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DECEMBER 11, 2014

San Diego-based RapidEngage , a developer of online survey software and tools used to collect customer feedback and to engage users, has been acquired by fellow online survey company QuestionPro. rapidengage questionpro merger acquisition survey surveys slimsurveys tweetphoto plixi software' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 17, 2018

Culver City-based DataScience.com , a developer of data science software led by serial entrepreneur Ian Swanson, has been acquired by Oracle , the companies said on Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. -

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Epicor Software , the developer of supply chain management software which has its roots and still has significant operations in Orange County, is off the block, after its private equity investors did not see enough interest--or high enough prices--for the business. Apax bought Epicor back in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

San Diego-based life sciences software maker Accelrys said Monday that it has acquired QUMAS , an Irish developer of cloud-based and on-premise enterprise compliance software for the life sciences industry. in 2011 and $19.3M Accelrys said the move will further extend its portfolio of software. in revenues in 2012.

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San Diego Software Acquisition Develop 147

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

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MAY 8, 2014

Delicious was previously owned by Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, who had acquired Delicious from Yahoo back in 2011 via their company, Avos Systems. systems avos youtube software jones michael acquisition merger bookmarking social delicious' READ MORE>>.

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Sites Santa Monica Yahoo Incubator 150

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JULY 2, 2012

Calabasas-based Ixia , the developer of network testing equipment and software, announced this morning that it is in a definitive agreement to acquire BreakingPoint Systems , a developer of security testing tools. Ixia has been in an acquisitive mood lately, most recently acquiring network monitoring equipment firm Anue Systems in May.

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Calabasas Networking Acquisition Tool 215

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Lockerz' San Diego team came from the January, 2011 acquisition of Plixi, which was formerly known as TweetPhoto, which developed software and services which allowed Twitter users to share photos.

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San Diego Commerce Acquisition Sites 164

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. “Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.”

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Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Through two strategic acquisitions, one made in late 2011, and one made in early March of 2012. Green Dot--which launched its mobile banking app and service, GoBank , this week--apparently was positioning itself for the move in 2011, when it acquired a small community bank in Utah, with a mere $35.7M READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Monrovia Acquisition Startup 153

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The company said the new funds will go towards growth, financing acquisitions, and international expansion. Acording to OpenX, it more than doubled its team in 2012 to 260 employees, and saw greater than 100 percent year-over-year growth in both 2011 and 2012. Global Investment, Inc., and Presidio Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Irvine-based Kofax , the developer of business process automation software, said late Monday evening that it has acquired an Irish business process management software firm, Singularity Limited. Kofax said the acquisition "significantly increases" its addressable market. for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2011.

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Acquisition Software Marketing Develop 140

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MAY 30, 2012

A firm owned by Los Angeles private equity firm Platinum Equity , desktop publishing tools maker Quark , has acquired a UK-based firm developing cloud-based, tablet and mobile publishing software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Equity Mobile Tool Acquisition 140

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Perdue apparently helped to broker the acquisition of EyeWonder by MediaMind in 2011. The Trade Desk develops real-time-bidding (RTB) software used by online publishers and advertisers. The Trade Desk said Perdue will be based in The Trade Desk's New York offices.

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Ventura Advertising Media Acquisition 185

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MAY 15, 2013

Green Dot''s banking services came via the acquisition of both an FDIC approved community bank back in 2011, and mobile software developer Loopt. gobank green launch smartphone financial banking software mobile' It also has a big deal with MetroPCS to promote the banking service on that carrier''s Android phones.

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Mobile Software Development Software Tool 173

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based Digital Fuel , a provider of IT business management software, has been acquired by Apptio , the two companies announced Friday. Digital Fuel had been founded in 2000, and was acquired by VMware in 2011; Digital Fuel was then acquired by Skyview Capital in 2016. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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MAY 3, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Greycroft, which is very active in Los Angeles, took the lead on LiveFyre's Series B funding in 2011. Paige Craig--as well as a number of other angels--originally seeded LiveFyre back in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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Blogging Los Angeles Tool Acquisition 100

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The deal is worth $6M in upfront payments, plus payments linked to revenue in 2010/2011, and 2011/2012. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers.

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Software Engineering San Diego Competition Acquisition 133

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MARCH 5, 2013

Those in the Southern California high tech ecosystem might remember the bidding battle that Pasadena-based Ubermedia had with Twitter over Twitter client software firm Tweetdeck a couple of years ago. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California High Tech Pasadena Web 195

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The number of IPOs of companies on the Journal's list from 2011 from Southern California matched the number of IPOs of Silicon Valley companies. Of the other four IPOs, two were from Silicon Valley firms (Imperva, Jive Software); and one from Utah (Fusion-io), and the other from Indiana (ExactTarget). READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Santa Barbara-based QAD , the provider of enterprise resource planning software, said this morning that it has acquired a French developer of supply chain planning software. DynaSys had approximately 40 employees and revenues of approximately $6.28M in 2011. QAD said it has acquired DynaSys S.A. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Resource Software Help 133

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MAY 12, 2015

Enterprise software developer Epicor --which has significant operations in Orange County--said Monday that it plans to spin its Retail Solutions Business into a separate, privately held company. Epicor--which was founded in Orange County--had been acquired by Apax Partners back in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies - Also in November, we published. Virgin Galactic Gets FAA Launch Permit - In May, Virgin Galactic was.

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Southern California Thousand Oaks Incubator SpaceX 211

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MARCH 31, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow , the developer of cloud-based, enteprise IT automation software, filed for an IPO Friday, saying that it is looking to raise up to $150M in an IPO on the NYSE. on revenues of $73.375M for the year ended December 31, 2011. ServiceNow said has applied to trade as NOW. The firm reported a net loss of $6.6M

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San Diego .Net Equity Report 113

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JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We also just made an acquisition of Jovian over the summer.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database.

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Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA).

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Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

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JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

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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Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Email is becoming ineffective, and by 2011 there will be three times more smart phones than computers. 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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Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

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MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with this is classic community management.

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Software Startup Tool Platform 234

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, according to Wessel, has grown by almost 65%. The list goes on and on.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. People seldom understand that when enterprise customers choose your software it isn’t just a purchase order. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes! And so it goes again.

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Blogging Press Entrepreneur Venture Capital 420

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?”

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software. Monitoring Software. Project Management Software. More Software. Remote Desktop Software. Scheduling Software. SEO Software. Web Design Software.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57