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JANUARY 19, 2016

That's definitely not the case in Southern California, which saw a massive, $1.3 billion invested in the region in Q4 of 2014, and was only slightly less than the $1.46 billion invested in the region in Q4 of 2014, and was only slightly less than the $1.46 billion invested in Q4 matched the $1.3 in San Diego.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

Southern California looks to be the top location for Instagram tags, based on a ranking of tags on the app released this week. According to Instagram, the top two spots in Instagram''s list of the top tagged locations in 2014 were Disneyland , in Anaheim, and Dodger Stadium , in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Southern California has seen another, big venture capital investment quarter, with companies raising $1.46 According to the report, which was released this evening, there were 97 deals totaling $1.467 billion across the Southern California region, a rise, dollarwise, over Q3 of 2014, when there was $797.0M

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APRIL 17, 2015

Southern California saw a staggering $1.9 MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. New England was right behind Southern California, with $1.4 billion in investment deals for the quarter. Nationally, $13.42

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JANUARY 29, 2015

Southern California''s biggest organized, angel investment group, the Tech Coast Angels , said this morning that the group had its biggest investment year ever in 2014, investing a total of $16.37M across 61 total deals. The investments were up by 12 percent from 2013, when the angel group invested $14.64M in its portfolio.

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JUNE 4, 2019

In long, complicated path that wound through Southern California's high tech industry, flower delivery network operator FTD has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. FTD acquired San Diego's ProFlowers in 2014, paying $430M for the online flower and gift delivery service. United Online was acquired by B.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve been featuring the reflections on the last year from folks in Southern California''s technology industry. Here, David Cremin , a venture capitalist at DFJ Frontier , shares his thoughts on 2014. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? It might accidentally go in the goal!

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Venice-based instant messaging startup Snapchat , arguably Southern California's highest visibility "unicorn" startups, had a mere $3M in revenues between January and November of 2014, according to leaked documents published on Gawker.

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JUNE 7, 2021

The software--which was previously only available on iOS--was originally developed in Southern California. Burstly, the developer behind Testflight, was acquired by Apple back in 2014. Apple announced on Monday at WWDC 2021 that it will be extending its Testflight beta testing service to the Mac and the MacOS platform.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

We''ve been featuring a few reflections on the last year from a number of movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry over the last couple of weeks, during the holidays. 2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? We''ll be featuring a few of these every day through the New Year.

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JULY 27, 2020

Lanzone previously had a short stint in Southern California's high tech industry, having been CEO of Los Angeles-based online video guide service Clicker back in 2009. He also has been on the board of Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com since 2014. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Southern California has had a banner year this year, with a huge number of successful exits, fundings, and more. It''s the season to celebrate the technology and media industry''s success here with the Digital Family Reunion on December 10th at the Skirball Cultural Center.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Larry Ellison , the founder and Chairman of Oracle , has been named the speaker for the University of Southern California commencement, the school said on Thursday. Ellison founded Oracle in 1977, and was CEO until 2014, when he shifted to Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Southern California has had a banner year this year, with a huge number of successful exits, fundings, and more. There''s less than a week to the technology industry''s biggest holiday event of the year--the Digital Family Reunion on Wednesday, December 10th at the Skirball Cultural Center.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The Tech Coast Angels (TCA), Southern California's big angel network, says it has seen a successful exit in its investment in Parcel Pending , a provider of package management solutions. million original funding of Parcel Pending in 2014. million original funding of Parcel Pending in 2014.

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JUNE 26, 2018

The company’s event and blog posts all focus on the various rendering tools like Zync Render, which Google acquired back in 2014 , and Anvato, a video streaming and monetization platform it acquired in 2016. It’s worth noting that Microsoft Azure already offers a region in Southern California, though AWS does not.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The two executive appointments follow the appointment of former Citrix Online President Brett Caine as CEO of the company in October of 2014. Caine spent a significant time at Santa Barbara's Citrix Online, having been at the company between 2003 and 2014; he's also a board member at Irvine's Kareo. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2017

Among a largely successful rush to establish a vibrant commercial aerospace industry in Southern California, it appears one company--Mojave-based XCOR Aerospace --has failed to launch. XCOR has apparently laid off all of its employees , due to the inability of the company to raise money. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 3, 2016

Big Data Day LA is the largest of its kind, and completely free, Big Data conference in Southern California. We have since grown to over 550 attendees in 2014 and over 950 attendees in 2015. Saturday, July 9, 2016 -- Big Data Day Los Angeles. The first Big Data Day LA conference was in 2013, with just over 250 attendees.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Philz Coffee , the Silicon Valley coffee chain which has been in a massive expansion in Southern California in the last few months, announced on Tuesday a $45M Series C funding round. The company's first expansion beyond the Bay Area was in Santa Monica in 2014, due to the concentration of high tech startups in the area.

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JUNE 30, 2015

Chrome River was co-founded by Alan Rich and Dave Terry, and has quietly grown to become one of Southern California's fastest growing crop of cloud-based software providers. The company said it had 40 percent growth in 2014, and the company regularly makes the list of fastest growing private companies from Inc. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Dave Key and Technology Council of Southern California Virtually everyone agrees the SaaS market is growing incredibly quickly; Gartner predicted cloud growth would be 21% in 2011. CAGR through 2014. IDC predicts SaaS growth at 25.3%

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JUNE 28, 2018

Keeping the focus squarely on tools for artists and designers the company talked up its tools like Zync Render, which Google acquired back in 2014 , and Anvato, a video streaming and monetization platform it acquired in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Culver City-based video game publisher Scopely was ranked number two in the nation in the latest Deloitte Fast 500 ranking, as one of two Southern California companies among the top ten in the nation for growth.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Ian Rogers , the former CEO of Beats Music and longtime Southern California startup executive, has been named Chief Digital Officer at luxury brand LVMH Moet Hennessy Luis Vuitton , the company said this morning. Rogers had most recently been at Apple, after he helped sell Beats Music to the company for $3.2 READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

According to the company, the name change is aimed at communicating the change to the company's ownership, its new management team, and its new production site in California. Karma Automotive is now owned by Chinese automotive firm Wanxiang Group, which acquired Fisker out of bankruptcy in 2014.

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MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. So how could we accomplish this, while maintaining the close alternative SXSW vibe we had last year?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. 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.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Dave Key and Technology Council of Southern California Virtually everyone agrees the SaaS market is growing incredibly quickly; Gartner predicted cloud growth would be 21% in 2011. CAGR through 2014. IDC predicts SaaS growth at 25.3%

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APRIL 26, 2016

The biggest free big data conference in Southern California organized by several volunteers spearheaded by Subash D’Souza working to make this conference free and useful as in past years. It has grown from 250+ in 2013 to 550+ in 2014 and 950+ last year. This event will sell out so make sure to get your passes ASAP.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Based in Los Angeles, AppOnboard sees itself as one of a new breed of LA startup that’s steeping itself in the local ecosystem and trying to be one of the cornerstone’s for a new technology hub in the southern California region. Company co-founder Jonathan Zweig has already had one hit as a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? We''ll be featuring a few of these every day through the New Year.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. Some of our earliest clients were telecom and big Austrlian employers, so they became the proof point for our product. It all happened in 2014, really fast. So how did you end up here in California? I also find that Southern California is an amazing place for talent.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college. Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. But before you think of moving out of SoCal, our 19th deal also closed in 2016, and this was a growth equity investment in Brentwood based Docupace Technologies.

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MAY 23, 2017

Jonathan, who was Founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014), also told us why he got back in the startup game, even though he could be just sitting on a beach in Bali after his prior success. Jonathan Zweig: I was the largest shareholder in our exit to Opera, when AdColony sold in 2014.

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