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JULY 16, 2015

Woodland Hills-based Readz , a new startup that is aiming to help marketers quickly create microsites, landing pages, white papers, and other content, said today that it has raised more than $7.15M in funding, and launched its products. The company says it first raised funding in 2011, and has been operating in stealth mode.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Monday, October 24, 2011 -- Meet the Investor Series: Daniel Zhu, TSING Capital. Zhu will speak on strategies and successes in market entry to China. Zhu will speak on strategies and successes in market entry to China. See [link] (more)

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Capital Venture Capital Los Angeles Invest 100

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of marketing analytics software led by Wes Nichols, has bolstered its advisory team, saying today that it has added Ross Levinsohn, Tom Davenport, and Pat LaPointe to its advisory board. in addition to serving at Fuse Capital and Fox Interactive Media. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

The funding was led by JMI Equity, and also included Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and Health Velocity Capital (HVC). Jvion is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and was founded in 2011. Jvion said it will use the funding to accelerate expansion across its market. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of predictive analytics software for the marketing industry, has raised a big, $38M funding round, the firm said Monday. The funding was led by FTV Capital, and also included Elevation Partners and others. Elevation Partners invested in MarketShare in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2016

Los Angeles-based private equity investors Gores Group and Platinum Equity said this morning that they have backed Data Blue , an Atlanta provider of storage, backup and server virtualization and consolidation solutions for the enterprise market. The Gores Group investment came via Gores Small Capitalization Partners. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. We went out to market to LPs. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 3, 2016

The company has applied to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as PI. The IPO is being underwritten by RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Piper Jaffray,Needham & Company, and Cannacord Genuity. The IPO is a second try for Impinj; the company had tried for an IPO back in 2011-2012, but later withdrew those plans.

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CalTech Venture Capital Startup Equity 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

pointed at all of the companies in Los Angeles that came out of the demise of MySpace, and argues that the growth of Snap is about to trigger another wave of startups in the market. In the report, Amplify.LA In the report, Amplify.LA For its own part, Amplify.LA billion, with so far 9 of its companies acquired. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2011

SVB said its Startup Outlook 2011 survey came from the responses of 375 U.S-based based private, venture capital backed software, hardware, life science, and cleantech companies. The study was conducted by independent market research firm Koski Research during February 2011.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

round this morning, from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, along with NEA, Upfrot Ventures, First Round Capital, and the company's other exiting ivnestors. According to the firm, the funding will go towards expansion into international markets, to strengthen its R&D, and continue development of its products. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, William Blair, and Montgomery & Co. 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

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2014

RBC Capital Markets, Needham & Company, Oppenheimer & Co, and Luma Securities. If successful, Rubicon will be the first, Los Angeles, technology company to have an IPO since Boingo Wireless in 2011 -- although a number of biotech companies in the area have successfully hit the market since then. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

RBC Capital Markets, Needham & Company, Oppenheimer & Co, and Luma Securities. The IPO is the first, technology IPO out of Los Angeles since 2011. Rubicon Project is venture backed by Clearstone Ventures, News Corp., Mayfield, and others. The IPO was underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Sachs, & Co., READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

From a marketing partnership with Verizon, to producing our own radio shows on CBS and ABC and finally, a Costco rollout; the company’s management worked tirelessly to find solutions to maintaining growth and profitability, critical components of any business. The company was always seeking capital. We worked towards closing it.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2013

FastSpring , the fast growing Santa Barbara-based e-commerce payment services provider headed by Dan Engel, said today it has scored a funding round from Pylon Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. acquisition merger capital venture pylon fastspring' Size of the funding round was not disclosed. 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 Multiples for middle market companies remained relatively strong in 2011, at an average of 8.2x Wednesday, April 4, 2012 -- ACG 101's Annual MandA Update. trillion in value.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. And all the platform stuff. Wait, What About Yves?

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2012

Calabasas-based KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals , a developer of biopharmaceuticals for the aesthetic medicine market, has filed for an IPO. According to the firm's S-1 filing, Kythera is looking to raise up to $86.25M on the NASDAQ Global Market as KYTH. Leerink Swann, and Lazard Capital Markets. READ MORE>>.

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Calabasas .Net Report Marketing 124

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- ACG 101 Holiday Party. After all the challenges of 2011, relax and socialize with friends and colleagues at the ACG 101 Corridor Holiday Reception this Thursday evening, December 1, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village. John Paglia, Director of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The market is coming back, but it is still well under water. Overall, venture capital investment fell in the United States last year but rose elsewhere. But the amount invested did decline 7 percent to $4.8

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Summary 90

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2011

for the three months ended March 26, 2011. Peregrine Semiconductor has filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market as PSMI. Pacific Crest Securities , and RBC Capital Market. Pacific Crest Securities , and RBC Capital Market. on revenues of $21.2M That compares with net income of $1.0M READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. So what can you do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue? Overall, investors put $7.5 billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. It was clear to us that LA was now a powerhouse market and we loved working with all of the other accelerators in town.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011 -- Managing Your Innovation. All of the workshops over the past year have been designed to develop the skills needed to connect innovation and ideas with capital and resources. Metropolitan Water District. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I can’t control the market. Private markets for stocks are the opposite.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2012

ARCH Venture Partners, GF Private Equity Group, Intel Corporation, Madrona Venture Group, Mobius Venture Capital and Polaris Venture Partners. Impinj said the funding will go towards sales, marketing, product development, and manufacturing operations. The firm had filed for an IPO in April 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County CalTech Equity Venture Capital 140

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 27, 2011

Friday, September 2, 2011 -- Global LAVA. Barth, a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute who will share with us his observations on the domestic and global capital markets and how it will affect entrepreneurial activity and businesses here in South California. Whats Next? We are delighted to announce our guest-speaker James R.

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LAVA Activity Capital Marketing 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2012

The firm, which had filed for a $100M IPO in August of 2011, said in a withdrawal of its registration, that it has determined not to proceed with its IPO, "in light of current market conditions." The firm announced that instead, the company has raised $41.5M READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

From a marketing partnership with Verizon, to producing our own radio shows on CBS and ABC and finally, a Costco rollout; the company’s management worked tirelessly to find solutions to maintaining growth and profitability, critical components of any business. The company was always seeking capital. We sought capital just in case.

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RSS Technical Review Capital Email 170

Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 Notably, this was the lowest quarterly deal volume since the fourth quarter of 2011, a period spanning 19 quarters. history (admittedly, at 2.1

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Venture Capital Capital Activity Invest 40

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

A company that makes a mapping system to help doctors see high-resolution, 3D images of irregular heart rhythms in real time has raised $100 million in venture investment and a $70 million credit facility to fund its full-scale market launch. Acutus Medical, based in the northern San Diego community of Carlsbad, was founded in 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

But before you jump on the bandwagon, you should consider the advice I saw recently from the maven of venture capital, William H. Being thinly capitalized doesn’t necessarily mean you need a big cash infusion. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” How’s the timing?

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Social Media Media Draper Startup 89

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

billion in 2011 in its S-1, which is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, J.P. BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, and Allen & Company. The firm reported net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co., READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Thousand Oaks .Net Google 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 18, 2011

Monday, July 18, 2011 -- How to Raise Money in a Tough Economy. Jackson as we delve into the endlessly fascinating topic of raising capital in tough times. Tech Coast Angels. oin Barbara and Eric M. Jackson, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, advises startups and nonprofits on their product and business strategies.

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Tech Coast Angels Los Angeles Entrepreneur Capital 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

OpenX develops online ad serving software, used by web publishers to serve up advertising on their web sites; the firm also offers up a real-time bidding exchange, OpenX Market, used by advertisers and publishers for deciding what advertising to serve up to consumers.

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OpenX Advertising Pasadena Web 178