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JULY 3, 2017

Los Angeles-based YP.com , the provider online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online which has been remade by a number of technology executives into a provider of local business marketing and automation software, has been acquired by competing directory provider Dex Media. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

When big platforms have carved out large swaths of the delivery market, the best thing for an upstart company to do is to specialize. It’s a strategy that has now netted the company $33 million in financing led by the Silicon Valley-based investment firm Altos Ventures and New York’s Left Lane Capital.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

TubeMogul , a video advertising company which has offices in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Adobe in a deal worth $540M net of debt and cash. Adobe said that TubeMogul becomes part of its Digital Marketing business. According to Adobe, it will pay $14.00 per share for TubeMogul. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

When people talk today about buying food, alongside traditional grocery stores and other physical food markets, they increasingly talk about grocery delivery companies, restaurant delivery platforms, meal kit services and more that make or provide food to people by way of apps. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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JULY 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based Funraise , the Los Angeles startup which develops customer relationship management (CRM) and other technology for nonprofits, says it has created a new, $600,000 fund to provide grants to nonprofits. Application for its first round of grants are due by July 31st. Funraise is led by CEO Justin Wheeler.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 24, 2019

Postmates’ cooler-inspired autonomous delivery robot, which will roll out commercially in Los Angeles later this year, will rely on lidar sensors from Ouster, a burgeoning two-year-old startup that recently raised $60 million in equity and debt funding.

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JUNE 9, 2014

GoDaddy , the parent company of Los Angeles premium website hosting service Media Temple , has filed for an IPO--in the process, showing that the company paid $94.48M in cash for Media Temple. Morgan, Citigroup, Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, RBC Capital Markets, KKR Capital Markets, and Stifel. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 24, 2021

The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. It literally drove FOMO.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

Hoping to beat back the tide of bad contracts, bad code and bad actors, Sagewise , a new Los Angeles-based startup has raised $1.25 million to bring to market a service that basically hits pause on the execution of a contract so it can be arbitrated in the event that something goes wrong.

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MAY 29, 2013

Los Angeles-based telemedicine startup SnapMD , which is looking to allow doctors and other healthcare providers to help patients via the web, has tapped a local investor for its advisory board. Smith was a founding shareholder of Health Net, Qmedtrix and GreenDot Financial, and is currently Executive Vice President at Verisk Health.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , the operator of a global Wi-Fi hot spot network, has filed for an IPO, saying Friday afternoon that it is looking to raised up to $75M in an IPO. According to Boingo, it intends to apply to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as WIFI. The firm reported it had net income of $1.4M

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JUNE 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , the operator of a network of Wi-Fi access points, has reported its first quarterly results as a public company. The firm reported a net loss of $329,000, versus a net loss of $127,000 for Q1 last year. Boingo Wireless debuted on the market on May 3rd as WIFI on the Nasdaq Global Market.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Among the new features of the social promotion tool released by Los Angeles-based PromoJam earlier this week: a new link to demographic data from Esri in it analytics. That group has been focused on startups, investments, and acquisitions, including the recent buys of startups SpotOn, GeoIQ, and GeoLoqi.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based GameFly , which operates an online video game rental service, has filed for a $50M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market. The firm reported it had net income of $2.97M on revenues of $47.68M for the six months ended September 30, 2009. For its fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, it had net income of $4.0M

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi revealed Tuesday evening in Los Angeles the e-tron Sportback as the German automaker begins to chip away at its plan to launch more than 30 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2025. Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. in fall 2020.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the provider of 3D movie projection technology, has reported its quarterly results today, saying it had net revenues of $65.3M For the six months ending September 24th, the firm's first half fiscal 2011, the firm had net revenues of $129.8M, more than double the $64.2M in revenues. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

A new report released today by Next 10 , a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy group, says that Southern California--and California, as a whole--leads the green innovation, cleantech venture capital, and energy market. The report was compiled by research firm Colaborative Economics.

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JULY 15, 2010

RealD - Los Angeles- Michael Lewis, CEO [ profile ]. The firm is also one of Southern California's upcoming IPOs, expected to debut soon on the public markets. . GotCast - Los Angeles - Alec Shankman, CEO [ profile ]. Equipois - Los Angeles - Eric Golden , CEO [ profile ]. Seen a 3D movie lately?

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MAY 7, 2013

This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. There is no more Latino-only market.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families). University Endowments. Foundations.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA. His latest startup, Factual, is aimed at the data mashup and open data market.

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JUNE 8, 2014

TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. Indeed we have already seen the beginnings.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. You've had prior success, and you've been an angel investors in companies here.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

What is wonderful about this interview is that I got Tom on the record on: what angels look for and how they work? some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Angels will largely take a product risk (they bet on the product or idea and your ability to build it). “A”

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MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Who are your ideal customers and market?

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

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JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M How do you go to market--are you selling this directly to end users?

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MARCH 3, 2011

The firm is based in Los Angeles and Seattle. David Aronchick: When we first got started, although we had a number of connection through Fouad, I worked with my network in Los Angeles, and my network in Seattle, and we landed an angel investment split between both those Los Angeles and Seattle investors.

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JULY 6, 2016

People of Korean descent in Los Angeles are amongst the most entrepreneurial people I know — in technology but also in garments, fashion, food and so forth. After all, if people feel more of a safety net for trying and not succeeding more people are bound to try in the first place and more innovation is almost inevitable.

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MAY 27, 2011

Ever since the huge success of Monrovia-based Green Dot in its IPO last year, netting a huge return for local angels, investors here have taken a second look at financial startups. Jonathan Cooper: I had been in the financial area, and I had also been involved in advising middle market companies on strategy.

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JULY 21, 2014

One of Southern California''s big success stories -- from startup, to venture funding, and a recent IPO--is Los Angeles-based TrueCar , which had its IPO in May. But, net-net, being a public company is a threshold moment for use. It''s a one-size-fits-all-policy. To solve the problem, you have to break through.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

The Techstars Health Accelerator recently set up shop in Los Angeles with Cedars- Sinai�the second, Techstars powered startup accelerator in the city--in a move to help healthcare startups get to market quicker. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net. Those might be in categories that may not exist today.

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