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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Who do you think are the top 50 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California's technology industry this year?

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

As is a tradition for socaltech, we feature reflections on the past year from those in the community all during the last week of the year. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Who do you think are the top 50 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California's technology industry this year?

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

billion across the region in Q3 of 2015, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree survey, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested across Southern California for all of 2015. Southern California has seen another, big venture capital investment quarter, with companies raising $1.46

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Over the last week or so, we've featured the reflections of our readers on 2015 and what it has meant for Southern California's technology industry. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year? That's making sure you remove your hitch.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

KeyInfo has also been a big sponsor for socaltech over the years). Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year? Lief Morin: For me, personally, it was participating in the Mongol Rally adventure. When we returned to the U.S.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

According to Siemer & Associates, this year's conference, the Siemer Summit 2015, will be held from October 13th to 14th, and will feature Tim Draper as the keynote speaker. This time, the event is being held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, rather than Santa Monica, where the event had been held in prior years.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

Amid hand wringing about an IPO slowdown in 2015, there's one shining region which had a banner IPO and acquisition year last year: Santa Barbara. The city and surrounding region, which has been a long time technology hub, had a huge IPO and exit year, according to an analysis conducted by socaltech. The biggest exit was the $1.5

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The publicly traded company had a US IPO and NASDAQ listing in August of 2020 but has been trading on the Toronto exchange since 2015. The company said the new school bus is an all-electric, 40-foot battery powered electric school bus with a range of up to 150 miles; the bus can seat up to 90 passengers.

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DECEMBER 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based video story app developer Flipagram said Wednesday that it added more than 1,000 signed, musical artists to its "Flipagram Verified" platform, letting those artists make their music available to Flipagram's users.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Panay has been Chief Product Officer at Microsoft since April of 2018, also was corporate vice president, Microsoft Devices from July 2015 to April 2018, corporate vice president, Surface & PC Hardware from February 2013 to July 2015, and general manager, Surface & PC Hardware from January 2008 to February 2013.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

LaBrosse has been at Halozyme since 2015, and was most recently Vice President, Finance and Accounting. San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals company Halozyme Therapeutics said on Wednesday afternoon that it has named Nicole LaBrosse as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Office.

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MAY 29, 2019

Black Mountain Systems was previously owned by another, private equity investor, Stone Point Capital LLC , which acquired Black Mountain in 2015. Stone Point Capital said that Black Mountain has had "significant growth" in both revenues and profitability since it made the investment in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

CommissionTrac was founded in 2015. Santa Barbara-based Yardi announced this week that it has acquired CommissionTrac, a developer of revenue management software for commercial real estate companies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Israel is the co-founder of parking startup ParkMe, which was acquired by Inrix back in 2015. The startup--led by parking startup veteran Alex Israel--said the funding was led by 3L, and also included 01 Advisors, Dragoneer and Slow Ventures, plus real estate investors Starwood, RXR, DivcoWest and Dan Doctoroff.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

A new report, published this morning by Bloomberg, says that a massive Chinese hacking effort --involving the implantation of tiny devices on computer motherboards--was uncovered due to due diligence efforts made by Amazon , as part of its acquisition of Elemental Technologies back in 2015.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Anchore's backers include Andreas von Blottnitz, along with Doug Carlisle of Menlo Ventures; the company's founder, Said Ziouani, is a veteran of Eucalyptus and Ansiblem, and sold Ansible to Red Hat in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2019

However, the site has quite a bit less music now, after the site accidentally lost all of the music uploaded to the site uploaded between 2003 and 2015. The onetime social networking site, founded in Los Angeles, is now owned by Meredith Corporation and is still active as an online music discovery site.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Carney--who has been a Principal at Upfront since 2015--previously served at Pandodaily and Worldvest. The venture investor said it has added Aditi Maliwal as a Partner, and also promoted Michael Carney to Partner. Maliwal was most recently a product manager at Google, and also had served at Crosslink Capital and Deutsche Bank.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

According to the company, it has now raised $75M in total funding since it was founded in 2015. The company is led by CEO and founder Guillaume de Zwirek. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2020

Vive Organic was founded by CEO Wyatt Taubman, COO Kyle Withycombe and VP of Sales JR Simich in 2015. According to Vive Organic, it will use the new funding to expand its digital footprint, for its pipline, and to make it products more accessible to consumers nationwide. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2020

The company says its founders are from Zynga, Electronic Arts and Blizzard, and that it was founded in 2015. Carbonated focuses on developing "highly competitive" games for mobile devices, which are more in line with the hard core games found on consoles and PCs, rather than the more usual casual gaming market. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Karma Automotive said it has actually been working with BMW on the onboard generators for the vehicle since 2015. Karma Automotive claims it will have its vehicles available for sale or lease by the second half of this year, although it has yet to announced its vehicles. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 3, 2021

The company was founded in 2015, but apparently has seen pickup as a result of the pandemic and the move to remote work. Parabol says it has developing a platform focused on enabling remote and hybrid teams to conduct structured meetings, using the "Agile" methodology. The company is led by CEO and Co-founder Jordan Husney.

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MARCH 29, 2019

The fund--led by Carmen Palafox, Noramay Cadena, and Shaun Arora--says it has so far made investments into 16 companies since 2015. MiLA Capital , the venture capital firm that is behind the Make In LA hardware accelerator, says it has raised its first official venture capital fund, officially closing its first fundraise.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Chrome River company has consistently ranked as one of LA's fastest growing companies in the Deloitte Fast 500 rankings, and had said in 2014 that it was expecting 2015 revenues of around $25 million. The growth comes thanks to $100M in funding from Great Hill Partners in June of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 16, 2020

FameBit--which was based in Los Angeles, and was acquired by Google in 2015 --will continue to operate, and will continue to serve Youtube creators in the U.S. FameBit , the online marketplace which had allowed advertisers to connect with YouTube influencers, is no more, and has been renamed YouTube BrandConnect , Google said on Tuesday.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Halogen Ventures was founded in 2015, and so far has invested in over 60 female founded companies, and says it now has ten exits out of its portfolio. Los Angeles-based Halogen Ventures, the venture capital firm led by Jesse Draper, has raised $21M in its second fund, the firm said on Wednesday.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The company was founded in 2015. The funding came from Chinese investors SINA Corp. and Composite Capital. TuSimple says it has now raised a total of $178M. The new funding values the company at $1 billion. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Lynda.com was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 The privacy of library patrons and the books and materials they check out has been a major focus of libraries and librarians; the American Library Association says privacy "is the bedrock foundation for intellectual freedom. billion; LinkedIn was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Calporta Therapeutics was launched out of COI Pharmaceuticals in 2015. Calporta's technology revolves around selective small molecule agonists to TRPML1, which the companies say is believed to play a role in lysosomal function by promoting autophagy and lysosomal exocytosis. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

The nonprofit says it has been working as a partner of Causecast since 2015, and has been servicing clients using the Causecast technology for the past four years. According to America's Charities, the acquisition will help it further strengthen its support of the "social good" sector. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

in total since it was founded in 2015. Foot Locker explained the move will also go to help help accelerate GOAT Group's global operations, expanding its omnichannel experience and technologies. GOAT has now raised $197.6M READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2019

According to the report, Gutentag had been terminated from his job at Uber in 2015, over an alleged sexual battery incident, before later joining ZipRecruiter as CMO. Eyal Gutentag reportedly resigned on Friday.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Kneron was founded in 2015. Kneron develops "edge AI" products, which combines software and hardware to allow for the implementation of artificial intelligence code in devvices such as smart home, smartphone, smart vehicle, and other Internet-of-Things (IoT) products. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The company got its start in 2015 to allow for trading of high end, collectible sneakers; the company has since expanded into apparel and other accessories. According to GOAT Group, the new funding will go to further accelerate growth across product categories and geographies. GOAT has now raised a total of $290M.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Clutter has now raised around $97M in total funding since 2015. Clutter has also previously raised funding from AmplifyLA, Resolute.vc, and angels Matt Coffin, David Sacks, and Joanne Wilson. READ MORE>>.

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