and Palomar Ventures, said its ranking service found that the most effective ad during the Super Bowl was for Budweiser's "Fence" ad, followed by Doritos "Dog Collar" spot, Snickers "Game", Doritos "Kid's Rule", and finally Google's "Parisian Love" advertising spot. Ace Metrix operates an online service which ranks and rates television advertising spots by their entertainment value and business persuasion, which the firm makes available to advertisers to help hone their ad strategy.
Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix , which is venture backed by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures, said today that it has rolled out a number of enhancements to the firm's service for the advertising market. The firm, which provides testing of advertising creative, said it has launched Ace PreTest, which provides custom ad pre-testing for clients, Ace Macroscope, which breaks down ad analytics based on demographics, along with other updates like better graphing and filtering. Ace Metrix provides an online service which scores ads for creative directors, measuring the