Vokle Expands from Special Event Support to Worldwide Online Broadcaster Community
IRVINE, Calif., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the largest angel investment network in the U.S., today announced its participation in a $767,000 round of funding for Vokle, a web-based video communications "talk show" platform. According to TCA lead investor Dave Berkus, "This is the second phase of TCA's investment in Vokle that began at the end of 2010, and the robust interest in the company by our members has been based on Vokle's increased capability of their version 2.0...
IRVINE, Calif., March 29, 2011 – A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report entitled Shaking the MoneyTree established southern California as the third most active area for equity investments in venture-backed companies in the United States, coming in just slightly behind New England and growing far faster. Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the largest angel investment network in the U.S., was ranked the number one investment group in Southern California by the report.
According to Mike Napoli, recently appointed chairman of TCA, “Tech...
IRVINE, Calif., March 29, 2011 – A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report entitled Shaking the MoneyTree established southern California as the third most active area for equity investments in venture-backed companies in the United States, coming in just slightly behind New England and growing far faster. Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the largest angel investment network in the U.S., was ranked the number one investment group in Southern California by the report.
According to Mike Napoli, recently appointed chairman of TCA, “Tech Coast Angels has...
Network Streamlines Processes For Funding of New Companies
IRVINE, Calif., February 28, 2011 – Tech Coast Angels (TCA) today announced that Mike Napoli has moved into the position of Chairman of its Board of Directors. Napoli has been a member of TCA since 2000, has previously served on the TCA Los Angeles Network Executive Committee for seven years, started the Inland Empire TCA Network in 2007 and served as its president for three years, and was chairman of two TCA Fast Pitch Competitions. Napoli heads a growing and thriving network which recently announced total investments in 2010 of over...
The Tech Coast Angels concluded another successful Fast Pitch event at UCLA, with Energy Cache and Hive Lighting taking the top awards at the event. The Fast Pitch event was the sixth annual event for the Tech Coast Angels in Los Angeles, which attracted over 170 company applicants and narrowed down to ten finalists.
Energy Cache, a Pasadena based grid-scale energy storage company, took the prize for Best Investment opportunity. Energy Cache's extremely low-cost energy storage solution improves grid reliability,...
IRVINE, Calif., February 22, 2011 – Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the nation’s largest angel investment network, today announced it funded 31 investments, including 12 new deals and 19 follow-on investments in a broad range of start-up businesses, demonstrating its angel investment leadership. TCA raised over $40 million of total investment for its entrepreneurial companies, including over $6 million through direct TCA investment and approximately $33.9 million through other sources of venture and angel capital. The total number of investments is up significantly from 2009 when 24 deals were...
IRVINE, Calif., February 14, 2011– Tech Coast Angels (TCA),the nation’s largest angel investment network, today announced the completion of the first closing of its Angel Capital Entrepreneurial(ACE) Fund 1. The Fund has begun investing in early-stage, game-changing companies, and entrepreneurs are encouraged to submit plans to TCA for funding consideration. One of the purposes of the Fund, according to Dave Berkus, Chairman Emeritus of TCA, is that it...