Tech Coast Angels, a network of individual investors based in Southern California, has helped form what’s being called the Angel Syndication Network, an affiliation of angel investment groups across the U.S. that have banded together to provide entrepreneurs with more and larger financing rounds before leaving the angel system. PRESS RELEASE: Tech Coast Angels (TCA), [...]

OncoHealth Corp., the developer of HPV diagnostics and treatments, raised $1.6 million in what it called an oversubscribed round from investors including Band of Angels, Emergent Medical Partners, Halo Fund, Tech Coast Angels, The Angels Forum, and Wilmington Investor Network. Sand Hill Angels and Life Science Angels anchored the round.

AnaBios Corp., a San Diego-based company that deploys assays and develops databases for the assessment of efficacy and safety of drugs, has raised $800,000 of a planned $2 million Series A financing round. Tech Coast Angels, and its Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund contributed to the round.

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Investor network Tech Coast Angels has held a first close of its Angel Capital Entrepreneurial Fund I. The amount of the close was not released. Tech Coast Angels focus on early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California, and invests across a range of sectors including life sciences, retail, Internet, media and consumer products.

HitFix, an entertainment journalism online resource, has raised $1.6 million in second-round funding led by Tech Coast Angels.

Luis Villalobos, co-founder of Tech Coast Angels, had been undergoing treatment for a lung infection in a Southern California hospital when he died Oct. 1 at the age of 70. Villalobos is often credited for propagating Southern California’s angel investment community. He launched Tech Coast Angels in 1997, served as its first president and he [...]

A few weeks ago, several of you came up with companies that let people tailor and order clothes online –A Tailored Suit, LoriCoulter.com, Archetype Solutions, Indochino and even Lands’ End.

One of them, MyShape.com, has just raised money –$10.56 million of a $12 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing last week — from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tenaya Capital and Tech Coast Angels.

But MyShape is not just another online clothing company, according to investor Steve Jurvetson. The site is especially aimed at aging females — women between the ages of 55 and 64, who, he says, are the fastest growing category of online shoppers except for teenagers.

In June, Jurvetson went to Santa Clara University’s annual Silicon Valley (Baby) Boomer Venture Summit and Business Plan Competition to hunt for candidates for DFJ’s growing interest in companies that serve the aging, an area that he says is new to venture capital.

Masher Media Inc., a Calabasas, Calif.-based maker of a virtual world for children, has raised $300,000 in seed funding from Tech Coast Angels. The round could be expanded by another $200,000 within the next month.

Loop’d Network, a San Diego-based online sports network, has raised $800,000 from existing private investors and new investor Tech Coast Angels. Press release: Loop’d Network, the largest online network for action sports, announced today it has secured an additional $800,000 in funding from its existing private investors, along with new investor Tech Coast Angels. The [...]