socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2016

Camarillo-based Semtech has completed a deal to sell of a bundle of IP assets to Rambus , in a sale that was worth $32M, Rambus said Monday afternoon. Rambus said that the assets become part of its Memory and Interfaces Division.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Cornerstone Payment Systems is a independent sales organization in the merchant processing industry. Move Your Mountain , an online crowd-funding site which competes against GoFundMe, has been acquired by Tustin-based Cornerstone Payment Systems , Cornerstone said. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Cuadrilla says that the acquisition is its first investment since its launched in April. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based Vantage Media said Thursday that it is selling its Education Services Business--which sells leads to education advertisers--to Campus Explorer , as it looks to sharpen its focus on the technology behind its real time bidding (RTB) advertising platform. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2013

As part of the acquisition, EMN8 said it raised $50M in a new funding, to both acquire Snapfinger and expand its platforms. emn8 snapfinger merger acquisition venture capital restaurant ordering dining food point sale' The new funding was led by Sid R. EMN8 is led by Perse Faily. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Tapping into a growing consumer interest in higher quality, and more traceable food, it saw an opportunity to build a platform to link up producers to the consumers, restaurants and grocery stores that were buying their products. software platform. GrubMarket has snapped up no less than 40 companies in the last three years. and Canada.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Digital Insight , the developer of online banking software which has major operations in Westlake Village, has just been sold to NCR , in the second sale of the company this year. NCR said the buy will help it form a "complete enterprise software platform" for the banking industry. NCR Corporation said it paid $1.65 READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MAY 6, 2022

Ecommerce company Shopify supports small businesses with technology like ecommerce website builders and retail Point of Sale systems. Now, it's dramatically expanding capacity in another area, fulfillment, with the acquisition of Deliverr. It's the biggest acquisition in Shopify's history. Shopify is paying $2.1

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Seismic, a sales software company, raised $100M and became a unicorn. Given SVBs market position, that is great news. The answer is profit. Prior to the L.A.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2013

CapLinked develops an online deal room and deal management platform, which allows companies to manage business transactions and financing via the cloud; the company is now targeting its platform for use in mergers & acquisitions, financings, asset sales, and investor reporting.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

If you're an investor who's concerned about the security of your deal data being store on the web, CapLinked , which develops an online platform to help companies manage and close their business transactions, has an answer for you: military-grade security. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2019

The stock offering will provide the company gross proceeds of $10.5M, which it says it will use to expand sales and marketing, customer support, and technology investments to continue to grow its platform. Los Angeles-based HyreCar , a publicly listed, carsharing marketplace operator (Nasdaq: HYRE), says it has priced an offering of 3.5M

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

The company is now focused on providing a platform to help streamline deals like asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions, according to the company. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

Financial terms of the sale have not been announced. According to TriNet, it will incorporate ExpenseCloud's offering into its client service platform later in 2012. ExpenseCloud's management team, including both co-founder and CEO Eric Sikola and co-founder and CTO Dan Fritcher, will join TriNet as part of the acquisition.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. It’s different than working with a group like us that’s trying to optimize every small piece of the funnel, and being accountable for the entire funnel to drive as much sales or revenue. What type of clients do you work with?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. Nick helped orchestrate the successful sale of the company to Velocify partner and leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, Ellie Mae. Contact our editors for details.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Financial terms of the sale were not announced. RealtyMogul says its crowdsourced funding platform has resulted in investment in over $2 billion of real estate, and says it has returned over $100M to investors to date. Hunt Real Estate Capital is a subsidiary of Hunt Companies, Inc., READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Rubicon said its new REVV for Mobile product helps publishers to sell mobile ad inventory, through both direct and indirect sales channels. Rubicon said the new product comes from its May 2012 acquisition of Mobsmith. The new mobile offering uses a similar, real time trading marketplace to the firm's REVV platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2016

Blucora was advised by GCA Savvian Advisors in the sale. OpenMail is led by Chuck Ursini, former EVP, Platforms at Demand Media; Ursini also has served at Amazon, Morgan Stanley and UBS. Blucora said that OpenMail is paying the company $45M in cash for Infospace. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms. I recommend some presence on two or three platforms. Any increase in brand recognition, as well as personal connections, is a multiplier to your existing marketing and sales efforts.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high. Customer acquisition costs can be as much as $200 an hour.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

During my tenure at Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting), one of my responsibilities was leading our online marketing, a role I retained until our eventual acquisition by Citrix. A leading online merchandiser doubled its conversions at a cost significantly lower per sale as compared to its historical baseline.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2016

in cash, along with a future royalty through 2022 based on sales. Semtech said the sale was part of an effort to exist business which it says are no longer aligned with the company's long term strategy. Semtech said Rambus will pay $32.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? Did the TV stimulate search?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

5) Twitter’s recent $40M acquisition of TweetDeck is an interesting development. When a platform evolves, at some point the company that built the platform starts to slow down. TweetDeck is a very natural acquisition, it certainly brings talent that knows how to build Twitter applications.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

We thought it would be insightful for our readerswho are usually looking to get acquired by other companieson what the thought process of those large companies making those acquisitions are. For a company like yours, what goes into your acquisition strategy and what thoughts went behind the Anue acquisition?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Demand Media, the internet publishing firm which is in the midst of an IPO effort, is the brainchild of Richard Rosenblatt, who was at the reins of Intermix, the parent firm of MySpace, and brokered the sale of MySpace to News Corporation. Platform G / Mindjolt. www.mindjolt.com). Venture backers : Austin Ventures. Let us know!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to the firm, it has retained Strategic Advisory Services International (SASI) to explore the sale of the firm. Tilana, which has raised $3M in funding, said it has realized that "being part of a larger entity" will help it scale its platform. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

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. Essentially, consumers are opting into Smartify''s platform. What is Smartify? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales. We do that methodically.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms. What makes us different from streaming platforms, is that when you're sitting in the back of a car and ride share, you're sitting in an unbiased environment.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2013

William Belk: CampaignEQ is a market attribution platform for adertisers. Companies need a way to roll up all that data, and understand their cost of customer acquisition in a detailed way. The platform we''ve built lets us run multiple businesses on the platform, whether that''s agency work, lead generation, data sales, and beyond.

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