socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles private equity investor OpenGate Capital said this morning that it has acquired Getronics LATAM , a portfolio of Latin American businesses in the telecommunications and ICT provider space, from KPN. FInancial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The two had anounced the deal earlier this year. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2020

You will recognize the value of these for any business, even if they have not been in common use in the past. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio). The lower the ratio, the more successful the customer acquisition campaign. CPA (Cost per Acquisition). A better measure of capital efficiency. The lower, the better.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led both the Series D and E rounds for the company, which says it has seen 100% growth year over year and a tripling in revenue over the past 18 months. With the new capital, SpotOn has raised $628 million since its inception. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, here's Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? Just maybe.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas. And reset they must.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Eero had raised around $150M, from such investors as Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital, Shasta Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Playground Global, Kindling Capital, Grishin Robotics, and others.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

All this week, we're featuring reflections on the past year from movers and shakers in the community. 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. be the pig and don't get greedy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Online peer-to-peer lending. Other deals.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

Aliso VIejo-based UST Global , a provider of IT services and outsourcing, said today that it has acquired four different companies over the past six months expanding its workforce in the US, ASia, India, Europe, and Latin America. Financial details of those acquisitions were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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. Other things the company plans to do with its new capital is focus on acquisitions, particularly acqui-hires, according to Siemiatkowski.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. M&A Discussion. OTHER STUFF.

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Berkonomics

MAY 10, 2018

Long term debt is taken on for the acquisition of fixed assets such as equipment, cars, facilities and acquisitions of companies or their assets. Typically, companies may arrange to borrow between 70% and 80% of those non-government receivables that have not aged past 60 days from invoice, up to a maximum amount, or “credit line”.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2018

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Culver City-based Uproxx Media Group , which operates the Uproxx entertainment and pop culture news site, has been acquired by Warner Music Group , the two said on Thursday. Uproxx Media Group also provides branded content and video services to marketers.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

Capital Cards. We pooled our resources and each invested $50 into the adVenture, which we named Capital Cards, due to our proximity to Washington, DC. We quickly built upon our meager initial capital by buying and selling cards that otherwise would likely have ended up in landfills. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Scopely said it would use the capital to continue its strategy of developing and acquiring new games as it looks to continue its run of six consecutive mobile games that will gross $100 million or more in lifetime revenue. “The barrier to entry from independent studios is to find product-market fit,” says Driver.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2013

According to BlackLine, its management, Silver Lake Sumeru, and ICONIQ Capital are partnering in the deal to make Silver Lake Sumerua majority shareholder in the company. blackline systems accounting software merger acquisition exit venture capital private equity' READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2013

You will recognize the value of these for any business, even if they have not been in common use in the past. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio). The lower the ratio, the more successful the customer acquisition campaign. CPA (Cost per Acquisition). A better measure of capital efficiency.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. in the past, but now we really want to focus on expanding there,” he said. Vaish is already in talks with a handful of other startups and is open to more acquisitions, he said.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the past several years we have observed a significant decrease in startups leaving SoCal,” said Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. We’ve also seen a substantial inflow of venture capital from all over the world.”. In fact, as is well-reported, the luster of Silicon Valley is fading.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2015

Dave’s note: John Huston is founder and past manager of the 300+ member Ohio TechAngel Funds and a past Chairman of both the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute. . Ideally each target company has a history of consistently making acquisitions with deal terms you would accept. By John Huston.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

Is one of the bigger biopharma acquisitions of the year in trouble? This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. AOL committed to keeping the team in LA after the acquisition and in building a deeper technology team in town.

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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. Winters explained that the driver for the new funding was technology and product development on the marketplace, marketing and stylist acquisition. The company, which raised $1.7

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Dave’s note: Our guest author this week is John Huston, founder of the 300+ member Ohio TechAngel Funds and a past Chairman of both the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute. . By John Huston. There are only two types of companies -those which have achieved positive cash flow and those which have not.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. Customer acquisition cost. End of story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We caught up with co-founder and COO Alexander Israel late yesterday, ahead of the announcement, to have a quick chat with him about the acquisition and his experience--along with co-founder Sam Friedman--of starting up and selling his company. How'd the acquisition come about? The acquisition really has brought things to fruition.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2011

Long term debt is taken on for the acquisition of fixed assets such as equipment, cars, facilities and acquisitions of companies or their assets. Typically, companies may arrange to borrow between 70% and 80% of those non-government receivables that have not aged past 60 days from invoice, up to a maximum amount, or “credit line”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Capital of course drives scale advantages and when you have “winner take most” markets it also has a way of scaring away some investors from investing in the 3–5th “me too” competitors. having raised $300 million?—?less There is nothing viral!

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socalTECH

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 raised $160M, and our core limited partners are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Coller Capital.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. Acquihires and Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. According to the filings, Susan Stone, a partner with the investment firm Sierra Wasatch Capital , is listed as a director for the company. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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