socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The funding came from private equity investor Franciso Partners. City of Industry-based NZXT, a maker of custom, gaming PCs, has raised $100M in a strategic investment, the company said this week. NZXT's custom gaming PCs start at $799, but can be customized and can cost more than $3800.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

However, local companies seem to have been pursuing a much easier route to liquidity lately -- one of the companies most talked about for an IPO in the last few years was LegalZoom, which ended up dropping its IPO bid in favor of a sale to private equity investor Permira. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2020

The pair made a mix of early- and late-stage investments in Los Angeles-based companies like LegalZoom, Scopely, Art of Sport, The Honest Company, RingDNA, FocusMotion, DyshApp and Represent. billion investment vehicle that was launched in partnership with the private equity fund, Permira, according to a report in USA Today.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2013

Rubicon is venture backed by News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn. Rubicon Project's Addante was formerly Chief Technology Officer and a founder of L90, and was co-founder of StrongMail systems. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

I moved down here to work as a large, $10 billion private equity fund with Ron Burkle, at Yucaipa Companies. As an investor, what made you decide to go from private equity to an operational role? I saw an opportunity to leave the comfort of private equity, and go after this opportunity to change the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Based on the Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom a while back, personal money, or bootstrapping, continues to be the primary startup funding source. Even a small investor in the early days will take a large equity percentage, due to that pesky valuation challenge.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. 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. What kind of customers are using the tool? There are lots of e-commerce companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Even a small investor in the early days will take a large equity percentage, due to that pesky valuation challenge.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Brian Lee – LegalZoom, ShoeDazzle. His first company, LegalZoom was founded with Robert Shapiro, part of the team that successfully exonerated OJ Simpson, instantly giving his company credibility unheard of in the start up community. Lee could have stayed in the law business and become quite successful, but Lee had a dream.

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