TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The new investment follows Scopely’s milestone of achieving more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue. Indeed, part of the reason for the financing is to accelerate the pace of its acquisitions and investments into new game development studios, according to chief executive, Walter Driver.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

AnaptysBio is backed by Frazier Healthcare, Novo A/S, Avalon Ventures, Alloy Ventures, Biotechnology Value Fund, HBM Healthcare Investments, and others. as early as Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

percent from last year, as its continues to have a significant piggyback of cash and investments for its acquisitions. in cash and investments--said it now expects its revenues to be between $830 and $860 million in its fiscal 2016. Los Angeles-based J2 Global said on Wednesday that its revenues increased to $211.8M

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2019

which acquired Grindr in 2016. According to the report, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is concerned about Kunlun Tech's access to personal data derived from Grindr's service. Grindr is owned by Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd., Grindr was founded in Los Angeles, and still has substantial operations here.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

in 2016, in a deal then reported as worth less than $100M. Machinima first started developing its gaming-related content back around 2008, and helped usher in a healthy investment market for multi-channel-networks, companies which aggregated multiple YouTube creators and channels into a single media company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2021

Manhattan Beach-based Traliant, which provides online workplace compliance training solutions, said it has received a majority investment from private equity investor PSG. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. Traliant was founded in 2016, and says it has over 5,000 customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Some of the early investors in Woodland Hills-based accounting software developer BlackLine are looking for some liquidity from their investments, more than a year since BlackLine's October 2016 IPO, and plan to sell around 4,500,000 shares of their stock.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Agilent already owned a 48 percent ownership stake in Lasergen, as part of an investment it made in March of 2016. Lasergen , a startup developing technology for the DNA sequencing market--and which has an office in San Diego--has been acquired by Agilent Technologies for $105M, the two said late Tuesday.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2017

which until recently was known as Novatel Wireless, said on Thursday that it has delayed its 10-K filing for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2016. Committee on Foreign Investment In The United States (CFIUS). San Diego-based Inseego Corp. Industries Holdings (H.K.) The company has since been mired in reviews by the U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2018

According to BlackLine, the shares in the offering are being sold by Silver Lake Sumeru, investment funds affiliated with ICONIQ, Therese Tucker, the company's CEO and founder; and Mario Spanicciati, the company's Chief Marketing Officer. BlackLine had its IPO in October of 2016. Silver Lake Sumeru is looking to sell around 6.1M

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2017

Inseego said that the parties in the transaction were informed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United State (CFIUS) that the 30-day review period has been extended into an investigation period which may last up to 45 days.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Industries Holdings , say they once again have withdrawn their request for regulatory approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The two announced a deal to sell Novatel Wireless to Jade Ocean in September of 2016, when Novatel Wireless renamed itself Inseego.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The world’s top tech companies have heavily invested in AR/VR and are persistent in broadcasting the technologies’ potential to blur the lines of how consumers interact with the digital world. If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. The Social Experiment.

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Tech Zulu Event

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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. As a starting point you have to realize that investment firms (which a VC is) have management needs. That certainly works well for some.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. In summary, it really has been an amazing year and we look forward to supporting additional compelling software companies in 2016. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

Private equity investors have more capital at their disposal than at any time in more than a decade, which could boost prices for companies seeking acquisitions. billion as of year-end 2016, exceeding the levels seen at the end of. As of Aug. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6 As of Aug.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

VC firms invested $14.99 billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. Despite the slowdown in venture dollars and deal flow, 2016 is still on pace—with roughly $56 billion invested in 5,997 deals so far this year—to end the year with more than $70 billion invested nationwide.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. I mention this because Greg led our investment in a company that I have personally become addicted to called Draft.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Many have exited via successful acquisitions, while others have IPO’ed with the same impressive result. Not to mention there’s a chance at a possible investment from the Established Investment Community. Fast forward to September 2016, and ShearShare walks away being named the Tech.Co And we’re so glad we did!

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP. They've told their large enterprise customers they're sunsetting the product in 2016, and with that announcement, we've gotten a large number of their base evaluating our system. Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

— LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. LA Tech has arrived.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. The same is true of Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank investments you see on TV. Undisclosed skill gaps or agendas can stall your investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI). This can be customer acquisition cost, revenue growth, profit, or whatever other parameters are key to your success. You can fail by not being there at all (see the United Breaks Guitars story ), or making a big mistake (see The 12 Worst Social-Media Fails of 2016 ).

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Hailed as the true democratizer of private investment, crowdfunding has been attracting both headlines and a fast-growing pile of cash. In May of 2016, rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect that will democratize the process even further.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2018

Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX ) had been an investor in Cryterion, based in Carlsbad, CA, since it launched in 2016. The cash payment covers the 65 percent of Cryterion that the Marlborough, MA, medical device giant does not already own.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years). New funds have been raised dedicated to this segment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

There is an old saying in the startup investor community, “Smart investors invest in the team, not the idea.” Investors expect to hear annual revenues, average margins, customer acquisition costs and sales pipelines. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 05/18/2016. You need both for maximum impact.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. Shares have since eroded significantly, but Biogen has restructured and cut a number of jobs to support its risk-heavy investments, halting preclinical work in immunology and fibrosis.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. . —Option-to-buy deals are by definition no guarantee, and an agreement between Boston-based Acetylon Pharmaceuticals and Celgene is the latest example.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. AgTech Accelerator Aims to Sway Agriculture Investment Trends. Jeff Engel maps out New England’s cluster of cybersecurity companies—one of the region’s strengths (and a rich source of acquisition targets). Boston Cybersecurity Map Shows Deep, Diverse Local Sector.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

The national origins of tech devices and services wasn’t a front-burner question—at least for the general public—until the issue came up at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in May on Russia’s suspected hacking of the 2016 presidential election. Leaders of six U.S.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.

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