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9 Articles match "MyShape","Venture Capital"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Monday, March 1, 2010
The group said that as part of those deals, its portfolio companies raised an additional $57M in funding from venture capital groups and other angel investors. The TCA said that firms that received funding this year included WiSpry, Paradigm Select Assets, MicroPower Technologies, Outside Labs, Mobile XL, Cyber-Rain, Loop'd Network, Vigilistics, Numira, YouMail, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Benchmark Revenue, Masher Media, h2scan, MyShape, LeisureLink, PharmaSecure, ElephantDrive, and UsedCardboardBoxes.
...Tags: The Tech Coast Angels said today that the angel group invested in seven new deals, and seventeen follow-on deals in 2009, a total of $4.7M
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Asking young companies with limited capital to pay to present to a group of potential investors is insane. Seriously, it kinda stinks) it is a legitimate funding source for Southern California entrepreneurs and has produced successes including GreenDot and MyShape . Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industr Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Glendale-based MyShape , which operates an online retailer focused on matching women to clothing based on their body type, confirmed this morning that it has raised a third round of venture funding. The firm said the round was led by DFJ Growth Fund, and also included Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tenaya Capital, the Pasadena Angels, and the Tech Coast Angels. MyShape's Amount of the funding round was not disclosed, although a regulatory filing last week placed the round target at $12.1M. The filing indicates that $10.56M of the round had already been funded.
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Pasadena-based MyShape , the personalized fashion retailer run by Louise Wannier, has raised $10.5M No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company, which is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, the Pasadena Angels, and the Tech Coast Angels. MyShape recently relaunched the firm's website with new social shopping features, an enhanced measurement system, and other features.
in a new round of equity funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. The filing says the fundraising is part of a nearly $12.1M
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Glendale-based MyShape , which operates an online retailer focused on matching women to clothing based on their body type, confirmed this morning that it has raised a third round of venture funding. The firm said the round was led by DFJ Growth Fund, and also included Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tenaya Capital, the Pasadena Angels, and the Tech Coast Angels. MyShape's Amount of the funding round was not disclosed, although a regulatory filing last week placed the round target at $12.1M. The filing indicates that $10.56M of the round had already been funded.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Pasadena-based MyShape has raised $12M in a round of venture capital, the company's CEO, Louise Wannier, confirmed Monday after reports that the firm had closed a round of funding, but said the round was still in progress. The funding came from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners and also included prior lead Draper Fisher Jurvetson, along with local angel groups the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. MyShape runs an online apparel store which is targeted on matching women with clothing that best fits them. Wannier said the round remains open, as the firm
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Monday, October 20, 2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their quarterly MoneyTree data over the weekend, totaling up $751M in Southern California deals. San Diego slipped somewhat in the amount of capital invested during the quarter, to $178.4M. MyShape, $12M
Taking a closer look at the numbers, LA led the region with $385.65M in deals, but Orange County also had a strong showing with $186M in deals. Interestingly enough, San Diego — which led Q2 investments — slipped significantly in deal amounts this quarter.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC .
Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup and the best spokesperson for Tech Coast Angels that I have met to date), Tom McInerney (TGM) and Jarl Mohn (who invests on his own “account” and whose track record is truly humbling).
I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Asking young companies with limited capital to pay to present to a group of potential investors is insane. Seriously, it kinda stinks) it is a legitimate funding source for Southern California entrepreneurs and has produced successes including GreenDot and MyShape . Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industr Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some
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Monday, March 1, 2010
The group said that as part of those deals, its portfolio companies raised an additional $57M in funding from venture capital groups and other angel investors. The TCA said that firms that received funding this year included WiSpry, Paradigm Select Assets, MicroPower Technologies, Outside Labs, Mobile XL, Cyber-Rain, Loop'd Network, Vigilistics, Numira, YouMail, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Benchmark Revenue, Masher Media, h2scan, MyShape, LeisureLink, PharmaSecure, ElephantDrive, and UsedCardboardBoxes.
...Tags: The Tech Coast Angels said today that the angel group invested in seven new deals, and seventeen follow-on deals in 2009, a total of $4.7M
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Monday, February 23, 2009
The group, which makes investments in local technology startups, said that $99M of that came from the TCA's members, with the remainder coming from venture capital firms and other private equity investors. The companies receiving investments from the TCA in 2008 included Agilenano, AIRSIS, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Axiotron, Bikestation, BrandAmerica, BrightQube, CardioCreate, CaseStack, Clupedia, Cognition, Cyber-Rain, Dayak, Edgeware Analytics, eGuardian, EZ-Assure, H2Scan, Make It Work, MicroPower Appliance, Mobile-XL, MojoPages, MyShape, Opposing Views, Santrio, SodaHead, TherMark,
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A new effort to spur venture investment in Los Angeles–called NITRO –has gotten under way, and is looking to bring together entrepreneurs with mentors and improve the quality of companies in the area. The NITRO effort is pulling together a list of local mentors — including Robert Flynn (Modern Feed & Supply), Bryce Benjamin (Tech Coast Angeles, Language Weaver), Marc Averitt (Okapi VC), Suresh Nihalani (Clearmesh, Accelerated Networks, ACT Networks), Robert Siegel (X/Seed Capital, Stanford), Zareh Baghdasarian (Chromodyne, Monterey Networks, myShape),
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