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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Sunday, November 20, 2011 -- Startup Weekend Orange County. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Saturday, November 19, 2011 -- Startup Weekend Orange County. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Friday, November 18, 2011 -- Startup Weekend Orange County. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

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MAY 6, 2014

Epicor Software , the supply chain management software company whose roots are in Orange County, has been put up for sale by private equity firm Apax Partners, according to reports Tuesday. epicor software merger acquisition private equity exit apax' Apax paid $976M for Epicor back in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Equity Orange County Software Southern California 185

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software is now officially part of Dell , Dell said today, after the two firms completed their $2.4 Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software develops a wide portfolio of IT management software tools. billion acquisition deal. Dell had announced the acquisition back in July.

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Software Orange County Acquisition Software Development 171

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JUNE 5, 2015

New York-based mobile ad platform developer Jun Group is expanding in both Orange County and Los Angeles, saying it is looking to tap into a hotbed of engineering talent in Orange County.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Two, Orange County venture capital investors are behind a developer of socially-driven, healthcare software aimed at helping health plans encourage healthy activity by their members. Jeff Margolis, CEO of WellTok, founded TriZetto in Orange County, although the firm subsequently moved to Denver. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Coding bootcamp operator Coding Dojo had said this week that it was starting its first day of classes in Orange County on Monday, the first time the bootcamp operator has run a program in Orange County. The company also has campuses in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Silicon Valley, and Washington DC.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

The company--which has significant operations in Orange County--said the Bain Capital Ventures, along with Bessemer Venture Partners and Foundry Group. SendGrid has a big operation in Orange, with a focus on engineering and software. sendgrid venture capital email delivery investment software orange county'

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M billion invested in the region.

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MAY 16, 2014

Anaheim- and Boulder-based SendGrid , which develops email delivery software and services to developers, is expanding its presence in Colorado, saying that it has relocated to a new and larger space in its Boulder location. SendGrid also said it is hiring across the company, including in Orange COunty. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Amir Banifatemi: K5Launch supports our larger vision, the K5 initiative, which was promoted last year to provide a more stable and vibrant community of entrepreneurship in Southern California, but mostly Orange County. We are in Orange County, but we're also focused more largely on Southern California.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Preact , a developer of software to help software companies reduce churn in their subscription customers which came out of Los Angeles-based startup incubator/accelerator Launchpad LA , has raised $4.6M Gooley was at Earbits, and Watilo is an Orange County native who has consulted for Kelley Blue Book, Zillow, and others.

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Orange County Incubator Venture Capital Software 197

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

invested in Orange County. In Orange County, the largest deals were for Aliso Viejo's GaiKai , which raised $30.0M, Anaheim-based Fisker Automotive , with $25.0M In terms of industries, Software gained the most investments with a total of $165.7M Los Angeles received $260.0M in San Diego, and $141.4M

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

in venture capital raised in Q3; Orange County had $155.96M in investments for the quarter. The industry with the largest amount of investment was in Software, with $229.6M The industry with the largest amount of investment was in Software, with $229.6M in funding for its location-based intelligence software.

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Southern California Orange County Tech Coast Angels Company 234

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Toba Capital , the venture fund run by former Quest Software founder Vinny Smith, has backed reporting and analytics dashboard software developer Grow.com in a $16M Series B funding round. Grow.com offers up reporting and analytics software specifically for SMBs and non-technical users, and is based in Orem, Utah.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

Los Angeles had a total of $311.25M in deals for the quarter, followed by Orange County with $197.8M, then San Diego, with $174.6M Second in terms of dollars was software, which totaled $107.6M The funding brings Southern California's total 2012 investments to $3.2 billion in venture capital. in funding. in funding.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Epicor Software , the developer of supply chain management software which has its roots and still has significant operations in Orange County, is off the block, after its private equity investors did not see enough interest--or high enough prices--for the business. The news on that move came in May. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Sales News Equity 153

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MARCH 21, 2012

Adding another group to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators and incubators: a new, Orange County incubator, Frost Venture Partners , looks to be gearing up to tackle the "big data" market. The new incubator, headed by Stuart Frost , the founder of DATAllegro , lists five startups in its portfolio of companies.

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Incubator Orange County Southern California Web 164

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

in healthcare software developer Welltok , which announced a big funding round this morning. Miramar and Okapi are in Orange County, and Qualcomm is in San Diego. The investment is the first out of IBM''s $100M "Watson Fund", which aims to invest in companies using its Watson artificial intelligence software. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 29, 2011

A report, published Friday by Wired, says that Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu has cut its use of web analytics service Kissmetrics -- a startup founded by former Orange County entrepreneur Neil Patel -- after U.C. Patel and Shah both have ties to Orange County, where they co-founded visual heatmap tracking firm CrazyEgg.

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JULY 5, 2016

Epicor , the enterprise software development firm which has significant operations in Orange County, has been sold to private equity investor KKR , the company announced Tuesday morning. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Epicor had been in the hands of another, private equity investors-- Apax Partners.

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Orange County Equity Software Development Sales 133

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MAY 20, 2014

The startup was spawned out of Project Holodeck, a demonstration effort at an Orange County virtual reality conference. survios venture capital virtual reality oculusvr oculus hardware software holodeck' Survios is developing an immersive, 360 degree, virtual reality system. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Venture Capital Conference Los Angeles 153

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Irvine-based Quality Systems , which develops electronic health records and other related software, has acquired fellow Orange County healthcare information technology company Mirth Corporation. Mirth was based in Costa Mesa, and provided software to help connect a wide range of electronic health records (EHR) systems.

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Orange County SaaS Acquisition Software 147

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MARCH 7, 2017

SendGrid , which provides email delivery services for companies for their transactional emails, and which has a big Orange County office, announced today that it has acquired email marketing automation startup Bizzy. Bizzy develops email marketing automation software aimed at small-to-medium sized companies. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Email Acquisition Marketing 124

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JUNE 18, 2013

Irvine-based CrowdStrike , the developer of security software which was founded by former McAfee CTO George Kurtz, has debuted its technology, saying that it has created a platform which is aimed at stopping security attacks and protecting users'' intellectual property. Kurtz later became worldwide CTO and GM at McAfee. READ MORE>>.

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Software Orange County Platform Web 113

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Foundstone was a provider of intrusion prevention software and related services; fellow co-founder George Kurtz has his own, security startup, Crowdstrike, which raised $26M in February of last year. Fallon, U.S. Navy (Retired), and Alex Doll (co-founder of PGP). He also served at Kaiser Permanente. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Software Capital Startup 171

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Epicor , the enterprise software developer which has major operations in Orange County, said this week that it has acquired a cloud-based developer of management and e-commerce software called ShopVisible. ShopVisible is the second, retail e-commerce software company Epicor has acquired in the last two month.

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Commerce Orange County SaaS Equity 138

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JUNE 16, 2015

Orange County-based Connectifier , a sttup founded by ex-Googlers, and which is developing search-powered recruiting software, has raised $6M in a Series A. Connetifier is developing tools which use search software and artifial intelligence to better help recruiers find and locate talent. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Software Downey Google 100

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JANUARY 11, 2019

billion in Orange County. The region had a total of 124 deals logged by Dow Jones VentureSource, split between 75 in Los Angeles, 29 in San Diego, and 20 in Orange County. According to the report, Los Angeles garnered the lion's share of the local funding, with $1.77 billion in deals, followed by $0.77

Southern California 150

Southern California Orange County Venture Capital San Diego 150

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Orange County-based heatmap software developer CrazyEgg has acquired Hello Bar , a developer of customizable, web toolbars which help encourage actions from web site visitors. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. According to TechCrunch, the buy included only the Hello Bar product, and not its team.

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La Mirada Orange County Web Design Web 150

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JULY 15, 2016

Vinny Smith , the founder of Orange County's Quest Software , has put his backing behind a new data integration sofware startup, Grow. Grow said this week that it has raised $11M in a Series A funding, which came from Toba Capital, the investment funding company run by Smith. Grow is based in Utah.

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Orange County Software Funding Capital 100

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AUGUST 9, 2012

The startup--which is backed by Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and others--lists software engineering, big data, customer support, online marketing, and other positions in Anaheim, a location it added in August of last year. SendGrid is based in Boulder, Colorado. READ MORE>>.

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CTO Hire Orange County Email Software Engineering 157

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Orange County-based merchant processing software developer CurveNorth has been acquired by a New York firm, TransFirst , TransFirst said Wednesday. CurveNorth, which was based in the small town of Silverado, developed software used for the merchant processing industry, handling workflow and signups for merchant accounts.

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Orange County Software Development Acquisition Software 133

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MARCH 5, 2013

Vinny Smith , the former CEO of Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software , appears to have become one of the most active investors in recent months in enterprise software, after starting up a new venture capital firm, Toba Capital. Vinny Smith formed Toba Capital from his gains for selling Quest Software to Dell in September, for $2.4

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Orange County Southern California Startup Venture Capital 159

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Orange County-based PortfolioDashboards.com , a developer of software for providing updates and information to angel and other investors, launched today, saying that it is looking to provide angel investors and venture capitalists with regular, standardized, and aggregated performance data and reports on their portfolio companies.

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Orange County Invest Report Angel 150

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JUNE 18, 2013

Anaheim- and Boulder, Colorado-based SendGrid , which develops email delivery services and software, is making a big expansion today, into email marketing. SendGrid is backed by Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and angels, and splits its operations between Orange County and Boulder, Colorado.

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Email Marketing Orange County Template 168