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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

GoodRx is backed by private equity firms Silver Lake, Francisco Partners, Spectrum, and Idea Men LLC. Seelaus & Co., LLC and Ramirez & Co., READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

GoodRx is backed by private equity firms Silver Lake, Francisco Partners, Spectrum, and Idea Men LLC. Seelaus & Co., LLC and Ramirez & Co., READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based private equity firm The Gores Group has acquired cloud computing consulting and systems integrator Astadia , Gores said Monday. Astadia will be merged with Idea , a current portfolio company of The Gores Group. Financial details of the transaction were not announced.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Tongal''s online site lets users contribute to develop creative ideas for different advertising projects, starting with the idea itself, to a storyboard, and eventually a full blown commercial video. The firm recently raised $15M in a private equity funding from Insight Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Santa Monica-based solar energy project developer SolarReserve has raised $586M in a combination of equity and debt, for two South African projects, according to reports today. The funding came from FirstRank Bank Ltd, with equity from Kensani Capital Investments, Intikon Energy, IDEAS Managed Fund and GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd.

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MAY 8, 2017

Santa Monica-based equity crowdfunding site Crowdfunder is making it easier for it to work with investors, saying on Monday that it has just received its broker-dealer license to sell securities directly to accredited investors. Crowdfunder said the move will help create a "more seamless solution" for its customers. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

in equity and another $2.5M Siminoff had initially raised funding for its Doorbot project through a crowdfunding campaign back in 2012; Siminoff also pitched the idea on "Shark Tank", but turned down investors from that show in favor of more traditional venture funding. in debt financing, the company disclosed Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 4, 2014

All three were recently acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners, which has been moving thousands of jobs out of San Diego to Texas, after acquiring those companies. Others involved in the effort include investor Brant Cooper, and Cooley''s Eric Otterson. READ MORE>>. growth investment industry software diego swarm'

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JANUARY 16, 2013

One of those is Jeff Zwelling , the founder of Convertro, who had prior success at EchoSign (sold to Adobe) and YLighting (sold to a private equity firm). The WSJ says that Zwelling has another idea, drawn from his experience at Convertro, which he has yet to spin into another startup.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Private equity investment firm Blackstone said Friday that it is expanding its university entrepreneurship program, Blackstone LaunchPad , to Southern California. READ MORE>>. blackstone launchpad student entrepreneurship program ucla southern california entrepreneur startup business'

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian Chen: In my previous life, I was working in private equity in LA. When we first started, we had the same idea many other startups had, including one that had raised money from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank. When we started the app about six years ago, that was the idea an vision. Ian Chen: It's completely different.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Instead of equity, the company is aimed at profiting profitable small businesses with business debt funding from investors, to help those businesses grow and get to the next level. Why did you decide to focus on debt, not equity? We also liked the idea that people would get repaid. How''d you come up with the idea for the site?

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APRIL 10, 2018

We charge zero, and take no equity, and really there are very small operational costs for us to support startups. Matt Stodder: What we see, is we're occupying a place in the ecosystem where there are companies with ideas, but really haven't take those ideas to a place where they can execute or plan for them.

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MARCH 8, 2018

The Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), which kicked off on Wednesday, and continues today in Santa Monica, is one of the biggest gathering places for venture capital, private equity investors, and technology executives from around the globe. You do a great job of getting venture capital and private equity investors here.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

How did you get the idea to start the company? Josef Holm: I had the idea to start Tubestart with my partner, Paul Shires. We are hoping to change that next year, with free crowdfunding, to go towards an equity/royalty funding model for YouTube channels, which will be exciting. Josef Holm: Equity-based crowdfunding.

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JUNE 2, 2010

What is the idea behind Invested.in? If you want to return equity in a company, that's actually illegal, which requires you to register with the SEC, so we're not doing that right now. Where did the idea come from originally? launched earlier this year at DEMO. What's next for the company?

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APRIL 13, 2021

Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. We also provide a lot of other training, such as here's how you form an entity, how equity works, etc., but the key thing is customer discovery.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

First of all, whose idea was that? But beyond that, like the August 1979 Death of Equities BusinessWeek cover, this just screams out for a market call and analysis. I mean, Im from Jersey, and this is embarrassing.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Instead, after a private equity firm offered to buy YLighting, we negotiated to keep the technology that we had developed. We sold it to a private equity group. The other thing we had done, is a friend of mine, an EIR at a venture firm, Storm Ventures, started doing lunches together to come up with ideas. Jeff Zwelling.

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JULY 9, 2019

On the medical device side, we're looking to be growth equity, like a company on a 510K pathway. Use any opportunity you have for warm intros, for networking, and to get your idea in front of an investor and be able to really explain when you get that opportunity. Chris Bostick: We want to see really validated proof-of-concept work.

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MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. However, instead of just very rapidly scaling around that idea, we decided to really define what the business needed to look like. That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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AUGUST 13, 2010

We prepared a presentation to go out to the private equity community, to investigate opportunities to put money into Language Weaver. I came into this with the idea that we'd be a publicly traded company. They were quite attracted to Language Weaver and started to deploy our solutions. Mark Tapling: Not really.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

That's where I first started getting the idea to create what is now Indi. In between that, I was formerly at the private equity firm Clearlake Capital, out of Santa Monica, which manages 8 billion in private equity investments. Indi stands for individual. The big new brand is the individual, which was the genesis of the name.

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MARCH 31, 2014

That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. Briefly, we see your first product is for the Muni market - what''s the idea behind that product? Why did you start in that market?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

And, the equity markets are certainly a more challenging environment. The ideas and people seeking money are out there in quantity. There are lots of ideas we have seen that have sounded interesting, and very plausible, and where we've though that if a proper management team was put in place would be successful.

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JUNE 27, 2011

When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do. The idea is that if you put those dreams up, it will give you some context and make paying attention to your finances worthwhile.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

accelerator--which only inspired him to keep working on making his startup a reality and go from just an idea, to a real company. The idea for FloQast really came from the experience we had in that department, which grew to about 50 people. We would have been able to been more effective, and retained a greater percentage of equity.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

I thought I would be an investment banker, and I decided I was probably going to move to San Francisco to enter private equity, venture capital, or a startup. What is the idea behind that effort? Jonathan LaCour: The idea, is there is a huge amount of resources around student video games.

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APRIL 22, 2010

We had a chance to speak with Jerry Fitch , CEO of the firm, about the interest in the electric/smart metering market, his views on where the market is today, as well as a bit about the experience of operating as a private equity backed firm. How has your experience being owned by private equity been? Thanks for the time.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Rather, we will provide a platform for them to get interim office space and sophisticated legal services, and to ultimately grow their ideas from business concept to funded startup. The idea is simply to foster the community and support up-and-coming entrepreneurs. socalcto socaltech Follow @pandodaily.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

It was their idea that created Startup Exchange. They saw similar exchange funds offered to them when they took their companies public, and they thought -- that would be an even better idea for startups. They like the idea. Tags: capital venture equity startupexchange fund startup interview barton michael. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

When companies come into our incubator, we take no equity, we take no stake in the company, it's completely free for the participant. We though that because of the demographic and the excitement level, that would be a great idea. That's through the generosity of the Irvine Company. That's earlier than at the UTC.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

We invest time and money into helping them develop their ideas, and help develop those companies and the entrepreneurs as leaders. percent equity. I explain to her that, like the contestants on the show, we work with very early startup entrepreneurs to build the next great product. Noramay Cadena: We do.

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MARCH 26, 2014

We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. Dan Rodrigues: The genesis for the idea actually started in my last business, between the first company I started--which was an Internet startup--and Kareo. How did you determine this was the market to tackle, and how did you get into this?

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JUNE 17, 2009

SharesPost was one of the first ideas we had. We came to it, because we'd been around private equity, and it's always surprised me how inefficient the marketplace is. tools available, not to mention the growth and size of the private equity market--it's a 2.5 Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Do they have positive equity in their home? Jack Ryan: One, is how excited the market is about this idea. They have to go out and find buyers. That's the same thing with Zillow or Trulia. We're targeting buyers using their digital foot print. How long have they livedin their home? What are their recent purchases?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Jed Simon: The idea came from recognizing a pain point in the ad tech ecosystem. But, we have a non-equity dilutive product, and we accelerate cash flow. We spoke with Jed Simon the firm's CEO and founder, about the company. Tell us a little bit about what FastPay is about? On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers.

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