Santa Monica-based investment banking firm Siemer & Associates, which has focused on the technology and media sector, has been acquired by Chinese investor CEC Capital Group. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. CEC said i...

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature contributions from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology industry, we have an article from Ivan Nikkhoo, an experienced entrepreneur, investment banker, and ve...

The Siemer Summit, the invite-only conference which has been organized by technology investment banking firm Siemer & Associates for the last four years, is returning this year, according to the firm. According to Siemer & Associates, this ...

Local angel investors--including the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels--might just have another big hit on their hands, with the news today that San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody has filed for an IPO. Local angels--whose biggest exit so fa...

Irvine-based Local Corporation, the publicly traded search and advertising technology company, said this morning that it is looking to explore "strategic alternatives", and hired Siemer & Associates as a financial advisor. The company said ...

Los Angeles-based Ringadoc, a developer of automated, cloud-based telephone answering services for doctors, has been acquired by Practice Fusion, according to the companies. FInancial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Practice Fusion sai...

If you want to ship something large--say, an old vintage military tank--where do you go? Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk (www.shiphawk.com) is looking to solve the problem of pretty much shipping anything large (like cars and furniture) or u...

If you run a distributed, restaurant or hospitality business, how do you manage your business? It turns out, it's not so easy. However, Redondo Beach-based StaffRanker (www.staffranker.com) has rolled out a system to help those companies be...

Ayannah, the mobile payment and remittance startup which is focused on unbanked consumers in the Phillipines and other emerging markets, has raised $1M more in funding, the company disclosed this morning. The startup--which is backed by Sie...

Five startups have been named winners at the Siemer Summit, the tech confab which has been being held in Santa Monica for the past couple of days by local investment banking company and investor Siemer Ventures, highlighting some of the top...

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures said Wednesday that the venture capital fund has launched a new, $45M third fund, and rebranded itself as Wavemaker Partners. The new fund is larger than the company's second fund, which was raised in 2011...

Santa Monica-based Spanish language media company Entravision Communications--which owns television, radio, and online media focused on the Latino market--said earlier this week that it has acquired online advertising company Pulpo Media. T...

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor Siemer Ventures is one of the backers of a new, Japanese mobile video entertainment startup, Breaker. According to Breaker, it has raised $2M in a seed funding round, to help bolster its efforts t...

Santa Monica-based online advertising analytics firm Adomic has scored the top prize--and $160,000 in cash plus services--as part of the annual Siemer Silicon Beach Summit awards. Adomic, which is headed by Gabe Gottlieb, was one of dozens ...

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where's my exit? We caught up with David Siemer, both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures ...

Organizers of the annual Siemer Silicon Beach Summit said this week that they've created a new prize, worth $160,000, which it will award to a startup, in a combination of cash and services. Siemer Ventures, Manatt Digital Media, Grant Thor...

Local Santa Monica-based venture investor Siemer Ventures has boosted its total number of investments to 55 companies, the firm announced this week, after adding nine new companies in the second quarter of the year. Siemer Ventures said tha...

Los Angeles-based Ecinity, a developer of online, automated marketing software for the SMB market, has raised a round of funding from Siemer Ventures and others, according to details on investments released by Siemer Ventures yesterday. Eci...

Ayannah, a provider of mobile payment and commerce services for unbanked consumers in emerging markets, has raised new funding, the company said Friday. The company, which has its U.S. headquarters in Laguna Hills, said the funding came fro...

Los Angeles-based technology investor Siemer Ventures has funded an investment firm in Southeast Asia, which is looking to invest in and create e-commerce and digital media companies in the Southeast Asia region. According to Ardent Capital...

Los Angeles venture investor Siemer Ventures is one of the investors in a new seed funding round for medical answering service Ringadoc, which announced $700,000 in a seed funding today. The funding included Siemer Ventures, Telegraph Hill ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Los Angeles-based venture fund Siemer Ventures, the early-stage, venture capital investor run by David Siemer and Eric Manlunas, has funded Tradesparq, the operator of an Asian, B2B marketplace that matches volume buyers and suppliers. Fina...

Los Angeles-based investment banking firm Siemer & Associates, the merchant banking firm headed by David Siemer, said this week that it has named Dan Chen as Managing Director of the company. Chen has previously served at such firms as Mont...

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...

Los Angeles-based Siemer & Associates, and its affiliated venture capital fund, Siemer Ventures, said today that it has launched a new, technology incubator--in the country of Singapore. The investment banking firm, which is headed by David...

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...