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GoGuardian Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With Latest Investment

L.A. Business Journal

GoGuardian, an El Segundo-based educational technology company, has raised $200 million from a New York-based private equity firm in a deal that values GoGuardian at well over $1 billion.

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NEOGOV Finds Funding From Carlyle, Warburg Pincus

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El Segundo-based human capital and policy management software developer NEOGOV, which is led by Shane Evangelist, has scored a round of funding from private equity giants The Carlyle Group and Warburg Pincus. The size of the investment--described as "significant"--was not announced. The company was founded in 2000.

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Upromise Acquired By LA's Prodege

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El Segundo-based consumer rewards program operator Prodege , led by longtime SoCal technology veteran Chuck Davis, said Monday morning that it has acquired Upromise , the popular college education-saving rewards business which was owned by SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae). Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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How ConsumerTrack Has Created A Growing, Profitable--and Mostly Unknown Business

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We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others.

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