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MARCH 16, 2021

The online website creation and hosting service — which has now expanded into e-commerce by hosting online stores — then raised another $40 million round in 2014. At that time, TechCrunch reported that Squarespace was a profitable company, with revenues increasing 50% in the prior year, to about $300 million.

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JULY 16, 2014

Santa Ana-based Iteris , which develops traffic management products and technology, said late Tuesday that it has replaced its CFO, and may face a "material weakness" in its internal controls over financial reporting. According to Iteris, it will require additional time to complete its audit for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Venice-based instant messaging service Snapchat released its first transparency report , detailing all of the legal and government demands for information from its systems, showing that the company fielded more then 375 U.S. snapchat subpoena transparency report information legal request' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

What's behind that report this morning by Cool Planet Energy Systems and progress on its ability to produce $1.50 According to a report from GigaOm this morning, an effort to raise $100M to build out its first biofuels facility. per gallon gasoline from biofuels? READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures reported Monday morning that it has named Kara Nortman as co-Managing Partner of the fund. Nortman has been at Upfront since 2014, serving as Partner at the firm. Nortman joined Upfront from children's e-commerce company Moonfrye, which she founded in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Beepi , the online used car sales startup which expanded into Los Angeles in 2014, has shut down, according to reports. The company's $60M funding in 2014 had been focused on expansion to Los Angeles. The Silicon Valley startup had raised more than $150M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Upfront made its investment in Luxe in 2014. Luxe is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures, Google Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Foundation Capital, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, Data Collective, Eniac Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, as well as others. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution. NO OTHER APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has quietly acquired a 3D gaming engine developer based in the UK, according to a report. According to the report, Snap acquired PlayCanvas, a developer of 3D game design software, last May. No details on the acquisition have been announced by either of the companies.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

The site--which is led by Harrison Tang--said the growth compaes as it saw 159 percent revenue growth between 2012 and 2014. Pasadena-based people search engine provider Spokeo is up to 150 employees in its Pasadena headquarters, almost double the number of employees it had in 2012, the company said today.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Fisker's last company--Fisker Auotmotive--was sold out of bankruptcy to Wanxiang Group in 2014. The report says Fisker is aiming at showcasing his first vehicle in the second half of 2017. Fisker, before his ill-fated venture with Fisker Automotive, had designed cars for BMW and Aston Martin.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Irvine-based property information provider CoreLogic reports that it is seeing a spike in U.S. serious delinquiencies on mortgages--the highest level since April of 2014--despite strong housing demand. According to the firm, 6.6 percent increase over July of 2019, when it was 3.8%.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

He later was President and CEO of San Diego's Zurple, which was sold to Constellation Software in 2014, and was most recently serving as Entrepreneur In Residence in Seattle-based venture accelerator Pioneer Square Labs. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Carpinteria-based Procore Technologies , the developer of cloud-based, construction management software let by Tooey Courtemanche, says it more than doubled its headcount in 2014, and also saw record growth in its business. 5000 rating says the company had 2013 revenues of $9.5M, compared with 2010 revenues of $1.5M.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

Calabasas-based network testing equipment maker Ixia reported late Friday that it has received another warning from the NASDAQ Stock Market, notifying the company that it does not comply with Nasdaq Listings Rules. The firm--which was expecting the warning--has been working through late filing of its quarterly report.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Irvine-based NGD Systems reported this morning that it has received two new patents for its solid state drive (SSD) technology. Patent 9,448,745 was granted on September 20th, and had been filed on March 13, 2014; patnet 9,454,551 was also filed on March 13, 2014, and granted on September 27th. Patent and Trademark Office.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Calabasas-based Ixia , the developer of network test equipment and software, has filed its second quarter 2014 financial results, along with quarterly reports for its second quarter of 2014, bringing it into compliance with its SEC filings, the company said late Monday.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2017

A 2014 report provided a stark frame of reference for the challenge of fighting Alzheimer’s disease, showing that 99.6 Led by Jeffrey Cummings, director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, the same authors recently published a new report on the Alzheimer’s drug pipeline.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The report said Access Industries (run by Len Blavatnik), Bronfman, and Kreiz offered to pay $18 to $20 per share in cash for New York-based time, which also publishes Fortune and Sports Illustrated. Kreiz led Maker Studios' acquisition by Disney in 2014, and left last year. in conjunction with Access industries and Edgar Bronfman Jr.,

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 11, 2016

Home Entertainment has settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission after reportedly failing to adequately disclose an online marketing campaign for the late-2014 release of role-playing video game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, the FTC announced Monday. Burbank-based Warner Bros.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Los Angeles-based MarketCast , a market research company providing research services to the global entertainment industry, has been acquired by Kohlberg & Company , according to reports. MarketCast was owned by another, private equity investor--RLJ Equity Partners--which acquired MarketCast in November of 2014. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Santa Monica-based secure messaging app provider TigerText , which is led by Brad Brooks, said yesterday that its annual sales grew more than 300 percent in 2014, and also doubled the size of its staff. The private held company did not disclose any financials behind those numbers or say how many employees it now has.

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MAY 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based online apparel and shoe company JustFab is eyeing a possible IPO, and also is in the midst of raising between $50 to $100M, according to a report. According to the report, from Re/Code, the company has hired Morgan Stanley as an advisor. JustFab is led by Adam Goldenberg, and is a spinout of Intelligent Beauty.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 E-commerce sales typically account for 80% of Glossier’s revenue, the Business of Fashion reported last July. .

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DECEMBER 7, 2015

The filing is very surprising, given that the company was named to both the Deloitte Fast 500 in 2014, nationally, last year for its growth rate, and was also Inc Magazine's number one fastest growing company in 2014 , with 2013 revenues of $195.6M. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware. as a part of that filing.

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MAY 21, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , the on-demand electric scooter rental service backed by Valor Equity Partners, Index Ventures, Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures, may be seeing even more competition in San Francisco, after reports that Lyft is hoping to launch its own, electric scooter service in the city.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The company--which will be delisted if it fails to meet the new deadline--has been trying to become current with all of its financial reports, after a restatement effort at the company. Ixia is currently late in its 10-Q for both the quarters ended March 31, 2014 and June 30, 2014.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015. The study's authors said that "Unicorns" in a country or region signals the creation of new wealth, embodies radical innovation, and the potential for disruptive market change. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2018

According to reports, a jury began deliberations Friday on the case, which was filed in 2016 by former business partner Steven Lamar. Beats' was acquired by Apple in 2014, for approximately $3 billion.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Webb has been at the company since 2014, and previously served at Cytec Engineering Materials, supporting the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Webb reports to CEO J.D. Irvine-based CTC Global , a developer of carbon composites used in high voltage power lines, said it has named Bill Webb as its new Vice President, Engineering.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Bumble's founders left Tinder in 2014, starting up Bumble specifically to provide more control to women using a dating app. Bumble Trading Inc., it is suing Bumble over both patent infringement and stealing trade secrets. Bumble was founded by former Tinder employees. Bumble reportedly rejected a takeover offer from Match Group last August.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The announcement was made as Demand Media reported its third quarter 2014 results. Demand Media reported $41.3 ‌in revenues for the third quarter, down from $50.7M The company also reported a net loss of $223.8M, compared with a loss a year ago of $10.4M. Reason for the departure was not given.

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MAY 7, 2014

Santa Monica-based videogame publisher Activision Blizzard said late Tuesday that it saw better than expected financial results for the first quarter of 2014. The company reported net revenues of $1.111 billion, compared with an earlier expectation of only $885M in sales. billion in sales. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Calabasas-based Ixia is in the midst of a sales team shuffle, saying in its quarterly report that it is naming Patti Key as Senior Vice President, Global Sales, with current sales VP Hans-Peter Klaey leaving the company. Ixia said that the firm and Klaey have "mutually agreed" for him to step down from the position.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project > has just passed the $100M mark, reporting yesterday that its 2014 year end revenues were $125.3M. The details came as the company released its fourth quarter results, where it reported net income of $1.4M on revenues of $41.8M for the quarter.

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