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MARCH 29, 2010

Calabasas-based Fulcrum Microsystems , which develops high speed switching semiconductors, has raised $15.02M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm earlier this month. Tags: fulcrum microsystems switching venture capital semiconductor chip. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight , which develops software-as-a-service for managing ticket management, said Monday that it has named a new member of its board. The firm said that Edwin Miller, CEO of 9Lenses, has joined the company's board of directors.

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JUNE 19, 2014

Calabasas-based Spotlight Ticket Management has raised $6M in a growth financing round, the company said today, which came from Point Judith Capital, and also included Coyote Ridge Ventures. enterprise corporate ticketing financing growth capital venture management ticket spotlight' Spotlight is led by Tony Knopp. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Calabasas-based National Technical Systems , which provides testing and engineering services, said today that it has raised $14M in a private placement. The firm said it raised the debt and equity with Mill Road Capital. The firm said the new funding will go towards one or more future acquisitions by the company.

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APRIL 15, 2014

Mobile music game Zya , which was developed by Calabasas-based Music Mastermind, has now been downloaded more than 350,000 times, according to the app developer, up dramatically from the 250,000 downloads the company had reported right before SxSW. Zya''s app revolves aroudn letting mobile users create their own songs. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners --which has been very active in the local technology startup market--has made its latest investment, in an interesting industry: mortgage lending. GRP is the lead investor in Skyline Financial , a Calabasas-based provider of mortgage banking and lending. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Calabasas-based FaceCake Marketing Technologies , a developer of 3-D, virtual dressing room technology, has raised a round of funding from XG Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm whose founders are former Google execs. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The funding round was first reported by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday morning.

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JULY 19, 2011

Calabasas-babsed Fulcrum Microsystems , the developer of switching semiconductors, has been acquired by chip giant Intel. Fulcrum Microsystems was venture backed by Granite Ventures, Infinity Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Palomar Ventures, and others; the firm had raised somewhere over $114M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Calabasas-based National Technical Systems , which is a provider of environmental and other testing and related services to manufacturers, said it has acquired the testing business of Wyle Laboratories. NTS is owned by private equity firm Aurora Capital Group. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calabasas-based Fulcrum Microsystems , a provider of high speed Ethernet switching chips, and Aquantia , which develops 10GBASE-T PHY semiconductors, said this morning that the two have tied together in releasing a new, 48-port 10GBASE-T Ethernet Switch reference design. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight Ticket Management , the developer of ticket management software for helping corporate suite holders manage their tickets, announced today that the Home Depot Center in Carson is offering up its products to its corporate suite holders. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

Calabasas-based Kythera Biopharmaceuticals , a developer of aesthetic medicine products, has added $10M more in new funding. Tags: aesthetic medical lifescience capital venture biopharmaceuticals kythera. The new funding came to light in this week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight , the developer of ticket management software-as-a-service, said today that it has appointed Richard Dym as its Chief Marketing Officer. The company is backed by POint Judith Capital. Dym has previously been CMO of OpSource, and also served at AXIS-One, SiteSmith, Tribal Voice and ParcPlace Systems.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight Ticket Management Systems , the developer of ticketing automation software, said today that it has signed the Cincinnati Bengals as a customer. Spotlight is venture backed by Point Judith Capital, and headed by StubHub vets Joe Greiner, Tony Knopp, and Aric Haut. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Calabasas-based Ixia , the provider of network testing equipment and software, said earlier this week that it has acquired VeriWave , a provider of wireless testing devices. VeriWave was venture backed by TL Ventures, US Venture Partners, Montlake Capital, Alloy Ventures, and Woodside Fund. The deal is expected to close on July 18th.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Calabasas-based testing and engineering services provider National Technical Systems will operate the testing lab for certification testing for iControl Networks , according to NTS. Financial impact of the deal was not announced. READ MORE>>. national technical systems testing tester icontrol home network connected devices software zigbee'

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight Ticket Management , which develops software used by corporate suite and ticket management software, said today that it has been selected by the Sacramento Kings, to provide its applications to corporate suite holders. The firm is venture backed by Point Judith Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2011

Calabasas-based National Technical Systems , the provider of testing and engineering services, said today that it has acquired Ingenium Testing. NTS--which is publicly held--said the acquisition as funded via a $14M, private placement of debt and equity with Mill Road Capital, completed the last week of June. The deal was worth $12.5M

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Meritech Capital also participated in the funding. Robison reports that the company now has over 400 employees, spread across seven building in a Carpinteria campus, in addition to a web development branch in Calabasas, and sales offices in the UK and Australia.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Calabasas-based National Technical Systems reports today that it has secured a $65M, senior credit facility from the firm, from Comerica Bank, Bank of the West, and U.S. NTS said the line is split between $20M in a term loan, $25M in revolving credit, and $20M for acquisitions. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Music Mastermind is venture backed by Intel Capital and Liberty Global. Zya , the mobile music game developed by Music Mastermind, said Friday that it will offer players of the game an opportunity to win a recording contract and $10,000 in cash. The company''s CEO and fo-founder is Matt Serletic, the former CEO of Virgin Records.

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MAY 17, 2012

Calabasas-based KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals , a developer of biopharmaceuticals for the aesthetic medicine market, has filed for an IPO. Leerink Swann, and Lazard Capital Markets. Leerink Swann, and Lazard Capital Markets. The firm's offering is being underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co., READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Calabasas-based Malauzai , a new startup focused on mobile banking applications, has raised $1.3M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details on the funding have been announced. The firm's board includes executives from Digital Insight, the local online banking software firm acquired in 2006 by Intuit.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Calabasas-based Spotlight Ticket Management , the venture-backed startup which helps companies manage their corporate sports and entertainment tickets for big brands like Coca Cola, Google, Comcast, and many others, has renamed itself Ticketmanager , the company said today. TicketManager is led by Tony Knopp. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Calabasas-based TicketManager , the developer of entertainment and sports ticket management software, said Thursday morning that it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round. The funding came from Kayne Partners and Point Judith Capital. The company said it will use the funding to expand into new markets and accelerate growth.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , a supplier of video game development software, said Monday that it has raised $12.5M Tags: video content game venture software emergent capital games technologies. in a new round of funding. The firm's software is being used by Disney, EA, Mythic, Take Two, THQ, and others. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies has taken $4M in funding for the firm's game development software, according to numbers released last week in the PricewaterhouseCOopers/NVCA Venture Capital survey. Details on the funding have not been released.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Calabasas-based Masher Media , which is developing the online virtual world MyMiniPeeps.com for children, has received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels. Tags: masher media myminipeeps virtual world content videogame venture capital angel. MyMiniPeeps.com is targeted at kids 6 to 13. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Calabasas-based National Technical Systems , the provider of testing, certification, inspection, and other related services, said this morning that it is acquiring UK-based National Quality Assurance , a provider of ISO testing services. NTS is owned by LA private equity investor Aurora Capital Group. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Calabasas-based software developer Final Draft , which develops screenwriting software, has been acquired by Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services. Cast & Crew was advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the deal; Final Draft was represented by MediaBridge Capital Advisors. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

We've also got a facility in Calabasas which we're just finishing renovating. We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development. Eric Robison: Our main headquarters is now in Carpinteria, where we now have a campus occupying seven buildings.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

We've also got a facility in Calabasas which we're just finishing renovating. We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development. Eric Robison: Our main headquarters is now in Carpinteria, where we now have a campus occupying seven buildings.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Row 44 -- which is backed by PAR Capital Management -- is the latest spartup of John Guidon, who sold Calabasas-based Comcore Semiconductor to National Semiconductor in 1998 for $150M. The airline also said it is partnered with Yahoo! to offer an in-flight homepage and destination-relevant content to Wi-Fi users. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Calabasas-based Labrador Systems, a startup developing assistive robots for the disabled, has raised $3.1M in a seed funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by Amazon's Alexa Fund and iRobot Ventures, and also included SOV and Grep VC.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Calabasas-based IDrive , the provider of online backup storage led by Raghu Kulkarni, has launched a new, $10M startup fund called IDrive Ventures , the company said Friday. The company said it has already investe in four different companies out of the fund.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Calabasas-based IDrive , the provider of online backup storage led by Raghu Kulkarni, has launched a new, $10M startup fund called IDrive Ventures , the company said Friday. The company said it has already investe in four different companies out of the fund.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Calabasas-based payment processing operator Applied Merchant Systems announced late Monday that it has merged with BlueSquare Resolutions , and raised a round of debt funding. The funding came via a senior credit facility from Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group and Business Development Corporation of America.

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