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JUNE 24, 2016

Beverly Hills-based private equity investor Platinum Equity announced this morning that it has bumped its offer for Van Nuys-based Electro Rent to $15.50 According to Platinum Equity, the increased offer comes due to a receipt by Electro REnt of an unsolicited, third party acquisition proposal.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Beverly Hills-based Aviron Capital , a consortium of financiers with primary backing from by private equity investor BlackRock, said this morning that it has acquired a "substantial equity stake" in Kino Industries , the developer of an interactive movie technology called CtrlMovie.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Beverly Hills-based private equity firm Shackleton Advisors announced today that it has acquired SafeHarbor Technology , a Seattle-based provider of software for managing inbound telephone, email, and chat requests. Tags: shackleton equity partners private safeharbor merger acquisition software.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Beverly Hills-based online dating operator Spark Networks said late Tuesday that it has rejected the bid from Great Hill Equity Partners, III, to purchase the firm. Great Hill had made an unsolicited bid for Spark in early March, saying it would pay $3.10 The deal would have valued Spark at around $64M.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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