socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2016

Fouad ElNaggar , a former venture capitalist who had been responsible for the Los Angeles office of Redpoint Ventures, has scored funding for a new startup, Sapho. in a Series A funding, which was led by Alsop Louie Partners. According to Sapho, it has raised $9.5M Sapho is in Silicon Valley. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint CIO Venture Capital Startup 100

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds?

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. He lives in Los Angeles. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Alex earned a B.A.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). Ryan Blair: The theme around the fund is pretty simple. It was really the same business, but with less capital.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Unitas Global (www.unitasglobal.com) recently raised a round of funding from MK Capital and Azure Capital for its vision of helping enterprises make that transition to cloud technology. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. We view them as complimentary.

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Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

in funding, from Dallas Capital, Upfront Ventures, and Tribeca Angels. My counterpart, Mark Attaway, our CIO, was at Fidelity national and LSI, both title companies, building automated platforms for the title process. Cloudvirga recently raised $7.5M What is cloudvirga? Kyle Kamrooz: We were spun out of a lender.

Startup 100

Startup Platform Pepperdine CIO 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. Los Angeles. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley. So it would be unwise to say that funding outside of Silicon Valley will be easier. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313