socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, The National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters have tallied up just under a billion dollars in venture capital investments in the Southern California region in Q1 of this year, a very significant uptick from Q2 of 2011. was invested in the region.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Avalon 221

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011. I have also been working with a couple entrepreneurs on some exciting new businesses that will be launched in early 2011. Pay attention to what Los Angeles entrepreneurs are doing, it's going to be an interesting 2011.

Venture Capital 234

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Southern California 234

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The company said it filled nearly 200 jobs from 2008 to 2011, tops in the Education industry. Lynda.com , the site which helps people learn software and other skills from online videos, has been recognized for its job creation, the firm said Friday, ranking number 1 in job creation in education by Inc.

Calabasas 245

Calabasas Education Sites Course 245

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The group--which last ran a program in early 2010--has recently opened up an application page for its 2011 Winter Term, and has been sending out invites for a launch event in early November. According to the group's web site, it will kick off the next class in November 2011, and continue until early spring 2012.

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Class Mentor Web Los Angeles 208

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2011

The $1.5M+ price looks to be the highest published domain name sale in 2011 so far, based on domain name sales tracking from DNJournal. Moniker and SnapNames offer up auctions of domain names. Oversee.net said its total private sales from the aftermarket division was more than $11M.

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Oversee.net Sales Los Angeles Pricing 238

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

Epicor--which is now based in Austin, Texas, but which had been based in Irvine for years--was sold to Apax Partners back in 2011. Apax paid $976M for Epicor back in 2011. Epicor still has operations through Southern California, including in Irvine, and San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Equity Orange County Software Southern California 185

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

TakeLessons raised $6M in a funding round back in August of 2011. TakeLessons asks users for the type of music lesson and zip code, and then connects those potential students with local teachers. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 214

San Diego Venture Capital Funding Capital 214

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

For awhile, it looked like Ubermedia had acquired the popular Twitter client for around $30M--only to have Twitter trump those efforts and ultimately acquired Tweetdeck in May of 2011. It's unclear where that currently leaves Ubermedia, which owns popular Twitter clients UberSocial, Echofon, Plume, among with other mobile apps.

Southern California 195

Southern California High Tech Pasadena Web 195

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2013

billion in 733 venture capital deals; that was a 20 percent decrease in capital and 17 percent decrease in deals from Q4 of 2011. billion invested across 3,363 deals, which also represented a decline from 2011, a 15 percent drop in capital and 4 percent decline in deals. billion in 2011. For the year, Dow Jones totaled $29.7

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Invest Venture Capital Report Capital 173

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The number of IPOs of companies on the Journal's list from 2011 from Southern California matched the number of IPOs of Silicon Valley companies. One of the most interesting things about the Wall Street Journal's list of top startups in the U.S.?

Southern California 223

Southern California Journal SoCal San Diego 223

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

A new study released Tuesday from Ernst & Young finds that the State of California led the nation in terms of its attractiveness to renewable energy investments in 2011. According to the report, which ranked U.S. states for investments in wind, solar energy, geothermal energy, California led the nation in energy projects.

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Study Report Invest Pricing 227

socalTECH

JULY 2, 2012

in calendar 2011, a 40 percent year-to-year growth for that company. Ixia has been in an acquisitive mood lately, most recently acquiring network monitoring equipment firm Anue Systems in May. Ixia said that BreakingPoint had revenues of $33.5M BreakingPoint was venture backed by Austin Ventures and Genesis Inventions. READ MORE>>.

Calabasas 215

Calabasas Networking Acquisition Tool 215

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

A $3 billion acquisition offer is heady territory for Southern California''s high tech startup ecosystem--the largest exit in recent memory for a venture-backed startup was the 2011 IPO of Green Dot, worth $2 billion to its investors. READ MORE>>. snapchat merger acquisition exit facebook tencent mobile'

Snapchat 210

Snapchat Report Southern California Journal 210

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

Schraeder has been at GumGum since November of 2011, when he joined as VP of Finance; he previously had been at RealD, as part of the original start-up team there. Schraeder also has served at Verifi and KPMG, LLP.

GRP Partners 217

GRP Partners Advertising Startup Sites 217

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The firm, which announced a deal to distriute its clients' listing to Travelocity in July of 2011, said that its hotel clients are saw a 108 percent increase in number of room nights booked, and a 94 percent increase in sales since the deal was made last year.

Pasadena 199

Pasadena Sites Platform Sales 199

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

trueRSVP is launching at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference today. The startup, which is backed by OrganicStartup, the venture acceleration effort of angel investor Scott Sangster, said it is looking to provide real estimates of how many people will attend an event, increasing the accuracy of RSVPs.

Southern California 202

Southern California Conference Los Angeles Mobile 202

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The latest MoneyTree report from the three find that $603.2M

Southern California 212

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Capital 212

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

The firm said its Q1 2011 mobile marketing analytics report finds that 44 percent of mobile videos are viewed on Verizon Wireless phones, followed by AT&T at 34.6 percent, then Spring at 9.7 percent.

Mogreet 214

Mogreet Mobile Los Angeles Report 214

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5 years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. I did that? Oh, Crap.

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 29, 2017

percent on average for the time period of 2011 to 2015 compared with the previous five years, according to an estimate by the U.S. The pay gap between women and men in tech jobs in Los Angeles widened 15.5 Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

Los Angeles 174

Los Angeles Angel 174

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

for its year ended December 31, 2011. The firm is venture backed by Polaris Venture Partners (35.1 percent ownership), Insitutional Venture Partners (14.7 percent), and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (6.4 LegalZoom reported net income of $12.1M on revenues of $156.0M READ MORE>>.

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Legalzoom Glendale .Net Report 196

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Davenport is a professor at Babson College, and LaPoint is the former founder and managing partner of MarketingNPV, a company MarketShare acquired in 2011. , in addition to serving at Fuse Capital and Fox Interactive Media. READ MORE>>. marketshare executive advisory board analytics software marketing markets yahoo levinsohn ross'

Yahoo 199

Yahoo Software Los Angeles Marketing 199

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The Los Angeles winners of the Deloitte Fast 500 ranking of fastest growing companies was announced last night at an event at Santa Monica's Shutters on the Beach, with 26 companies recognized in the overall 2011 Technology Fast 500, and three "Technology Rising Stars" recognized in the Los Angeles area.

Los Angeles 263

Los Angeles Marina Del Rey Woodland Hills Angel 263

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2014

According to the site, it has been around since 2011, and can be described as "Lynda meets Linkedin" for creatives. Los Angeles-based Stage 32 thinks so--and so far, has 325,000 members for its online social networking site, which it says ties together film, television, and theater creatives.

Social Network 198

Social Network Networking Hollywood Entertainment 198

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2013

Both All My Children and One Life To Live had their last episode on broadcast television in 2011, after more than 40 years on the air. Both of those soaps will be debuting new episodes every weekday at 2AM PT, and continues the storyline from when the soaps left broadcast television. READ MORE>>.

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Hulu Hollywood Content Los Angeles 191

socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2013

Guggenheim is the same firm that attempted to sell Hulu in 2011. The report from Reuters , citing three sources with knowledge of the matter, said there''s an ongoing auction process for Hulu. READ MORE>>. hulu merger acquisition exit content hollywood streaming video guggenheim'

Hulu 189

Hulu Report Companies Company 189

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

She was also a co-founder at Gevo , the biofuels startup which spun out of Caltech, which had its IPO in 2011. Arnold was given the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, for her work on chemical engineering and biochemistry, which is applicable to the production of biofuels. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Research Technology CalTech 231

Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely. But later in 2011, new customers slowed, appointment bookings slowed and average appointment time dropped. As a result, the company was always under-capitalized.

Capital 234

Capital Pricing Press Custom 234

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2012

Epicor is now headquartered in Dublin, California, after the company was acquired by private equity firm Apax Partners in early 2011, and combined with Activant Soultions; the company still has sizeable Orange County operations. Internet AutoParts' software is used by automotive parts distributors and dealers to manage reordering of parts.

Orange County 187

Orange County Software Commerce Activity 187

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Hulu , the online video streaming site headed by Jason Kilar, detailed its 2012 numbers today, saying that it will close the year with approximately $695M in revenues, a growth of over 65% since 2011. Hulu said its subscriber count more than doubled during the year.

Hulu 193

Hulu Blogging Advertising Sites 193

socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2012

San Luise Obispo-based Shopatron , the developer of e-commerce software for brand manufacturers, reports today that it added a total of 85 new clients in the sporting goods industry during 2011. The firm said those clients included K2, Rossignol, Powderhorn, Quickpoles, Academy Snowboard, and Bolle, among many others.

Commerce 196

Commerce Sales Competition Report 196

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2014

RapidEngage was founded by Daniel Marashlian, Sean Callahan, and Rodney Rumford, who also founded photo sharing app Plixi (TweetPhoto), which had been acquired by Lockerz in 2011. RapidEngage was one of the companies incubated at EvoNexus. Co-founder Sean Callahan was one of the 2013 socalTECH 50. READ MORE>>.

SoCalTech 185

SoCalTech San Diego Incubator Acquisition 185

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2014

Apple''s iOS 4 was introduced in 2010; iOS 5 was launched in 2011. According to Sonos, the move comes as it looks to "balance our need to innovate with our desire to maintain support for older devices". Sonos said it now will only support iOS devices running iOS6 or higher. Sonos is based in Santa Barbara. READ MORE>>.

Santa Barbara 190

Santa Barbara Mobile Develop Development 190

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The firm said it targeted Brazil as its first country in South America, due to the rapid growth rate in that country; the firm said online advertising spend in Brazil was $804M in 2011. ReachLocal has tapped Jose Coscelli as CEO of its Brazilian operations; Coscelli was previously COO of cloud computing firm Globalweb Brazil. READ MORE>>.

ReachLocal 183

ReachLocal Woodland Hills Cloud Computing Advertising 183

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2012

The Melt's Kaplan sold his last company, which developed the Flip video camera, to Cisco back in 2009, which shut down the entire product line in 2011. The Melt is venture backed by top tier Silicon Valley firm Sequoia Capital, which is quite unusual for a restaurant chain. READ MORE>>.

Hollywood 187

Hollywood Capital Product Develop 187

TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

We outfitted the early-2011 vintage i7 workstation we are using as a database server in our dedicated-hardware tests with a Samsung 840 Pro solid state disk in preparation for running our new database updates test. And yes, we would like to include Microsoft SQL Server in the future.

Framework 524

Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2013

Webfest (formerly known as DomainFest) has managed some fairly high level speakers at its events over the years, including Tony Hsieh of Zappos in 2010; Apple Founder Steve Wozniak in 2009; Bob Parsons of GoDaddy in 2011; and Biz Stone of Twitter in 2012.

Oversee.net 180

Oversee.net Southern California Conference Activity 180