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MAY 14, 2014

San Clemente-based DealerSocket , a developer of software-as-a-service for the automotive industry, said Tuesday that it has entered into a strategic investment partnership with private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. automotive software private capital venture investment partners equity vista dealersocket'

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APRIL 28, 2011

San Diego-based JMI Equity , the private equity firm investing in software and business services, has re-upped its investment in Wellesley, Mass.-based in additional capital, from Bain Capital Ventures, Egan-Managed Capital , JMI Equity, and Business Development Bank of Canada. based AppNeta.

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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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JANUARY 6, 2014

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it has acquired Tolt Services Group , an outsource, IT services company, and merged it with Kyrus Solutions , to form a new company called Tolt Solutions. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 7, 2011

Thursday, January 13, 2011 -- Private Equity Night. PE Night is a must-attend event offering unmatched networking opportunities for business leaders across several industries. The Private Equity Marketplace Presenting Sponsors are BDO; KL Gates; and Stradling Yocca Carlson and Rauth. ACG Orange County. PE

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm is one of the backers in a startup which is developing technology to create a network of peer-to-peer, wireless devices, to help improve access for phones in poor coverage areas. Cole Brodman, the former Technology and Innovation Chief and CMO of T-Mobile, and investor at Trilogy Equity, is the company's new CEO.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Private equity investor Platinum Equity in advanced talks with HNA Group, per the report. Ingram Micro is a major distributor of information technology products, ranging from computer and networking products to cloud services and IT lifecycle management. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Santa Ana-based CoreLogic , a provider of real estate, mortgage, and other data and information services, said Tuesday that it has acquired Dorado Network Systems Corporation , in a deal worth $32M. Dorado develops cloud computing applications for the financial services industry. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010 -- Private Equity Night. PE Night is a must-attend event offering unmatched networking opportunities for business leaders across several industries. ACG Orange County. PE

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Westlake Village-based Independent Technology Group , a provider of information technology services, including networking, storage, and security services, has been acquired by Santa Clara, California-based InterVision Systems. InterVision is owned by private equity investor Huron Capital.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Irvine-based Mavenlink , which develops business process management software and related tools for services businesses, said on Thursday that it has created a new, Executive Advisory Board at the company. MavenLink's backers include Carrick Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Skyview Capital has acquired cybersecurity software developer Fidelis Cybersecurity a provider of network traffic analysis, digital forensics, and incident response software, the company said late Thursday. Financial terms of the stock transaction were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 24, 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 -- Southern California Venture Network. SCVN helps entrepreneurs, service providers and private equity sources to accelerate their entrepreneurial velocity. Join us for this networking mixer and company presentation event. See [link] (more).

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APRIL 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Platinum Equity said Thursday that the firm has acquired a majority stake in Canvas Systems LLC, a supplier of used and refurbished IT equipment and services. Canvas Systems sells refurbished IT equipment, including servers, storage, network equipment, and telephony equipment.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

DroneBase , a Los Angeles-based provider of drone pilots for industrial services companies, has raised $7.5 While chief executive Dan Burton acknowledged that the company was fundraising prior to the pandemic, the industrial lockdown actually accelerated demand for the company’s services.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. In further details on the FAN deal, Addante also said that it has not acquired the advertising sales team at FAN, saying that it "is not, and will not be, an ad network."

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? You’re a small fish. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

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. Spend the absolute minimum for what you need (equipment, software, and services) to keep your business running. Think minimum spending. Reinvest gross profit. Do it yourself.

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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? I imagine it must be difficult to scale this and build out a network of filmmakers?

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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. Barter services for access to required resources. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop. Yellow’s small batches are much easier to manage than other accelerator behemoths like Y Combinator that are pushing hundreds of startups through their network. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

Garden Grove-bsaed Teletrac , a developer of cloud-based, software-as-a-service products for fleet tracking and fleet operators, has been sold to Danaher , according to private equity investor Vector Capital. According to Vector Capital, Teletrac is currently providing network tracking of 200,000 vehicles across 87 countries.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based private equity firm The Gores Group said yesterday that it has acquired DMN Ltd. , a mobile communications network engineering support and staffing provider, based in Swindon, UK. Gores said that DMN provides engineering and project management services to the mobile communications industry in the UK.

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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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JUNE 4, 2019

In long, complicated path that wound through Southern California's high tech industry, flower delivery network operator FTD has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. FTD also agreed to sell both its North American and Latin American businesses to private equity investor Nexus Capital Management , in a move that includes San Diego-based Proflowers.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Fans of the once-cancelled soap operas "All My Children" and "One Life To Live" have a good reason to cheer today, as Hulu , the streaming video service based in Los Angeles, said it would bring the two soap operas to the service. Financial details of that investment were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

What happened to us, is we were doing lots of work in the financial services sector. 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. That's what customers are using in this environment.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , which operates a network of "last mile" electric vehicles for connecting users with public transportation like buses and subways, has raised $100M in a Series B funding, the company said on Friday. Bird, which is led by founder and CEO Travis VanderZanden, offers up electric scooters as part of its service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based RGM Group , which provides online media services for premium advertisers, said today that it has raised $21M in a funding round. The round came from Riordan, Lewis & Haden (RLH) Equity Partners. As part of the funding, the company said that it has hired Kurt Johnson, the former CEO of FastClick, as its new CEO.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers. Minnesota-based Best Buy (NYSE: BBY.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Norton’s latest fund is the only the most recent act in a career that has seen the investor traverse the financial services digital media and the early days of the internet. Norton built Digital Boardwalk, a pioneering internet service provider and the second commercial partner for the trailblazing browser service, Netscape.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

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. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms.

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