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AUGUST 7, 2012

The two said that LeisureLink's independent vacation and hotel properties will be available via Groupize, giving users of that service access to over 1,000 independent vacation rentals, timeshares, villas, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S. Details of the partnership between the two companies was not announced.

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MAY 1, 2012

Allot said it will integrate Ortiva's technology into its Allot Service Gateway product. The company said that the acquisition will be accretive on a quarterly basis by the end of 2012, contributing between $3.0 in revenues for the second half of 2012.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , a provider of distribution services for specialty lodging and vacation rentals, announced today that it has raised $9M in a Series C funding round. The round came from current investors, including Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, and Wyndham Exchange & Rentals.

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JUNE 1, 2012

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , the venture-backed provider of a vacation rental marketing system and operator of online booking travel site ABetterStay.com , has made a trio of new hires this week. The company said it has named Tom Lamb as President of the firm, Alex Hansen as CFO, and Adam Michaelson as Chief Marketing Officer.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Lake Forest-based Nexiant , the developer of software-as-a-service for materials management (MRO), said this morning that it is planning a major software release. The company said deployments will begin in early 2012. The entire software will deploy on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the provider of cloud storage services, said today that it has raised another $10M in a funding, and appointed a new CEO. The firm said the new round is a Series B, and comes from investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partnes, and Windward Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides software-as-a-service for video hosting, has raised $2.0M Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. The funding brings the company's total raised to around $23.50M. Tags: vmix saas video hosting venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

VentureWire said it confirmed the departure of Dennis Mudd with an investor in the company. Slacker is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. The firm has raised around $70M in funding.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

The funding is part of a round kicked off in May by the company, which is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. No new investors were listed in the funding, and the firm has not announced any details on its fund raising efforts.

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APRIL 1, 2009

San Diego-based Slacker , a venture-backed, personalized online radio service, told its users this morning that it has launched a new feature which adds complete lyrics to the firm's services. According to Slacker, its premium Slacker Radio Plus service now includes access to the exact words to users' favorite songs.

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APRIL 15, 2009

According to the firm, the new round came from original investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures. According to Nirvanix, the funding brings the company's total raised to over $23M. The firm said the funding would go towards expanding its enterprise service offerings.

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MARCH 25, 2009

in a first tranche of additional funding for the travel firm, the company disclosed today. LeisureLink, which provides a distribution and booking service for specialty lodging, said the round was led by Mission Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners, and also included participation from its other insiders.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

San Diego-based Internet radio firm Slacker has shipped a BlackBerry Storm version of the company's Internet radio services, the firm said today. The new application--which the firm said is available for free--comes just a few weeks after the company rolled out an iPhone version of its services. READ MORE>>.

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Mission Ventures San Diego Content Networking 100

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Pasadena-based LeisureLink has signed on a loyalty and incentive company, Destination Rewards, as part of its travel services, the firm said earlier this week. LeisureLink's vacation property service markets vacation rentals, timeshares and other properties through online travel sites and travel agents. READ MORE>>

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JANUARY 13, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix, which operates an online, storage-as-a-service which competes against Amazon's S3 storage service, has shuffled its CEOs, the firm said today, replacing CEO Patrick Harr with Jim Zierick. Zierick has also previously been at Peregrine Systems and McKinsey & Company.

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Windward S3 Mission Ventures SaaS 100

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

provider of celebrity endorsement services, with $21.6M raised by companies in the sector. Tags: venture capital southern california angeles orange county diego moneytree nvca. In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M in funding.

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MAY 19, 2009

San Diego-based cloud storage services provider Nirvanix reported Tuesday that it has hired Chris Russell as vice president of engineering. Nirvanix is a privately held company backed by more than $23 million in venture funding. Nirvanix said Russell hails from NextEngine, where he was vice president of technology. READ MORE>>.

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Windward Cloud Computing Chief Technology Officer Mission Ventures 100

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The conference, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, featured pitches by eight different companies vying for the attention--and pocketbooks--of venture capitalists. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists. READ MORE>>

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JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. Our clients are similarly distributed across industries ranging from banking to online services, to devices.

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MARCH 26, 2009

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. For those who haven't seen LeisureLink before, explain how your service works? We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. Let's talk about the new round. How long has this been in the works?

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I was the judge.

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