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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

San Diego-based AbacusNext , a provider of technology solutions for the legal and accounting market, has acquired UK-based HotDocs , a provider of document automation technology. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. AbacusNext is owned by private equity investor Providence Equity.

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MAY 9, 2018

San Diego-based Seismic , the private equity-backed provider of sales and marketing enablement tools, said on Tuesday that it has acquired SAVO Group , a provider of sales enablement products. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

San Diego-based Maravai LifeSciences announced this morning that it is acquiring Glen Research Corporation , a Sterling, Virginia-based provider of reagents used in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

San Diego-based Miro Technologies , a developer of software to manage maintenance, supply chain, and repair for the defense and aerospace industry, has been acquired by Boeing. Miro was owned by Newport Beach private equity firm Solis Capital Partners. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Technology San Diego Equity Software 138

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NOVEMBER 26, 2013

San Diego-based Qualcomm said late Monday that it has completed its sale of OMnitracs , the company''s GPS fleet management software and products division, to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Financial details of the Roadnet Technologies acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals anounced on Monday that it has acquired Pfenex , a develope rof recombinant protein production technology. per share in cash, or $438M in equity value, plus an additional $2.00 According to Ligand, it will pay $12.00 a share and $78M in milestones for Pfenex.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Broadcom is selling application security testing business Veracode for $950 million to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Broadcom gained Veracode as a part of its blockbuster acquisition of CA Technologies. Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO ) announced in June it would acquire CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA ) for $18.9

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

San Diego-based DriveCam , a provider of video-based products used for monitoring driver safety, announced today that it has raised $85M in a funding from a private equity firm, and also acquired a company, RAIR Technologies. DriveCam said it was advised by Barclays Capital on the acquisition. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

San Diego-based TVC Capital , the software-focused, growth equity investment firm founded by Jeb Spencer and Steve Hamerslag has raised a big, $115M software fund, the company said Wednesday. The new fund will remain focused on investments and acquisition of software companies, who are generating more than $2.5

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

San Diego-based private equity firm TVC Capital , which is led by Jeb Spencer and Steven Hamerslag, has closed on a new, $75M growth equity and buyout fund, the firms said today. The new fund, TVC Capital II came from private equity fund of funds, institutional asset managers and family offices.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Ad-Juster, a San Diego adtech startup acquired earlier this year by the investment arm of China’s Innotech International Group, Wednesday named local software entrepreneur Dennis Clerke as CEO. He succeeds Ad-Juster founder and president Mike Lewis, who has left the company.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Nogales Investors announced today that it has acquired a controlling interest in San Diego-based DR Technologies , a developer and manufacturer of advanced composite structural products for the aerospace and defense industry. Financial terms of the recapitalization was not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Francisco Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, said Monday it has acquired Qualcomm Life, a subsidiary of the San Diego chipmaker that focuses on connecting medical devices to software applications installed at hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Capsule’s products are.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market.

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JULY 17, 2013

The company said it is looking to find market experts in finance, marketing, sales, human resources, technology, and entrepreneurial areas to bolster its library of content. The new company is backed by JMI Equity.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers. Minnesota-based Best Buy (NYSE: BBY.

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JUNE 28, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow priced its IPO on Thursday, at $18.00 ServiceNow is venture backed by JMI Equity, Sequoia Capital, and Greylock Partners. The firm's IPO performance is being closely watched, as it is the first, technology IPO to hit the markets since the Facebook IPO debacle. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

We''ve been featuring a few reflections on the last year from a number of movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry over the last couple of weeks, during the holidays. Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. maybe even 10x.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

San Diego-based RFIC maker Peregrine Semiconductor is looking to be the next, Southern California technology company to make it to the public markets, with an IPO on Wednesday, according to the NASDAQ's IPO calendar. Peregrine is looking to raised $83M in an IPO, which is currently estimated to price at between $14.00

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2019

A Chicago-based private equity firm has tapped the former head of NuVasive and finance chief of GreatCall to start a new healthcare company in San Diego. The company, Corza Health, is headed by Greg Lucier, most recently CEO at NuVasive, and backed by the PE firm, GTCR, with money from its $5.25 billion Fund XII.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Reports this morning say that San Diego-based ServiceNow is planning to start its IPO roadshow this week, as the firm looks to brave a post-Facebook-IPO market. ServiceNow is a developer of cloud-based services which allows companies to manage enterprise information technology (IT) operations. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow , the developer of software-as-a-service for enterprise IT management, is expected to price its IPO Thursday, as the first, technology-focused IPO since the Facebook debacle. per share, is backed by JMI Equity and Sequoia Capital. and $17.00

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Happy Holidays!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Elliott Management, a New York-based activist hedge fund, has had San Diego-based Mitek Systems in its crosshairs for months. The prospective. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , one of the Southern California technology firms currently in IPO registration, has selected the Nasdaq for its IPO, according an updated S-1 filing from the company. The firm is backed by Morgenthaler Partners, Advanced Equities, Palisades Ventures, TVP, and others.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. Including the latest round, Petnet has raised a total of $21.5

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JUNE 3, 2013

One of the companies that has taken advantage of that is OneRoof Energy (www.oneroofenergy.com), a San Diego company headed by David Field. Because of that oversupply, the cost of panels and value of solar technology has gone down. To date, we''ve raise money on a tax equity fund from U.S. That''s what you read about.

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JULY 27, 2016

per share, for a total equity value of $302 million. LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. In 2014, Sequenom sold a genetic analysis tool and a bioscience facility to San Diego-based Agena Bioscience for $31.8

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”.

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APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

The potential acquisition, which was first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg citing anonymous sources, represents Broadcom’s continued (NASDAQ: AVGO ) interest in broadening its business beyond semiconductors.

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Symantec Report Acquisition Software 48

Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. Though some of these products are still in development, farmers have come around to using new technology in an effort to become more efficient and more productive.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

That Q4 2016 edition of a quarterly survey by University of San Francisco business professor Mark Cannice rated the overall confidence of the VCs at 3.81 on a scale of 5—-a number that remains almost unchanged in the latest survey taken in March and published Thursday.

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