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Winc was founded in 2011. The IPO was being underwritten by BofA Securities, Canaccord Genuity, Craig-Hallum Capital Group, and Roth Capital. Winc had filed to raised $75M in an IPO, selling 5 million shares at between $14.00 and $16.00 Winc had filed to list on the NYSE as WBEV.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has scored a quick exit at Redwood City-based Mertado , after Mertado said Friday that it has been acquired by daily deals site Groupon. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, however, the acquisition comes only four months after Mertado raised $2.3M

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Qualcomm said the deal includes all of Omnitracs'' operations in the United States, Canada and Latin America, and also includes Sylectus and FleetRisk Advisors, which Omnitracs acquire in 2011. Qualcomm was advised by Barclays Capital in the deal. qualcomm omnitracs merger acquisition vista equity partners private spinout'

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MAY 19, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has scored an exit this morning, at bring-your-own-device (BYOD) software developer Divide. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. seed investment in Divide back in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2013

FastSpring , the fast growing Santa Barbara-based e-commerce payment services provider headed by Dan Engel, said today it has scored a funding round from Pylon Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. acquisition merger capital venture pylon fastspring' Size of the funding round was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Digital Fuel had been owned by private equity investor Skyview Capital. Digital Fuel had been founded in 2000, and was acquired by VMware in 2011; Digital Fuel was then acquired by Skyview Capital in 2016. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Apptio is based in Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2012

Total merger and acquisition deal volume in 2011 increased 24% from 2010, with over 16,000 transactions aggregating to $1.1 Multiples for middle market companies remained relatively strong in 2011, at an average of 8.2x Wednesday, April 4, 2012 -- ACG 101's Annual MandA Update. trillion in value.

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MAY 3, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Greycroft, which is very active in Los Angeles, took the lead on LiveFyre's Series B funding in 2011. Paige Craig--as well as a number of other angels--originally seeded LiveFyre back in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

When a group of scientists from Amira Pharmaceuticals wanted to start a new biotech after the company’s 2011 acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb , Celgene provided seed funding.

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MAY 20, 2019

Grey, who was president and CEO of Lumuna from 2011 through its 2014 acquisition by Irish drugmaker Shire (now part of Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The company said the new funds will go towards growth, financing acquisitions, and international expansion. Acording to OpenX, it more than doubled its team in 2012 to 260 employees, and saw greater than 100 percent year-over-year growth in both 2011 and 2012. Global Investment, Inc., and Presidio Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Kurion--which rose to prominence after being tapped to clean up radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in Japan in 2011--was venture backed by Firelake Capital, Lux Capital, and Acadia Woods Partners, and raised somewhat less than $5M in total funding. Kurion was a spinout of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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JUNE 3, 2016

The IPO is being underwritten by RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Piper Jaffray,Needham & Company, and Cannacord Genuity. The IPO is a second try for Impinj; the company had tried for an IPO back in 2011-2012, but later withdrew those plans. The company has applied to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as PI.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

But before you jump on the bandwagon, you should consider the advice I saw recently from the maven of venture capital, William H. Being thinly capitalized doesn’t necessarily mean you need a big cash infusion. Do you need the IPO for your acquisitions strategy? Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.”

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MAY 11, 2012

The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, William Blair, and Montgomery & Co. for its year ended December 31, 2011. The firm is venture backed by Polaris Venture Partners (35.1 percent ownership), Insitutional Venture Partners (14.7 READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Los Angeles-based investment firm Vicente Capital Partners said today that it has sold Vermont Composites , a manufacturer of composite aerostructures and advanced composite medical equipment, to Kaman Aerospace Group. Vermont Composites was part of Vicente Capital Partners' prior fund, Kline Hawkes Pacific LP. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The firms said that Riot Games will continue to maintain its headquarters in Los Angeles, and has plans to "hire aggressively" in 2011. Riot Games develops the game "League of Legends" and was venture backed by Tencent, Benchmark Capital, and Firstmark Capital. The firm had raised less than $20M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Astria/MicroProbe was venture backed by Flywheel Ventures, Gemini Investors, and Intel Capital. in revenue in its fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, and has approximately 360 employees worldwide. FormFactor said it paid $100M in cash and $16.8M in stock for Astria Semiconductor Holdings Inc, the parent company of MicroProbe.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. venture capital exits in. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. Virgin Galactic Gets FAA Launch Permit - In May, Virgin Galactic was. numbers should be released in the next week for 2012.

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APRIL 25, 2011

The company expects Greystripe to add $24 to $26M in revenues for the remainder of 2011. Greystripe was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Monitor Ventures, Peacock Equity, and Incubic Venture Capital, and was based in San Francisco. Greystripe was advised by Montgomery & Co. in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 17, 2012

Leerink Swann, and Lazard Capital Markets. on license income of $12.98M in 2011. The firm's offering is being underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kythera is venture backed by Versant Ventures, ARCH Ventures, Prospect Venture Partners, JAFCO, Fidelity, among others. The firm reported a net loss of $11.1M

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MAY 9, 2011

for the three months ended March 26, 2011. Pacific Crest Securities , and RBC Capital Market. San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , the developer of CMOS RF integrated circuits, updated its S-1 filings Friday, saying that it had a net loss of $1.0M on revenues of $21.2M That compares with net income of $1.0M on revenues of $22.9M

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JULY 26, 2012

ARCH Venture Partners, GF Private Equity Group, Intel Corporation, Madrona Venture Group, Mobius Venture Capital and Polaris Venture Partners. The firm had filed for an IPO in April 2011. Impinj said the funding came from AllianceBernstein L.P., Impinj is based in Seattle, but also has an engineering office in Rancho Cordova.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital. I made some reference calls. They were effusive. He was stubborn.

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MARCH 31, 2012

ServiceNow is venture backed by JMI Equity and Sequoia Capital. on revenues of $73.375M for the year ended December 31, 2011. The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit SUisse, UBS Investment Bank, Pacific Crest Securities, and Wells Fargo Securities. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

The firm, which had filed for a $100M IPO in August of 2011, said in a withdrawal of its registration, that it has determined not to proceed with its IPO, "in light of current market conditions." San Diego-based renewable chemicals developer Genomatica has dropped its IPO plans, according to a regulatory filing by the company this morning.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. Losses in over-capitalized “vintage years” over the last two decades have left institutional investors (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What have been your experiences in the past 6 months?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

billion in 2011 in its S-1, which is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, J.P. BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, and Allen & Company. Facebook filed for its IPO Wednesday afternoon, saying that it is looking to raise up to $5 billion, in what is expected to be the biggest IPO since Google. Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co.,

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 11, 2011

Company Name RadiumOne Information Release Date 3/10/2011 Transaction Type Venture Equity Amount $21,000,000 Round Series B Proceeds Purpose The Company, which reached profitability in Q4, will use its existing and new capital for potential acquisitions designed to give the company additional resources and tools to effectively scale.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

We've got less infrastructure, and we're not having to pay hundreds of dollars for consumer acquisition. You earn 10Mb in free data for each person you connect to on the platform, which brings down our acquisition costs. In our Series A, we also took some funding from Dall Capital Partners, and they know telco very well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

He founded Alpha Origins in 2011. Although 75% of VC funds in Spain come from abroad, the government has decided to punish capital outflows. It considers as capital gain the difference between the acquisition value of the shares or stock owned by the taxpayer and the market value of the shares at the moment the border is crossed.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Raising capital isn’t the be all and end all of startup success. Raising capital is a necessary step, and survival time without it grows short, or interminably long. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state.

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