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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. and China for their opinions.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Newport Beach-based private equity investor L Squared Capital Partners says it has successfully sold one of its portfolio companies, Learners Edge , to another private equity investor, Quad-C Management. L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market.

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MAY 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management said this morning that it has entered into an agreement to sell San Diego-based FMG Suite to another private equity ivnestor, Aurora Capital Partners. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M Nervana Systems was acquired in 2016 by Intel. Section 32 is the venture capital fund led by former Google Ventures CEO and founder Bill Maris, which is also based in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, modern point-of-sale (POS) technology for the food service and retail markets, says it has doubled its employee count in the last year to 200, as it sees what it calls "exponential" growth in its business.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Venture capital investment dollars declined in Q4, to $12.7 billion invested across 1,736 companies, according to the new Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor , the new report tracking venture capital investment across the U.S., as the venture market eased off its torrid funding pace. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Carlsbad-based Zingle , a developer of mobile messaging and customer experience software for the hospitality, travel , and retail markets, has been acquired by San Francisco-based Medallia , a provider of customer experience management software. Medallia said it will pay approximately $42M in cash for Zingle.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

San Diego-based residential solar power installer OneRoof Energy said late Friday that it has "significantlyr educed" its work force, and has begun winding down its operations, after it said it was unable to secure financing necessary to continue sales, marketing, and development. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Holmes has been Director of Strategic Partnerships at BigRentz since 2016. Cloud Capital. The company said that Holmes will lead operational management of the inbound customer queue, customer care, specialty services and supply. BigRentz is backed by Los Angeles private equity investor St. BigRentz was founded in 2012. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. Southern California companies raised $2.49 billion round for Venice based Snapchat.

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MAY 16, 2019

San Diego-based bioClarity , a skincare brand which markets itself to millennial and Gen-Z consumers, has raised $13M in a funding round, the company said thsi week. The company was founded in 2016. The funding was led by Prolog Ventures. The company is part of Adigica Health, Inc. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 21, 2016

A new report, issued Monday, says that IPO activity has slowed significantly in Q1, with a 39 percent drop in volume and 70 percent decline in total capital raised versus Q1 of last year. billion in Q1 of 2016--the weakest first quarter of the year since 2009. billion in Q1 of 2016--the weakest first quarter of the year since 2009.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Aliso Viejo-based semiconductor developer Microsemi has made an investment in San Juan Capistrano-based Veracity , a developer of industrial, network security software, as part of a collaboration in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market. Financial details of the investment were not announced. in a funding.

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MAY 3, 2018

in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. Washe has been in Southern California since at least July of 2016, when it started offering its services in San Diego and Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Pasadena-based Coronal Energy , a provider of solar photovoltaic (PV) project development, financing, and operation services for the utility, municipal and corporate market, has scored a strategic investment from Panasonic , the two said this morning. Financial terms of the funding were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2011

The firm said the new 2016 and 2450 lithium coin cells are aimed at advanced and next generation portable electronics. Contour said the cells are designed for OEM applications in the medical, consumer, automotive, and military markets.

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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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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. What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016? What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year? Arteen Arabshahi: Hyperloop Technologies.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Without a doubt, the maturing cryptocurrency markets paired with growing blockchain technology will have a bold impact on the technology industry in 2018. His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever).

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MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. You no longer have to be an investor in a giant venture capital fund.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. We raised money from Frost Data Capital.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. What's the biggest thing that the company has done since you came on?

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Jay Goss: I got involved around April of 2016, as the company was putting the final pieces together on the app. Everything I described to you has now been really well validated for product-market-fit, and the company is now ready to become a company, not just a development shop. Our tagline, is where strangers become friends.

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What that's done, is it's create a large hit in this space, at the top right end of the market.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Parker Wells: We spun out and created our own company in 2016, and we got our first funding from the State of California in 2017. What's the biggest challenge you see in getting this to market? Parker Wells: There's a lot of challenges for anything capital intensive like this. How far along are you with commercialization?

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016. We caught up with founder and CEO Bryan Biniak to hear more about the company and what Connected Travel is doing.

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