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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based Encompass Digital Media , a provider of digital media services to the broadcast and cable television market, said this moring that it is in a deal with private equity Court Square Capital Partners, where Court Square will acquire a majority interest in the company. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Santa Monica-based H Code, which provides digital advertising services to the Hispanic market, said Monday afternoon that the company has received a new, capital investment. The funding came from private equity investor Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), which invests in growth-oriented, middle-market companies.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it has created a new company, Newfold Digital, through the acquisition of Endurance International Group, plus strategic investment transactions with both Web.com and affiliates of Siris. Web.com owns Network Solutions, Register.com, Web.co, and CrazyDomains.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

In a big exit for Southern California, Carlsbad-based Luxtera , a developer of optical semiconductors used in the high speed networking market, has been acquired by Cisco , in a deal worth $660M in cash and assumed equity options. Luxtera's semiconductors are used in optical transceivers, including 100GbE and 400GbE networks.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Wi-Fi network and distributed antenna systems provider Boingo Wireless is now officially owned by private equity investor Digital Colony, the two said on Wednesday. The deal takes Boingo off the public markets, where it had been trading as WIFI on the NASDAQ. The deal valued Boingo at approximately $854M.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

New investors in the company included Valor Equity Partners and Razi Ventures, who joined Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capitla and DJI. .” The new round, which closed in May, was a slight down round, according to people familiar with the company’s business.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new company, Apex Innovation Sciences --with headquarters in Long Beach, California and Marlton, New Jersey--has formed out of a corporate merger of CNS Network and Hassman Research Insitute , along with the Clinical Trial Centers Alliance , three companies in the clinical trial studies industry, the companies said this morning.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Vicente Capital Partners announced MOnday that it has invested in iBwave Solutions , a Canadian company providing in-building wireless design software. The company''s software and associated services are used in the in-building wireless network design market. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Irvine-based Allied Esports , an e-sports league operator, has scored backing from Mexican sports television network TV Azteca , the companies said Wednesday morning. According to the companies, TV Azteca, which is part of Grupo Salinas, will purchase $5M of shares of Allied Esports via an equity investment in Black Ridge Acquisition Corp.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Things have already plunged so quickly at the signal of a recession that insiders fear a lengthy bear market could hit crypto far more brutally than expected — tearing tokens to lows far below the highs of the 2017 bull run. We talked through what went wrong on the Celsius network and how it’s surprisingly intertwined with the rest of crypto.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Proficio, a Carlsbad, CA-based startup providing cybersecurity protection services for middle market companies, has raised $12 million in an investment round led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. What is Near Networks? The other reason we got into this, is if you look at the local market, it's really had an explosion over the past year.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based market research provider MarketCast said on Monday that it has acquired Fizziology , a software developer focused on social insights and analytics for the media and entertainment industry. and converts it into data and insights used by motion pictures studios, television networks, production companies, and more.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

You get almost 80 percent, the you decide what you want to do--do you enter this market on your own, give it to a partner to take to market? That's a lot of pain in an engineered network. The piece of technology we did--the middleware we cann Openload, is user level networking, our own TCP/UDP stack, loaded into the user space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The move-- which was announced earlier this month by Texas Governor Rick Perry--comes after a concerted effort by Texas to convince Websense, and its new private equity owners Vista Equity, to relocate its headquarters. Vista Equity owns Websense, along with Omnitracs, which is also moving to Texas. Texas is providing a $4.5M

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APRIL 23, 2013

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Network big to get connections and ideas, but do the work yourself. Creative marketing. startup control equity bootstrapping Rich Christiansen business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In fact, the cost may be minimal, if you do your networking and build a relationship with an experienced business executive or two in your domain who are willing to share and give back for a nominal retainer, perhaps one percent of your new startup equity. The cost of a co-founder is usually fifty percent of your equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Until the recession a decade ago, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. There is no free lunch for money.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Revolution, the parent company of Revolution Ventures , the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Revolution Growth , has evangelized its approach to backing companies in emerging markets, helping promote entrepreneurialism in geographies often overlooked by Silicon Valley’s Patagonia vest-wearing venture capitalists.

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JULY 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network EdgeCast has just filled up its warchest, announcing Thursday that it has raised $54M in a big funding round. The new funding was led by Performance Equity Management, and also included existing investors Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

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JUNE 7, 2018

The IPO--which is relatively small as IPOs go--would put HyreCar on the Nasdaq Capital Market trading as HYRE. The company has one, single underwriter for the IPO, Network 1 Financial Securities. The IPO could raise as much as $12.6M for the company. The company reported GAAP revenues of $3.2M for the year ended December 31, 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. A big part of our mission is to get people comfortable on buses again as a viable alternative to air travel in certain markets.”. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week. is negative.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The second phase was the emergence of influencer marketing, or connecting those influencers to brands to leverage their audiences … Now that influencer marketing has become an established part of the marketing playbook, we are in phase three: tools to help influencers further monetize their influence, like Cameo, and then manage their lives.”.

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APRIL 20, 2015

X5 Solutions is based in Seattle, and is owned by private equity investor NewSpring Capital. X5 said the acquisition also helps it expand into the Los Angeles market, in addition to adding additional capacity and network infrastructure. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2023

Startups that target profitable and growing markets with high returns should realize that these will draw many new entrants. That leads to switching costs, sunk costs, brand equity, and a host of other considerations, commonly called “barriers to entry.” Threat of new competitors entry. Bargaining power of suppliers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. You need to enhance your business plan and marketing with all the benefits to your customers of the multiple “stimulus” plans and tax breaks now being put together, especially related to alternative energy products.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

in an equity funding, the firm said this morning. The company said the new funding will go towards product development, sales, and marketing. The devices include both a surveillance camera and wireless, mesh network hub. The funding came from Karmel Capital and others. The company is headed by Aaron Tankersley. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Justine Lassoff: Melinda and I founded TuesdayNights to help women connect and to impact change through networking events and infinite gatherings. Back then, there really weren't many networking events or groups for high power women in Los Angeles, so we really filled a need. You have to grow your network. What is TuesdayNights?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. It just means that the cofounders trust one of their own and are willing to follow. The industry veteran.

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APRIL 30, 2012

in an equity funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Grid2Home develops network protocols and software stacks used in the smart grid market. San Diego-based Grid2Home , which develops smart energy management software, has raised $2.0M Source of the new funding was not disclosed.

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JUNE 25, 2012

The funding included a senior credit facility from Wells Fargo Capital Finance and a subordinated debt and equity investment from SF Capital Group. FastPay offers up credit lines of up to $5M to online content publishers, social marketers, and others to provide better liquidity to those firms.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Startups that target profitable and growing markets with high returns should realize that these will draw many new entrants. That leads to switching costs, sunk costs, brand equity, and a host of other considerations, commonly called “barriers to entry.” Threat of new competitors entry. Bargaining power of suppliers.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Convertro said it has been working with Media Design Group , a direct response TV advertising agency, to help measure the efficacy of broadcast marketing. dollar shave club convertro dollarshave media buying content measurement analytics attribution marketing' READ MORE>>.

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