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APRIL 23, 2020

Carlsbad-bsed MaxLinear , which develops radio frequency, analog, and mixed signal integrated circuits, says it has received an early termination on the waiting period for its acquisition of Intel's Home Gateway Platform Division. MaxLinear announced the acquisition of Intel's division on April 6th.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. Many have seen the acquisition as an attempt to fight back against Shopify's rampant growth during the coronavirus pandemic. The Amazon/Selz Acquisition.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The acquisition of Venice, California-based Signal Sciences --worth $775M--by Fastly , has officially completed, Fastly said on Thursday. According to Fastly, is will combine its edge cloud platform and existing security offerings with Signal Sciences' web application and API security solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, and you’ll hear the same thing: customer acquisition (CAC) is getting harder and more expensive.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based Centerfield , a company which provides marketing and customer acquisition to the residential services, business services, and telecommunications markets, says it has launched a new product, called Insights by Scout.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Irvine-based Ingram Micro , the technology product distribution giant, has wrapped up two acquisition, including the acquisition of Latin American value added distributor Grupo ACAO , as well as the Odin Service Automation platform from Parallels Holdings Ltd. Both acquisition had recently been announced. READ MORE>>.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2021

AvantStay — which has built a platform where it decorates and then lists properties owned by others for people to rent out for vacations or other short-term stays — has raised $160 million in a Series B round of funding. “It has always lagged hotels by a wide margin.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. It’s the biggest podcast industry acquisition ever, and Spotify isn’t done. Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Irvine-based semiconductor developer Broadcom has completed its acquisition of the LTE assets of Renesas Electronics Corporation , the company said this morning. Broadcom said the deal is expected to accelerate availability of a multimode, carrier-validated LTE SoC platform from Broadcom. The deal was worth $164M. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 15, 2020

Video-sharing platform Triller, which is owned by Century City-based Proxima Media, has completed the acquisition of Halogen Networks.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 15, 2021

which generates customer acquisition leads for insurance carriers through a digital platform, is far from a typical tech startup. MediaAlpha Inc.,

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2013

Vista Equity Partners said it would focus on accelerating growth, particularly through the Websense TRITON platform, which provides threat defense and data theft prevention; Vista Equity said that TRITON billings grew 20 percent in 2012, making up $233M of Websense''s revenues. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. GoSecure said it will use Covail's expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) to augment its platform. La Jolla-based GoSecure, a provider of managed security services, said today that it has acquired Covail, a security and risk optimization and automation company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2011

eBay had originally announced its acquisition of Magento in June. eBay said that it is making Magento part of its X.commerce, integrated open commerce platform group. Los Angeles-based Magento , the developer of open source, e-commerce software, has officially become part of eBay , eBay announced Wednesday afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Email delivery services provider SendGrid is now officially part of cloud communications platform operator Twilio , Twilio said on Friday. SendGrid--which has significant operations in Anaheim, where one of its co-founders also was based--was acquired in a deal worth $3 billion. The deal had originally been announced last year.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2012

the startup business effort run by Mike Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, has made its first acquisition, saying this morning that it has acquired Pinpuff , the developer of a platform which measures the influence of Pinterest users, and awards them with perks. Science, Inc. , Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday that it is looking to block the acquisition of Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corp., saying the buy will "harm competition in high-performance gaming consoles and subscription services".

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2021

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Docupace said it will use the acquisition to expand its back office platform. The company said it will integrate jaccomo's capabilities with the Docupace's automation, workflow and digital processing tools.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com , the online operator of local search advertising sites, said today that it has suspended its acquisition of LEC-billed subscribers, and will focus on providing its own, credit-card local business product, Exact Match. Local.com said it will instead focus on traditional local business products, charged at $1795.00

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The companies said that FCS Express will continue to be available as a standalone product, as well as have integrations with the Insightful Science platform. Insightful Science said the acquisition follows another acquisition it made recently, Dotmatics, a developer of a cloud-based platform for scientific research.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 10, 2022

Amazon could substantially expand their dominance over the ecommerce market, as the Seattle-based tech giant has announced the acquisition of Veeqo, a UK-based ecommerce startup. Everyone knows that Amazon has been pretty acquisition happy over the last few years. Amazon Acquires Veeqo.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition was supported by private equity investor Trive Capital. According to the companies, the acquisition is the fifth transaction Trive has completed in the last 12 months to create Karman. Tony Koblinski is the CEO of Karman Systems.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Irvine-based enterprise cloud storage provider Zadara announced on Tuesday that it has acquired NeoKarm, a developer of multi-cloud hybrid platforms. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Zadara said that the acquisition will help boost its edge cloud services offering.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. Learn how to successfully integrate the strategies and operations of merged organizations, implement the latest techniques, tools and metrics to improve performance, revitalize acquisitions that are not meeting expectations.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

According to YouMail, it now has PhoneTag's service running on its own platform. Quilici also said PhoneTag's acquisition increases the footprint of the company's premium consumer subscription business. PhoneTag was founded in 2003, and offers up voicemail transcription services directly to consumers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Palo Alto, CA-based Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR ) and Santa Clara, CA-based Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP ) said they expect the merger to close during the first quarter of 2019 if it passes an antitrust review. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. IntelliMedia Networks said the acquisition will help it extend its cloud-based training platform. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

symplr, a developer of healthcare governance and compliance software, has acquired Phynd Technologies, a provider of a centralized provider data management platform for the healthcare market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. symplr was advised by Harris Williams and Healthcare Growth Partners in the deal.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Irvine-based analytics software developer Alteryx announced this morning that it has acquired Hyper Anna, a developer of a cloud-based platform for generating artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automated insights from data. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Hyper Anna was based in Sydney, Australia.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Santa Barbara-based Yardi announced this morning that it has acquired 42Floors.com, an online marketing platform for tenants and brokers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. 42Floors will become part of Yardi's CommercialEdge network of marketplaces.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2021

San Diego-based Insightful Sciences, a provider of software tot he life sciences community, says it is acquiring UK-based Dotmatics, a developer of a cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform. Insightful Science is led by CEO Thomas Swalla. Insightful Science is a portfolio company of Insight Partners.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2021

a UK-based provider of a cloud platform for the industry. UK-based Sundog offers up an automated, cloud-based platform that creates specialized multi format, multi-language files for theatrical distribution and streaming platforms, and was founded in 2013. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Mogul Millennial — this Dallas-based company is a digital media platform for black entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. Since launching the platform in 2018, startups from the Snap accelerator have gone on to acquisition (like Stop, Breathe, and Think, which was bought by Meredith Corp.)

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2021

Santa Ana-based SureCo, a provider of healthcare programs, said this morning that it has acquired Tembi Telehealth, a provider of a telemedicine network and platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Steven Richardson, the CEO of Tembi, joins SureCo as Chief Population Health Officer.

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