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OCTOBER 18, 2016

El Segundo-based NEOGOV , the developer of human resources automation software for the public sector, has raised a round of growth equity from private equity investor Warburg Pincus. Size of the investment round was not announced.

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JUNE 1, 2020

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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APRIL 30, 2012

El Segundo-based NanoH2O the developer of high efficiency, reverse osmosis membranes for seawater desalination, announced this morning that it has raised a total of $60M in equity and debt funding. According to the firm, it raised $40M in equity and $20.5M in credit facilities. NanoH2O is led by serial entrepreneur Jeff Green.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

El Segundo-based Toast Labs , a new startup led by The Honest Co. veteran Ashley King, said today that it has raised a seed round of funding, and launched its first app, Dysh. Financial details of the seed funding round was not announced.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

El Segundo-based SecureAuth , a developer of identity management tools, has raised $200M in a funding round from private equity investor K1 Investment Management. K1 said the investment comes as part of a merger with Core Security , a provider of vulnerability discovery, identity governance and threat management software.

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JULY 20, 2020

El Segundo-based Carbonated Games , a developer of mobile games, has raised $8.5M in a seed funding round, the company said late last week. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, Golden Ventures, and Bitkraft Esports Ventures. The company is led by founder and CEO Travis Boatman.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

El Segundo, California- and Austin, Texas-based Slingshot Aerospace said this morning that it has received $2M in funding to go towards developing of a new, space training simulation tool for the U.S. Space Force.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

El Segundo-based medical apparel brand Jaanuu --formed by former investment banker Shaan Sethi and his sister, Dr. Neela Sethi Young --has snagged $15M more in funding, the company said this week, bring the company's total raised to $25M.

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MAY 4, 2017

El Segundo-based Radiology Partners , which offers up on-site, radiology services to hospitals and outpatient centers, has raised $200M in a growth equity funding round. The funding came from New Enterprise Associates, along with Future Fund.

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Nationally, there was $13.0 READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2014

El Segundo-based Internet Brands said this morning that it is being acquired by private equity firm KKR , from its current owners, Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity. KKR said its investment came out of its North America XI private equity fund. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2014

El Segundo-based Beyond Meat , a developer of plant-based, meat alternatives that look like chicken, beef strips, and ground beef, has raised a Series D funding round, according to the company. The company said the funds will go towards both marketing and manufacturing efforts. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

El Segundo-based NanoH2O , the UCLA spinout which is developing reverse osmosis membranes for water desalination, has raised $14.87M as part of an ongoing, $30.6M No details of the funding have been announced by the company yet. fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

El Segundo-based NanoH2O , the developer and manufacturer of reverse osmosis membranes for seawater desalination, has appointed Doug Barnes as the firm's Chief Operating Officer. Barnes joins the company from Planar, a developer of digital displays, where he had spent 25 years running its manufacturing operations.

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APRIL 14, 2009

El Segundo-based Geosemble Technologies , a developer of geospatial data integration and mapping software, said today that it has received a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Size of the investment was not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

El Segundo-based Just Fabulous , a new startup spun out of Intelligent Beauty, the e-commerce firm headed by Don Ressler and Adam Goldenberg, said this morning that it has raised $33M in a Series A funding round, for its "fashion styling" and fashion site. JustFab is focused on monthly delivery of shoes and handbags.

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JUNE 10, 2010

El Segundo-based NanoH2O , the water filtration technology spinout of UCLA, has raised $10M as part of an ongoing, $50M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details on the funding have been announced yet by the company, which is headed by Jeff Green. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). Behzad Kianmahd: There's a bit of a history there.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , which provides a platform for corporate webcasting, said today that it has been selected by mutual fund firm American Century Investments.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

El Segundo-based BridgeCo , a developer of semiconductors for the home entertainment market, announced Friday that it has raised $7.5M in a new round of funding. The firm said the new investment came from Earlybird Venture Capital, and private investors Christian Wenger and Brian Long.

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JULY 14, 2010

El Segundo-based Morphlabs , the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, is announcing today that it has raised $5.5M The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. in a Series B financing round. and AO Capital Partners Ltd.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. The first I sold was across the street, in El Segundo, and sold for $42M.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Technology investing is the best job in the world, but it can be fraught with failure. Once you make enough technology investments, as we have over the last decade, failure at multiple levels will increase and sometimes it feels as if these failures are often sudden, surprising and multiplicative. Two big lessons in 2018. I doubt it.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. When did you invest in the firm?

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AUGUST 28, 2013

El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc., Get feedback, collaborate and get funded. JumpStartFund aims to be the first to ask for feedback, collaboration and funding with both equity- and rewards-based crowdfunding from its members.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week El Segundo-based Wpromote acquired fellow marketing agency Standing Dog, in a deal which brings the company to 260 employees, and continues to grow the company. Our clients are everyone from fast growing, freshly funded startups, to the Fortune 100. They don�t need digital sales, they need to drive people into stores.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. How have you managed to build the company to the size you have without outside funding? It sounds like you''re completely boostrapped.

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MARCH 26, 2014

For a couple of years, I was the head of a boutique software consulting firm based in El Segundo. Dan Rodrigues: Yes, we''ve raised around $70M in venture funding to date. The second firm, is Greenspring Associates, which is a fund of funds.

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