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JANUARY 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture capital Association MoneyTree survey, which is based on data from Thomson Reuters, tallies $738.34M invested in Southern California in Q4 of 2011. Los Angeles had $226.75M invested in companies. The biggest Los Angeles deal was a funding for SolarReserve , for $27.0M.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Los Angeles is one of ten cities where residents can start ordering restaurant and food delivery via Uber , the company said this week, as it expands into the restaurant and food delivery area. The move is part of a rush to offer restaurant delivery services nationwide by on-demand companies. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

The Tech Coast Angels said today that it has totalled up its investments for the first half of 2012, and found that it invested $4,571,000 in direct investments--as part of $10M in funding--for 17 companies. The group said that investments were fairly consistent compared with the same period in 2011, when it invested $4.4M

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Maverick Angels , an angel investment group investing in Southern California companies, said today that it has named Patrick Henry as its newly elected Southern California Chapter President. Barber had served as Southern California Chapter President from February 2010 through July 2011.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group says it has completed its acquisition of Los Angeles-based Cornerstone OnDemand, the provider of talent management software, in a deal which was worth $5.2 Cornerstone OnDemand had been public since 2011, when it had its IPO. per share in cash.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition of Business.com is just the latest saga in the business and domain name; the.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu is set to earn half a billion dollars in revenue this year, according to an update from CEO Jason Kilar posted last night on its company blog.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 -- DIGIDAY:ON MEDIA: February 23, 2011: Where THE digital media moguls caucus on the business of buying and planning and advertising across digital platforms. Join us for this one of a kind meeting of the digital media moguls in Los Angeles. 100 discount for socalTECH readers use code SCTECH.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 -- Venture Capital in Southern California: Catching Up and Going Beyond. Our panelists will discuss the state of VC in Los Angeles, Orange Country, San Diego, and elsewhere. Our panelists will discuss the state of VC in Los Angeles, Orange Country, San Diego, and elsewhere. See [link] (more)

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JULY 10, 2012

EMG apparently has similar lawsuits against such companies as Apple, Radio Shack, and Chrysler, and reached a settlement with Apple in January of 2011 in that suit. The firm is seeking monetary damages and a permanent injunction against Google for distributing its Chrome Mole Browser in the United States. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Kevin Jacques , a former Los Angeles venture capitalist who was at Palomar Ventures, has surfaced as the head of Visa Ventures , the venture arm of Visa. Jacques had been a venture capitalists in Los Angeles from 2006 until 2011, when he joined Intuit in Mountain View.

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MARCH 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based Water Planet , which develops water treatment membrane technology originally developed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), revealed today that its seed investor is none other than actor Kevin Costner. Water Planet's CEO and founder is Erik Hoek, who was a Professor of Engineering at UCLA.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Los Angeles-based new home builder KB Home says it has now topped over 11,000 solar-powered homes, since it started offering up solar power options toits customerss. The company says it built its first "all-solar community" in 2011.

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APRIL 7, 2017

have dropped to the lowest rate of activity since Q4 of 2011, as venture capital investors continue to be shy about investing in startups, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report. The NVCA said that is the fewest companies to receive investment since Q4 of 2011. Venture capital investments in the U.S.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

The remarkably long lived Napster brand--which was founded during the Dot Com boom as a peer-to-peer music swapping startup in Los Angeles in 1999--continues on, and has been sold to virtual reality experience company MelodyVR , in a deal worth $70M.

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APRIL 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, The National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters have tallied up just under a billion dollars in venture capital investments in the Southern California region in Q1 of this year, a very significant uptick from Q2 of 2011. was invested in the region.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , the nonprofit which manages and operates competitions intended to spur significant advances in technology, says it has rolled out a new, $1 million award, which it calls the Moonshot Award. SpaceIL originally began development of its lunar lander as part of the Google Lunar XPRIZE effort. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based Digital Fuel , a provider of IT business management software, has been acquired by Apptio , the two companies announced Friday. 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.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global has named three new execuives, the company said Monday afternoon. Fortuna has been at Ziff Davis since 2011, and also served at Vindico, Quigo, and Pseudo. Singh has been at j2 since 2013, and prior to that was at SingerLewak LLP.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Los Angeles-based mitu , which is developing a digital media brand specifically focused on Latino millennials, has snagged Herb Scannell, the former President of Nickelodeon, as its new CEO. Scannell was also previously co-founder and CEO of Next New Networks (sold to YouTube in 2011) and was President of BBC Worldwide North America.

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MAY 29, 2018

Los Angeles-based Surkus , a developer of a platform to help connect people with local events, has raised $10M in a Series B funding, according to the comapny. Surkus is led by CEO Stephen George, who the company said started his career at Groupon, and headed operations through its IPO in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2016

Two, Los Angeles area investors--venture investment firm Greycroft Pratners , and angel investor Paige Craig --are among the investors seeing an exit today, as Adobe said acquired blog commenting tools maker LiveFyre. Paige Craig--as well as a number of other angels--originally seeded LiveFyre back in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

has released its latest report on the state of the Los Angeles technology scene, saying that the city had a "landmark year". pointed at all of the companies in Los Angeles that came out of the demise of MySpace, and argues that the growth of Snap is about to trigger another wave of startups in the market. In the report, Amplify.LA

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Scopely has raised a $200M, Series D funding, which it says it will use for acquisitions, the company announed early this morning. The company was founded in 2011, and has now raised over $487M in total funding since founding. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based Stage 32 thinks so--and so far, has 325,000 members for its online social networking site, which it says ties together film, television, and theater creatives. According to the site, it has been around since 2011, and can be described as "Lynda meets Linkedin" for creatives.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of marketing analytics software led by Wes Nichols, has bolstered its advisory team, saying today that it has added Ross Levinsohn, Tom Davenport, and Pat LaPointe to its advisory board. Levinsohn is the best known of the three, having most recently been interim CEO at Yahoo!, READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2016

Netflix , the television and movie-streaming service which has significant operations in Los Angeles, and The CW Network said last night that they are in a new, multi-year content licensing relationship. The two have been in a licensing deal over content since 2011. Financial details of the new licensing deal were not announced.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding service run by serial entrepeneur Howard Marks, has chalked up 25 companies raising money on its platform since the start of 2017, according to the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based online event promotion service Planana , the startup founded by Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao, said Thursday that the company has been accepted to the DreamIt Ventures Winter 2013 class in Austin, Texas. The startup said that it will be demonstrating its products at SXSW at March 8th, at the conclusion of the program.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project priced its IPO last night, saying that it is selling 6,770,995 shares of its common stock at $15.00 The IPO is the first, technology IPO out of Los Angeles since 2011. Rubicon Project will begin trading this morning, on the New York Stock Exchange as RUBI.

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APRIL 29, 2013

Los Angeles-based Hulu has added two soap operas, All My Children and One Life to Live to its lineup, saying this morning that it will be adding new episodes of those shows on both Hulu and Hulu Plus, starting today. READ MORE>>. hulu content hollywood allmychildren opera soap onelifetolive'

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APRIL 17, 2013

A report Wednesday afternoon says that Los Angeles-based streaming media site Hulu has hired investment banking firm Guggenheim Partners, to advise the firm on a sale. Guggenheim is the same firm that attempted to sell Hulu in 2011.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based private equity investors Gores Group and Platinum Equity said this morning that they have backed Data Blue , an Atlanta provider of storage, backup and server virtualization and consolidation solutions for the enterprise market. Data Blue was founded in 2011. Size of the investment was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said Thursday afternoon that the company brought in approximately $420M in revenues in 2011, up 60 percent from 2010, and now has more than 1.5 Kilar disclosed the numbers in a blog post summarizing the firm's 2011. million paying subscribers to Hulu Plus.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Los Angeles-based Launchpad LA , the business mentoring and acceleration program which has been spearheaded by Mark Suster and Adam Lilling, looks to be gearing up for its third class. According to the group's web site, it will kick off the next class in November 2011, and continue until early spring 2012.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Los Angeles-based Ring , the developer of connected doorbells, security cameras, and other similar devices, has raised $109M in a big financing round, to help fund global growth. Siminoff's last successful venture was Unsubscribe.com, which he sold to TrustedID in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Ridesharing app SideCar is the latest, peer-to-peer, smartphone-driven, ridesharing app to debut in Los Angeles, letting people find drivers willing to give them a ride around the city. Need a lift, but don't have a car?

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