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JUNE 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triton Digital , a provider of advertising services and technology for the online radio streaming, digital audio and podcasting markets, has acquired Omny Studio , a developer of a podcast and on-demand audio publishing platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not annoucned.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Santa Monica-based cancer treatment developer Kite Pharma has been acquired by Gilead Sciences , in a deal worth $11.9 According to the two companies, they expect to close the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2017. According to the two companies, they expect to close the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2017.

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MARCH 7, 2019

DivX , the streaming video software developer which was started in San Diego, has filed patent infringement lawsuits against both Netflix and Hulu , accusing the firms of usings its video streaming intellectual property. The lawsuits come several years after DivX was acquired by NeuLion, in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Corona, California-based Clubspeed , which develops software used to manage go karting tracks, race tracks, trampoline parks, and family entertainment centers, has been acquired by private equity investor Nadavon Capital Partners , the two said over the weekend. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Calabasas-based surround sound and audio technology developer DTS is now officially part of Tessera , after Tessera completed its acquisition of DTS on Thursday, the companies said on Thursday afternoon. Tessera paid $850M in cash for DTS, in a deal which had originally been announced in May. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Scopely said on Tuesday that it is expanding its team, by opening up new offices in Spain and Ireland. Scopely said it is opening up a new, 26,000 square foot office in Sarria-Sant Gervasi in Barcelona, an expansion from its earlier 7,000 square feet office in the city it opened in 2017.

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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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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. Founded in 2017, Convrg has made a name for itself by developing several popular chatbots and voice products. You can’t expand in the U.S. sitting in India, or on a plane.”.

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JULY 8, 2019

Perforce Software , a developer of software used by developers to manage their software source control and DevOps--which is backed by Santa Monica-based Clearlake Capital Group--has scored a new round of funding, the company announced this morning. Clearlake first made its investment in Perforce in late 2017. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Broadcom gained Veracode as a part of its blockbuster acquisition of CA Technologies. New York-based CA makes software and provides services for everything from IT management to app development to cybersecurity. Back in 2017, Burlington, MA-based Veracode agreed to sell to CA Technologies for $614 million in cash.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based advertising exchange and technology developer OpenX said on Tuesday that its net revenues rose to $172M in 2017, as it saw 20 percent growth in its revenues for the fourth quarter. The company said it invested over $50M in R&D efforts towards its technology an product in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 The company raised a $55 million round of financing in 2016, $60 million in 2017 and $100 million in 2018.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Swytch was a developer of digital gift card and mobile gifting apps, and was acquired about four weeks ago by a company called Finablr. Swych had announced a single funding round, in 2017, but had not announced investors or amounts of that funding. return for the firm in less than two years. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2018

Carlsbad-based RA Medical Systems , which develops cardiovascular and dermatology catheters and excimer lasers, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raise up to $86.25M in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The reported a net loss of $17.765M on net revenues of $5.87M for its year ended December 31, 2017.

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JULY 6, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , which develops very easy to use, connected whole-home speaker systems, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing on Friday that it is looking to raise up to $100M in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The company has applied to list as SONO. The company had a net loss of $14.2M during that period.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

Veritone is a developer of artificial intelligence software used to analyze audio, video and other data sources. Wazee Digital had net revenues of over $19M in 2017, according to the companies. Veritone said it paid $15.0M for Wazee Digital, split between $7.5M in cash and $7.5M in Veritone common stock.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

San Diego-based cybersecurity software developer CyberFlow Analytics , which develops software to analyze network traffic to locate cyber threats, has been acquired by Webroot , Webroot said on Monday. Financial terms of the asset deal were not announced. Cyberflow Analytics was led by Tom Caldwell. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Irvine-based Conexant Systems , which develops semiconductors for the audio and voice market, has been acquired by Synaptics , in a deal worth approximately $346.7M The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017. Conexant said it was advised by Cowen and Company, LLC and O'Melveny & Myers LLP in the deal.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company saw revenues grow tenfold in the last two years and its total number of properties balloon to over 1,000, and now it will use the new funding for expansion, specifically adding more properties to its platform; and to continue developing its technology as it expands into more aspects of the property rentals business.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him. In July of 2017, we started to develop the app, and we had our pilot from September 2017 to December 2017, and went live in March of 2018.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him. In July of 2017, we started to develop the app, and we had our pilot from September 2017 to December 2017, and went live in March of 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

As Amex scoops up Resy, a look at its acquisition history . The firm was launched in 2017 by general partners Eva Ho and TX Zhuo, formerly of Susa Ventures and Karlin Ventures, respectively. Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud-native development . Fundraising. Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. MediaLab said it has “some ideas” for developing Kik going forwards, including making the app faster and reducing the amount of unwanted messages and spam bots.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Oculus has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into funding VR content, and while the headset market is still small, developers have built plenty of games and experiences. If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. The Social Experiment. Maureen Fan [ Baobab Studios ] .

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? Josh Yguado is co-founder, COO and President of Jam City, where he�s overseen the mobile game developer�s exponential growth and global expansion. His career also includes working at MTV Networks and Univision.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, Illumina announced a new venture called Grail which plans to develop a blood test by 2019 to detect all cancers at their early stages. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? Let's just hope it is all more like morning in America and not just a house of cards. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

However, being that I started a tutoring agency when I was 18, Beverly Hills Academics, I was able to understand the logistics on how to operate hyper-locally from the beginning, so HeyTutor could spend money on developing a platform where we knew exactly what we were doing. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high.

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MARCH 1, 2017

The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities. I think we'll see a big increase in IPOs in 2017, but I think there will be, more dramatically, a big pickup in M&A. That's the Unilver acquisition of Dollar Shave, the GE acquisition of ServiceMax.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? With $30 million raised in 2017 ($57 million total) we feel in a great position to execute against our ambitions and truly scale our operations although we know each new phases adds new challenges. How profitable is my product or service?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The funding could be as much as $100 million, and the first grants will be announced in 2017. —Sarepta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SRPT ) struck a second deal in as many weeks to develop combination therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Territorial Acquisitions” by Joaquin Martinez via Creative Commons.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

She’s referring to how much Watson Health has spent on growth , including acquisitions like Merge and Truven Health Analytics. The first commercial product to come out of the effort is likely to hit in 2017. “When you look and say we just spent $4 billion in just under 12 months—IBM’s definitely spending,” LeGrand says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, more for new development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and processes. If you want to be assessed as a “premium” acquisition candidate down the road, an aggressive but reasonable target might be doubling revenue each year.

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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. The new company, expected to launch in 2017, will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol “BIVV” when the split is complete. Its financials were posted here.

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