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JUNE 17, 2011

He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Spotlight: LA Tech Summer will take place Thursday, July 14, at 6pm.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Los Angeles- and Las Vegas-based Influential , which operates a service to help match brands with influencers, has raised $12M more in a Series B funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR, the Tech Coast Angels, plus WME.

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JUNE 14, 2013

A new, Los Angeles startup incubator, Greenwings Biomedical , announced its launch Friday, saying that it will be the first incubator of biomedical ventures in Los Angeles. The new startup, headed by startup veteran Richard Koffler, said it will focus on biomedical devices and software. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Los Angeles-based Yowza , the developer of a mobile coupon and deals app, which was backed by comedian Wayne Brady, the Tech Coast Angels, the Pasadena Angels, and others, has been acqurieed by mobile commerce software provider Spindle , Spindle said today.

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JUNE 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based game analytics software developer Ninja Metrics has raised $2.8M The company's other backers include the Harvard Business School Angels and Tech Coast Angels. The company's other backers include the Harvard Business School Angels and Tech Coast Angels.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Local startup AnyMeeting is looking to help fellow Southern California startups out, saying this morning that it will provide free, one-year accounts to its premium, ad-free service to any employee of companies within select Los Angeles area incubators and accelerators. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based EV Connect , a new startup which helps install, manage, and integrate electric vehicle charging stations for the commercial and government market, announced an initial round of funding this morning. The company said the new funding will go towards sales, marketing, and software development.

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JULY 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based Payvia , which is developing mobile payment technology, and Mobile-XL , which develops software for providing access to digital services to people in Africa and India, are in a partnership, the companies said this morning. Financial arrangements between the companies were not announced. and Trinity Ventures.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mobile-XL , the international mobile information services firm backed by the Tech Coast Angels, said this week that it has linked a deal with Oberthur Technologies to include its XLBrowser Content Platform on Oberthur's line of SIM cards. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Los Angeles led the region in investments, with $348.6M The industry with the largest amount of investment was in Software, with $229.6M in funding for its location-based intelligence software. The amount raised in the region was up from Q2, when $627.4M was raised in venture capital. in investment.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Los Angeles-based LendAmend , a developer of online software for managing the amendment of leveraged loans, has raised $750,000 in a Series A funding round. The round came from the Tech Coast Angels.

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MAY 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver announced Monday that the firm has released a new version of its automated translation software. Language Weaver is venture backed by Athenaeum Fund, In-Q-Tel, Palisades Ventures, Sulphur Creek Ventures, and Tech Coast Angels, and serves both government and commercial customers.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ninja Metrics , the social analytics software developer led by Dmitri Williams, said this week that it has tied with mobile analytics company TUNE. Ninja Metrics'' backers include the Harvard Business School Angels and Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

LeisureLink , which develops vacation travel booking software and technology, and was started in the Los Angeles area, appears to have halted its service, telling its partners on Friday that it has suspended accepting new reservations as well as modifying existing reservations.

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JULY 18, 2013

Across the region, Los Angeles led in terms of dollars and deals, with $277.4M By far, the largest investment category for the quarter was software--helped by Snapchat--with $177.872M in investments for Q2, according to the report. invested across 45 companies. Orange County was second, with $161.9M

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based Docufide , which develops educational software and services used to transfer high school transcripts to colleges, said today that it has raised $4.5M Docufide said it will maintain its Los Angeles offices. in a funding round, and also appointed Blackboard founder Matthew Pittinsky as its CEO.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

We dropped in recently, and found a screening session for the Tech Coast Angels; a number of former StartEngine, MuckerLab, and LaunchpadLA startups in residence; not more than a few startup founders wandering the halls; and a long list of upcoming technology networking events on the calendar.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Los Angeles received $260.0M The largest deals for Los Angeles were Coda Automotive in Santa Monica, which raised $40.375M, KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals in Calabasas, which raised $37.425M, and JustFabulous in El Segundo, which raised $33.1M. The latest MoneyTree report from the three find that $603.2M

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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver , the University of Southern California spinout which provides statistical machine translation software, has been acquired by UK-based SDL. According to SDL, it has signed an agreement to acquire Language Weaver for $42.5M in cash, in a deal which is expected to complete by July 28th.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Advertisers.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Los Angeles-based Mobile-XL , an angel-backed developer of mobile phone applications, said today that it has linked with telecom carrier Orange in the country of Cameroon. According to Mobile-XL, Orange will offer the firm's XLBrowser software to customers starting in October. Mobile-XL is backed by the Tech Coast Angels.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have a response to yesterday's (very controversial) piece in this section from Ryan Born, expressing his opinion about his experiences raising money in Los Angeles. The response is from Tom Tierney , an angel investor from the Tech Coast Angels San Diego.

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JULY 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based SodaHead.com , an online site focused on a combination of news discussion and questions and answers, announced today that the firm has connected the site to Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. Tags: sodahead twitter facebook yahoo software integration news. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M The other large sector for investments was Software, with $54.8M Tags: venture capital southern california angeles orange county diego moneytree nvca. Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 in investments.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M. Interestingly enough, that area of perpetual interest for the Los Angeles area--Content and Media--only garnered $10.68M in funding during the quarter. for Row 44 , the Westlake Village-based developer of wireless equipment for commercial airlines.

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JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego is intended to showcase local startups that are focused on innovation in such areas as Software as a Service (SaaS), consumer Internet, mobile technology, hardware, and defense technology. A Fire Side Chat with San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. —Monday 6/17 at 4:30pm. —Tuesday 6/14 at 4 pm.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment , a venture-backed startup developing 3D animation technology used to create avatars, said this morning that the firm has created a new application which works on the Apple iPhone. Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and the Tech Coast Angels.

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MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. Scot Richardson: We've done two rounds of funding, both angel rounds.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation. Gold Sponsor. .

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JULY 1, 2013

The incubator-- Greenwings Biomedical (www.greenwingsbiomedical.com), is led by Richard Koffler , a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Los Angeles. Finally, I started a third project out of the USC Keck School of Medicine, using software to optimize drug dosages for individuals. It''s the same issue.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

upStart.LA is a startup accelerator based in Los Angeles that helps tech entrepreneurs get their business up and going. Treatsa hand delivers fresh baked cookies, brownies, and more throughout Los Angeles. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. There''s a fair amount of software and computer science involved in this area. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! Start Engine is a rapid accelerator focused on helping Los Angeles-based technology startups build a solid foundation for success in 90 days. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things. Where did the idea come from?

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

upStart.LA is a startup accelerator based in Los Angeles that helps tech entrepreneurs get their business up and going. Treatsa hand delivers fresh baked cookies, brownies, and more throughout Los Angeles. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California.

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