socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2014

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group said this morning that it has named a new CEO at portfolio firm NetMotion Wireless. According to the companies, Erik Prusch has been appointed CEO at NetMotion, which Clearlake acquired in September of 2012. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Equity Mobile Capital 138

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Network with hundreds over delicious four course dinner followed by panel on Attracting Venture Capital, and Top Trends for Social Media, Mobile Apps and Consumer Devices. Our very own Amanda Coolong will be moderating the Attracting Venture Capital, Social TV, Social Media and Mobile Trends panel.

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Social Media Newsletter Mobile Startup 84

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Burstly was venture backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective, and was led by Evan Rifkin. Burstly acquired TestFlight back in 2012. burstly apple merger acquisition evan rifkin tagworld testflight testing tools apps mobile' READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners Tool Acquisition Mobile 147

socalTECH

MAY 1, 2012

a provider of products for the fixed and mobile data network market, Allot announced this morning. The company said that the acquisition will be accretive on a quarterly basis by the end of 2012, contributing between $3.0 in revenues for the second half of 2012. in revenues for the second half of 2012. READ MORE>>.

Mission Ventures 145

Mission Ventures Acquisition Mobile Networking 145

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2012

In recent months the mobile market has begun to see a shift in smart phone purchase as Nokia came back into the space with the Lumia series. So Nokia decided to teamed up with Microsoft and introduced the new Windows Mobile as the operating system powering their new phones. Well…you had to find your own jokes on that bad day.

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Mobile Conference Google Marketing 64

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 12, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 -- Building and Growing Great Businesses. Speakers: Tarang Shah is a venture capital professional. At SoftBank Capital, a venture capital fund, he helped with investments in mobile, digital media and enterprise software startups totaling $50 million; Ash Kumra is a business coach, speaker and entrepreneur.

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SoCal Southern California Coach Venture Capital 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 29, 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012 -- aunchFEST Demo Night. Angel Launch, a new event for startups and investors, is producing a networking venture pitch, networking dinner and party the night before E3 Expo in LA for digital media, mobile and tech startups.

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Clearstone Pasadena 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine).

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Southern California Technical Review SoCal San Diego 168

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair. More specifically, it’s the contractors that service equipment like the heating, ventilation and cooling systems at commercial and residential properties across the U.S.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. How do you discover the right people to follow?

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2012

The latest MoneyTree Survey, from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters, tabulated. in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. Mobile video sharing app developer. Viddy , with $30.7.M raised, also were among the top fundings.

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Southern California Orange County GRP Partners Funding 145

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Of course you now book when you want and even choose your restaurant based on availability at the time / day you want and you can book on your mobile phone at 2am or 8pm. Today they announced the mobile version of their product – I’d be grateful if you would download it and give it a spin. It sounds crazy, right?

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Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Thus the venture capital industry isn’t dead yet, despite all the rumors, and more startups are getting money, even at Series A and later levels. Top five states for venture capital.

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Startup Invest Venture Capital Seed Funding 99

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor. million since it was founded in 2012. ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 Including the latest round, ScoreStream has raised a total of $6.8

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Avalon Invest Social Media Media 56

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012).

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. So, as you are heavily into the mobile area, what have you learned over the last few years?

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Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

As the most connected and technologically equipped generation in human history, Gen-Y entrepreneurs are using today’s tools of communication, collaboration and mobility to build startups with little or no startup capital and few employees. The good news is that 60% of Gen-Y founders said they plan to take a vacation this year.

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Tips Entrepreneur Startup Tool 93

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily do with your smartphone or tablet.

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Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

Research 74

Research Software Engineering Software Technology 74

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Certona describes itself as an “omnichannel” vendor—meaning its technology enables retailers to collect consumer data across online, mobile, e-mail, call center, and in-store interactions. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. Venture capital. August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. 11 hrs ago.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million. Robin is a former advisor to Gai Kai (acquired by Sony in 2012), an on-line technology company.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment. We use that for 12-14 months, and found it worked really well, because it helped to have that extra capital to grow the business more rapidly. That went equally well, and we found that extra capital really us grow.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Monday, August 27th, 2012. ” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. © 2012 AOL Inc. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones.

SoCal 77

SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital. Leveraging mobile application and online platform. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Community Sponsors.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. CallFire technology likewise offers a powerful, cost-effective solution for emergency response and disaster preparedness, enabling authorities to mobilize field communications at a moment’s notice.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

However, the main benefit is the one-on-one assistance of entrepreneurs, and access to capital. We believe that this will help those entrepreneurs to get going and started, with both capital and close mentorship. Amir Banifatemi: Our first class will be in winter, starting in 2012, most likely in January.

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Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Howard is now CEO of Gamzee, a new social game company building games for the new Facebook mobile platform. We offer an intensive three-month program and provide up to $18,000 of seed capital, extensive mentorship and a shared work environment to help entrepreneurs go from idea to product to fundable business. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

As one of the young company’s first employees (founded in January 2012 with their first hotspot product launch in 2012) she provides a great inside look at the inspiration that drives the company’s work and shares her own insights on how/why she ended up at one of the wireless data industry’s fastest growing innovators.

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Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108