TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since the beginning of the year, three companies have been acquired by special purpose acquisition vehicles and are on a path to go public, while a third has raised tens of millions from some of the biggest names in private equity investing for its own path to commercial viability. One more deal soon followed. billion valuation.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to businesses. Very confusing.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2021

imre, a provider of strategic and creative marketing services to enterprise clients to clients in the life sciences and healthcare and consumer products and services areas, has received a private equity investment from Los Angeles-based RLH Equity Partners. Financial details of the investment were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Existing investors DST Global, 01 Advisors, Dragoneer Investment Group, Franklin Templeton and Mubadala Investment Company too doubled down on their investments in SpotOn, joining new backers Wellington Management and Coatue Management. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2010

El Segundo-based Internet Brands said Friday that the acquisition of the firm by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman has closed. The acquisition, which had originally been announced in September, was worth $640M. JMI Equity also invested in Internet Brands as part of the sale.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

According to the two, Geely Holdings Group will become a minority investor in Faraday Future, as part of Faraday's merge with Property Solutions Acquisition Corp. PSAC), the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) which is being used to deliver Faraday Future into the public markets.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

After raising $15 million in financing from one of technology’s most successful global investment firms, the Los Angeles-based consumer goods rental company Joymode is selling itself to an early-stage retail investment firm out of New York, XRC Labs. “From day one, my belief was Joymode was going to be huge or dead. .”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Market America , an Internet marketing firm based in Greensboro, N.C., announced the acquisition Wednesday, but did not reveal any financial terms. According to Market America, it will continue to maintain Shop.com's Pasadena offices, along with Shop.com's Monterey headquarters.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

She worked on Wall Street as an investment banker for a few years in New York before returning to Houston with a job in energy. 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. Remember Mary J.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

Even venture capitalists who sit on boards where they have significant investments often forget this point. They write in their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Solana Beach-based PTI Marketing Technologies , a developer of a software-as-a-service, marketing and collateral management tool, has been acquired by office equipment and technology company Ricoh Company, Ltd. Exact financial terms of what Ricoh described as a "multi-million" dollar acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX announced this morning that it has named Matthew Reid as its new Vice President of Marketing. Reid previously was SVP of Marketing for Gehry Technologies, and also served at Eucalyptus Systems and Expertcity (Citrix Online), where he was responsible for launching GoToMeeting.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management said this morning that it has entered into an agreement to sell San Diego-based FMG Suite to another private equity ivnestor, Aurora Capital Partners. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It’s the biggest podcast industry acquisition ever, and Spotify isn’t done. The company has stated that it plans to spend a total of $500 million on podcasting investments, meaning it still has a few hundred million to burn. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management has acquired Digital Pharmacist , a software development firm which helps pharmacists manage refill reminders and other marketing. The deal was worth $125M. Digital Pharmacist says it provides its services to over 7,500 pharmacists. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based digital marketing agency Wpromote has received a private equity investment from Shamrock Capital , the two announced today--the first ever outside investment received by Wpromote, ever. Financial terms of the investment were not announced.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week El Segundo-based Wpromote acquired fellow marketing agency Standing Dog, in a deal which brings the company to 260 employees, and continues to grow the company. Mike Mothner: The business today, is we are a digital agency focused on customer acquisition and growth for businesses of all types.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2016

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

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

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. We’ve scaled up so massively in investments in our growth and technology, but running on a loss is very odd for us,” he told TechCrunch. “We We will get back to profitability soon.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. Backstopping is when banks feel they are protected by VC’s investing in the company.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. I’ve got to imagine this makes tracking marketing spend challenging. Anything else you doing from a marketing standpoint that's working well? Love the minis! Great posts.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

How can marketers make better decisions and get better results from their online marketing? Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market.

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socalTECH

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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed, which develops location-based services and location marketing software for bricks and mortar retailers to better manage information on their locations, hours, and other information, has been acquired by Uberall, a Berlin-based provider of marketing software.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

billion, and has hired investment banking firm Jeffries to handle the sale. epicor software merger acquisition private equity exit apax' Epicor Software , the supply chain management software company whose roots are in Orange County, has been put up for sale by private equity firm Apax Partners, according to reports Tuesday.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2021

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to HCAP Partners, HealthQuest Capital made an equity investment in 83bar to support the company's ongoing expansion. The company did not say if this deal was a debt or equity investment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2022

Los Angeles-based mPulse Mobile, which develops conversational AI software for the healthcare industry, says it has acquired HealthCrowd, a provider of healthcare communications services for the Medicaid market. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based Science 37, a developer of software used for managing clinical research projects, has gone public in a merger with LifeSci Acquisition II Corp., According to Science 37, the deal will provide it with a $250M balance sheet to fund its technology platform and extend into new markets.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And of course they are also focused on the US Hispanic market. I was trying to be more analytical than critical.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. I’ve definitely been wrong on market value.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2020

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio). The lower the ratio, the more successful the customer acquisition campaign. CPA (Cost per Acquisition).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Either of these qualms can ultimately sidetrack your startup as not worthy of investment, so it pays to do your homework on what you say and how to communicate effectively. Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms.

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