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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. For California investments in general, the funding has kicked up pretty remarkaably. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny.

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. Meanwhile the number of quality SoCal companies continues to grow at an impressive rate that reflects more strong executive talent, resources and a vibrant ecosystem.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

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