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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which owns a large portfolio of Internet services, including such services as eFax, eVoice, Campaigner, Livedrive, as well as online media outlets like IGN, Mashable, PCMag, Everyday Health, and others, has acquired five more companies. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by j2.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Therapeutic Research Center, which is owned by Los Angeles-based private equity investor Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, says it has acquired NetCE, a Roseville-based provider of continuing education resources for the healthcare industry. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. NetCE (CE Resources Inc.)

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

North Hollywood-based UNest, a fintech startup backed by Anthos Capital, Draper Dragon, The Artemis Fund, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, NBA All Star Baron Davis, and Band of Angels, says this morning that it has acquired Kidfund, the developer of an app which helps parents save money for their kids and which teaches good financial habits.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based Vantage Media said Thursday that it is selling its Education Services Business--which sells leads to education advertisers--to Campus Explorer , as it looks to sharpen its focus on the technology behind its real time bidding (RTB) advertising platform. Financial terms of the sale were not announced.

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MARCH 22, 2017

Los Angeles-based educational content management software developer Edlio said late Tuesday that it has acquired Sangha , the developer of a personalized, mobile parent interaction app. Sangha Co-Founders Pavan Batchu, Srivatsan Srinivasan and Srikanth Thadakamalla have all joined Edlio as paret of the acquisition.

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APRIL 16, 2018

General Assembly , the provider of technology education which is very active in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Swiss staffing company Adecco Group , in a $412.5M acquisition deal. The company's Los Angeles location has been a fixture in the local startup market. Adecco Group is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Los Angeles-based Edlio , a developer of a cloud-based, software product used by schools and school districts to build and manage school websites, has raised $40M in a funding round. According to L Square, the investment in Edlio will go towards sales and marketing, international growth, new product development, and strategic acquisitions.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based TutorMe , a provider of online tutoring services, has been acquired by San Diego-based Zovio , the companies announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Zovio said the deal will expand the scope of the services it offers to higher education partners.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

Two, Los Angeles-area nonprofits aimed at the "maker" and technology education market-- LA Makerspace and Imagination.org , said late Thursday that they have merged with the Two Bit Circus Foundation , the nonprofit created by Two Bit Circus to promote STEAM education.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

A newly launched company, Mission --created from the merger of Los Angeles-based Reliam , Los Angeles-based Stratalux ,and Boston-based G2 Tech Group -- has launched under a new, consolidated brand, Mission said this week.

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MARCH 28, 2014

2U , an online education company which has significant operations in Los Angeles, has had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market, debuting Friday morning as TWOU. 2U was previously known as 2tor, and first raised funding back in 2009 , when Redpoint was a very active Los Angeles area investment firm. percent at 13.95

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising marketplace operator OpenX announced this morning that it has made two major executive hires, to support growth at the company. OpenX said it has named Eric W. Muhlheim as its new Chief Financial Officer, and named Laura Revenko as its Chief People Officer. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Parchment got its start in Los Angeles as Docufide, a startup offering up handling of high school transcripts for colleges and university applications; Docufide was venture backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto.com , a new startup headed by former NextMedium COO John Ellis, and whose exec team includes prior executives from ReachLocal, ValueClick, and YellowPages.com, said Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Los Angeles-based PhotographyMentor , an online photography education and social networking site.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Among the new features of the social promotion tool released by Los Angeles-based PromoJam earlier this week: a new link to demographic data from Esri in it analytics. That group has been focused on startups, investments, and acquisitions, including the recent buys of startups SpotOn, GeoIQ, and GeoLoqi.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Los Angeles-based Century Park Capital Partners , a private equity investor focused on family businesses, owner-operated companies and corporate divestitures, said on Monday afternoon that it has completed a majority recapitalization of Florida-based software and IT services company MCCi. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them. We take those strengths, as determined by our Neuropsychologists, to develop strength profiles and apply them to describing all of ht extracurricular and educational opportunities that we can curate. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Our Panelist Include.

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JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Student of Fortune , the online tutorial marketplace and homework help site headed by Sean McCleese, has been acquired by textbook marketplace site Chegg , Chegg said Friday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Student of Fortune was founded in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab.

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MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles business accelerator program upStart.LA , one of numerous startup acceleration and incubation efforts to start in the last year in Southern California, is merging with a startup in Santa Monica, Cross Campus. According to a note to supporters form upStart.LA According to a note to supporters form upStart.LA

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. Read more about virtual reality trends. Taylor said.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. Scott Grimes: A lot of it is for new user acquisition. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M It really took my team, a fantastic investment team which put in a lot of late hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. If I don’t commit to millions of dollars of acquisitions I will … die? Woo the press.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. That technology underpins marketplaces in auto, health, life insurance, and even education. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team.

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MARCH 5, 2007

link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. Obviously, there were situations when we first started our organization, when we were focused on customer acquisition for the mortgage lending vertical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

Here are some basic “rules of thumb” that every Angel or venture capital equity investor uses, to help you anticipate their reactions. The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO. Build a path to 10x return.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. This may seem intuitively obvious, but as an angel investor, I have heard hundreds of new business pitches that focus heavily on the product, but don’t tell the rest of the story.

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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. With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP. Dave Terry: It's just part of our heritage.

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MAY 29, 2018

Los Angeles-based GoGuardian , a startup which develops Chromebook management software for schools, disclosed last week that it has raised a majority round of private equity from Sumeru Equity Partners. Size of the investment were not announced. GoGuardian is led by founder and CEO Advait Shinde.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. Bong Koh: We started at the end of April.

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MAY 10, 2017

Interestingly enough, though, we've also had education. The other channel we have is online acquisition, but I must say that organic referrals really are the main driver on both sides of balancing the market. We deal with all different types of workers, from all over Los Angeles. What's the current geography for your service?

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