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JUNE 10, 2014

All of the various units provide targeting and advertising services and technology to customers. Shopzilla is owned by private equity company Symphony Technology Group. connexity shopzilla bizrate rename businss unit advertising' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 9, 2019

Hedges is a longtime Southern California technology veteran, who was most recently President and CEO of Velocify. MomentFeed is venture backed by Level Equity, Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus and DFJ Frontier. Hedges served in that position until its recent acquisition by Ellie Mae.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The IPO filing by Rubicon Project is not only notable for one of Southern California''s''s fast growing Internet advertising companies: it looks to be the the first IPO filing by a venture-backed, technology startup since 2012. The question now: which other, big local technology startups are likely to follow Rubicon Project to market?

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MAY 11, 2016

Ventura, California-based The Trade Desk , the advertising technology developer led by Jeff Green, has raised $125M in a credit facility, according to the company. The new debt funding comes on top of $60M in equity raised from Wellington Management Company earlier this year. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Internet advertising technology developer Social Reality announced late Friday that it has named Derek J. Morgan Securities, Thoma Cressey Equity Partners and Wynnchurch Capital. Ferguson to its board of directors. Ferguson has previously served at Victory Park Capital Advisors LLC, Maxim Partners, J.P.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based digital advertising technology developer Social Reality said this morning that it has raised $25M, and acquired display and mobile ad company Steel Media. Terms of the Steel Media acquisition were not disclosed, however, the company said Steel Media expected $10M in 2014 revenues.

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JULY 17, 2013

Shopzilla said Aisle A will offer up display advertising across both its own shopping site (Beso, Bizrate, Shopzilla) as well as from premium partners. Shopzilla is owned by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group. shopzilla comparison shopping advertising display europe' READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 25, 2022

By ensuring their value isn't bloated, the company will net its employees better equity over time. “We are confident in the strength of our business, but we are not immune to the market turbulence that has impacted leading technology companies both public and private,” Instacart said in a statement. .

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Rubicon Project , the online advertising technology firm headed by serial entrepreneur Frank Addante, looks like it may just be the next Southern California company to file for an IPO, based on a number of executive appointments made Tuesday.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 2 million equity round.

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APRIL 12, 2017

With all the hand wringing in the tech industry over gender balance and equity, here's one company that apparently has no issue: LA-based Evite , the online invitations service. According to Evite, women currently make up 59 percent of its total employees, and 52 percent of its senior leadership roles, which includes its technical positions.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Convetro , the online advertising targeting and optimization technology developer headed by serial entrepreneur Jeff Zwelling, has raised $5M in a Series B funding round, the company said this morning. The firm said the funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners and DAG Ventures, and will go towards sales and marketing.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX said late Monday evening that the company has reached $140M in revenues, which it says is a record. The privately held company--which has not previously reported its revenue number publicly--said it doubled its revenue and tripled its profits in the last two years.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 8, 2019

GumGum , the Los Angeles-based startup that’s spent the past decade applying machine learning technologies to advertising and sports, has spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental industry called Pearl. “I started the process of collecting dental x-rays over three years ago.”

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Convertro is trying to better track conversions and visitors, and attribute those to different online advertising and outreach. Zwelling is a serial entrepreneur, who has a number of very successful companies under his belt, including YLighting (acquired by a private equity firm) and EchoSign (acuqired by Adobe). READ MORE>>.

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MAY 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm backed by Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity Fund, announced this morning that it has acquired SiteScout , a Seattle-based firm providing malware security technology. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Those local funds are on top of a massive injection of funding from out of area venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, and strategic investors. Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

Select NikePlus members received an initial push notification of the Stash drop and a card in the SNKRS feed also advertised the special stash drop, in addition to a notification that flashed onscreen between the (amazing) SchoolboyQ set and SZA’s (equally amazing) performance. ”

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MARCH 22, 2011

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , the provider of social advertising software and technology, announced today that it has raised $20M in additional equity funding. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures, Jafco Ventures, and Pinacle Ventures. SocialVibe is headed by Jay Samit.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm backed by Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity, said today that it has enhanced its "Certified Inventory" program with a partnership with AdSafe Media. Tags: rubicon project online advertising invenstory adsafe. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The firm said along with the announcement that it will be adding ad serving, forecasting, and other functionality to its system in 2010, and that it is taking an aim at current provider of ad server technology. Tags: rubicon project merger acquisition investment banker advertising software technology server. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Louis and Atlanta.

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MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Louis and Atlanta.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Clerke (a San Diego Xconomist) was previously the CEO of Sunnyvale, CA-based NetSeer, an adtech acquired in February by Inuvo (NYSE: INUV , an advertising technology and digital publishing company based in Little Rock, AR. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. There was no monetary reward for those who participated (and Startup Boost does not take fees or equity from the companies that we help).

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MARCH 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project announced this morning that it has hired three new executives. Rubicon Project is headed by Frank Addante, and develops ad optimization technology for web publishers, helping them to pick the best ad networks to optimize revenue on their web site. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? What our technology does, is it offers up an exit ad unit, so if a user hasn''t booked on a publisher they have look at, that ad unit will show relevant ads. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 Kevin O'Connor: I've been really fortunate in life, in that I love technology, and love solving problems. I've been a tinkerer all my life. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers. Even with quality publishers and advertisers, there's still a lag in payment timing between the advertisers and publishers of anywhere from 90 to 120 days. But, we have a non-equity dilutive product, and we accelerate cash flow.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Scott Cannon , the CEO of BigRentz (www.bigrentz.com), which is creating an online marketplace for big equipment--an industry known notoriously as not adopting new technology. They've been resistant to technology for a long time. We sold that to a very large private equity company.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? I helped to grow that to a major player in ecommerce and online advertising, which is used to find and buy chips use in your iPhone, in your computer, and everything else today. Where did all of that technology come from? That''s the unique nature of this technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

It takes a huge upfront investment to attract users, before advertisers are interested. Even non-profits need money to scale, but their pitch should be to philanthropists, not equity investors. Terms “paradigm shift” or “disruptive technology” used more than once. Facebook spent over $100 million to kickstart the process.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We discuss the serendipitous circumstances that brought the founding team together (one of the most unique founder stories I’ve heard to date) and move to topics surrounding the future of digital advertising. Focus on Value, Not Advertising. Instead of advertising, their large, colorful screens are a direct result of these core values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Startup pivot.

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