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AUGUST 10, 2016

The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Of the list of 50 startups, both San Diego's ServiceNow and fellow San Diego firm Active Network has IPOs last year, out of only a total of six IPO exits from the WSJ's list. The number of IPOs of companies on the Journal's list from 2011 from Southern California matched the number of IPOs of Silicon Valley companies.

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APRIL 3, 2017

The SoCal Startup Outlook compared the responses of entrepeneurs from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, versus the views of a total of nearly 950 entrepreneurs across the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

SoCal tech and life science companies are scaling faster than at any point in history. But its even better news for the regional SoCal innovation ecosystem. 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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JULY 22, 2010

Those firms include Pasadena-based Genmark Diagnostics , Westlake Village-based Inphi , San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics , City of Industry-based NewEgg , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan.

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JULY 12, 2011

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to Phunware, the acquisition will add offices in San Francisco, Sherman Oaks, and San Diego. Phunware is venture backed by Frontera Group, Siemer Ventures and Stonnington Group -- all SoCal investors. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Southern California's tech industry appears to be seeing a bit of a mini IPO boom, with the latest IPO being San Diego's Airgain, which had its IPO on August 21st; another IPO filing, by Temple City-based Fulgent Genetics earlier this week; and a report that Venice-based Snapchat is out hiring an IPO banker.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Among the biggest winners of the IPO of Zynga is San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , which owned 32,169,401 shares of Zynga before the IPO, a stake which was worth $321M based on Zynga's opening price this morning. Zynga looks to be among the most visible exits from that firm's portfolio yet.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

According to the latest S-1 filing for Clovis, two of its major investors are based in Southern California, including San Diego-based Domain Associates , which owns 18.5 Clovis has applied to trade on the NASDAQ Global Market as CLVS. percent of the firm, and Newport Beach-based Versant Ventures , which owns 7.8 percent of the company.

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JUNE 1, 2016

ServiceNow , the developer of enterprise IT and business operations software which has major offices in San Diego, said Wednesday morning that it has agreed to acquire BrightPoint Security , a developer of security software. Financial details of the cash acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2012

San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , one of the venture capital investors in social gaming phenomenon Zynga , may be set to cash in on its shares of the newly public gaming firm, after Zynga said this week that it is planning a $400M, secondary offering of its stock. Zynga went public in December. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

This is the "got to get an invitation" event for what is shaping up to be a MOBILE Industry week in San Diego. Who will be there: Developers, Publishers, Executives and Investors that focus on the mobile market from San Diego and abroad. See [link].

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

But before you think of moving out of SoCal, our 19th deal also closed in 2016, and this was a growth equity investment in Brentwood based Docupace Technologies. Jeb Spencer: Although I spend all my time in software, I am completely enamored with the work that is being done at San Diego based genetic research firm Illumina.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- How To Sell Your Business: The Process Of An Acquisition. Paul Johnson, a partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves and Savitch, one of San Diego's largest law offices, gives insight and training on the process of sophisticated merger and acquisition negotiations.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north. There are a lot of misconceptions about SoCal and it’s time we set them straight. MYTH 1: SoCal’s nothing but beaches, Housewives, and Mickey Mouse.

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MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Downtown San Diego Condos. Network for professionals engaged in the acquisition, disposition, operation, development, leasing, brokerage, project management, tenant representation, and asset management of office, retail, land, industrial, and multi-family properties. NC Mountain Golf Living. Sothebys International Realty.

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