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Thursday, November 19, 2009
This week's release of a list of their "Top 100" venture capitalists by AlwaysOn -- based roughly on number and dollar amount of successful M&A and IPO deals between October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009--seems to have skipped local Southern California venture capitalists, with only one Southern California VCs listed. According to the list, just Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures , made the cut. AlwaysOn highlighted Gauer's involvement in firms AlterPoint, Network Physics, RealOps, and Cerebra in the rankings. The list came as news that Forbes is dropping
 
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
was invested in 65 Southern California deals in Q3, compared to $773.3M PwC/NVCA said that Mission Ventures and Enterprise Partners were the most active local VCs for the quarter, with five deals each; Clearstone Ventures had four, and DFJ Frontier and Palomar Ventures reported three deals each. Dow PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M and 87 deals in Q3 of last year.
 
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's We're describing Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year.
 

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This week's release of a list of their "Top 100" venture capitalists by AlwaysOn -- based roughly on number and dollar amount of successful M&A and IPO deals between October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009--seems to have skipped local Southern California venture capitalists, with only one Southern California VCs listed. According to the list, just Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures , made the cut. AlwaysOn highlighted Gauer's involvement in firms AlterPoint, Network Physics, RealOps, and Cerebra in the rankings. The list came as news that Forbes is dropping
was invested in 65 Southern California deals in Q3, compared to $773.3M PwC/NVCA said that Mission Ventures and Enterprise Partners were the most active local VCs for the quarter, with five deals each; Clearstone Ventures had four, and DFJ Frontier and Palomar Ventures reported three deals each. Dow PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M and 87 deals in Q3 of last year.
Brian Garrett, co-founder of Crosscut, has been very active in the Southern California venture community either as an adviser (to GumGum and Verve Wireless ), or previously as partner in Palomar Ventures.  Cost: $75 (by check, please make out to “SoCal Tech Group LLC”) Join the SoCal Tech Group if you haven’t already We are pleased to announce that Brian Garret of Crosscut Ventures will be our guest at the next 8 by 8 dinner.  Crosscut is part of a new generation of venture funds, specializing in earlier stage opportunities and smaller
Alana Semuels writes for the Los Angeles Times today, " Venture capitalists apply the brakes " regarding the steep decline in fourth quarter investment in Southern California. "Venture Venture capitalists slammed shut their wallets during the last three months of 2008, investing 45% less in Southern California start-ups than during the same period a year earlier. Full The sharp fourth-quarter decline to $422 million from $764 million, turned what was expected to be a full-year gain into a loss, according to the Dow Jones VentureSource report. Venture funding to the
The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's We're describing Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year.