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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 21, 2019

Calabasas-based GreenPark Sports --a new startup founded by Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube; Nick Swinmurn, founder of Zappos; and Ken Martin, co-founder of Blitz--has raised $8.5M Hurley--who co-founded YouTube--serves as Chairman of the new startup. in a seed funding round. Ken Martin serves as CEO.

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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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APRIL 19, 2017

Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing hardware and software, is now part of Keysight Technologies , Keysight said late Tuesday, after the successful close of its $1.6 billion acquisition effort. Keysight paid $19.65 per share in cash for Ixia, which no longer trades on the Nasdaq Glo bal Select Market. READ MORE>>.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2020

Kobe Bryant , the basketball legend who also was one half of Los Angeles private equity investment firm Bryant Stibel , is dead at the age of 41, after a tragic helicopter crash in Calabasas took his life, the life of one of his daughters, and seven others.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

Calabasas-based Aligned TeleHealth , a provider of telemedicine services, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding round. The startup is led by Nitin Nanda, M.D. The funding came from SV Life Sciences (SVLS). Michael Baluth and Gene Hill, both of SVLS, have joined Aligned TeleHealth's board of directors.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more. 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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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. Malauzai is headed by Tom Shen, who was formerly EVP of Product, Engineering and Operations for Digital Insight.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Calabasas-based temporary staffing firm OnAssignment said Monday that it has acquired technology recruiting firm CyberCoders , in a deal worth $105M. CyberCoders had been very active in Southern California''s technology startup market. OnAssignment paid $17.1 to Cross Country Healthcare.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Calabasas-based SpotlightTMS , the startup providing software to manage sports and entertainment tickets and seats owned by corporations, has signed on another event venue, the company said this week.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. the "startup culture" at the company as among reasons to work for the company.

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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.

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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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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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MAY 8, 2013

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. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. What is iDrive?

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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. Tags: travel row44 aircraft wifi startup southwest airlines wireless. to offer an in-flight homepage and destination-relevant content to Wi-Fi users.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As you probably know, Goldmine used to compete with ACT, and was a precursor to software like Salesforce.com when contact management software started on laptops. It was started here in Pacific Palisades, at the end of Sunset and the PCH. They might be looking for FTP automation or automate, and you'll see us come up.

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MARCH 22, 2015

Based in Calabasas, CA and fresh from its SXSW debut and launch party, the new open messaging app onLoop hopes to reshape how we use social media to communicate. Apps Social Media Startups Messaging App Mobile onLoop SXSW 2015' The onLoop app is available now for smartphones on Android and iOS. Click here to download and check it out!

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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.

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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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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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