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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet , which develops software used to manage maintenance and service contracts, announced Wednesday that it has raised a round of growth equity from private equity company Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. maintenancenet private equtiy funding software growth service contract' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Los Angeles-based Velocify , which develops a software platform used by sales teams to accelerate the handling of sales leads, has named Joel Ginsburg as its new General Counsel. Ginsburg was most recently Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Guidance Software. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Santa Barbara-based HG Data , which has been developing software that helps companies understand the technology stack their operations depend on, has rebranded itself as HG Insights , and launched a new platform it calls the HG Insights Platform. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Hawthorne-based OSI Systems , a developer of electronic systems for the homeland security, defense, aerospace, and health industries, said this morning that it has snagged a $11M contract from an undisclosed country for its cargo and vehicle inspection systems. The firm said the sale was made in the Asia Pacific region.

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JULY 8, 2015

MaintenanceNet develops cloud-based software used by companies to manage the renewal of service contracts and maintenance contracts, automatically handling quoting, notifications, and also online renewals. Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet has been acquired by Cisco , in a deal worth $139M, Cisco said late Tuesday.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Irvine-based Pharaoh Information Services , a developer of residential construction-related software, has been acquired by Hyphen Solutions , a developer of cloud-based construction management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Hyphen Solutions is based in Texas. Pharaoh had been founded in 1985.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The firm, which develops software-as-a-service used by companies to automate warranty and maintenance contract management, reported another win this morning, with Panasonic. billion in service contracts for its customers last year. The firm hasn't given any actual financials, but did say it generated more than $2.3

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JUNE 30, 2016

Inphi , the semiconductor developer which has a major part of its operation in Westlake Village, has sold off its Memory Interconnect Business unit to Rambus , the companies said this morning. It's unclear how that sale will impact the company's Southern California operations. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet , the developer of software-as-a-service used for managing service contracts and service quotes for manufacturers and others, reported today that it has had a record year. billion in service contracts for its customers. billion in service contracts for its customers. 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. Tolt will be based in Greenville, South Carolina.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet , the developer of sales channel management and service agreement renewal software, reported that it's expanding Down Under today. The firm said it has signed a new, value added distributor in Australia, Westcon Group Australia, who will offer its product to its resellers for free. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Pasadena-based enterprise search software developer X1 --one of the longest running offshoots of Idealab--reported today that it had a "record" sales year for the company in 2014. The company said it saw a sales increase of nearly 70 percent over 2013. Actual company financials were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based digital cinema technology developer Cinedigm said Tuesday that it has named Dan Sherlock as its President of Cinedigm Software. Cinedigm said that he will be responsible for production, technology, business development, sales, and marketing at the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen said Tuesday afternoon along with Boehringer Ingelheim, that the firm has agreed to sell rights in and substantially all of the assets of its Fremont, Calfiornia development and manufacturing facility. The facility and employees will become part of Boehringer Ingelheim and its contract manufacturing business.

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MARCH 1, 2018

Ahead of the conference, we sat down and spoke with Kevin Anderson , co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), a rapidly growing developer of point-of-sale software, on the topic of customer service. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Companies were saying--we want to outsource these kinds of things, because they''re not our core competency. However, when they went to build out a second, disaster recovery site, they figure out that they had been there and done that, and didn''t want to build another one--they decided to outsource it. Grant Kirkwood: No, not at all.

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APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Woodland Hills-based FatTail , a developer of software tools for publishers to manage their advertising sales efforts, said over the weekend that the firm has launched a new product, PageGage RAFT, which will allow publishers automatically buy search traffic.

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JULY 8, 2010

HauteLook, one of the first firms to capitalize on the sample/private sales market, is already profitable and is growing rapidly. The firm is headed by Adam Bernhard , a veteran of the fashion sales industry. HauteLook vs. Gilt Groupe. HauteLook - Profile. Funding: Over $41.0M. Backers: Insight Venture Partners. Funding: $50.0M.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

For this morning's interview with an entrepreneur, we spoke with Thomas Russell , the Ceo and co-founder of ETC Solar (www.etc-solar.com), a Los Angeles startup developing technology to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells. What does ETC Solar do? How far along are you in bringing this to market?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Chris Tragos: The tree founders of Jetpack, myself, Kevin Woolery, and Marc Brown were all working on the publisher side at Spin Media (Editor's note: previously Buzznet) I was running sales, development, and operations, and looking at all these RFPs that came in. They wanted something custom, to close the deal.

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MARCH 1, 2013

Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. I'm a guy that gets things done as a sales person. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. I constantly had to execute on one deal, and go on to the next. Where's the service now?

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JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. What is Burstly?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. They have a day job, running the existing business, and they then have to commit more time and effort into building Dentistry.com, to develop the technology, processes, and all we have to do. We are working with a team in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola: We've got seven people full time, and all our development is offshore, our CTO is onshore, and we have people doing graphical design locally plus others helping part time. I just really felt market demanded this and it's a productivity tool that could be used by an entire organization or individual.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Glendale-based Reveleer (www.reveleer.com) is a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, and recently announced a Series C funding round from investors Boston Millenia Partners and Upfront Ventures. I've been a sales leader, a Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Customer Success. What's your background?

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

He's been doing contracting for the past ten years, and I have been watching from the side. My background is in marketing and sales and consulting, and for the past eight years since graduating from school, I have been spending time diagnosing issues within multiple kinds of organizations. Jon Grishpul: My partner is actually my uncle!

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. It creates a feeder system of local businesses that get their first biz dev deals or sales contracts. You can read Brad’s views of how to do it in his book.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Thta''s something we''ve done a great job at with Vantage Media, which has been facilitating the development of people and the company where people want to live.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. OT networks had a parallel development track with IT systems, but had primarily been focused on industrial applications. Thanks for the time today.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

We then allow you to use the print cloud, where we develop, print, and mail pieces very easily. Our head of client services, head of sales, and our head of data science all come with the highest level of experience and qualifications. We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike. What is a print cloud?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed. In the New York Power Authority contract, the use was halfway between two substations. They're kind of risk-adverse and conservative, and a little slower to respond to new developments. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2017

It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. The other thing I see, is trying to outsource all of this stuff your self. The only frustrating thing there, is because they are so big, the sales cycles are very long. So, we build that and started offering it to the market.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

Ticketing and league development rolled up under me. But, if you're a half-a-billion sports franchise, guess what, I'm not going to have you market to millions of people saying our product is on sale, just for selling a couple thousand tickets at 25 cents on the dollar. So new fan development was a critical thing.

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MARCH 20, 2009

All of them are a non-issue, because we're either paying for it, or it's through a legacy contract with them through the ABCSearch side. Dan Yomtobian: We already have 25 employees here in our Los Angeles office, and we have another office in India with some of our software development operations--18 people out there.

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