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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 18798% San Diego Pedro Lichtinger 22 Phone Power 7642% Winnetka Ari Ramezani 23 TeleSign Corporation Software 7534% Marina del Rey Steve Jillings 26 FastSpring 6742% Santa Barbara Dan Engel 30 Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.

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Southern California Marina Del Rey El Segundo San Diego 242

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Santa Monica-based Surf Air said on Monday that it is extending out its flight schedule, and now allows its customers to book flights out as far as 90 days in advance. Surf Air offers up a membership-based airline, and now offers up both "all-you-can-fly" as well as discounted, per-trip fares for members. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara San Diego Santa Monica Los Angeles 124

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MARCH 27, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , which offers up rentals of electric scooters for the "last mile" of your commute, has expanded to San Francisco, San Jose, and Washington, DC. Bird previously only offered up its services in Santa Monica, San Diego, and some other parts of Los Angeles.

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Santa Monica San Diego Equity Los Angeles 124

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MARCH 21, 2019

IPO of San Diego's Gossamer Bio , and two smaller IPOs that included Santa Monica's Super League Gaming ($25M raised) and San Diego-based Inmune Bio ($8.0M). Despite the slowdown, Southern California managed to produce three IPOs in the first three months of 2019, including the $317.0M

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps).

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

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APRIL 19, 2017

The company--which was just featured on Shark Tank last Friday--said it has launched in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Monica, as part of a nationwide expansion beyond its home market in Seattle and Portland.

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Southern California SoCal Santa Monica San Diego 173

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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. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

San Diego-based Qualcomm has seen an exit at one of its Qualcomm Ventures portfolio companies, Wi-Fi mesh equipment maker Eero , which was acquired by Amazon on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint Santa Monica San Diego Acquisition 113

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Los Angeles- and Santa Monica-based REME , a new startup offering up on-demand massage, stretch, and IV therapy services to the health and wellness community, said today that it has officially launched it services. REME said its services are now available in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco.

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Demand Marketing Santa Monica San Diego 113

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Hundreds of red, “dockless” electronic bikes appeared on the streets of San Diego and Seattle on Monday, the latest cities in which Uber introduced its e-bike program, Jump. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing giant acquired Jump Bikes, a Brooklyn e-bike sharing service, in April.

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Services San Diego Santa Monica Los Angeles 88

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The University of California has ten campuses, of which half of them are in Southern California, including UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara. Among the successes driving the creation of the fund was the IPO of Santa Monica-based Kite Pharma, which is a spinout of UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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Venture Capital UCLA Capital UCSD 223

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APRIL 21, 2017

The California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of San Diego (UCSD) have all ranked very highly on a new ranking of universities for their technology transfer efforts, issued by The Milken Insitute , the Santa Monica-based thinktank.

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UCSD CalTech UCLA Santa Monica 133

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based GoMeta , a new, augmented reality startup being led by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, and launched its app out of beta. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., MySpace) as well as Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney).

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Veoh Tool San Diego Santa Monica 100

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APRIL 12, 2017

invested across 71 deals in Q2 of 2017 in LA and Orange County, and $202.37M invested in San Diego for the quarter across 32 deals. invested in Q4, with San Diego also up from $175.73M in Q4. The report tallied up $926.4M Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M Nationally, investors invested $13.9

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Venture Capital Southern California Orange County Invest 113

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Santa Monica-based Infinitely Virtual , which provides cloud computing and virtual servers to clients, said today that it is moving its backup data center from San Diego to Boston. The firm's primary data center remains in Los Angeles.

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Cloud Computing Santa Monica San Diego Los Angeles 170

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

in investments; San Diego followed, with $205.2M for Santa Monica-based EdgeCast , $45.9M for San Diego-based Otonomy , and $39.7M The amount raised in the region was up from Q2, when $627.4M was raised in the area, and slightly lower than Q3 of 2012, when $724.9M was raised in venture capital.

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Southern California Orange County Tech Coast Angels Company 234

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In fact, a recent study released by Ernst & Young found that there were eight companies in Southern California, out of 22 total in California, who were lined up for an IPO in Q4.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies. Those exits--worth more than a collected $3.8 READ MORE>>.

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Dollar Shave Club Southern California Agoura Hills West Hollywood 100

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MARCH 25, 2013

Santa Monica-based virtual server and cloud computing provider Infinitely Virtual announced this morning that it has completes its move of its backup data center from San Diego to Boston. The firm had announced the move in January.

Cloud Computing 147

Cloud Computing Santa Monica San Diego Customer 147

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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.

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Southern California Santa Monica Legalzoom ReachLocal 162

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Yahoo has operations in Santa Monica, San Diego, and Burbank, which among them show a few dozen job openings. However, it looks like--so far--that revolution has skipped Yahoo's Southern California operations.

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Yahoo Southern California Santa Monica SoCal 150

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JUNE 30, 2015

Santa Monica-based HomeHero , a new startup providing an online marketplace for in-home, senior care services, said Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding round. The company said the funding will go towards expansion of its service beyond Los Angeles, to San Diego and San Francisco, plus key hires.

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Santa Monica San Diego Los Angeles Funding 100

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The list of Southern California companies who have filed, have been rumored to file, or have successfully completed IPOs has gotten a little longer this morning, after Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand filed for an IPO.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

LA has a number of other prominent companies in the Blockchain space, with major operations in the area or with links to the area including WAX (led by former Clearstone Ventures' investor William Quigley), which reportedly has around 40 employees in Santa Monica; Science, Inc.

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Clearstone Southern California Santa Monica Los Angeles 165

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures , the venture investing arm of investment banking firm Siemer & Associates , reported yesterday that it saw the first exit in its portfolio recently, with the sale of company CloudTrigger. CloudTrigger, which was based in San Diego, was acquired by Cloudsherpas over the holidays.

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Santa Monica San Diego Report Invest 164

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MARCH 6, 2014

Santa Monica-based OUYA , the Android-based game console and technology developer, and San Diego-based Mad Catz Interactive said today that the two are in a deal to bring OUYA''s games to Mad Catz''s M.O.J.O. Micro-Console for Android. Mad Catz'' M.O.J.O. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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Santa Monica San Diego Content Design 147

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JULY 21, 2017

General Atomics - San Diego - (www.generalatomics.com). AirMap - Santa Monica - (www.airmap.com). Slantrange - San Diego - (www.slantrange.com). Skysafe - San Diego - (www.skysafe.com). 5D Robotics - San Diego - (www.5drobotics.com). 5D Robotics - San Diego - (www.5drobotics.com).

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Southern California Company Companies Palmdale 113

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Santa Monica-based OpenHouse has launched a new site which helps home buyers get personalized, real estate recommendations and information on neighborhoods, the company said today. Bethesda, Miami, and Boston. OpenHouse raised $13.5M in a Series A funding from Triangle Peak Partners and March Capital back in November.

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Santa Monica Social Media San Diego Sites 100

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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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Santa Clarita Woodland Hills Networking Thousand Oaks 147

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MARCH 25, 2015

Santa Monica-based Surf Air says it might put a new waitlist into effect on April 1st--due to overpopularity of some of its routes--according to emails being sent to possible customers of the firm. READ MORE>>. surfair surf membership flight travel silicon valley airline airplane'

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Santa Barbara Santa Monica San Diego Email 100

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MAY 15, 2013

Peter Csathy , the CEO of San Diego''s Sorenson Media , and digital media veteran, has departed the company, and will head up a new legal and investment group formed by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. There are dozens of legal firms servicing the high tech industry here, based on our tracking of those companies and their clients.

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Media High Tech Santa Monica Southern California 168

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Los Angeles based Savings.com was 135, with 2,077% growth; San Diego's ServiceNow was 260 at 1,240% growth; and Santa Monica's TrueCar was 480, with 721% growth in the last three years.

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Los Angeles Search Engine Optimization Angel Thousand Oaks 198

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based membership-based airline Surf Air is telling potential customers that it recently reached 1200 members for its service, which allows members to take all-you-can-fly trips between the Los Angeles, Bay Area, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, San Diego, and other areas via its own fleet of turboprops.

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Santa Barbara Southern California Santa Monica San Diego 100

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , the developer of video-based, driver safety systems, has scored a venture debt financing, according to finance firm Wellington Financial. Wellington Financial has an office in Santa Monica. Size and terms of that debt financing were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica San Diego Equity Capital 113

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MARCH 26, 2012

Santa Monica-based LifeCrowd , the social activity discovery site headed by Bong Koh, said Friday that it has expanded into three new regions, and launched officially out of Los Angeles accelerator MucherLab.

Orange County 150

Orange County Santa Monica Activity San Diego 150

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Other highly ranked local on the list included Phunware --with major operations in Newport Beach and San Diego--ranked at #4, with a 17716% five year revenue growth rate; Amped Wireless in Chino (11572% growth rate), ranked at number 12; SolarReserve in Santa Monica (8010%), at number 20; AudioMicro in Sherman Oaks, ranked at #28, with 5990% growth; (..)

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Marina Del Rey Sherman Oaks El Segundo Southern California 127

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based Anthem Venture Partners has scored two exits in the last week, as Los Angeles-based Demand Media hit a homerun with its IPO Wednesday, and San Diego-based Plixi was acquired by Lockerz Thursday.

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Anthem Truecar Santa Monica San Diego 154