article thumbnail

How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Fortunately our CTO doesn''t have that problem. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online.

article thumbnail

GraphDive Closes $2M Equity Round | Sees 10x Growth

Tech Zulu Event

The equity round will help it built more compelling technology to analyze social data to provide deep user analytics, actionable insights and personalized offers for its clients. Co-founded in 2011 by Sina Sohangir and Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GraphDive raised over $1 million in initial funding.

Equity 65
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

socalTECH

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? For Scott Ferreira , the founder of MySocialCloud.com (www.mysocialcloud.com), it was an investment from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. Scott Ferreira: Yes, that's correct.

Startup 239
article thumbnail

CoFoundersLab Matches Entrepreneurs Scientifically

Tech Zulu Event

They have partnered with Cross Campus to bring education and offline matchmaking events to Santa Monica quarterly. In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. CoFoundersLab was created by Shahab Kaviani after he left an 8-year run at the successful startup HyperOffice. “I

article thumbnail

Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Founder & CEO, GameDeskLucien has designed and produced over a dozen educational games for industry and education and is at the forefront of developing how games and digital learning technologies can be used for core curriculum education. Lucien’s goal is simple, to completely redesign education.

article thumbnail

Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. It brings in Work History and Education. That's impressive growth! How did they do it? It allows you to easily edit items.

Examples 331
article thumbnail

Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. It brings in Work History and Education. That's impressive growth! How did they do it? It allows you to easily edit items.

Examples 323