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Pitching access management on the fly, Los Angeles-based Britive raises $5.4 million

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LA saw its first big enterprise exit in recent memory with the recent acquisition of Signal Sciences for $775 million, and less than a month later a hometown startup, Britive has raised $5.4 It seems Los Angeles is becoming an enterprise software hotspot. LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M.

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The brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail

TechCrunch LA

Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion dollar acquisition ) think that its time to take technology where it’s never gone before — into targeted, direct mail campaigns using the best ad-targeting that money can buy.

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Mzima Networks Acquired By PacketExchange

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Los Angeles-based Mzima Networks , a provider of Internet bandwidth services, is being acquired by London's PacketExchange , the firms said Monday. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to PacketExchange, the acquisition will merge both companies' customer base and operations. READ MORE>>.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. As a whole, venture capitalists viewing the policy were underwhelmed.

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Colorado’s Webroot Buys CyberFlow Analytics, Expands in San Diego

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Eslambolchi, a former AT&T chief technology officer, was serving as CyberFlow’s executive chairman.). This is really the technology hub for our machine learning and threat intelligence services,” Bacher said. And Webroot’s threat intelligence service provides that context,” said CyberFlow CEO Steve Nye.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Laura Brashier – Founder of 2date4love. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: