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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

San Diego-based Alyllix , which produces flavors, fragrances, and other ingredients using yeast fermentation, has been acquired by Swiss company Evolva Holdings SA. Evolva said it will acquire Allylix in return for 46 million shares of the company. READ MORE>>. allylix evolva flavors fragrances merger acquisition tech coast angels'

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels San Diego Pasadena 147

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Pasadena-based Geneva Health Solutions , which develops a system which feeds cardiac monitoring data from implantable devices to a wide range of medical systems, has raised $1.9M The funding came from Nebraska Medicine, and San Diego angel investor Don Cohn. in a funding round.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp. which has most of its employees in Westlake Village; Los Angeles-based Gamefly ; City of Industry-based NewEgg ; San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies ; and Thousand Oaks-basd Nexsan.

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Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Westlake Village Woodland Hills 154

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MAY 12, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab is adding Harry Lin , the past CEO and President of Taaz, as an Executive In Residence. Lin said the move came to allow him to be closer to his family, due to the long commute from LA to San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab San Diego Pasadena Entrepreneur 162

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JUNE 17, 2010

So far, two companies-- Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which completed its IPO in May, and Carlsbad-based Maxlinear , which hit the markets in March, have had successful IPOs.

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Southern California Woodland Hills Thousand Oaks Marketing 178

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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JULY 16, 2010

Still on tap for an IPO are Pasadena-based Green Dot , Pasadena-based Genmark Diagnostics , Westlake Village-based Inphi , San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics , City of Industry-based NewEgg , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan.

Westlake Village 145

Westlake Village Woodland Hills Thousand Oaks ReachLocal 145

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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 In terms of industries, biotechonlogy actually led the region, with a total of $134.87M in funding; the majority of those funding deals were in the San Diego area. billion in venture capital.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Wilcon said its network now connects Los Angeles, Burbank, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Santa Clarita, Long Beach, Irvine, Riverside, Carlsbad and San Diego. Wilcon said it was supported in the deal by Pamlico Capital; financial details of that backing was also not announced.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Other notable Southern California firms that have filed for an IPO recently include Santa Monica-based Cornerstone On Demand , San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , San Diego-based Ambit Biosciences , and Los Angeles-based Gamefly. and ReachLocal. and ReachLocal.

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Southern California Santa Monica Legalzoom ReachLocal 162

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MAY 20, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet content publishing run by Richard Rosenblatt, also is widely expected to be in the process of filing for an IPO.

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JULY 18, 2013

San Diego-based Yapert said this morning that it has raised $1.2M According to the firm, the funding was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and also included the Desert Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other independent angel investors. in a seed funding round, for its interactive mobile magazine.

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Mobile Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Seed Funding 133

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2010

Those firms include Pasadena-based Genmark Diagnostics , Westlake Village-based Inphi , San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics , City of Industry-based NewEgg , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan.

Southern California 140

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

According to the World Economic Forum, it selected 31 startups for the list, including San Diego-based On Ramp Wireless and Camarillo-based Transonic Combustion. Last year, Pasadena-based solar technology developer eSolar was the only local firm on the list. Ion Torrent develops semiconductor-based, DNA sequencing technology.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Pasadena-based ABetterStay.com , the branded vacation rental booking site run by LeisureLink, and San Diego-based SaveOnResorts.com , which sells vacation packages online, are announcing this morning that they have partnered.

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APRIL 14, 2010

San Diego-based Allylix , which is developing chemical products for the flavor and fragrance industry, said yesterday that it has closed out its Series C funding round at $9M. The firm had closed an initial $6M in its Series C round February. Allylix is developing terpenes, which are used by the food and fragrance industry.

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels San Diego Pasadena 150

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

was invested across 48 deals; San Diego has $241.5M In terms of venture capital, the most active investors in Southern California companies were the Pasadena Angels with 8 deals, Siemer Ventures (7 deals); Versant Ventures (5 deals); and GRP Partners (5 deals). billion in investments; followed by New England, with $826.1M

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 210

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JULY 22, 2010

Department of Energy is continuing its efforts to fund new energy innovation projects, saying Thursday that it is awarding up to $122M in funding to a project being led by the California Institute of Technology , based out of Pasadena. According to U.S.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Other interesting firms on the list included Pasadena-based Central Desktop at number 180 (1,569%, $2.6M in revenues), TrueCar at number 209 (1,407%, $16.6M), RealD at 347 (843%, $149.8M), and San Diego's Covario , at number 420 with 704 percent growth and $15.3M in revenues.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

was invested across 48 deals; San Diego has $241.5M In terms of venture capital, the most active investors in Southern California companies were the Pasadena Angels with 8 deals, Siemer Ventures (7 deals); Versant Ventures (5 deals); and GRP Partners (5 deals). billion in investments; followed by New England, with $826.1M

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 180

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MAY 7, 2010

Southern California is a major beneficiary of the DOE grants, with Pasadena-based eSolar received $10.8M for building a solar power tower plant design; San Diego-based General Atomics getting up to $2.1M for energy storage technology based on sulfur; Chatsworth-based SunTrough Energy receiving up to $4.5M

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Canoga Park Research Southern California Chatsworth 186

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MARCH 19, 2010

Gorilla Nation is based in Santa Monica; eHarmony is based in Pasadena; and Proflowers is based in San Diego. Both ProFlowers and eHarmony's traffic was driven by Valentine's day traffic, according to comScore. comScore runs monthly numbers tracking Internet traffic across the largest web sites.

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Gorilla Nation eHarmony Southern California Santa Monica 150

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Last week, Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems (www.oculardatasystems.com) announced a funding round from the Pasadena Angels, for its camera-based systems used by law enforcement to capture evidence in drunk or drugged driving cases. Our company is in Pasadena, and we're funded by local investors.

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JUNE 15, 2010

In the Renewable Energy category, Pasadena-based Nascent Solar Technologies and Viresco Energy of Riverside were recognized; in Smart Power, Monterey Park-based Extreme Capacitor was a semifinalist.

Southern California 174

Southern California Monterey Park Riverside Venice 174

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MAY 7, 2010

Pasadena-based Cogent , a maker of biometrics devices and fingerprint readers, is behind a launch of a new, Registered Traveler (RT) program at the Indianapolis International Airport (IND), being launched by new company iQueue.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

In addition to the upfront cash, Pasadena, CA-based Arrowhead could earn up to $740 million in milestone payments. According to terms of the agreement announced Thursday, Arrowhead and Takeda will co-develop the drug, which is currently in Phase 2/3 testing. If the drug is. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Pasadena Develop Development San Diego 80

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MARCH 25, 2009

The dealers include locations nationwide, and include dealers in San Diego, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Orange County. The firm said it hopes to have 40 locations across the country by the end of June to carry its $87,900 Karma sedan. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Other big deals included $60M in investment in San Diego's Skinit , a developer of personalized "skins" for electronic devices, and $37.0M The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. for Row 44 , the Westlake Village-based developer of wireless equipment for commercial airlines.

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Southern California Invest Westlake Village SoCal 196

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

San Diego-based BrightQube, an angel-backed stock photo search site, has updated its web services to make it easier for photo buyers to find images. The firm is angel backed by the Tech Coast Angels and the Pasadena Angels. BrightQube said it now has a library of more than three million royalty-free images. READ MORE>>

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Sites Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels San Diego 100

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Mint Plus Cleaner--which was developed in Pasadena by Evolution Robotics, the. is based in San Diego. Sonos is based in Santa Barbara. Mint Plus Cleaner. No one likes having to clean the floor. But, it's awful fun when it's a robot doing the work. owned by iRobot. Vizio CoStar.

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MAY 19, 2015

Fetch and Schlep just raised a round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. We did this all on our own for the first three years, and just recently went to friends, relatives, and the Pasadena Angels, who really got excited, and syndicated us to the Tech Coast Angels. How does Schlep and Fetch work?

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

The recent funding deals that Intel Capital laid out in San Diego Monday, on the first day of its 17th annual global summit, also reflect the strategic thinking of Wendell Brooks, who took the helm at Intel Capital about a year ago as longtime president Arvind Sodhani retired.

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Capital San Diego Invest USC 40

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. The company recently reported record. Despite the number of employees, recruiters also cited.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

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MARCH 31, 2014

After three years of that, I decided I needed to go back to the entrepreneurial world, and joined up with another young company, which was SupplyFrame in Pasadena. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Last week, Pasadena-based Rockoco announced that it had raised $1.5M in funding from the Pasadena Angels, for its technology which applies semiconductor processing to diamonds to create more brilliant and super-polished stones. Roughly $500K to $600K came from the Pasadena angels, and the rest from other angel investors.

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CalTech Startup Pasadena Angels Pasadena 149

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AUGUST 2, 2013

Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests. Fortunately, in San Diego, we''re able to attract some really good people to work on this. That''s the marketing side.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159