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MARCH 6, 2020

based company, San Vicente Acquisition Partners. The app, originally developed in Los Angeles, raised national security concerns after it was acquired by Beijing Kunlun in 2016 for $93 million. Reuters reports that the Chinese company sold its 98% stake in Grindr to a U.S.-based That ownership was later scrutinized by a U.S.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Passage AI was founded in 2016 and had received funding from Blumberg Capital, Storm Ventures, Engineering Capital, 11.2 ServiceNow said it expects to complete the acquisition by the end of Q1. Capital, Milliways Ventures, and Array Ventures, among others. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition of Business.com is just the latest saga in the business and domain name; the.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

GRAIL was spun out of Illumina in 2016 as a standalone company. Illumina and GRAIL said the acquisition is split between $3.5 Illumina said the buy will help it add a multi-disciplinary team and capabilities for next generation sequencing (NGS), population scale clinical studies, and machine learning. billion in cash and $4.5

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Future Media said the acquisition is its first foray into consumer sales. Oak & Jackal was originally launched and funded through an effort on Kickstarter , in June of 2016. The company also offers eyewear and wallets.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Axiom Materials said it will continue to operate under its existing trade name and business partnerships after the acquisition. Axiom Materials was backed by private equity investor Sorenson Capital, and was founded in 2016 in a recapitalization deal with Sorenson. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

The acquisition of the brand is not the first for Napster, which was acquired by RealNetworks/Rhapsody Networks in 2011; Rhapsody Networks renamed itself to Napster in 2016.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

LogMeIn --which has significant operations in Santa Barbara, due to its acquisition of the Citrix GoToAssist, GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar, and other businesses in 2016--has acquired Jive Communications , a developer of cloud-based phone systems for the Unified Communications (UC) market.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. PCM said it made the acquisition through its UK-based subsidiary, PCM Technology Solutions UK, Ltd. Provista UK was founded in 2016, and offers up products from such vendors as Cisco, Avaya, Cisco Meraki, Huawei, and Checkpoint. and its subsidiary, Provista UK Ltd.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Cozzens was most recently CEO of Telogis, which he led from startup to acquisition by Verizon in August of 2016. According to Digital Map Products, it has appointed Dave Cozzens to its board, to help guide the company around strategic growth and positioning. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2017

The acquisition is part of the pending acquisition of Alere by Abbott. Quidel said the total actual and estaimated revenues for the acquired business in 2016 were $197M. San Diego-based diagnostic testing systems developer Quidel announced this morning that it is acquiring a number of assets from Alere Inc. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to the companies, PSG will retain a minority ownership stake in LogicMonitor after the majority acquisition. PSG acquired its stake in LogicMonitorin 2016. LogicMonitor is led by CEO Kevin McGibben.

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MARCH 30, 2017

billion acquisition of Brocade. Broadcom has been working through regulatory approval for its acquisition, which was announced in November of 2016. Extreme said the transaction is contingent on the closing of the acquisition of Brocade Communications Systems by Broadcom. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2016 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, February 11 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from Crosscut Ventures, Machine Shop Ventures, Techstars, and more to be announced soon who will share their insights and forecast for startups in 2016. Joe received his B.S.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. RealD said the acquisition came as a result of "key legal victories" where RealD asserted its patents against MasterImage. RealD won a big patent lawsuit against MasterImage 3D in July of 2016. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

from 2016, when it had $874.3M j2 Global--which is still not well known beyond insiders in LA's tech community--has grown through an insatiable appetite for acquisitions, which the company has successfully assimilated into a cohesive set of online businesses. According to the company, it had 2017 revenues of $1,117.8 in revenues.

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JUNE 26, 2019

That formula worked well for Dollar Shave Club, which rode the buzz generated by its company launch video to an acquisition worth somewhere around $1 billion by Unilever in 2016. The brand is looking to gain market share through its clever, anti-establishment marketing. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Accruent said the acquisition is its seventh in the past 24 months. Accruent was founded in Los Angeles a little over 22 years ago, but was acquired and moved to Texas in 2016. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Poway-based Cohu , which manufactures semiconductor test and inspection equipment, said today that it has completed its acquisition of Japanese company Kita Manufacturing Co. Cohu said Kita had 2016 sales of approximately $17M. The deal was worth $15M in cash, with up to $3M in earn out. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 27, 2018

DTS was acquired by Tessera in 2016 and Tessera subsequently changed its name to Xperi in February of 2017, after its acquisition of DTS, FotoNation, Invensas, and Tessera. Financial details of the licensing deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 2, 2017

Lancaster, California-based Simulations Plus , which develops simulation and modeling software, said Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of North Carolina-based DILIsym Services. Simulations Plus said DILIsym had revenues of just over $3M in 2016. DILIsym develops software for the simulation of drug-induced liver injury.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 -- Startups: The Year That Was and The Year That's Ahead. What were the big exits this year along the Central Coast (IPOs, acquisitions)? What gained the attention of investors in 2016, and what technologies and companies might be hot for next year? Keynote Speaker: Ben Kuo, socaltech.com.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Carslbad-based a href="[link] , the developer of radio frequency and mixed signal integrated ircuits, reported late Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of Physpeed Co., maxlinear physpeed merger acquisition radio frequency mixed signal interconnect semiconductor hadware' which develops high speed physical layer interconnects.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Mehrotra had joined the board of Western Digital in May of 2016, as part of the acquisition of San Disk by Western Digital. The co-founder and former CEO of SanDisk, Sanjay Mehrotra, has stepped down from the board of Irvine-based Western Digital , WD said Thursday afternoon.

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APRIL 22, 2020

billion acquisition of La Jolla, CA-based Synthorx , the biotech Shawver most recently headed. At Seattle-based Silverback, Shawver steps into a role previously held by co-founder Peter Thompson, an OrbiMed partner who, with others, launched the company in 2016. Shawver has known Thompson for about a decade.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

According to City of Hope, only "limited access" to those accounts occurred after the incident, and that it does not believe there was "any actual acquisition of patient medical information."

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APRIL 10, 2017

in 2016, and that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to the firm within 2017. Airgain said it is paying approximately $6.4 million in cash for Antenna Plus, which was in bankruptcy proceedings. Airgain said Antenna Plus had unaudited revenues of $7.5M

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JULY 1, 2016

Financial terms of the deal were not announced, hwoever, Alorica said the acquisition will push the company to a projected $2.4 billion in 2016 revenues, with 48,000 employees in the U.S., Irvine-based business outsourcing provider Alorica said Thursday that it has acquired Expert Global Solutions, Inc. , EGS was based in Plano, Texas.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

Since the launch of Pokémon Go in 2016, players have been coordinating meetups, in-game raids and battles on platforms like Reddit and Discord. With the help of Niantic’s recent 8th Wall acquisition , these features will also be available in mobile web browsers.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Los Angeles-based Internet services and online publishing giant j2 Global says it has acquired four more companies, all completed in the third quarter of 2016. Financial details of those acquisitions were not announced. Financial details of those acquisitions were not announced.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

The IPO follows one of the most active IPO and mergers and acquisitions years for Southern California last year, in 2016, and comes ahead of an anticipated IPO announcement for Venice-based Snap, Inc. as early as Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Tessera Technologies said the acquisition will boost its 2016 pro forma revenues to approximately $450M, and bring its total number of engineers to over 450. According to the two companies, Tessera will acquire DTS by paying $42.50 per share in cash, which is a 28 percent premium to the 30-day volume weighted average price of DTS.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Fastly said that the acquisition of Signal Sciences’ business will boost its ability to provide better security for applications and APIs — the connective fabric between different services that knit different technologies together behind the scenes. The image has been taken from a helicopter flying over LA.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

j2 Global said it acquired Fonebox , Everyday Health , CudaMail , Unified eMail , Abaxio , and GreenFax , all during Q4 of 2016. The terms of the remainder of the acquisition were not announced by the company. j2 Global and Everyday Health had announced in September that j2 Global would pay $10.50

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

According to a regulatory filing by Bitvore, the funding comes as part of an round which kicked off in December of 2016, and so far includes 36 investors. The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bourns said it acquired specific assets of that business, with transfer of those assets to begin in early 2016. Riverside, California-based electronics components manufacturer Bourns has acquired the trimmming potentiometer business of Murata Manufacturing Co.,

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 13, 2017

2016 was a good year to be a tech startup in LA, and, with the $25 billion planned public offering for the city’s startup darling, Snap Inc., Last year saw the city reap windfall exits from the acquisition of companies like Dollar Shave Club, and has a number of promising e-commerce companies… Read More.

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