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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Woodland Hills-based BlackLine Software , the developer of accounting and financial close software, has priced its IPO, saying late Thursday evening that it will sell 8,600,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 BlackLine priced at the high range of an already increased estimated IPO range, which was set to $16.00 earlier this week.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. has officially priced its IPO, saying on Wednesday afternoon that it will sell 200M shares of its common stock at $17.00 The IPO is Southern California's largest, technology IPO in history, and makes founder Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each instantly worth $3.58 The IPO will raise $3.4

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JULY 22, 2010

Southern California appears to be on a IPO roll this month, with the pricing of Monrovia-based Green Dot 's IPO last night and expected trading today, following the successful IPO of Beverly Hills-based RealD last Friday. Tags: southern california merger acquisition gdot reald.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In one of the biggest acquisitions out of Southern California's technology startup industry in recent years, Los Angeles-based Honey Science Corporation , which develops a savings discovery and price tracking tool, has been acquired by PayPal , in a deal worth approximately $4 billion. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Champagne glasses must be clinking for a few, lucky Southern California investors and executives this morning, as the IPO of Oakland-based Pandora Media had a rousing welcome on Wall Street. Wednesday during morning trading, after pricing at $16.00 estimated pricing range from last week. at the time of this article.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

A number of Southern California angel investors are undoubtedly breaking out the champagne this morning, after the successful IPO of CytomX Therapeutics , a developer of cancer therapeutics which was spun out of UC Santa Barbara. Cytomx priced its IPO at $12.00 Cytomx priced its IPO at $12.00 in morning trading.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Southern California entrepreneur Elon Musk has huge success this year, in (literally) getting commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX --based in Hawthorne--off the ground and into space, with a hugely successful set of flights to the International Space Station (ISS). and $15.00. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2010

A little known Southern California venture capital investor is benefiting from the IPO of Silicon Valley-based Fabrinet today, after Fabrinet said it has priced its IPO and will list on the New York Stock Exchange. Fabrinet said Friday that it has priced its IPO at $10.00, down from an estimated pricing range of $12.00

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap --in what will be Southern California's biggest technology IPO, ever--is expected to price its IPO on Wednesday night, and start trading on Thursday morning. The company has set an estimated IPO offering range of between $14.00 and $16.00 The IPO will potentially value Snap at more than $22.3

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MAY 18, 2012

As Mountain View-based social networking site Facebook hits the market today, in what is the largest tech initial public offering in history, one question is if it will spur what has, so far, been a lackluster IPO market for Southern California technology firms. last night, at the very high range of an already raised $34.00

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Two Southern California venture firms are among the investors who are awaiting an expected IPO of Clovis Oncology , a developer of cancer drugs, this week. Clovis Oncology, based in Colorado, is expected to price its IPO this week, according to the NASDAQ's expected IPO calendar. percent of the company. percent of the company.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Despite a cool reception for the IPO of social games maker Zynga Friday, the IPO of the company still rewards a couple of Southern California investors. Zynga priced at $10.00 Zynga looks to be among the most visible exits from that firm's portfolio yet. per share Thursday evening, at the high end of an estimated range of $8.50

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JUNE 10, 2011

Pandora Media , the online personalized radio station service based out of Oakland, has bumped its estimated IPO pricing range this morning, and upped the number of shares it is planning to offer in its IPO. The firm said it will now offer 14,684,000 shares, estimated to price at between $10.00 per share estimated price.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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MAY 5, 2021

the lifestyle brand offering up baby, skin, and household products, debuted in its IPO on Wednesday, raising $413M for the company--and bringing yet another Southern California startup to the public markets. priced its IPO last night at $16.00 Los Angeles-based Honest Co., per share, at the midpoint of its $14.00 per share.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said late Tuesday evening that it has priced its IPO, as well as increased its IPO offering size, and will sell 8,900,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 per share, and above the initial 7,500,000 shares. and Generation Partners. Demand Media had initially filed for its IPO in August.

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MARCH 12, 2014

Two, Southern California venture investors have scored another paired exit today, after South San Francisco-based Achaogen debuted on the NASDAQ Global Market as AKAO. Achaogen had set an initial IPO pricing range earlier of $10.00 antibiotic biotech biopharmaceuticals acquisition merger exit lifescience achaogen'

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Demand Media's IPO efforts have been one of the closest watched activities in the Southern California technology industry, as an indicator of the IPO prospects for other technology companies here. The firm plans to offer 7,500,000 shares of its stock in its IPO, which has been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange as DMD.

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MARCH 28, 2014

The company--which runs online degree programs for the University of Southern California (USC) and many other schools--had been backed by Redpoint Ventures, which funded the company out of its Los Angeles office. 2U priced at $13.00, at the high end of its $11.00 2tor merger acquisition redpoint greg martin' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 31, 2012

One of the most anticipated IPOs of a Southern California technology firm, LegalZoom is expected to hit the markets Friday, with pricing expected Thursday evening. The firm--which recently set its expected IPO pricing range of $10 to $12 per share--is one of two IPOs expected this week by technology companies.

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JUNE 8, 2015

If all goes well, San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody will be Southern California's newest IPO on June 19th, according to documents being circulated to potential investors in the startup's IPO. billion acquisition of Carpinteria-based Lynda.com in April. Mindbody has applied to list under the symbol MB on the NASDAQ Global Market.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Los Angeles-based RealD , the provider of 3D movie projection technology, was suggested as a takeover target Tuesday by Merriman Capital analyst Eric Wold Tuesday, sparking a jump in RealD's stock price.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. Well, could be. How about IGN ? in a $580M deal.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Wittlebee (www.wittlebee.com) announced the acquisition of its own, clothing company--Cottonseed Clothing Company--as it continues to build out its subscription, children's clothing service. and co-founder Sean Percival is a MySpace vet and a familiar face in Southern California's social media circles.

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MARCH 2, 2017

The company--which priced at $17.00 Snap, the parent company of Snapchat , is now the largest ever IPO to debut out of Southern California's high tech ecosystem. Venice-based Snap Inc. had a huge debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, as it started trading as SNAP, surging above $25.00 billion each.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 -- Process of an Acquisition: Successfully Navigating from LOI to Closing. Once you've agreed on a price, the work is just beginning. People who are going through or anticipate going through an MandA event. See [link] (more).

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MARCH 1, 2017

Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. Of particular note is the involvement of Laskey, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. on Wednesday afternoon?

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MARCH 1, 2017

Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. Of particular note is the involvement of Lasky, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. on Wednesday afternoon?

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MARCH 21, 2016

The report noted concerns about a "global economic slowdown, falling oil prices and turbulent equity markets." The last IPO in Southern California was for Kura Oncology, which raised $57.5M per share IPO price in November. Photo courtesy Michael Theis @ Flickr. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Everbridge , a developer of emergency notification tools which was founded and still has major operations in both Glendale and Pasadena, has had an IPO, raising $90M for the company and marking another major, SoCal linked technology startup exit in what has been a busy year for deals. per share, after pricing at $12.00 and $13.00

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It appears that IPO season has just opened in Southern California's high tech community, with more IPO activity in the last couple of weeks than the region has seen in the last year, including an IPO in the works for Ventura-based The Trade Desk , which just set its estimated IPO range ; another for Everbridge , which was started in Glendale, also (..)

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JULY 19, 2010

In what seems like almost weekly news now about a Southern California firm gearing up for the public markets, Monrovia-based Green Dot is expected to hit the markets sometime this week. Tags: green merger acquisition. and $35.00 per share, and will list on the NYSE at GDOT. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

San Diego-based RFIC maker Peregrine Semiconductor is looking to be the next, Southern California technology company to make it to the public markets, with an IPO on Wednesday, according to the NASDAQ's IPO calendar. Peregrine is looking to raised $83M in an IPO, which is currently estimated to price at between $14.00

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JUNE 19, 2012

According to reports , the firm expects to price its IPO as late June. The last successful, venture-backed IPO in Southern California was Ceres in February. ServiceNow is a developer of cloud-based services which allows companies to manage enterprise information technology (IT) operations. ServiceNow filed for its IPO in March.

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MARCH 17, 2011

The firm was trading around $19.60, or 50 percent above its debut price in morning trading. The firm priced last night at $13.00, well above its initial $9 to $11 estimated initial pricing range. The firm is just the latest in a string of well received IPOs in Southern California, including Demand Media, RealD, Inphi Corp.,

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JULY 16, 2010

With the IPO of Los Angeles-based RealD , which starts trading this morning on the NYSE as RLD, Southern California now has three successful IPOs on record. RealD said last night that it had priced its IPO at $16.00, and is selling 12.5M Tags: financing public market acquisition merger reald. shares of its common stock.

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