Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It’s the biggest podcast industry acquisition ever, and Spotify isn’t done. Here’s what the podcast acquisitions mean for Spotify, for the entire podcast industry, and for all the tiny underdog podcasters out there. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Foothill Ranch-based Bal Seal Engineering , a manufacturer of springs, seals, contacts, as well as other products for the medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial market, has been acquired by Connecticut-based Kaman Corporation , in a deal worth $330M in cash. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Los Angeles-based J2 Global , which owns a large portfolio of Internet services and publications, says it acquired two more companies during Q4 of 2019. Financial details of the two acquisition were not announced, and J2 GLobal said the financial impact of the two acquisition are not expected to be material to the company.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Bird said the Q2 results are a 43 percent increase versus the same period in 2019. The startup--led by founder and CEO Traven VanderZanden--is now reporting its results as a result of recently hitting the public markets, via a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) transaction.

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MAY 8, 2020

in calendar year 2019. The company said the acquisition of PodcastOne will help it enter what is a rapidly growing podcast market, and that the acquisition will be accretive, strengthen its balance sheet, and also diversify its business model.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

In a global mobile games market that is consolidating, Jam City could not be more proud to be working with JPMorgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank and CIT Group to strategically support the financing of our acquisition and growth plans,” said Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of Jam City.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. markets, including reater Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., markets, including reater Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2019

Thursday, April 25, 2019 -- TCVN Event on Growth and Scaling. Bill has done it over and over again and is willing to share his amazing growth strategies.William Van Vleet is a talented and seasoned executive with over 35 years of experience in technology product development for commercial and defense markets. See [link] (more)

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MAY 17, 2021

billion market cap. Procore has been eyeing an IPO since 2019. Goleta-based construction management software developer Procore is expected to have its IPO debut this week, planning to raise $592M at a $8.9 The IPO looks to be the first in the technology sector for the Santa Barbara area since Sonos went IPO in 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO. Fundraising.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Given SVBs market position, that is great news. If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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MARCH 21, 2019

A new report, issued this week by EY, says that the number of IPOs have dropped across both international markets and the US. Despite the slowdown, Southern California managed to produce three IPOs in the first three months of 2019, including the $317.0M Globally, there were 199 IPos in the first three months of 2019, totaling $13.1

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of March 2019, continues San Diego-based ResMed’s (NYSE: RMD ) “connected healthcare” push that began about five years ago, as Xconomy chronicled last year. [ Updated 12/3/18, 3:30 pm, with CEO comments.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Irvine-based Viant Technology, a developer of advertising software, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC that it is looking to raise up to $150M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. in net income on $164M in revenues for the year ended December 31, 2019. The company is led by CEO Tim Vanderhook.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

San Diego-based Cubic Corporation said on Wednesday that it has acquired GRIDSMART Technologies , a developer of video tracking technology for the traffic management market. Cubic said GRIDMSART is expected to add $35M in sales and $8M in Adjusted EBITDA for the 2019 calendar year. The deal was worth $87M in cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

I’m not talking about just making incremental improvements in their products and processes, but more fundamental changes to the business model, such as the following: Announce a new market launch that fits your core competency. You didn’t wait until a new market was totally proven before entering. Remember when you were a startup?

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

The relationship with XRC Labs’ Pano Anthos began after a small pilot integration between Joymode and Walmart launched in late 2019. “ If we had cracked user acquisition in LA we would have rolled it out in a bunch of places.” “From day one, my belief was Joymode was going to be huge or dead. .”

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

News broke in May that Bird was looking at a SPAC-led debut on the public markets. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Shares of the SPAC were off as far as 20% before recovering. first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic. The numbers represent a 45% increase from the previous quarter’s tally, but a 14% drop from the same quarter in 2019. Market volatility usually hits public companies first.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

Bytedance owns the Resso trademark , so it’s a good bet that it will make its way to more markets soon. Possibly with features that differentiate this later entrant from others in the market? Despite being one of the most popular apps of 2019 , monetisation has largely eluded the company up to now.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2019

On Monday, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) informed the markets that it had overshot the mark with its 2019 estimates. It exceeded that goal, with revenue rising 21 percent to $3.33 billion by the end of 2018. It’s a different financial story this summer.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Lyft has been moving toward this “all-of-the-above” approach for much of 2018, a shift accelerated by its acquisition of Motivate , the oldest and largest electric bike-share company in North America, the launch of its scooter business and its Nearby Transit program that kicked off in Santa Monica this September.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

2019 was the year podcasting turned into a major industry. A few high-profile acquisitions put Spotify into the running against Apple, while buzzy new startups like Luminary jumped into the pool as well. Podcast celebrity Griffin McElroy admitted in a 2019 workshop that he still uses it to edit three podcasts a week.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Ineffective and expensive marketing campaigns. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/26/2019. How much time have you spent recently working on the business, rather than in it ?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are bridging the gap between casual, self service dating apps, and traditional matchmaking, and doing it for business professionals in the dating market. Right now, there are no real efficient products in the dating market. It was really incredible to me, that there was such a white space in the market. What are they reading?

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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? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? But expanding beyond our core customers was going to take more effort than simply launching in new markets. How profitable is my product or service?

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MAY 10, 2019

Integrate social media into your overall marketing strategy. Most businesses need a mix of offline and online marketing, promotions, loyalty programs, and community involvement. Always gauge progress by business indicators, like customer acquisition cost and customer satisfaction.

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MAY 1, 2019

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/15/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

File an 83(b) election with the IRS within 30 days of founding the company, while the market value of your startup is essentially zero. Even though the initial stock has no value or market, it is imperative that you document the division of ownership immediately between co-founders commensurate with their investment, contribution, and role.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. 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. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Greg Martin , co-founder of LiquidStock (www.liquidstock.com), an investment fund which offers up a way for employees of private companies to exercise their stock options before an IPO or acquisition. We closed in January of 2019. Tell us what you're up to now? Tell us what you're up to now?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since the beginning of the year, three companies have been acquired by special purpose acquisition vehicles and are on a path to go public, while a third has raised tens of millions from some of the biggest names in private equity investing for its own path to commercial viability. One more deal soon followed. billion valuation.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based company, Emburse , launched today, out of the acquisition of six different expense and accounts payable (AP) automation companies, including LA-based Chrome River. Chrome River acquired Emburse back in July of 2019. All of those companies had provided some aspect of expense management.

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JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth.

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