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MAY 7, 2010

Santa Monica-based The Search Agency , which is headed by David Hughes, was listed at number 12, and San Diego-based Covario , which is run by Russ Mann, was listed at number 25. Advertising Age reported that The Search Agency's 2009 revenues were $20.4M, and Covario's 2009 revenues were $8.8M.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based The Search Agency joins a number of privately held, Southern California firms this week reporting strong growth in 2009. The Search Agency is backed by private equity firm JMI Equity. The firm said the growth came as a result of increasing demand for the firm's online marketing services.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Zwelling is a serial entrepreneurs who has had some major successes, including EchoSign (acquired by Adobe) and YLighting (acquired by private equity). Convertro raised $5M in a Series A in 2009. The firm is based in Santa Monica. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Zag , the online auto buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, has raised $11.1M in a new equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday afternoon. Zag said in March that it had sold 100,000 cars, and has been profitable since August of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2011

invested in Santa Monica-based Coda Automotive. Although dollars were up, the number of deals (736 nationally in Q1 vs. 827 deals last year) was the lowest in a single quarter since Q3 of 2009. The largest investment was $111.92M invested in Irvine-based Fisker Automotive , followed by $76.4M billion a year ago. in San Diego.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has finally filed for its long awaited IPO. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the firm had a net loss of $21.9M The firm's major stockholders are Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co.,

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APRIL 12, 2017

I tragically lost my mom to cancer, my girlfriend (who I was living with at the time) and I broke up, and then my team and I were laid-off when the market crashed in 2009. Until I was fortunate enough to secure a job with Ron Burkle at the end of 2009. The first three years were fantastic, but my fourth year was very tough.

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