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DECEMBER 11, 2022

During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. By 2015 it had come to signify by the market a new era where business fundamentals had changed, companies could easily and quickly be worth $10 billion or MORE so why worry about the “entry price!”

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MAY 28, 2015

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Who are the top 50 people to watch in Southern California? We've attempted to do that for the last three years, trying to ferret out exactly who the people--not companies--are to watch in the region's technology industry.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

According to UC President Janet Napolitano, the UC Board of Regents is voting this week on approving the $250M fund, UC Ventures , which is expected to launch in 2015. The fund would seek to invest in companies started on campus, from University research, and from students.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

The network is expected to launch in 2015, timed with the opening of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. According to Boingo, it has just signed an agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority) to design, install, and operate a cellular and Wi-Fi network system in the new World Trade Center.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. In 2015 we go back to square one and start to build a brand new portfolio. That’s why the best firms tend to raise every three years. It’s exciting.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The publicly traded company had a US IPO and NASDAQ listing in August of 2020 but has been trading on the Toronto exchange since 2015. The company said the new school bus is an all-electric, 40-foot battery powered electric school bus with a range of up to 150 miles; the bus can seat up to 90 passengers.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The two have been working together since August of 2015. The company said it will deliver its in-image and in-screen ad units to those publications. Financial details of the renewal were not announced. GumGum is backed by such investors as Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, and says it has a reach of 600 million uniques. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Blizzard said it intends to begin beta testing of the game in 2015. Anaheim-based videogame developer Blizzard announced plans for its next big videogame late Friday, saying its new title, Overwatch , will be a first person shooter revolving around a team of heroes set in an technologically advanced, stylized future earth.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Both Poghosyan and Gudanis have long histories in identity and access management, back in 2009 Poghosyan founded Advancive Technology Solutions, which was acquired by Optiv in 2015 to bulk up its identity access management service.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Highlights included a panel discussion led by our own Ben Kuo and featuring Abhi Nemani, Oded Noy, Erik Rannala, Matt Kozlov and Chet Pipkin, which inspired our audience with insights into where LA tech is headed in 2015. Chet Pipkin was also honored with the Outstanding Achievement Honor from DFR. See more photos on Facebook.

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MARCH 29, 2019

The fund--led by Carmen Palafox, Noramay Cadena, and Shaun Arora--says it has so far made investments into 16 companies since 2015. MiLA Capital , the venture capital firm that is behind the Make In LA hardware accelerator, says it has raised its first official venture capital fund, officially closing its first fundraise.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Who do you think are the top 50 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California's technology industry this year?

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MARCH 10, 2014

The two announced at SXSW over the weekend that Beats Music will show up as an app in Chevy Corvette, Impala, Malibu, Volt and other 2015 models which has OnStar 4G LTE capabilities. Los Angeles-based streaming music service Beats Music has extended out its reach, and will show up on Chevy models, via a deal with General Motors.

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MARCH 18, 2019

However, the site has quite a bit less music now, after the site accidentally lost all of the music uploaded to the site uploaded between 2003 and 2015. The onetime social networking site, founded in Los Angeles, is now owned by Meredith Corporation and is still active as an online music discovery site.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Slacker said Thursday that it will offer up a new Slacker Radio app on select Lexus models, and soon on select Toyota model years from 2011 to 2015. San Diego-based Slacker Radio , which operates a streaming radio service, has scored a big win with Toyota and Lexus. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ziouani sold Ansible to Red Hat in 2015, and prior to that had spent more than 10 years at Red Hat; Anchore's co-founder is Daniel Nurmi, former Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Co-Founder and CTO of Eucalyptus Systems. Anchore is led by Said Ziouani, a veteran of Eucalyptus and Ansible.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Unfortunately for this year''s holiday shoppers, it looks like the company doesn''t expect to deliver first product until October of 2015. The two apparently have previously been involved with SparqEE, another developer of crowdfunding projects. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Karma Automotive said it has actually been working with BMW on the onboard generators for the vehicle since 2015. Karma Automotive claims it will have its vehicles available for sale or lease by the second half of this year, although it has yet to announced its vehicles. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

That will bring its total number of employee cuts to between 3,500 and 4,000 positions by the end of 2015. Amgen--which originally planned to cut around 15 percent of its staff--said in a regulatory filing Tuesday it will reduce staffing by approximately 600 to 1,100 positions in addition to the previously announced cuts. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Clutter has now raised around $97M in total funding since 2015. Clutter has also previously raised funding from AmplifyLA, Resolute.vc, and angels Matt Coffin, David Sacks, and Joanne Wilson. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2019

Musk has been teasing the car’s release since 2015, and in a January letter to shareholders said that high volume production would begin by the end of 2020. . — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019. It’s the fifth new car design to come from Tesla’s shop since the company was founded in 2003.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). It’s very noticeable in terms of funds raised, dollars invested and deals completed.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Transphorm said it expects its first, PV inverter product with Tata to be released in early 2015. Transphorm''s GaN power electronics technology reduces energy loss in power electronics by more than 50 percent, compared with conventional, silicon-based power conversion designs, according to the company. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 26, 2022

That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program. When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Lynda.com was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 The privacy of library patrons and the books and materials they check out has been a major focus of libraries and librarians; the American Library Association says privacy "is the bedrock foundation for intellectual freedom. billion; LinkedIn was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in 2016.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It’s also worth noting that this represents a bit of a turnaround for the company, after the it shut down operations in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans in 2015, with Hall coming on as CEO shortly afterwards. And it sounds like he isn’t in a rush to launch in a bunch of new markets.

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MAY 26, 2017

The payment comes as a result of overpayments by BlackBerry between 2010 and 2015. According to BlackBerry, Qualcomm will pay the full amount of the final award on or before May 31, 2017. The amount is greater than earlier reports of $815M, and includes interest and attorney's fees. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, the company has seen $1.5 ProducePay offers farmers cash advances throughout the growing season to smooth the sometimes lumpy revenues and give farmers a bit more predictability, the company said. It buys produce ahead of delivery and sets itself up as a middle-man between distributors, growers and grocers.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Evite and Pledgeling have been working together since 2015 on the Evite Donation service. Evite said it will encourage event planners and user hosts to offer guests charitable donations as part of their events, through its Evite Donations service. That service is being powered by Pledgeling, the Venice startup led by James Citron.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Soon-Shiong had attempted to acquire the LA Times back in 2015. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a biotech billionaire and technology industry regular, who runs the NantWorks family of companies in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Carney--who has been a Principal at Upfront since 2015--previously served at Pandodaily and Worldvest. The venture investor said it has added Aditi Maliwal as a Partner, and also promoted Michael Carney to Partner. Maliwal was most recently a product manager at Google, and also had served at Crosslink Capital and Deutsche Bank.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Panay has been Chief Product Officer at Microsoft since April of 2018, also was corporate vice president, Microsoft Devices from July 2015 to April 2018, corporate vice president, Surface & PC Hardware from February 2013 to July 2015, and general manager, Surface & PC Hardware from January 2008 to February 2013.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The company--which currently has offices at ROC in Santa Monica--says it is in the mist to moving to a new office in Santa Monica in order to accomodate that growth in Q1 of 2015.

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MAY 29, 2019

Black Mountain Systems was previously owned by another, private equity investor, Stone Point Capital LLC , which acquired Black Mountain in 2015. Stone Point Capital said that Black Mountain has had "significant growth" in both revenues and profitability since it made the investment in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. These days, GOAT is about more than just shoes, at least according to the company.

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