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DECEMBER 26, 2016

You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. John is also very involved in providing advice to young startups and entrepreneurs. What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year?

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JANUARY 8, 2016

The following are another five pillars to establish credibility in the market and build a successful, cost-effective campaign to make you a stand out to investors, prospects, your people and industry customers, all to rev up your revenue. Read the rest of Five Things Startups Must Do to Rev Up Business in 2016. Continued.).

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. I love it because it shows how there are so many ways to innovate, not always hi-tech, and if you find the right market / problem to tackle, it doesn't have to be super-complicated.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Lyft's study examined 20 of its markets around the country. Lyft said the study also showed that passengers next year will save $88M in travel time value and over 7.5 million travel hours this year because of Lyft. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

L Squared Capital Partners had recapitalized Learners Edge in September of 2016; the private equity investors says it increased the company's revenues by more than 2.5x L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market. since that time. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 29, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Anchore , a provider of security and compliance tools for the "container" market, said it is expanding its footprint internationally, with an office in the United Kingdom. Anchore was founded in 2016 by Said Ziouani and Daniel Nurmi. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2019

The brand is looking to gain market share through its clever, anti-establishment marketing. 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. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2020

FMG Suite is a developer of cloud-based marketing automation software specifically for financial services professionals and advisors. K1 acquired FMG Suite back in 2016, and since there rolled up five other companies into FMG Suite, Advisor Launchpad, Advisors Assistant, Agency Revolution, MarketingPro and Platinum Advisor Strategies.

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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 company was acquired by Platinum Equity in December 2019. for the domain name.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Irvine-based Future Media , a digital marketing company, announced late Thursday that it has acquired Oak & Jackal , a direct-to-consumer maker of watches. Oak & Jackal was originally launched and funded through an effort on Kickstarter , in June of 2016. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

Santa Monica-based GumGum , which is using computer vision in the programmatic advertising market, sports, and social media, said today that it has just passed up the $100M in revenues mark. GumGum said its revenues in 2016 were $72M, and it expects to have revenues of nearly $110M in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2017

for the quarter ended December 31, 2016. The company says it has been seeing competition in the data storage industry which has "create pressure" on maintaining market share, saying that "market headwinds" have been challenging the company. According to Qualstar, it had a loss of $0.4 million on revenues of $2.2M

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to OpenGate Capital, it acquired Power Partners in January of 2016, via its first, institutional fund. Power Partners is a manufacturer of pole and pad-mounted distribution transformers for the utility, industrial, and commercial market. Power Partners is based in Athens, Georgia, and had approximately 370 employees.

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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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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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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based Social Reality (SRAX), which developing digital marketing and consumer data management software--and more recently, has tried to launch its own cryptocurrency called BIGtoken--said it is restating its results all the way back to March of 2017. READ MORE>>.

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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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JANUARY 4, 2018

El Segundo-based PCM , which provides information technology products to the business, government, and education markets, said very late Wednesday evening that it has acquired Provista Technology Services Ltd. Provista UK was founded in 2016, and offers up products from such vendors as Cisco, Avaya, Cisco Meraki, Huawei, and Checkpoint.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

According to the company, it is now delivering local professional and college sport podcasts in nearly sixty major metro markets in the US and Canada. The company was founded in June of 2016 by former Seattle Sonics and current Utah Jazz play-by-play voice David Locke.

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APRIL 4, 2018

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. Agilent already owned a 48 percent ownership stake in Lasergen, as part of an investment it made in March of 2016.

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MAY 14, 2018

Munchery apparently had withdrawn its business already in San Diego, where it had launched in 2016 ; it had been running in Los Angeles since 2012. Munchery said the withdrawal from its markets will have an "impact" on its teams in all of those locations, but did not say how many people are losing jobs in Los Angeles and those other markets.

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APRIL 10, 2017

San Diego-based antenna technology developer Airgain announced late Sunday that it has acquired substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of Antenna Plus , a developer of antenna products for the mobile and automotive fleet market. in 2016, and that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to the firm within 2017.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Irvine-based NextGen Healthcare Information Systems , a provider of electronic health records software which is owned by Quality Systems, said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Entrada , a Nashville-based provider of cloud-based mobile apps for the electronic health records (EHR) market. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Teledyne said that e2v had asles of 236 million pounds for the year ended March 31, 2016. Teledyne said that e2v had asles of 236 million pounds for the year ended March 31, 2016. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

contract was awarded in 2016 by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). According to the company, it completed the first phase of a $51.9M million contract with the U.S.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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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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JUNE 14, 2017

Episona has been offering up its test since October of 2016. The company said the new funds go towards commercial expansion of its product, increase sales and marketing, and for further technology development. The company is led by Dr. Alan Horsager.

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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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MARCH 8, 2018

ShippingEasy , the developer of cloud-based shipping, inventory management, and customer marketing software arm of El Segundo-based Stamps.com is targeting third party Amazon sellers today, with a new product release. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2017

Johnson was most recently SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Client Development at FacilitySource, and also had served at IBM and Xerox. TaskUs has thousands of employees overseas, having grown to over 7,000 employees as of the end of 2016, but only a fraction of that employee base is in the United States, and even less of that in Santa Monica.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Yet another, on-demand car wash service, WashOS , has appeared on the market targeting Southern California. WashOS, led by Bertrand Patriarca, says it detailed 10,000 cars in 2016, with services starting at $29.99.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

said this morning that it has create a new, Chinese joint venture, to market and sell its data center storage systems in China. The two said the JV will become operational in the second quarter of 2016. Irvine-based disk drive and storage maker Western Digital Corp. Ltd, and 49% by Western Digital. Ltd, and 49% by Western Digital.

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