TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

This round is being led by Point72 Private Investments, with previous backers Toba Capital, Index Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, BoxGroup, and VMG Partners also participating. The gap in the market that Boulevard is building to fill is that one-person bands, independent salons, and bigger chains all grapple with the same problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. I would summarize the qualms and feedback from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs trickle down to angel groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. I would summarize the qualms and feedback from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs trickle down to angel groups.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Our interview this morning with an entrepreneur is with Anthony Citrano , the founder of Los Angeles-based Acquicent (www.acquicent.com), a startup which wants to make it as easy for you to invest in museum-grade collectibles such as classic cars and art, without having to invest millions of dollars in those assets.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. Wireless Global Connections.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 3, 2016

Irvine-based vehicle telematics provider Spireon reported Thursday afternoon that it has reached three million subscribers to its platform, and has named a new CEO. Weiss replaces Marc Brungger, who now apparently is running his own investment and consulting firm. The company said it has named Kevin Weiss to the CEO position.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A booming American economy coupled with failing infrastructure and a low-margin business reluctant to adopt new technologies have put stress on domestic logistics companies in the $900 billion market for U.S. The two men began planning the business in 2016 and only launched the service in the beginning of this year. trucking services.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Since we started Science six years ago, we've co-founded and invested in more than 70 companies and have exited multiple portfolio companies. Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. He is Los Angeles's most active angel investor with more than $2.5B

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Wolpert is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry, helping to run technology accelerator Amplify, investing in countless startups, working with Accel Partners, and having been Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks, President of Disney Online, among other positions. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Wolpert is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry, helping to run technology accelerator Amplify, investing in countless startups, working with Accel Partners, and having been Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks, President of Disney Online, among other positions. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg made an unannounced visit to Lagos, Nigeria last week on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. He then made an appearance at Andela, a software developer accelerator, which the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invested $24million in earlier this year. If such validation does not jump-start an ecosystem, nothing else will.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Our investment in PlayVS and the subsequent launch of their Season Zero high school e-sports platform was very exciting. I would love to see a stabilization of the public markets and crypto markets, however, there are some larger issues I am curious about that will deeply impact the technology industry.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. be the pig and don't get greedy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. This investment would give Uber ATG a valuation of between $5 billion and $10 billion, WSJ reported. billion investment in 2018.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different. That's how Veracity was born.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. I mention this because Greg led our investment in a company that I have personally become addicted to called Draft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Now these principles are complicated by the worldwide instant access to many competitive alternatives, indirect social and environment impacts, and the velocity of change enabled by the pervasive market move to digital. Digital platforms create network effects that multiply customer value. Network effects are huge value generators.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Long hours in co-working offices with CEOs fresh from university with big ideas and a lot of vague, nebulous chat about platforms. It even banned the consumption of alcohol in the office in 2016, as well as fornicating in stairwells. Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Because of that, he has some unique insights into this market, having touched many, many pieces of the industry. We are an innovation, investment, and advisory firm. Does this include investments or an investment fund? Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: OceanX is a technology platform, and a company, solely focused on physical subscriptions. Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. How did you get into this?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. We're very excited to be working with them, to help us create a platform for us for future acceleration and growth, and we're working on additional investments down the track. Anne Fulton: That's a big question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. More professional connections means more credibility, more insight into the market and more customer clout. In business, you can’t have too many relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

With today’s overload of information from digital as well as conventional sources, even the best new solutions and services won’t get traction without real marketing. Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. Sixty eight percent spent less than $1 million on mobile developments in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. But of course public markets had begun gyrating. $30 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. Last year 200,000+ American angels invested an estimated $25 billion in more than 71,000 startup deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The funding environment for tech startups is an ever shifting ground as we go through predictable shifts that go hand-in-hand with the slowing of the overall market. This works in a booming market or in a company that never hits any headwinds. The market eventually slowed down. Boom in Number of Startups. I Leaderless Rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Fast forward 3 years and looking out into the 2016 horizon, what do I see? It’s just a market. Markets are markets. Boom and bust. None of these.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

The company that I invested in – Maker Studios – became the largest and covered video games, music, comedy, women’s life style, mom’s, animation and the like. I wrote about my investment 18 months ago when we led a $10 million round in Mitu Network , the largest Latino online video company.

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