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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The latest MoneyTree report from the three find that $603.2M

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. The other large sector for investments was Software, with $54.8M Nationwide, there was $4.8 in investments.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

billion in Southern California startup, according to the latest MoneyTree Report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association last night, based on data from Thomson Reuters. The numbers in Southern California were significantly helped by two, mega-funding deals in Los Angeles, including $485.6M

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A very healthy list of Southern California companies made the list, with a total of 64 companies in the region ranked in the list. 33 ServiceNow Software 4873% San Diego Frank Slootman 42 Trius Therapeutics 3420% San Diego Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D. 237 Nik Software, Inc. 237 Nik Software, Inc. 6225% San Diego Kevin C.

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APRIL 17, 2015

Southern California saw a staggering $1.9 MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. billion invested--again thanks to SpaceX--then Software, with $316.95M in deals. billion in investment deals for the quarter.

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MAY 18, 2010

Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market. Mangers said Webvisible today has slightly under 300 employees, and hopes to have slightly under 500 employees by the end of the year.

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APRIL 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. Biopharmaceuticals continues to drive the investment totals in Southern California, with $222M in investments; followed by Medical Devices, with $120M in investments, and Software, with $119M. in deals tracked by our database.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

One of the most active areas of interest and growth in the technology industry today is cloud computing--the use of computing resources on the Internet, to accomplish tasks that normally would have taken a server farm or local systems. Are we missing your favorite, local cloud computing software firm? Eucalyptus Systems. MaestroDev.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The number of IPOs of companies on the Journal's list from 2011 from Southern California matched the number of IPOs of Silicon Valley companies. Of the list of 50 startups, both San Diego's ServiceNow and fellow San Diego firm Active Network has IPOs last year, out of only a total of six IPO exits from the WSJ's list.

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APRIL 10, 2019

Procore appears to be one of the first Southern California companies to join the movement, which originated in Silicon Valley with such companies at Atlassian, Rally, Salesforce, and Tides. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Goleta-based AutoVitals , which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for the automotive repair and maintenance software business, has raised a round of private equity, the company recently announced, from private equity investor Tritium Partners.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0 Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. billion invested in Q2. billion invested in Q2.

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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. Shea Ventures--which is based out of J.F. Shea web site.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Wavemaker, which is one of the Southern California's most active investors, already was active in Southeast Asia with an earlier investment fund. The company has been applying its experience investing in startups in Southern California in the more nascent Southeast Asian market.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Southern California venture capital investments total $497.8M, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, which were released this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Software investments took second place, with $102.2M

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JULY 15, 2019

Los Angeles-based Internet information and services company j2 Global --one of Southern California's largest yet most unknown technology companies--said this morning that it has acquired two more companies. Financial details of those acquisition were not announced.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

invested in Southern California in Q4. was invested in Southern California, as well as Q4 of last year, when $508.2M By industry, Southern California saw its biggest investments in Biotechnology, with $195.6M Those numbers were up from both Q3, when $506.9M was invested in the region.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

WeWork , the co-working space operator which has a significant presence across Southern California, with nineteen locations in the Los Angeles area plus a location in San Diego, has acquired Teem , a software startup backed by active LA venture investor Greycroft Ventures.

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APRIL 7, 2015

A couple of Southern California investors-- os Angeles-based DreamHost and Rincon Venture Partners --have backed a new OpenStack software startup called Akanda. Dreamhost and Rincon are based in LA, and Double M Partners is among one of the more active investors in Southern California startups. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In a big loss for the local high tech community, computer security software developer Websense --based in San Diego--is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, and is taking 445 jobs with it. payment from the state. The move comes eight months after Websense was acquired by private equity company Vista Equity Partners last June.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

Los Angeles-based MUMO , a new music listening startup headed by former Pandora co-founder Jon Kraft, said today that it is looking to make music a shared activity again through what it calls "Music Moments". The company has already released an iOS version of its software.

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MAY 8, 2019

The company said net cash provided by its operating activities increased to $116.9M J2 Global has quietly become one of Southern California's largest and most profitable companies in the technology sector, through its strategy of buying up small Internet cloud services providers and many Internet publishing brands.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Marina Del Rey-based Moving Analytics , a developer of software and programs to help cardiac patients complete their rehab at home, has raised a funding round from OCA Ventures. Size of the funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2015

Venture capital investment firm Shasta Ventures said Wednesday that it has promoted Sean Flynn --who has been key to that firm''s many investments in Southern California--to Managing Director. Flynn focuses on early-stage investments on mobile-enabled consumer Internet and enterprise software startups. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

invested in Southern California in Q4. was invested in Southern California, as well as Q4 of last year, when $508.2M By industry, Southern California saw its biggest investments in Biotechnology, with $195.6M Those numbers were up from both Q3, when $506.9M was invested in the region.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Vinny Smith , the former CEO of Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software , appears to have become one of the most active investors in recent months in enterprise software, after starting up a new venture capital firm, Toba Capital. Vinny Smith formed Toba Capital from his gains for selling Quest Software to Dell in September, for $2.4

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JULY 17, 2012

You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today. Image courtesy Bigstock.com READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Deploying software in the cloud? The company recently reported record. RightScale.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Glendale-based Reveleer (www.reveleer.com) is a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, and recently announced a Series C funding round from investors Boston Millenia Partners and Upfront Ventures. We're backed by Upfront Ventures, which is a well known venture capital firm here in SoCal. What is Reveleer?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Rapportive is a direct competitor to Mingly, the Gmail contacts management software firm headed by Tyler Koblasa and backed by Idealab. Calacanis has been a fairly active angel investor across companies in both Southern California and Silicon Valley. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010 -- Software MandA: 2010 Update and Forecast plus Provocative Insights About Exit Timing. No question, the economic downturn took its toll on software industry mergers and acquisitions in 2009. The market got eerily quiet.until the fourth quarter when there was a flurry of software MandA activity.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Data science is now available to any and every size business in Southern California.   We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.   Don't sell out the human.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

In addition, Santa Barbara's AnsibleWorks was among the latest in enterprise IT software companies in the region to see an exit, and was sold to Red Hat in August for somewhere north of $100M. billion for that company, acquisition at Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Friday, February 11, 2011 -- Wiki-based Tools for Software Engineering. For the past several years, USC's Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has been using tools hosted on the MediaWiki engine, or Wiki-based tools, to support its activities. The tools are related project scoping and management activities.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo.com and well known angel investor, said today that he has invested in Riptano , the developer of the open source, Apache Cassandra online transaction database software. Calacanis joined Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Rackspace Hosting, and others as an investor in the firm.

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