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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition was supported by private equity investor Trive Capital. According to the companies, the acquisition is the fifth transaction Trive has completed in the last 12 months to create Karman. Tony Koblinski is the CEO of Karman Systems.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The companies said that FCS Express will continue to be available as a standalone product, as well as have integrations with the Insightful Science platform. Insightful Science is privately held, and is a portfolio company of private equity investor Insight Partners. Insightful Science is led by CEO Thomas Swalla.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Venice, California-based StackCommerce, which develops a white-label marketplace which is used by publishers and brands to help connect people with products, has been acquired by Integrated Media Company (IMC), itself owned by private equity investor TPG. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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MAY 6, 2021

Advicent was backed by Vista Equity. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. InvestCloud said it will integrate its cash flow, trust and tax financial planning engines with InvestCloud's digital client and advisor platform and existing goal-based financial planning engines.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

The Series G round was led by Permira and also included JMI Equity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, Ameriprise, and funds and accounts advised by T. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced. Rowe Price, according to the company. Seismic has now raised $440M in total funding.

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APRIL 10, 2019

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. BVAccel is majority owned by private equity investor August Spark. According to BVAccel, the acquisition will help it expand and strengthen its e-commerce service offerings. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Santa Monica-based Songtradr , which offers up an online music licensing platform, said on Tuesday that it has acquired Big Sync Music Ltd. , Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Songtradr said the acquisition was a "multi-million dollar" casn and equity transaction. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 29, 2021

According to SOCi, the deal will add additional functionality to its platform. SOCi is led by CEO Afif Khoury, and is backed by JMI Equity. The company recently raised $80 From JMI Equity. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Symplr, the enterprise healthcare software company owned by Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group, said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Halo Health, a provider of clinical communication and collaboration software. Financial details of the transaction were not announced.

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APRIL 30, 2019

San Diego-based Quality Built , a provider of third-party, quality-assurance services to the residential and commercial construction industry, has received a private equity investment from Los Angeles-based Gallant Capital Partners. Size of the investment was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 17, 2019

Los Angeles-based Criteria Corp , a developer of a software-as-a-service employment analytics and pre-employment testing platform, said today that it has raised $56M in a strategic investment round, from private equity investor Sumeru Equity Partners. According to Criteria Corp.,

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

San Diego-based Bevo Media , an online ad exchange and ad tracking platform developer, has been acquired by private equity investor Vize Capital. Bevo Media was founded in 2010, and plays in the performance marketing area.

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APRIL 20, 2015

Santa Monica-based Switching Concepts , a provider of turnkey telecom switching platforms, aimed at helping startup and existing telecommunications providers, has been acquired by X5 Solutions. X5 Solutions is based in Seattle, and is owned by private equity investor NewSpring Capital. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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MAY 14, 2019

Rancho Santa Margarita-based Virtium , a developer of ruggedized, industrial, embedded solid state drives and memory, has been sold to private equity investor Court Square Capital Partners , by its existing private equity owner, L Square Capital Partners. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2014

AOL said the deal will help to bolster its programmatic advertising platforms. Founder and CEO Zwelling has a number of other successes already under his belt, including founding EchoSign (which he sold to Adobe) and YLighting (sold to a private equity firm). convertro merger acquisition online advertising attribution jeff zwelling'

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Foothill Ranch-based LoanDepot, a developer of a technology platform to automate and originate mortgage loans, has raised $54M in an IPO on the NYSE. LoanDepot was private equity backed by Parthenon Capital Partners. The company sold 3.9 million shares of its stock at $14.00 per share, below its estimated IPO pricing of 15.1M

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

There’s no word on whether the new money is in equity or debt, but what is certain is that JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and syndicate partners including Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank and CIT Bank are all involved in the deal. “In New Harry Potter game, launching today, lets players enroll in Hogwarts.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. In 2018, many of them sold their companies or raised massive equity rounds. If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Financial details of the all equity deal were not announced. Adgero is a developer of late stage photodynamic therapy platform for the treatment of serious cutaneous oncology indications. San Diego-based DelMar Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has acquired Adgero Pharmaceuticals.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

In another boost to the reputation of Los Angeles for financial technology startups, Common Assets LLC , a financial technology startup focused on investment platforms for individual investment in solar power technology, has been acquired by SolarCity. Common Asset was backed by Los Angeles private equity investor U.S. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced htis morning that it is buying Syncsort , a new Jersey-based developer of big data, data migration, and other tools. Financial terms of the acquisition were not anounced by the companies.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Resolve Systems said the deal will help it create a unified platform which combines artificial intelligence with automation. Resolve is majority owned by private equity investor Insight Partners. Resolve said it paid $24M to acquire FixStream, in a deal which is expected to close at the end of September. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Startup funding comes from personal savings and family.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. billion of purchases made through the Klarna platform. With this round, the company is again giving 1% of the equity raised back to the planet.

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MARCH 6, 2013

The new features are an outgrowth of the evolution of CapLinked from providing its services to startups and venture capital firm, to large clients like Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital Partners, AI Verified, NextView Ventures, and Equity partners CRB. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Viant's major shareholders are executive Tim Vanderhook, Chris Vanderhook, and Larry Madden, along with two entities, Four Brothers 2 LLC and Viant Technology Equity Plan LLC.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . As Amex scoops up Resy, a look at its acquisition history . If you enjoy this newsletter, be sure to check out TechCrunch’s venture-focused podcast, Equity. Automattic acquires subscription payment company Prospress. Fundraising.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian talked to us about the rewards and challenges of being an entrepreneur, plus how important it is to manage lifetime value (LTV) of a customer versus customer acquisition cost (CAC) in making a successful company. (We Ian Chen: In my previous life, I was working in private equity in LA. What is Discotech?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to Rubicon, Allen & Company will work with the company to "exploring options for ongoing business growth initiatives" including strategic acquisitions, platform expanson, and continued international growth. Tags: rubicon project merger acquisition investment banker advertising software technology server.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a letter to partners, LeisureLink said all employees of LeisureLink are being terminated and the platform turned off, after its management was unable to raise additional equity to fund the company.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.

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MARCH 1, 2017

They're acquisitive, have cashed up, and lots of them are now looking at repatriating money to the US. That's the Unilver acquisition of Dollar Shave, the GE acquisition of ServiceMax. That's the Unilver acquisition of Dollar Shave, the GE acquisition of ServiceMax. The third area, are the private equity players.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Platform G / Mindjolt. Platform G bought Facebook gaming firm MindJolt in March, and DeWolfe is not the only MySpace vet at the firm. It's unclear if Platform G has any other acquisitions or projects up its sleeve.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2013

With the E3 Expo wrapping up, SGN announced early this morning the acquisition of Mob Science further expanding its game portfolio and development team. SGN is the priemere cross-platform mobile game developer founded by MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe, delivering highly entertaining and engaging titles to millions of users around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Startup funding comes from personal savings and family.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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