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JANUARY 10, 2011

Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. We've been the beneficiary of that in at least a few instances. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2012

La Jolla-based Ortiva Wireless , a developer of wireless video optimization and streaming hardware and software, has been acquired by Allot Communications Ltd. , a provider of products for the fixed and mobile data network market, Allot announced this morning. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Mission Ventures Acquisition Mobile Networking 145

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

San Diego-based cloud storage firm Nirvanix is further bolstering its focus on enterprise customers, saying today that it has partnered with enterprise storage software provider CommVault. Nirvanix said CommVault customers can select the firm's Storage Delivery Network (SDN) product via a drop-down selection within the Simpana software.

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Windward Mission Ventures San Diego Networking 140

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APRIL 6, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix , which operates a cloud-based storage service used for storing data over the Internet, said today that it has partnered with Ocarina, a provider of data reduction software. Nirvanix is backed by Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund.

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Windward Mission Ventures San Diego Software 100

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Irvine-based location-based services (LBS) firm Networks in Motion said this week that it has hired on a new Vice President of Engineering at the firm. NIM said tha Hakam was senior director of product engineering at Kyocera, managing its global software engineering team. Networks In Motion said that M. READ MORE>>

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Networking Redpoint Mission Ventures Software Engineering 100

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M provider of celebrity endorsement services, with $21.6M The other large sector for investments was Software, with $54.8M raised, and Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , a.

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JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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