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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Pasadena-based QLess , a developer of artificial intelligence software for managing lines, says it has scored a number of wins with local governments, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. QLess is led by CEO Kevin Grauman; the company has been around since 2007. Financial impact of those wins were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. And profits from the sale of the product create cash for development of the next product. The simple economic truth. Here is a simple economic truth.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Los Angeles-based Velocify , the developer of sales lead management software, has been acquired by Ellie Mae , in a deal worth $128M in cash, Ellie Mae said last week. Ellie Mae said the buy will help its lenders originate more loans, reduce costs, and complete the entire mortgage process faster. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Doluca has been President and CEO of Maxim since 2007. Western Digital is a developer of a wide range of data storage products, ranging from disk drives to flash memory, among other products. Western Digital Corp. , WD said it now has nine directors on its board. Doluca has been at Maxim Integrated since 1984.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Mikkelson has been at Camber since 2007. Masimo is a developer of noninvasive patient monitoring equipment, including a line of widely used pulse oximetry devices. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Skyworks Solutions , the developer of analog semiconductors, said on Monday that it has named Kris Sennesael as its Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, based in Irvine. Sennesael replaces outgoing CFO Donald Palette, 59, who is retiring; Palette had been CFO since 2007. Sennesael was most recently CFO of Enphase Energy.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Santos has been at Amgen since 2007, and has been serving as Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, since 2013. The company said that Santos will head up Amgen's Operations organization, which is responsible for manufacturing, process development, quality, engineering and global supply chain.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Irvine-based cybersecurity software developer Cylance said late Friday that its researchers have proven a common model of voting machine is vulnerable to hacking--enabling votes on that machine to be altered--however, only if attackers have physical access to that voting machine.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 7, 2019

Organovo says it has run out of money to advance its efforts to develop 3-D “patches” of living human liver tissue to tide over people waiting for an organ transplant.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

San Diego-based Ad-Juster , a developer of automated reconciliation and reporting software for the digital ad market, was recently acquired by Chinese investor Innotech Capitals. Ad-Juster was founded in 2007, and was led by Mike Lewis. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , the real time, demand-side advertising platform developer led by Jeff Green, has raised $20M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The Trade Desk develops online advertising technology used to manage display, social, and video advertising campaigns. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Digital Insight , the developer of online banking software which has major operations in Westlake Village, has just been sold to NCR , in the second sale of the company this year. Digital Insight had been acquired by Intuit back in 2007. NCR Corporation said it paid $1.65 READ MORE>>.

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JULY 9, 2014

Santa Monica-based talent management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand said Wednesday that it has added Kristana Salen, the Chief Financial Officer of Etsy, to its board of directors. Bessemer was co-lead on Cornerstone OnDemand''s first institutional round in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Culver City-based Seismic Games announced on Thursday that it has acquired fellow, Los Angeles game development company Grue Games. Borrud was formerly head of Pandemic Studios, the gaming firm acquired by Electronic Arts in 2007 for $860M. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Rubicon develops a cloud-based platform which enables real-time buying and selling of advertising for web publishers; the firm''s automated systems help optimize the amount of revenue earned by advertisers, by soliciting up real-time-bids for which advertisements which are presented on a web page. The company was founded in 2007.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based software-as-a-service developer Cornerstone OnDemand said this morning that it has added former Eloqua CEO Joe Payne to its board of directors. Cornerstone OnDemand is a developer of software-as-a-service tools for enterprise, human resources and human capital management. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project has apparently just hits its one year anniversary on the public markets, saying today that it will be ringing the NYSE closing bell this afternoon. Addante founded Rubicon Project in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2013

MakerBot was developing low cost, 3-D printers for hobbyists to create their own, 3D printed objects--precisely the market that Desktop Factory had been pursuing. However, Desktop Factory had pioneered 3D printing way back in 2007 , before the recent obsession and craze over 3D printed objects. Makerbot wasn''t founded until 2009.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Nimble--which develops web-based, social contact management software--said the Outlook connection comes via Phi-solutions, which connects Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 contacts into rich social profiles on Nimble.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

According to The Riverside Company, it will be investing heavily to help Be Green Packaging accelerate its growth, in the areas of manufacturing, sales and marketing, and research and development. Be Green Packaging was founded in 2007, and was co-founded by Ron Blitzer and Robert Richman. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Calabasas-based network testing software and hardware developer Ixia has been acquired by Keysight Technologies , in a deal worth $1.6 Ginsberg had served as CEO of Ixia until 2007, and has since been Chairman of the Board. billion in cash, the two announced this morning. Keysight and Ixia said that Keysight will pay $19.65

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MAY 8, 2014

San Diego-based growth equity investor TVC Capital is the lead investor in LiquidPlanner , a developer of online project management software this morning. LiquidPlanenr said it raised $8M in a Series B funding from TVC Capital, the first venture funding in the company since it was founded in 2007.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

San Diego-based Websense , the developer of web security tools, reports today that it has been selected by Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union, to safeguard data for the credit union's 38 branches. Websense said that Addison Avenue had actually been using the firm since 2007, but decided to roll out the solution further as part of a $4.75

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MAY 16, 2011

SanDisk said it would pay $327M in cash, plus equity-based incentives for Pliant, a developer of enterprise solid state disk drives (SSDs). Arcturus first invested in Pliant in 2007. SanDisk is a major manufacturer of flash memory.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based ImagineAb , a spinout of UCLA which is developing diagnostic imaging technology, reported Monday that it has been awarded $2.3M The company said the funding will go to help further develop diagnostic imaging agents for Positron Emission Tomography (PET). ImagineAB was founded in 2007 by three UCLA faculty.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Santa Monica-based SolarReserve , the developer of utility-scale solar power projects, said Tuesday that it has named Stephen Mullennix as Senior Vice President of Operations. Mullenix has been involved with SolarReserve since 2007 as a board member. Mullennix has previously served at AECOM, among other companies. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Kamran Pourzanjani , the former CEO and founder of PriceGrabber.com, and Omid Rahmat , the former CEO of Tom's Hardware, have acquired Portland- and Santa Barbara-based ELC Technologies , the development firm founded by Jonathan Siegel. ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development.

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JULY 12, 2012

Woodridge, Illinois-based Elevance Renewable Sciences , a developer of processes for creating specialty chemicals from renewable oils, said the Series E funding came from Lacustrine Limited, a Malaysian investor, along with Total Energy Ventures international. Elevance and Materia entered into their licensing deal in November of 2007.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , the developer of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), is ramping the production of its RF switching products, according to the firm and its fab, MagnaChip Semiconductor. The two have been working together since mid-2007.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Monrovia-based Xencor , the developer of antibody technology which is headed by Dr. Bassil Dahiyat, said today that it has received a second, milestone payment from Boehringer Ingelheim. Financial details and amount of the payment were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

Pasadena-based Guidance Software , the developer of computer forensics and e-discovery software, said this morning that it has named Daniel Lim as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, and Alex Adrianopoulos as Vice President of Marketing.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, said today that it has named Leo Bannon as its Executive Vice President, Global Operations. and had previously been President and CEO of ColorLink, a firm which was acquired by RealD in 2007. Bannon was most recently at Arisawa Manufacturing Co.,

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

IconFinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements.

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JUNE 24, 2013

Irvine-based Western Digital and Santa Ana-based sTec , the developer of solid state data storage devices, announced this morning that the two companies are in a merger agreement. According to the two, sTEC is being acquired by HGST , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, for approximately $340M in cash. per share for sTEC.

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MARCH 29, 2011

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners has upped its investment in Mumbai, India-based Games2Win , an online developer of casual and other games. Games2Win raised $5M in its Series A back in March of 2007. According to Games2Win, it has raised $6M in a Series B financing roudn, which also included SVB India Capital Partners.

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