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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. According to the companies, Clearlake Capital Group made a strategic minority investment in Diligent, which is owned by another private equity investment firm, Insight Venture Partners. Insight Ventures acquired Diligent in February of 2016. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Los Angeles-based venture investor Mucker Capital , led by Erik Rannala and William Hsu, has booted up an effort to raise a new fund, Mucker IV, worth $55M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Mucker Capital's last fund, Mucker III, was raised in March of 2016, and was worth $45M. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital said this morning that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Power Partners , to another private equity-backed company, Pioneer Transformers. Pioneer Transformers is backed by private equity investor Mill Point Capital. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Thursday, October 27, 2016 -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources, advisors, deal makers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. DEAL DISPLAY showcases growing firms needing capital. View products, online demos. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 22, 2016

Thursday, July 28, 2016 -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources, advisors, deal makers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases growing firms needing capital. View products,videos, online demos. See [link] (more)

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Santa Monica-based venture investor Mucker Capital is one of the investors in a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification software, which uses email address scoring. The funding was led by Anthos Capital, and also included Radian Capital, Wipro Ventures, Mucker Capital and Tallwave Capital.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company’s public offering should be a nice windfall for the Chicago-based investors DNS Capital, an investment firm managing the private wealth of the Pritzker family, and Cleveland Avenue, founded by former McDonald’s executive Don Thompson; as well as the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Obvious Ventures.

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APRIL 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Palisades Growth Capital announced this morning that it has sold off its ownership interest Los Angeles-based L Docupace , a developer of software for the wealth management industry. Palisades said it sold its interests in Docupace to another private equity investor, FTV Capital.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. As Board chairman, she led capital raises, recruited board members and established advisory boards including bringing on independent non-financial board members to lend strategic industry experience. In 2006, Ms.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Previously, Brad was President of DIC Entertainment, an international children's media company, which he acquired with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It’s a new year – 2016. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. We all want larger amounts of capital to hire more senior people and to build bigger teams. 2016 is going to be a tough year. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). Team Building.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The round was led by Qumra Capital, a new investor. Microsoft’s venture fund M12, also a new investor, participated in the round alongside Acrew Capital, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Munich Re Ventures, and Israeli entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer, who co-founded security firms Check Point and Imperva.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has sold Netmotion Wireless , a developer of mobile security software, to The Carlyle Group. Clearlake Capital acquired NetMotion Wireless back in 2012. Clearlake Capital said it expects the sale to complete in the third quarter of 2016.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners , the investment firm run by Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken, and Jamie Montgomery, has made an investment in Activehours , a new startup offering up early access to paychecks. March Capital Partners launched its new $240M venture fund back in May of 2016.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Following this round, Fair now has access to nearly a $1 billion in debt capital since its 2016 founding and has raised over $500 million in equity to date. Car leasing and financing provider Fair announced Dec. 20 it completed a $385 million Series B round, led by SoftBank Group Corp.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

There was an explosion in number of startups both because it was cheap and there was tons of available capital. The other major trend of 2012–2015 was the entrance of “non VCs” into late-stages of venture capital , which mostly consisted of hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors, sovereign wealth funds and even LPs doing direct deals.

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MARCH 2, 2017

VeloCloud Networks a , a developer of software defined, wide area networking (WAN) technology which is backed by Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners, has raised $35M in a big funding round, the company announced today. VeloCloud was one of the first disclosed investment in March Capital's first fund.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

This morning, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners. Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Santa Barbara-based venture capital investment firm Rincon Ventures is part of a new funding round for quality assurance software developer Rainforest QA. Rincon invested in Rainforest QA's Series A round back in 2016. Rainforest is based in San Francisco. Rainforest is based in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. Scott is co-chair of the Firm's Venture Capital and Emerging Growth Practice Group and chair's the Firm's Interactive Entertainment and Video Games Group. Wait and see!

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MAY 1, 2017

A new report, released by the Angel Resource Institute in the last week, has spotlighted the Tech Coast Angels and the Pasadena Angels as among the top four angel groups in California, and the Tech Coast Angeles as number two in the nation in terms of the number of deals in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2016

A new survey, released this week by Silicon Valley Bank, finds that even as the availability of venture capital in Southern California is tightening, and lofty unicorn valuations are declining, startup entrepreneurs are still optimistic about the future of technology in the region.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Presented by Clear Capital Advisors. Join local entrepreneurs, SaaS innovators, leading VCs, private equity/angel investors February 23 at the Recurring Revenue Conference, 8-5pm with cocktail reception after.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have an article from Dr. John Paglia , an associate professor of finance and senior researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. Tags: insights opinions venture capital clean tech cleantech energy power pepperdine opinion john paglia. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 7, 2017

Venture capital investments in the U.S. have dropped to the lowest rate of activity since Q4 of 2011, as venture capital investors continue to be shy about investing in startups, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report. billion raised by venture funds in 2016. According to the report, there was $16.5

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APRIL 19, 2017

percent from Q4 of 2016, and 43.8 AmplifyLA pointed out that the seed deals were in contrast to the bigger picture, where venture capital investments were up 15 percent nationally--but pointed out that those gains were driven by "mega-deals", rather than seed funding. Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 7, 2015

A few of the 2016 presidential candidates have indicated their intent to change the rate at which venture returns are taxed. Currently, carry proceeds are taxed at the long-term capital gains rate of 20%. However, most investors are unlikely to make a drastic career change based on losing 20% of their future capital returns.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles, California, USA – March 23, 2016: Aerial view of the Hollywood sign at dusk in Los Angeles. Now, as the digital transformation movement continues to accelerate, DevOps teams are struggling with inadequate and inflexible security tools,” said Joshua Bixby, chief executive officer of Fastly, in a statement.

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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. Digital Map Products is backed by private equity investor Silversmith Capital Partners. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Today, Papaya is announcing it has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Acrew Capital, 01 Advisors, Mucker Capital, Fika Ventures, F-Prime and Sound Ventures.

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JULY 24, 2019

Bryant Stibel , the Los Angeles area venture capital investment firm of Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel, has backed item tracking startup Tile in a new, $45M funding round. The growth equity funding was led by Francisco Partners, and also included GGV Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, plus new investors Bryan Stibel and SVB Financial Group.

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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 Capital, Milliways Ventures, and Array Ventures, among others. ServiceNow said it expects to complete the acquisition by the end of Q1.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2019

Fair was founded in 2016 by an all-star team made up of automotive, retail and banking executives including Scott Painter, former founder and CEO of TrueCar. Companies like Fair are offering new types of leases combining a traditional auto financing option with modern conveniences.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year. That is down 13 percent from a peak in 2015, when global fintech investment soared to $14.6

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Burnett had previously served as CFO of the company, from August 2016 to April of 2017. Interlink says Burnett has also been appointed CFO of BKF Capital Group, and OTC traded company which owns 11.93 Westlake Village-based Interlink Electronics said on Wednesday afternoon that it has named David S. percent of the company.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Digital Fuel had been owned by private equity investor Skyview Capital. Digital Fuel had been founded in 2000, and was acquired by VMware in 2011; Digital Fuel was then acquired by Skyview Capital in 2016. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Apptio is based in Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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