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FTD Files Chapter 11: Long, Complex Path Through SoCal's Tech Industry

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FTD also agreed to sell both its North American and Latin American businesses to private equity investor Nexus Capital Management , in a move that includes San Diego-based Proflowers. In long, complicated path that wound through Southern California's high tech industry, flower delivery network operator FTD has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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Blackstone Expands Student Entrepreneurship Program To SoCal

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Private equity investment firm Blackstone said Friday that it is expanding its university entrepreneurship program, Blackstone LaunchPad , to Southern California. According to the BLackstone Charitable Foundation, it believes its efforts have the potential to generate some 1,400 new ventures in California over the next five years.

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2008 BIOCOM Investor Conference

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Sunday, October 26, 2008 -- 2008 BIOCOM Investor Conference. Highlighting investment opportunities, over 60 of these leading life science companies will present to principal institutional and private equity investors. See [link] (more).

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Welltok, Backed By Trio Of Socal Investors, Buys Mindbloom

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billion deal in 2008. TriZetto was later moved to Colorado by its new private equity owners. Welltok''s CEO, Jeff Margolis, founded health management firm TriZetto in Orange County, and later sold TriZetto to Apax Partners in a huge, $1.4 READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Investments Totals Around $700M In Q1

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According to numbers derived from socalTECH's venture database, there was $717.96M invested in Southern California in the first quarter, up from only $465M in Q4 of 2008. However, venture funding totals were still well off the first quarter of 2008's nearly $1.2 billion in funding. billion in funding.

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Orange County Private Equity

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 -- Orange County Private Equity - Alive and Thriving During Turbulent Times! Hear from Orange County's leading private equity players. Learn how the current market turmoil is affecting the lending markets, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investments. Orange County Venture Group.

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The Return of the Public Equity Markets

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 -- The Return of the Public Equity Markets. Are the public equity markets back? The credit crisis of 2008 and the default of major investment banks caused the IPO window to all but close. market has experienced one of the most difficult economic periods since the Great Depression.

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