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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catalog , a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, has raised $1.5M The startup--led by Patrick Ip--develops software to automate the creation of custom visual content for brands. in a seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

Los Angeles- and South San Francisco-based Unity Influence , a developer of influencer advertising software, has raised $1M in funding, according to the company. The company was founded by Jacobo Lumbreras and Patrick Ip. The company was founded by Jacobo Lumbreras and Patrick Ip. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Los Angeles and New York-based venture firm M13 has managed to nab former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner and the head of its internal venture studio, Launchpad. There is no better place for M13’s Launchpad than Los Angeles and no better person to lead it than Anna.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based Beyond Limits , the artificial intelligence software developer which recently raised a big, $133M funding round, has linked with management consulting firm The Carnrite Group , the two said on Wednesday. The company announced a big, $133M Series C funding at the end of September, from Group 42 and bp ventures.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Los Angeles-based Exploding Kittens , the developer of the popular card game of the same name, has raised another $30M in funding, the company said on Thursday. The company said the financing will help finance continued growth. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2021

Los Angeles-based VideoAmp, a developer of software used to manage advertising across linear TV, streaming and digital media, says it has raised $50M in a debt financing. The funding came from Capital IP. The company said the new funding will gotwards hiring executives, and to expand its sales, client success, and engineering teams.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based Newegg has launched a new effort to make it more fair for its consumers to buy very high demand products--such as GPUs and graphics cards--through what it calls The Newegg Shuffle.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based electric car maker Faraday Future has named a new VP to head up its product and technology products, according to the company. According to Faraday Future, it has named Jeff Risher as the company's Vice President of Product, Technology, and IP Strategy.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 31, 2016

Los Angeles-based IP surveillance camera provider Arecont Vision said today that it has partnered with industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) company Viakoo. According to the companies, Viakoo joined Arecont's Technology Partner Program. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

If you follow the Twittersphere you may have noticed several people weighing in on this recent piece by Mike Isaac of the NY Times, asking “ How Many Angels is Too Many? I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. Hua of Apptimize.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2021

A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected. The company fixed the data spill, but has not yet alerted its customers.

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Steve Reich

DECEMBER 31, 2014

2014 Pasadena Angels Performance. • 4 Exits, including Bluebeam for $100mm. • $4.7mm in new funding for portfolio companies. • 20 New Angels joined. I have never seen such energy at the Pasadena Angels in my decade+ as a member. It’s hard to exaggerate the impact IP is having in Pasadena.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Los Angeles-based FreedomPop is doing exactly that, saying this morning that it has launched a new plan which costs $4.58 Wish you could get unlimited voice and text on your phone for less than $5 a month? per month and gives you unlimited, voice and text services, on all of its phones.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

The startup — based in Oslo but with a significant presence also in Los Angeles — plans to use the funding to continue building out its platform and operations en route to its first commercial launch: PortalOne Arcade, a journey into a retro “arcade” featuring multiple games.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 1, 2016

Los Angeles-based IP security camera developer Arecont Vision said this morning that it has promoted Sanjit Bardhan to Vice President, Middle East, Africa, and Inidia. Bardhan had been Director of the region since 2013, and has been at the company since 2011.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based TelePacific Communications is the latest Southern California company with big hiring plans, saying Monday that it plans to add nearly 200 positions to the firm to support its growth.

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JULY 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital reported Monday that it has acquired two, Latin American information technology system integrators. Both businesses provide Internet Protocol (IP) and Unified Communications (UC) systems integration services across Latin America. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2016

Los Angeles-based advertising marketplace operator Rubicon Project announced this morning that it has joined in a new, advertising quality effort, call the "Certified Against Fraud" program run by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG). Rubicon Project said it is a founding board member for the new effort. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2016

Carlsbad-based satellite connectivity provider ViaSat has scored a win with private airline Zetta Jet , the two companies said this morning, with ViaSat providing in-flight Internet services on Zetta Jet's Bombardier aircraft. Financial details off the win were not disclosed. Financial details off the win were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 26, 2016

According to the two, the new company will bring advanced water sensing and conservation technology to market. Belkin said it will transfer its IP, staff, and non-monetary assets into Phyn, with Uponor investing $15M for a minority stake in the company. Belkin will own 62.5 Uponor is based in Finland.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology developer RealD said today that it has reinforced its global IP protection, after a number of patent wins. The company called its competitors "unethical copycat infringers" whose businesses models are "built on copying" RealD's technology. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement. From its first cohort through to last year’s team of presenters, Imagine Impact not only provides mentorship, but brings selected screenwriters to Los Angeles for an intensive period of workshopping, subsidized by the accelerator.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Jacobo Lumbreras: My background for the last three years, I was at working at a company that Keith Ferrazzi had built.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

Los Angeles-based FreedomPop announced this morning that it has launched a free, mobile service which not only includes broadband data, but also includes free voice and texting. The company is using voice-over-IP technology over cellular connectings--through a deal with textPlus--to provide the new voice service.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". Tech Law Tip of the Week: explanation of a frequently-asked IP law question for tech companies.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Thanks in particular to: Sponsors.

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JULY 28, 2014

In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company? With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Brud , the company behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela , is now worth at least $125 million thanks to a new round of financing the company is currently closing. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. . at least in terms of the amount of money it has raised).

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JUNE 19, 2009

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JUNE 26, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gaikai , the streaming game service run by David Perry, is one of seven software companies which Intel announced it had made investments in today, for a total of $24M invested by the company.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Once again, we'd like to thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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