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OCTOBER 21, 2011

San Diego-based JMI Equity is the lead investor in a first round of funding for online coupons site CouponCabin.com , which said Thursday evening that it has raised $54M in a funding round from JMI Equity. CouponCabin.com said it generated more than $500M in online sales for its merchants in 2010.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Platinum Equity said Tuesday that it is merging two of its portfolio firms, Pomeroy IT Solutions Inc. Platinum acquired Pomeroy in November of 2009, and acquired OAO Technology Solutions in January of 2010. Tags: acquisition merger equity platinum. and OAO Technology Solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Convertible debt is an investment that “converts&# into equity in the future usually at a discount to your next funding round price and sometimes has a “cap&# (maximum price). prefer equity to convertible debt): If you’re an early stage investor (e.g. a priced/valued preferred stock financing)?&#.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 -- LAVA's Annual Private Equity Breakfast. Meet panelists from some of Los Angeles' leading Private Equity firms and find out how the economy has impacted the Private Equity business. Moderated by Laurie A. Allen, Royse Law Firm.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 -- Outlook 2010: MandA and Financing Transactions: The Thaw is Underway. Our expert group of panelists from private equity and investment banking firms and MandA business executives discuss where the MandA and financing market is headed in 2010. Gold Coast Business Forum. See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010 -- Private Equity Night. It brings together best-of-class local and national equity sources, professional MandA service providers, lenders, corporate members and their guests to make connections, share intelligence, and advance their businesses. ACG Orange County. PE

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 -- Financing in 2010: Yes, there is Money for Technology Companies. Now that the US economy appears to be emerging from a recession that featured a severe credit crunch, is financing more readily available for early to growth stage technology companies in Southern California? See [link] (more).

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JUNE 3, 2014

El Segundo-based Internet Brands said this morning that it is being acquired by private equity firm KKR , from its current owners, Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity. Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity had acquired Internet Brands back in 2010, paying $640M for the company. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2014

KKR is buying Internet Brands from current private equity owners Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity, who paid around $640M for Internet Brands back in 2010. internet brands merger acquisition internetbrands private equity jmiequity hellman friedman' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital announced today that it has sold Getronics LATAM to Southern Cross Group. OpenGate Capital had acquired Getronics LATAM in 2010. Financial details of the sale were not annouced. The company claimed the exit provides 11 times invested capital for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses. Proficio, a Carlsbad, CA-based startup providing cybersecurity protection services for middle market companies, has raised $12 million in an investment round led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? We spent our future since the equity was artificial. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Levine Leichtman Capital Partners said Monday that it has sold its portfolio company Luminator Technology Group (LTG) to Audax Group. Levine Leichtman has owned Luminator Technology Group since 2010. levine leichtman private equity merger acquisition luminator technology group'

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

So, the question: load up with more equity and dilution? LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders. Or sell now?

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APRIL 1, 2020

Sampson previously founded Multicast Media Technologies, which was acquired for $24 million back in 2010 and was a partner at TechSquare Labs, which has a portfolio valued at over $1.5 Draper Goren Holm , the firm Draper manages alongside co-founders Alon Goren and Josef Holm said Rodney Sampson has joined the crew as a venture partner.

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APRIL 29, 2015

The company, which is now owned by JMI Equity, said it named Rick Szatkowski as its new VP of Sales. The company and site was acquired by San Diego-based Resource Nation / JMI Equity back in 2011, after prior owner Dex One said in 2010 that it would be shutting down the site. Business.com is led by Tony Uphoff.

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JULY 6, 2010

The analysis was based on tracking of venture capital, angel, and private equity deals by socalTECH.com, which maintains its own proprietary database of local and national venture capital deals and dealmakers. billion in the area in Q2, up slightly from around $1.4 billion invested in Q1, and up from $1.0 billion in Q2 of last year.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

West Hills-based optical components maker Source Photonics , which was owned by Francisco Partners , has been sold, to a private equity group led by Redview Capital and Asia-IO, and also including TR Capital, Axiom Asia and Aberdeen Asset Management. Francisco Partners acquired Soruce Photonics in October of 2010, from MRV Communications.

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JULY 1, 2013

Financial software provider Intuit has sold its Intuit Financial Services business--which is based in Woodland Hills--to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Intuit Financial Services is made of of what was formerly Digital Insight; Intuit renamed Digital Insight to Intuit Financial Services in March of 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

San Diego-based Bevo Media , an online ad exchange and ad tracking platform developer, has been acquired by private equity investor Vize Capital. Bevo Media was founded in 2010, and plays in the performance marketing area.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

A willingness to accept equity as part of your agency or law firm’s fees can bring in more work that stimulates your team and exposes you to disruptive opportunities that are potentially very lucrative. However, there are a number of considerations to explore before agreeing to accepting equity as a portion of your firm’s payment.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

A willingness to accept equity as part of your agency or law firm’s fees can bring in more work that stimulates your team and exposes you to disruptive opportunities that are potentially very lucrative. However, there are a number of considerations to explore before agreeing to accepting equity as a portion of your firm’s payment.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

According to ip.access, it raised $15M from investors Amadeus Capital Partners, Cisco, Intel Capital, Qualcomm, Rothschild & Cie Gestion, Scottish Equity Partners and TE Connectivity. Qualcomm and Ip.access inked that technology deal in September of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based private equity firm The Gores Group has sold portfolio firm Lineage Power , in a deal worth $520M. GE said Lineage had revenues of approximately $450M in 2010, and that the deal values the firm at eight time enterprise value based on 2011 EBITDA. Lineage makes power rectifiers and other power supply related products.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The firm said the equity funding will go towards clinical testing and. The firm said it has now raised $35M in funding since founding in June of 2010. regulatory clearance of its lead product. Themes' Frank Yu has joined the company's board as part of the funding. Orange County-based LoneStar is developing its product in China.

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APRIL 3, 2012

TechForward--which had been part of the LaunchpadLA program in 2010--offered up a way for consumers to guarantee a certain purchase price for their used electornics, making it possible for them to more easily trade in their obsolete electronics products in the future. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project is reporting today that there was a 25 percent, year-over-year growth in online ad spending, according to the firm's Q1 2010 Online Advertising Market Report. Rubicon is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 29, 2012

Total merger and acquisition deal volume in 2011 increased 24% from 2010, with over 16,000 transactions aggregating to $1.1 With capital gains taxes expected to increase, corporate profits at all-time highs, and private equity firms sitting on a lot of cash, what will the MandA environment look like throughout 2012? trillion in value.

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MAY 9, 2011

for the similar quarter in 2010. The firm is venture backed byMorgenthaler Partners, Palisades Ventures , TVP, Advanced Equities , and others. San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , the developer of CMOS RF integrated circuits, updated its S-1 filings Friday, saying that it had a net loss of $1.0M on revenues of $21.2M

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JULY 25, 2012

Peregrine is venture backed by Morgenthaler Partners, Advanced Equities, Palisades Ventures, and others. The move pulls the firm's IPO out of a long dormancy -- the company had originally filed for an IPO back in 2010. The firm also said it has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Market as PSMI.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The companies said that debt and equity for the acquisition came from Third Point LLC, and that Reed Elsevier was advised by Evercore Partners. Jay Penske has been building a huge, online blog publishing empire here in Los Angeles; the firm was previously known as Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC) before selling off its email service in 2010.

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APRIL 19, 2011

The privately held firm, which did not disclose actual financials, claimed it had 111 percent sales growth, year-over-year, from first quarter of 2010. LiveOffice is backed by private equity firm Summit Partners , and has more than 200 employees. The firm said Q1 was another consecutive quarter of record revenue for the company.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

San Diego-based renewable energy developer EDF Renewable Energy gained a big new partner Wednesday: Google , after Google said it invested $200M in equity in a wind farm in West Texas. Google said that Spnning Spur joins 10 other renewable energy investments it has made since 2010.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

A new report today released by PwC finds that the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) has jumped significantly in 2010, with volumes exceeding both 2008 and 2009 levels. PWC said that among the reasons for the surge was a return of private equity and venture capital portfolio companies using the U.S.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Rubicon, which has been issuing quarterly reports on ad trends, said that it believes that 2010 is "shaping up to be the strongest year yet" for online ad spending. Rubicon is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 24, 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 -- Southern California Venture Network. SCVN helps entrepreneurs, service providers and private equity sources to accelerate their entrepreneurial velocity. Join us for this networking mixer and company presentation event. See [link] (more).

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