socalTECH

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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socalTECH

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. The funding came from L Squared Capital Partners. Edlio is led by CEO Ali Arsan.

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socalTECH

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. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Learners Edge provides professional education products to teachers. L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market. since that time. READ MORE>>.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

United Scope sells its products to the education market, life sciences, scientific research, and industrial inspection markets. The companies said the funding will go towards international expansion strategy, product development efforts, and accretive acquisitions. Financial details of the transaction were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2015

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , which is led by Eric Robison, has raised a huge, $186M funding round, led by TPG. The company said it will use the new funding for accelerating acquisitions, growth, and new content intiatives. As part of the funding, TPG''s David Trujillo will join the company''s board of directors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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socalTECH

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. Redpoint Ventures owned 23.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

Local investments funds have had issues raising their new funds, and venture investors had started to hunker down with their portfolios, waiting for some sign of a thaw in the exit environment. For several years, the phrase "Los Angeles Venture Capitalist" had almost become an oxymoron.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Detailed product specifications and prototypes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Parchment , a company which provided records management, transcripts, grades, and other information for the K-12 and other markets--and which has its roots in the LA area--has been acquired by Brentwood Associates. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Vaish is already in talks with a handful of other startups and is open to more acquisitions, he said. Besides, the chatbot space is so nascent currently that any effort from any giant helps educate the market, he said. “For that, we need team and dedicated operation there. You can’t expand in the U.S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 27, 2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: Achieving Home-Run MandA and Financing Outcomes. He will discuss current MandA and VC financing market dynamics, acquisition and financing interests of the large media and tech buyers and how to get on their radar. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. I didn't have any funding.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Venice, California-based GIGXR , a new startup, has acquired the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a unit of publishing firm Pearson, and raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

This were done in a complementary fashion to provide support and education, and not undermine sales. Use outside investment and acquisition to expand your scope. Apple is an early example of adding a channel to expand, to become a “click-and-mortar” retailer, meaning they operate both physical and online stores.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. Moving forward, this recent funding is going towards creating more personalization around that text experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Detailed product specifications and prototypes.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

founder Dan Dato, the accelerator has merged with Cross Campus, a yet-to-be launched startup building a "collaborative workspace and education platform" in Santa Monica. Dato said the merged group has closed a first round of funding, signed a lease for a property at 820 Broadway in Santa Monica, and will be opening in the summer.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The software of Portfolium, a San Diego startup that hosts online portfolios for students trying to showcase their achievements to potential employers, is set to join the portfolio of Utah educational software company Instructure. Instructure (NYSE: INST ) has agreed to acquire privately held Portfolium.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Chegg said the acquisition will add to Chegg's textbook rental and course planning services. The firm had raised around $9M in funding, from Primera Capital and Shai Reshef. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Chegg said Cramster has more than one million members on the site.

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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. Taylor then set up shop in San Francisco to further his mission.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Technology transfer and academic spinouts, despite their deep technology roots and barriers to entry, are notoriously difficult to get funded and spun out of universities. Technology transfer and academic spinouts, despite their deep technology roots and barriers to entry, are notoriously difficult to get funded and spun out of universities.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 14, 2013

For a long time now, startup founders who couldn’t raise round of funding had to boot strap it all the way or simply give up on their ventures for lack of a better exit option. Many of these companies look at strategic acquisitions to fill their expertise gaps quickly in exchange of significant sums of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I know of at least 2 deals from that cohort that are either funded ( Backupify ) or nearly funded (can’t really disclose, I’m not sure if it’s yet closed and/or announced. Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

billion acquisition offer. But like Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” the big enterprise software company Workday lured Adaptive Insights away from the IPO altar with a more attractive deal—a $1.55 Pleasanton, CA-based Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY ) wanted to marry Adaptive’s financial decision-making applications with its own suite of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Detailed product specifications and prototypes.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Series A funding round back in 2018. LINQ will pay $75M for TITAN School Solutions, which was venture backed by Wavemaker Partners, Cie Digital Labs, Springboard Ventures, and RezVen Partners, having announced a $5.2M READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

Show red ink to match your funding request. Financial projections shown to investors should always be pre-funding projections, to illustrate what revenues and expenses you think are possible, and how much your current funding falls short. Don’t ask for funding if your projections imply you don’t need it.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was over 11 years ago that I saw a need to better connect startups and innovators with the communities around them so they could connect for partnerships, funding, amplification, and support. Over the next few months we will work closely with the team at MVF to ensure a successful transition as the organization continues to build Tech.Co

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