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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Los Angeles-based social application developer Triller , which competes head to head against TikTok , is seeking to reach the public markets through a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company), according to a report. Reuters cited "people familiar with the matter" for the report. TikTok is the target of efforts by the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Webalo , a company which provides mobile application development tools, said this afternoon that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. Easton Ventures, Balch Hill Capital, and others. Webalo says its software eliminates much of the coding, wating, and cost of traditional, mobile application development.

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MARCH 11, 2015

Los Angeles-based Prevoty , a develops of software toolsets used to provide runtime protection of applications, has raised $8M in a Series A funding round, the company said today. prevoty venture capital security secure application monitoring cloud software' Prevoty i led by Julien Bellanger. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based TenFarms , the mobile application development startup headed by Nils Forsblom, announced this morning that it has raised $2.7M capital venture adtile development mobile photopoll labs tenfarms' in an angel funding round, to launch a new mobile advertising product called Adtile to the market. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising startup PaeDae announced this morning that it has tied into Intel''s appMobi effort, which will allow Intel developers to integrate with its advertising platform. appMobi develops cross platform application development software for HTML5 and Javascript, and was acquired by Intel last year.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

Ciphrex--which was founded by Enrique and Eric Lombrozo, says it is developing a multisignature, Bitcoin wallet application aimed at both individuals and for application development in the enterprise. software crytocurrency currency capital venture wallet bitcoin ciphrex' Source of the funding was not announced.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners is one of the lead investors in a developer of social media analytics software, Awe.sm , Awe.sm has raised $4M in a round which was led by Foundry Group and GRP Partners, and which also included Neu Venture Capital and kps+p Ventures. said Thursday.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Kamran Pourzanjani , the former CEO and founder of PriceGrabber.com, and Omid Rahmat , the former CEO of Tom's Hardware, have acquired Portland- and Santa Barbara-based ELC Technologies , the development firm founded by Jonathan Siegel. ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development.

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Cloud Computing Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital 197

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the location-based mobile application development firm run by Rahul Sonnad, confirmed its relationship with Verizon last week. Verizon has been an investor in the firm since June, and Geodelic has been developing applications with Verizon over the last year. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Burstly is venture backed by Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank Capital.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Morphlabs , the developer of cloud-based infrastructure software, announced today that it has launched a new, Openstack-powered public cloud platform. MorphLabs is venture backed by AO Capital, BroadBand Tower, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, Global Gateway Investment Group, and Siemer Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included prior investors Google Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. Pokki allows developers to create desktop apps using web technologylike HTML5. According to the company, the new funding goes towards growing Pokki, the desktop app platform it launched in June. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. Tags: rifkin evan advertising mobile capital venture burstly. The funding round came from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Nirvanix is a provider of a cloud storage service targeted at enterprises and web application developers; Nasuni develops a virtual network attached storage (NAS) file server that runs on VMware. Nirvanix is backed by Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based FastPay , a provider of payment products for digital publishers, application developers, and game developers, said today that it has raised a funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Source of the new funding was also not announced.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the mobile application development firm run by Rahul Sonnad, has signed up Clear Channel's airport division, Clear Channel Airports , the companies said today. Geodelic is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, MK Capital, and Shasta Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

the mobile applications developer behind ARTKIVE , an app which helps parents save their kids' artwork, and turn that art into photo books or keepsakes, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, according to reports. The Kive Co., The funding came from angels, as well as from Amplify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

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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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. How did you get into this? I was working with Madison Square Garden, the Knicks, the Rangers, and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, publishers are also going through disruption, magazines are going to digital as well as video, and were helping publishers to go and capitalize on the video side of publishing. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. Number six are publishers. Kanaan Jemili: Thats a great question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular funding assistance sites for startups, including StartupAmerica and Startups.co

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Venture Capital Angel Satisfaction Equity 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Crowd funding is exciting new territory, but I don’t see it replacing Angel and venture capital investors any time soon.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension. This should be as public as possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Crowd funding is exciting new territory, but I don’t see it replacing Angel and venture capital investors any time soon.

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Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

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MARCH 12, 2019

We had an advanced application development and innovation team. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI? Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Judges include Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc; David Lambert of Right Side Capital, Sam Teller, Managing Partner at LaunchPad LA, Dana Settle, Founding Partner of Greycroft, Jeff Solomon and many more! Divshot is a tool for web application developers. Founder, Matt Cooper was a very crowd-pleasing, almost comedian-esqe speaker!

Startup 85

Startup Miramar Venture Capital Santa Monica 85

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

At KnowledgeBase, he worked with EdgeCast co-founders James, Phil and Lior, and as CEO was involved in all aspects of the company and responsible for its development. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider. Alex earned a B.A. He lives in Los Angeles.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. We spoke with Jed Simon the firm's CEO and founder, about the company. Tell us a little bit about what FastPay is about?

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Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Build a SWAT team 3.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec.

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