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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Atar Capital has acquired New Jersey-based Keypoint Intelligence , Atar Capital said on Thursday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Atar Capital says it makes investments in both performing and underperforming lower middle market businesses.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based Edlio , has received a growth capital investment this morning, for its K-12 education and "community engagement" software, and in particular, acquisitions of other companies. According to LLR Partners, its investment will be used by Edlio to support its market expansion, via organic growth and acquisitions.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital announced very late Monday evening that it has acquired the majority interest in CoreMedia AG , a developer of content management software. According to OpenGate Capital, it acquired CoreMedia AG from Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and a consortium of private investors.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

And n ow, even with the economy continuing to collapse, the company is on the prowl for new acquisitions and expects to spend tens of millions of dollars on new deals. The PlayerFM deal stands out as an example of what the company looks for in an acquisition target, said Ritter. ”

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

Previous backers include Sequoia Capital, SilverLake, Dragoneer and Ant Group, among others. and plans to use its new capital in part to continue to grow there and globally. Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Bitvore said one of its first products, Bitvore for Munis, helps investment banks and hedge funds looking for an information advantage in municipal bond markets. Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM).

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JANUARY 25, 2018

According to Greenfly, the funding round was led by Alpha Edison, and also included Iconica Partners, Elysian Park, and Corazon Capital. Greenfly says the new funding will go towards technology, user acquisition, marketing initiatives, and new hires. Greenfly has now raised a total of $14.7M in funding.

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JULY 12, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Pomeroy Group Holdings , to an affiliate of Getronics Group. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Clearlake has owned Pomeroy Group Holdings for the last five years. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also built two very high-quality mobile apps that we were experimenting with in terms of building better customer acquisition toools. Actually, it came through an introduction from our friends at Partners Group who knew that the company was raising capital. Startup Lessons Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures'

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MARCH 11, 2014

I have the utmost respect for the tech produced by our northern colleagues and acknowledge it is the tech capital of the world and that won’t change. We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

According to Canoo, it has entered into an agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. and will be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol CNOO. IV --which trades on the NASDAQ as HCAC--for the business combination.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.”

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Irvine-based United Scope , a maker of microscopes and accessories which operates under the name AmScope , has been acquired by private equity investor L Squared Capital Partners , via a majority recapitalization. United Scope sells its products to the education market, life sciences, scientific research, and industrial inspection markets.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Los Angeles-based JibJab , which provides animated, personalized greeting cards and other social content, has been acquired by private equity investor Catapult Capital LLC , Catapult Capital announced this morning. Cloud Capital, with Catapult being advised by Reed Smith LLP in the deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale. ” The Details.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2013

This is the total expected revenue for a customer (usually calculated with a five year life no matter what the type of business) less the cost of acquisition (see below) less the recurring direct costs of serving the customer or of product estimated to be sent to the customer over the lifetime relationship. The lower, the better.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it has created a new company, Newfold Digital, through the acquisition of Endurance International Group, plus strategic investment transactions with both Web.com and affiliates of Siris.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. This isn’t a simple, first-cut acquisition pipeline! What does the business do? How does it meet customers’ needs?

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave says it expects an acquisition by special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings III to occur in January, after approval of a special proxy by VPCC. Dave is led by CEO Jason Wilk.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

The funding came from L Squared Capital Partners. According to L Square, the investment in Edlio will go towards sales and marketing, international growth, new product development, and strategic acquisitions. Edlio is led by CEO Ali Arsan.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs. What to do?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital said this morning that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Power Partners , to another private equity-backed company, Pioneer Transformers. Pioneer Transformers is backed by private equity investor Mill Point Capital. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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MAY 19, 2014

Action sports camera maker GoPro , which has a few Southern California connections, has filed for an IPO, saying Monday in a regulatory filing that it is looking to raise $100M on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as GPRO. Morgan, Citigroup, Barclays, Allen & Company LLC, Stifel, Baird, MCS Capital Markets, Piper Jaffray, and Raymond James.

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MARCH 12, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group said this morning that it has acquired Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Provation Medical , a developer of software for the healthcare documentation and coding market. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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Capital Santa Monica Equity Software 113

TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

million last year, is among hair businesses aimed at women and people of color, like Rebundle , Morado and theCut , attracting venture capital dollars. The other side of the business is a new monthly subscription service for stylists that helps them market their handcrafted wigs, beauty and other digital products and services.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Goleta-based gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor developer Transphorm announced this morning that it has launched into the public markets, via the Over-The-Counter (OTC) market. The move is somewhat unusual for a technology startup here, where the OTC market is mostly eyed with suspicion.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. In 2018, Clio made its first acquisition with its buy of Lexicata, a Los Angeles-based legal tech startup. The company plans to do more acquisitions with the capital, according to Newton.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. in its seed funding round.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based venture investor Wavemaker Partners has seen one of its portfolio companies hit the public markets, albeit via an unusual, reverse merger arrangement. Stellar is a so-called "blank check acquisition company" specifically designed to for reverse mergers.

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JUNE 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based banking app developer Dave said this morning that it is going public, via a merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings III, Inc., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsred by Victory Park Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

99.9999% of you won’t be contemplating raising capital at $500 million any time soon or selling for a billion. My friend Christin Herron of Intel Capital weighed in on the issue. Your $200 million “small acquisition” is a cool 60% of all of their cash. Christin goes on. A nice play if you can make it.”

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JULY 7, 2014

Disney is providing $120,000 in investment capital to startups to help them develop their ideas, and also provide mentoring from Disney executives. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2020

This is the total expected revenue for a customer (usually calculated with a five year life no matter what the type of business) less the cost of acquisition (see below) less the recurring direct costs of serving the customer or of product estimated to be sent to the customer over the lifetime relationship. CPA (Cost per Acquisition).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

But if you level up , raise capital and grow customers, revenue and staff – life changes. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Marketing of course often feels the opposite. A larger marketing team?

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