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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Read more of Megan's article on changing Exit Strategies for 2010. The practical reality is that VC backed IPOs (no, wait, all IPOs) have gotten fewer and harder to complete. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? We actually had three big exits: EnvestNet, IFCO, which was bought for a billion dollars, and we sold our position in ULTA, returning $320M to shareholders. The obvious one is the iPad.

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? As 2010 comes to a close, I'm very grateful for the outstanding entrepreneurs, partners, co-investors, and service provides that I get to work with everyday. Suffice it to say, now more than ever we're excited about what's next.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? It was a good year (especially with a terrible economy), except no exits. Today, successful entrepreneurs aren't buying big boats or building villas in Cabo after successful exits.

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MAY 2, 2011

Disclosure: Clearstone is a sponsor of socalTECH). The report also argues that more value is going to the private, venture investors in firms, rather than to public shareholders after an IPO. The report also argues that more value is going to the private, venture investors in firms, rather than to public shareholders after an IPO.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

The firm said the new funding brings its total raised to $20M in 2010. socalTECH had earlier reported on a partial funding in the round, based on a regulatory filing. According to Awarepoint, the funding came from Cardinal Partners, Jafco Ventures, and Venrock as well as Silicon Valley Bank. Awarepoint is headed by Jay Deady.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The highest ranking firms on the overall Technology Fast 500 from the area were Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a developer of software e-commerce tools headed by Dan Engel , which was ranked at number 13 nationally with 17,468% revenue growth from 2006 to 2010. Editor's note: socalTECH was a sponsor of this event.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? Because we are early stage we really feel the years it takes to get these companies into momentum, but we had quite a few large M&A and an IPO. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)?

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Fariborz Maseeh, in an interview with socalTECH, said that the business plan competition will be open to any undergraduate, graduate student, or faculty or related staff at the engineering school, and is aimed at prompting engineering students to take their ideas to market.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

According to the results--tallied by the David James Agency , which conducted they survey for us--82 percent of respondents to the survey are expecting some level of growth in 2010. Tags: survey technology executives socaltech economy jobs hiring. 75 percent said they were planning on hiring employees this year.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 -- digiday:SOCIAL LA. socalTech Members Save $100 off the registration price. socalTech Members Save $100 off the registration price. The New Media Reality: Everything is Social. Use this code for your discount: SCTDS. See https://registration.dm2events.com/event/socialla/.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010 -- digiday:MOBILE LA. socalTech Members Save $100 off the registration price. Is Mobile The Next Critical Mass Medium? Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform at digiday:MOBILE in Los Angeles. Use this code for your discount: SCTDS.

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MAY 11, 2011

According to Andy Wilson, Managing Director and Founder of the firm, in an interview with socalTECH, the move actually had happened gradually over the last year, as the various principals at the firms became more involved and interested in running portfolio companies.

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MAY 11, 2021

The company originally was in the business of developing social apps, and was part of Idealab, having started way back in 2010. UberMedia developed business intelligence and data analytics software.

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JULY 6, 2010

An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 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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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Kajabi said the funding is its first institutional funding since it launched in 2010. Irvine-based Kajabi , which develops a platform that helps both individuals, as well as small- and mid-sized businesses monetize online courses, training materials, and other content, has receive an investment from private equity investor Spectrum Equity.

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JULY 14, 2020

Phison and Kingstom formed KSI as a joint venture in 2010. Fountain Valley-based memory products giant Kingston Technology said that its partner in a joint venture, Phison , will sell the shares it owns in Kingston Solutions, Inc. which develops eMMC (Embedded Multi-Media Card) products.

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JULY 31, 2020

Buy.com was founded in Aliso Viejo, and acquired by Buy.com in 2010 for $250M. Rakuten is planning to shut its U.S. retail efforts--formerly known as Buy.com according to a report, citing a "source familiar with the developments". According to the report, Rakuten will lay off 87 people at its U.S. headquarters.

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APRIL 20, 2020

Walmart acquired Vudu in 2010. According to Vudu, Fandango will continue to run the video streaming service, and all of its users will continue to have access to their movies and television shows they have purchased. Vudu will also continue to power Walmart's digital movie and TV store at Walmart.com. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The new system would impose only a 10% corporation tax rate on revenue after 2013 derived from patents filed after 2010. Connell spoke about the many pro-foreign-enterprise initiatives the Cameron government has passed and Van der Kleij fielded questions and feedback on topics ranging from Patent Law to secondary markets.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Inphi has been a public company since 2010, trading as IPHI on the NYSE. Semiconductor maker Inphi , which develops high speed interconnect semiconductors--and which was started in Westlake Village, where it continues to have major operations--is being acquired by fellow semiconductor company Marvell.

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MARCH 30, 2021

The rebranding is the latest makeover for UberMedia, which got its start way back in 2010 as an alternative client software for Twitter. UberMedia previously started under the name TweetUp, changed its name to PostUp, then acquired Twitter client UberTwitter, changing the new company name to UberMedia.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Triton Digital said it has been representing Slacker's audio inventory and programming since 2010. Los Angeles-based audio advertising technology provider Triton Digital says it has begun representing XAPPmedia , and will offer up that firm's premium interactive audio ads on Slacker Radio. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 14, 2020

RLH Equity's founders include former LA Mayor Richard Riordan and Pat Haden, the former athletic director at the University of Southern California, who helped found the firm before leaving for that position at USC in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Newegg has been kicking off its holiday sales the beginning of November since 2010 , rather than waiting for the traditional Friday after Thanksgiving for holiday sales efforts. According to Newegg, this year it expects to reveal 20 to 50 new, early Black Friday deals each Friday up until Black Friday itself. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 4, 2019

According to the Internet Archive, it was able to restore a 450,000 song collection of music from 2008 to 2010 on MySpace, as a result of the secret "MySpace Music Dragon Hoard", collected by an un-named academic researcher.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2017

BCBSNE has been a client of NantHealth since 2010, and is using its NaviNet Open Document Exchange product. Patrick Soon-Shiong, said today that it has received a three-year contract extension with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE). Financial details of the contract extension were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 26, 2017

The payment comes as a result of overpayments by BlackBerry between 2010 and 2015. The agreement comes after an arbitration decision made on April 12th. According to BlackBerry, Qualcomm will pay the full amount of the final award on or before May 31, 2017. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The company says that it now has over 900 employees spread across 14 offices; the company was founded in 2010. Seismic did not say which of its existing investors sold that stake to Permira. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2020

Henry was previously CEO of Netspend, another provider of prepaid debit cards, where he was until 2014; Henry had also been involved in Netspend's IPO in 2010. Henry also will join the company's board. Henry also was the co-founder of Euronet Worldwide, is chairman of Paysign Inc., and is a director of The Brink's Company.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2018

ISSQUARED said the acquisition is its very first since being founded in 2010. BOth companies provide information technology consulting, including consulting in the areas of networking, security, hardware, and other related areas for enterprise to SMB customers. Bala Ramaiah is CEO of ISSQUARED; Steve Marks was CEO of Starnet. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Grovo was founded in 2010, and has offices in New York City and San Francisco. Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops cloud-based learning and human capital management software, said late Wednesday that it has acquired Grovo Learning , a provider of "micro-learning" content, in a deal worth $24M in cash.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2019

PlanetArt was founded in 2010, when it acquired Simply to Impress. The company said it was advised by Oppenheimer & Co. in the deal, along with legal counsel Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Culhane Meadows, and Fox Rothschild. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Thompson has been CEO at SolarWinds since 2010, and he joined the company in 2007. According to BlackLine, Thompson's experience as a ceo and previously CFO at several technology companies, including Surgient, SAS Institute and Red Hat, will help guide it through its next phase of growth. SolarWinds is a developer of IT management software.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2018

Horowitz has been at Ziff Davis since 2010, and previously served at Bankrate, AOL, and Yahoo. According to j2, it has named Harmeet Singh as President of Cloud Services; Steve Horowitz as President of Ziff Davis; and Joey Fortuna as Chief Technology Officer. Singh has been at j2 since 2013, and prior to that was at SingerLewak LLP.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2017

The company was founded by Ike Kavas, and was founded in 2010. Ephesoft develops machine learning software which is used to capture, extract, and analyze unstructured content from financial, federal, insurance, mortgage, and healthcare documents. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 2, 2018

The company was founded in 2010. The company's CEO and co-founder is Greg Steltenpohl. Califia Farms opened up its headquarters in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles in 2016, with a new, 9,000 square foot office. READ MORE>>.

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