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JANUARY 26, 2020

The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., shortly before 10 a.m. Last year, the investment firm expanded with a $1.7

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MAY 8, 2013

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. IDrive/Pro SoftNet is based in Calabasas. We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. We have over 400 million contacts backed up for our users.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. We spoke with founder Neal Roche about his startup, which provides testing tools for the electric vehicle (EV) market.

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JULY 23, 2009

We spoke with Therese Tucker , CEO and founder of the Calabasas firm. We caught up with Therese to hear about her company and why it's growing. So, if you want to validate the balance in a bank account, someone opens up a spreadsheet and does work on it. What's the story behind Blackline, and how did it start?

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JULY 9, 2012

What goes into the thought processes of companies when they're acquiring startups and other firms? To do that, we spoke with Vic Alston , the CEO of Calabasas-based Ixia (www.ixiacom.com), a publicly traded maker of network testing equipment and software. But we also have to make sure we're competitive in our existing markets.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. Why start another one? When I first started ZooKazoo.com, my then 9-year old daughter asked--what can I be?

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