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MARCH 19, 2010

Eucalpytus develops open source, cloud software used to manage cloud deployment, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. Mickos was CEO of MySQL for seven years, and headed up the firm until its acquisition by Sun Microsystems--for $1 billion--in 2008.

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Michael Jones , CEO of MySpace and former founder of Userplane, has another exit under his belt today, as AOL announced it has acquired Thing Labs , a San Francisco maker of web-based, social software. Thing Labs makes the Brizzly web-based software for sharing and discovering content. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The firm said the name change comes to "reflect the company's vision," and follows the recent merger of Marshal and 8e6 Technologies, as well as its acquisition of Avinti. Marshal and 8e6 merged in November of 2008; the merged firm acquired Avinti in April of this year.

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JULY 24, 2009

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The firm said the acquisition will offer its clients customizable and managed SharePoint hosting, and that it would hire Avitiva's Chief Software Architect and team along with the buy. Neudesic has around 300 employees, and in 2008 had around $34.1M

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MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M The revenues were boosted by two acquisitions, including the firm's buy of Agilent's N2X Data network Testing Product Line in October, and the acquisition of Capapult Communications in June. the firm reported in Q3. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Alex Bard , the San Diego-based CEO of customer support software firm Assistly , has sold his second company, as online CRM software giant Salesforce.com said today that it was paying $50M for Assistly. Assistly is the second successful exit for Bard, who sold his last startup, Goowy, to AOL in 2008.

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JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. What's the story behind the acquisition? Quinn Curtis: We had recently signed Webroot as a licensee of our software, as an OEM partner. How long was BrightCloud around for before being acquired?

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JUNE 18, 2009

Active Network entered the events management business in January 2008, with the acquisition of event management software firms RegOnline and WingateWeb. Tags: active network event management activeevents ondemand saas software. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 2, 2012

Gaikai was founded in 2008, and had raised around $45M in funding. Gaikai is a provider of game streaming technology, which allows users to run full videogames on their PCs without having to download large software packages. Aliso Viejo-based Gaikai has been acquired by Sony , in a deal worth $380M, Sony announced early Monday morning.

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JUNE 25, 2015

Brian Garrett: The fund is really continuing what we started back in 2008. That fund started back in 2008, and those companies are now six or seven years old. We raised $5M in august of 2008, on the belief and conviction that this ecosystem was going to develop. Any change to your investment thesis from your last funds?

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JULY 24, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com).

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. What's the secret of getting traction in the enterprise space--it seems like that's one of the hardest areas for software startups?

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JULY 13, 2012

And though the terms of the deal are not yet public Microsoft has big plans with the acquisition. Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft in a statement said ; “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution”.

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MAY 4, 2010

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. million loss in 2008. million loss in 2008.

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JULY 13, 2010

What does CatchPoint's software do? Why the need for your software -- aren't there tools out there that do this already? After the Google acquisition of DoubleClick, I decided to build my own company. This is available as Software-as-a-Service? Mehdi Daoudi: Yes, it's a software-as-a-service, subscription model.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s online platform helps companies manage and close complex business transactions such as asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions. Roy said,“CapLinked’s intuitive software makes it easy to control access when you’re collaborating on a sensitive business transaction. Series A Round.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Server-side software infrastructure – virtually all modern web applications rely on virtualization, scaling, load-balancing, and database technologies, among many others. Once Larry and Sergey developed search’s secret sauce, PageRank, they backwards-integrated into server-side software technologies to power and scale search.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Although they'd been around for three years and run out of money, we noticed in 2008 that mobile donations reached a record in the U.S. Our web software platform lets those groups address a younger generation, deal with micro billing and donations, and communicate in the new medium more effective than they used to.

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MARCH 20, 2007

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MARCH 9, 2007

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JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Total raised: $22.0mm.

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Unlike many of its rivals, Sheik said Certona had raised a total of only $7 million in venture capital (in 2008) from ABS Ventures of Waltham, MA, and San Diego’s Express Ventures. Salesforce added another digital commerce giant earlier this year with the acquisition of Burlington, MA-based Demandware in a deal valued at roughly $2.8

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MARCH 20, 2007

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Last month, Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), the developer of machine translation software, was acquired by SDL , a publicly held, UK-based firm in the language translation business. What's the story behind the acquisition? Tags: translation language acquisition merger interview weaver tapling mark.

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MARCH 1, 2007

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MARCH 5, 2007

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. I understand his frustration.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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MARCH 12, 2007

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