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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. Happy Holidays!

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based dating app Tinder is set to hit $800M in revenues in 2018, according to owner Match Group this week. Match Group CFO Gary Swidler reported the growth in revenues at Tinder earlier this week, on Match's earnings call, saying that Tinder more than doubled its revenues from last year.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Although there are still several days remaining in the first quarter of 2018, EY reports the number of first-quarter IPOs is 44 percent higher than the 25 offerings that occurred in the first quarter of 2017. IPO activity has been ticking up, with 36 IPOs raising more than $12.7

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APRIL 30, 2018

Irvine-based technology distributor Ingram Micro is disputing a report, published by Reuters on Friday, which says the company is looking for additional financing for its business, of up to $4 billion. The company emphasized its separation from Chinese conglomerate HNA Group and HNA Technology Company--which acquired Ingram Micro in 2016.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

in 2018, Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos resigns after controversial statements surface, Disney demonstrates wireless charging technology, and more. Goldman Sachs predicts $2 billion in revenue for Snap Inc.

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MARCH 30, 2018

A new report, published this week by the nonprofit CompTIA group, says that Los Angeles is the number two metropolitan area in the nation for technology employment. According to the CompTIA 2018 CyberStates report, LA had 501,900 technology workers, number two in the nation behind New York City, which has 664,800.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Elon Musk has emailed employees of Hawthorne-based SpaceX , apologizing for the podcast with Joe Rogan where he smoked marijuana on camera, emphasizing that SpaceX personnel "may not use or posses any controlled substance while in the workplace", according to a report.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital is hoping to sell one of its portfolio companies, Perforce Software , for around $2 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg over the weekend. Perforce has been owned by Clearlake Capital since January of 2018.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

A new report, from J.D. Power , says that "younger generations" are "cozying up" to smart thermostats, the devices which automatically adjust a home's temperature based on when people are in or out of a home, usually saving energy and money. According to J.D.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to hold Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in contempt for violating a settlement Musk made last year with the SEC, due to a tweet earlier this month where Musk talked about production numbers for Tesla's vehicles, according to a report on Monday from Bloomberg.

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MARCH 14, 2019

A new report, from market analysis firm Sensor Tower, says that Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery , the Harry Potter-themed mobile game developed by Los Angeles-based JamCity , has now collected $110M in player spending, in less than a year. Jam City launched the title in April of 2018.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The company said it saw 52 percent revenue growth from 2018 to 2020. Chatsworth-based DDN, which develops high performance computing storage and artificial intelligence and data management software, says it had record breaking annual revenues of $400M and "highest ever profitability" in 2020.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2019

Venture capital investments rose in 2018 to levels not seen since the heady days of 2000, the last year U.S. That’s according to PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association’s Venture Monitor report, released this week, which tallied nearly 9,000 deals made last year, through which venture investors sunk $130.9

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The devastating string of wildfires in California in 2018 will cause a total economic loss of $400 billion, according to numbers calculated by weather forecasting company AccuWeather.

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MARCH 22, 2019

The number of subscribers to online video services have just passed up that of traditional cable, according to an MPAA report today, which said in 2018 that there were 613.3 The report says that surpasses the 556.0 million cable subscriptions it tracked in 2018. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Clearlake said it investedin Provation in March of 2018, after a carve-out acquisition from Wolters Kluwer. The company also funded the acquisition of four companies for Provation, including MD-Reports, ePreop, iProcedures and endoPRO. Financial details of the sale were not announced.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

The two previously had agreements to cover both the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics. Los Angeles-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , has inked a deal with NBC where NBC will produce four, daily original shows on the Olympics and Team USA for Snapchat, according to Variety.

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APRIL 15, 2020

billion invested across 2,298 deals in the first quarter of 2020, partially as a result of "record-high" levels of capital raised by VC funds in 2018 and 2019. According to the NVCA, and its PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, there was $34.2

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat, reported its results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that its fourth quarter revenues were up 36 percent to a record, $390M. on its quarter, which ended December 31, 2018. Snap reported revenues of $1.18 Snap reported revenues of $1.18

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The report was put together by London & Partners and Dealroom as part of this week’s Silicon Valley Comes to the UK virtual event. And San Francisco-based Allbirds, the sustainable shoe retailer, opened its first European flagship store in London in July 2018. More than 5,000 startups were surveyed to create the data.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which provides both Wi-Fi services as well as distributed antenna systems (DAS), reported its 2018 financial results on Wednesday, saying that its annual revenues rose to a record $250.8M According to Boingo, those results were a 22.7 percent year-over-year increase.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Seed stage investments in Los Angeles area startups was up, year-to-year, according to the Q1 2018 LA Seed Deal Report from investor Amplify LA. According to the report from Amplify, 23 LA startups raised a total of $52.9M in seed funding in Q1, which was up 2.5 percent from Q1 of 2017.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a report by the National Student Clearinghouse only 18 percent of women graduated with a science degree in 2014. This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Mojave-based aerospace developer ,a href="[link] reports that it has received a research contract with the U.S. Stratolaunch had been founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan as part of the billionaire space race; however, Allen died in 2018, and the company was sold in 2019.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

[ Note: Ben Fidler co-authored this report.] This weekend, San Diego will host the annual American Society of Hematology conference, the largest U.S. medical gathering to get the latest on blood diseases, and a venue for updates on some of the most cutting-edge biotechnologies that only a few years ago seemed like science fiction.

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MAY 31, 2019

Allen, is shutting its doors, according to a report on Friday from Reuters. The report--which cited "four people familiar with the matter"--said that Stratolaunch would close its operations. Alen-- died in October of 2018 READ MORE>>. No reason for the shutdown was given. The company's founder--Microsoft's Paul G.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

The report said that the Air Force "Global Lightning" program has shown the ability to send data at 610 megabits per second between two military C-12 planes, while in flight, part of a broader effort to test high speed data across a number of other additional military aircraft. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2019

in 2018 to $19.1 Much of that growth is now coming from streaming, the IFPI reports, with streaming revenues growing 34% year over year and accounting for 47% of total revenue thanks to paid subscription services. The global recorded music market grew 9.7%

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 23, 2017

FreedomPop launches free family cellphone plan, Oaktree sells stake in tronc back to company, and Jam City eyes late 2017 or early 2018 IPO.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 30, 2018

The product blends data mining, cognitive AI, and learning science to analyze a company’s competencies and present the information through simple reporting in order to gain valuable insights from their big data. in Spring 2018. The post 5 Virginia Startups at Collision 2018 That Should Be on Your Radar appeared first on Tech.co.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 11, 2018

region falls again; Internet Brands to acquire lawyer search website Avvo; and SpaceX delays commercial crew test flights to latter half of 2018. Venture capital investment to L.A.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The move comes even as Activions Blizzard reported record net revenues in 2018 of $7.50 Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said that, although its financial results for 2018 "were the best in our history", the company "didn't reaize our full potential"--triggering the job cuts. bllion, up from the $7.02

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 26, 2018

Study says SoCal tech scene leaving $100 billion on table; 2018 to bring more deals than 2017; and Chrissy Teigen latest celebrity to abandon Snapchat.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The company reported a net loss of $31.02M in 2018 on revenues of $8.5M; the company's current revenue stream includes both license fees and grants. The IPO is being underwritten by Evercore ISI, Barclays, Nomura, and Raymond James. Inhibrx is backed by LAV Biosciences Fund and Viking Global Investors.

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MAY 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , the online services and publishing giant, reported on Monday that its Q1 2018 quarterly revenues grew to $280.6 million, a 10.2 percent increase over Q1 of last year.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 5, 2017

Snapchat lets users add links to web content, SpaceX launch scrapped twice but scheduled for attempt tonight, and Virgin Galactic aims for commercial flights in 2018, and more.

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