socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based The Gores Group , the private equity investment firm, reported this morning that it has completed its acquisition of touch screen technology provider TE Connectivity. Gores said that Elo Touch Solutions had sales of $413M in fiscal 2011. The deal was worth $380M in cash.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

With over $100 million from its investors including Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others, Nest is reported to have been on the verge of another $150 million raise in a Series D round and would have eventually gone public. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Fullscreen was founded in January of 2011. network otter ottermedia group chernin youtube content acquisition merger fullscreen' Los Angeles-based Fullscreen Network is being acquired by Otter Media , a joint venture of AT&T and The Chernin Group, in a deal which is reportedly worth between $200M and $300M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

million of its shares, upon the completion of an IPO before March 31, 2011. Among other updates the firm added to its S-1 filing, the firm reported it now has eight patents granted--up from five--for its intellectual property, and an additional sixteen pending in the United States and other jurisdictions. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2010

which will be reported in its first quarter of 2011. Tags: mindspeed patent merger acquisition intellectual property. According to Mindspeed, the "legacy" patent sale includes $7.5M recorded in its fiscal fourth quarter 2010 revenues, and $2.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

LegalZoom reported net income of $12.1M for its year ended December 31, 2011. The firm is venture backed by Polaris Venture Partners (35.1 percent ownership), Insitutional Venture Partners (14.7 percent), and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (6.4 on revenues of $156.0M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

That deals loooks to be worth around $100M, based on reports from the WSJ. In June of 2011, MySpace was sold for a mere $35M to another, Southern California technology firm-- Specific Media , which has since been looking to remake MySpace with the help of Justin Timberlake. acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, reports are the deal was worth nearly $400M. The firms said that Riot Games will continue to maintain its headquarters in Los Angeles, and has plans to "hire aggressively" in 2011. Tencent is one of the biggest Internet services providers in China.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

on revenues of $72.71M for the three months ended March 31, 2011. Revenues were up 15% from the quarter ending March 30, 2010, when the firm reported a net loss of $12.4M San Diego-based Active Network , the operator of sports registration and online community sites, said in a filing today that it had a net loss of $10.9M

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2012

The firm reported a net loss of $11.1M on license income of $12.98M in 2011. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Leerink Swann, and Lazard Capital Markets. Kythera is venture backed by Versant Ventures, ARCH Ventures, Prospect Venture Partners, JAFCO, Fidelity, among others. Kythera's products are used for fat reduction. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2012

The firm reported a net loss of $6.6M on revenues of $73.375M for the year ended December 31, 2011. The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit SUisse, UBS Investment Bank, Pacific Crest Securities, and Wells Fargo Securities. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 113

San Diego .Net Equity Report 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. paidContent said ContentNext employes 16, with paidContent now bringing in 639,000 uniques as of October 2011, with more than 1.3

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Sales Santa Monica News Blogging 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The firm reported net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 billion in 2011 in its S-1, which is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Facebook filed for its IPO Wednesday afternoon, saying that it is looking to raise up to $5 billion, in what is expected to be the biggest IPO since Google. Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co.,

Southern California 113

Southern California Thousand Oaks .Net Google 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. ” After PayPal, StubHub is widely seen as eBay’s second most profitable acquisition.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Silicon Valley Bank report noted that large corporations have dramatically increased pre-clinical acquisitions in the last three years under the pressure of limited supply and competition from IPOs. Yet despite relative plenty in the bio-venture community, pharma suffers from a shortage of drug candidates.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

LabCorp reported $8.5 In 2011, state incentives lured the company to Research Triangle Park, where it built a $19 million lab to bolster its molecular diagnostics business. Despite the fanfare of Sequenom’s MaterniT21, the company has had financial struggles and its earnings reports show a history of losses.

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San Diego .Net Report Sites 40

Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

[ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler and Sarah de Crescenzo coauthored this report.] It is here, and then it is gone. But by the time everyone staggers to the airport or back home to sleep in their own beds, the annual few days of the J.P.

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Pricing Conference Report Help 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. With Sarbanes-Oxley, the CEO, CFO, and the Board of Directors are all assumed to have full knowledge of all government standards of compliance and reporting. Annual reporting and audit requirements continue to increase. After a record low of 39 U.S.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of the industry was produced by the esteemed Kauffman Foundation. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Based in LA, and launched in 2011 by Eric M. Jackson and Christopher Grey, CapLinked empowers its clients to manage complex business transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, financings, asset sales, and investor reporting. New Clients To Manage Complex Business Transactions.

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Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Amongst several companies to report this week, the biggest news came from Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD ), whose hepatitis C drugs have become some of the top revenue producers in the industry. Some observers’ minds instantly jumped to business —Gilead needs to pick up the acquisition pace to find its next big thing.

Startup 40

Startup Study News Report 40

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. That's impressive growth! How did they do it? Getting Going Is Easy Branchout has done a great job making registration easy.

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Examples Startup Course Networking 331

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. That's impressive growth! How did they do it? Getting Going Is Easy Branchout has done a great job making registration easy.

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Examples Startup Course Networking 323

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. The press who trusted me enough to report on our successes. And it’s why you probably will quit on day 366 after the acquisition. Despite the fact that only the Lotto winners get reported. I didn’t sleep much back then. And so it goes again.

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Blogging Press Entrepreneur Venture Capital 420

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. Why is Twitter’s user acquisition at a standstill , and why are their ad products failing? What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006. A tweet was very similar to text messaging.

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Platform Startup News Content 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If youre buying a luxury home or just like looking at them, check out this live chat from reporter Lauren Schuker Blum and WSJ.com real estate editor Matthew Strozier. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. If nothing changes, when will you run out of money?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175