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AUGUST 6, 2019

Santa Monica-based Snap says it is looking to raise $1.0 According to Snap, the convertible senior notes will be due in 2026, and will be a private placement to qualified institutional buyers. billion in new funding, through a convertible senior note offering and private placement. million principal amount of notes.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week.

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MARCH 29, 2013

It looks like the sale of book review and community Goodreads was worth between $150M to $200M, according to a report form AllThingsD Friday, potentially making the acquisition one of the better returns on capital from a Southern California technology startup in recent years.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Snap reported revenues of $404.48M in revenues for the year ended 2016, and total costs and expenses of $924.86M--much of that due to the huge increase in staffing for the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based technology incubator and studio Science --headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones--has launched a new startup in the Internet marketplace area, called HomeHero this morning. The Santa Monica-based startup is initially targeting the Los Angeles region with its services. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a bid to tap into the growing, innovative technology atmosphere in Playa Vista, the U.S. Army said Tuesday that it plans to recruit up to 70 researchers to a new campus in the growing center for technology, at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). According to the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Philz Coffee , the Silicon Valley coffee chain which has a single outpost outside of the Bay Area--in Santa Monica has raised $15M to expand its footprint, the company said Wednesday. Photo: Philz Coffee at last year''s Oasis Conference in Santa Monica READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Santa Monica-based MGID , a provider of native advertising software and a native advertising network, said last week that it has launched a new, anti-ad blocking product. The company said its new technology allows publishers to trigger warnings and bypasses blocking attempts by software ad blockers. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming.

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JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. Noisy, but due to a solidly participative crowd in a mix of business, casual, and in between attire. ” Said the smiling girl at the check-in table.

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APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow.

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MAY 3, 2012

Forbes Magazine has just published its annual Midas List , its annual ranking of the top 100 venture capitalists, and -- despite a record number of IPOs and exits last year from southern California technology companies -- Southern California's venture capital community was shut out of the list entirely.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We have long wanted to move but wanted to wait for the perfect space.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Santa Monica-based VIRURL said this morning that it has renamed itself Revenue.com , after acquiring the domain name. The company--which provides native advertising technology--said the new name "fully conveys" its company''s mission.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Celebrating five amazing years of LA tech. After all, you are LA tech, and this party is just as much a celebration of how far this community has come…and how far it’s yet to go. Today, we offer a full slate of coverage of LA and beyond, focusing on emerging technology and the people behind the brands. That’s right.

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JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. It’s a gathering of friends and tech enthusiasts of all stripes. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). RSVP: AGENDA.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

Whether you were a startup, an investor, a blogger, a fashionista, or someone just curious about what is happening in Santa Monica aka “Silicon Beach,” the recent Silicon Beach Fest had something for everyone which included panels, parties and more. Adam Miller wasn’t the only one to speak with candor.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. And LA shifted to Santa Monica and Venice. At the time I was 44.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Outside San Diego, Coda Automotive, the electric auto firm in Santa MOnica, raised $24.1M; Northridge based Gamma Medica raised $24.0M Numbers from those firms will differ--sometimes drastically--due to sources of information, timing of funding events, and classification of data.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. Tech Coast Angels is ever-mindful that some of the world’s greatest companies began with angel investments and we take our commitment to that tradition seriously. to 11:00 p.m. Price: FREE.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online car buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with the AAA, to power a new service called AAA Automaker. Financial details of the win was not disclosed.

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APRIL 5, 2010

The growing clean technology sector also helped numbers, with $74.0M for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M Tags: southern california angeles venture capital diego santa barbara startup investment finance. in deals tracked by our database.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. If you look at anything that's evolved in consumer technology, it always starts pretty basic.

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JUNE 30, 2011

As part of that, Amazon.com, Overstock.com, and a large number of e-commerce retailers have cut off their California affiliates, saying that they will immediately stop paying them for referrals due to the move. If technology business relocate, the industry will end up suffering. It is bad, and it definitely impacts the business.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. Do you think you could have offered this earlier, or was it due to the scale that you could launch this? In San Francisco, it's technology people looking to find business people.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. However, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to grow technology innovators from the ground up. In other cases, it’s strip malls and shopping to generate foot traffic.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. It was us, funding ourselves from credit cards, literally, to a company that is now on par with Kaplan and Princeton Review.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

government’s Precision Medicine Initiative is an ambitious effort to collect the genomic data of 1 million Americans, and tech giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is deeply involved. That story and the rest of the week’s biotech headlines below. —The U.S. —David H.

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JUNE 6, 2013

.” According to Joaquin we are headed to an era when phones will replace many of the other items we carry in our pockets such as wallets, from multiple credit cards to eventually cash and ID cards and security technology makes a true mobile wallet experience a reality. With first-to-market patent-pending security technology.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s a promotional video for a technology company. We talk tech, get a reminder of GumGum’s goals, and get some additional info on what they’re working hard on. Ophir gives us a look into what’s going on in the ad-tech industry. ” Wait, what? And they do what? In-picture advertisements?

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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