socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. According to the company, the new funding goes towards growing Pokki, the desktop app platform it launched in June.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Habra: Mobile Therapy spent the majority of the time leading up to the initial pitch competition perfecting our platform and ensuring that both the application and the Web dashboard is 100 percent rooted in real science. Did you do anything in particular to rally your fans and clients?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. The second thing, is instead of being just a platform, we also have content partners pre-integrated.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. What is Burstly? Our space is pretty young.

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Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. What exactly is FatCloud?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about?

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. But having different funds available for different stages of one’s company is actually a really good thing. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. That was a kerfuffle too.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

He and his company, Rocksauce, make sure to add high quality design back into each of the apps they create. Initially, my desire to go into the mobile space came from my love for design and my weariness with web or print related art. Lastly, I think the push on Reponsive Web Design is going to really take off this year.

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Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I said in the following video that I thought Twitter would by Seesmic , the company that makes one of the most popular Twitter clients. (If you’re interested you can watch my comments by fast forwarding to minute 31.25 But wait, aren’t you the guy who invested in Ad.ly, the in-stream advertising company?

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

A total of 10 startups made up of 5 companies that received the most votes from the crowd and 5 companies chosen by the Angels and VC judges pitched in front of a live audience for a chance of winning $25,000 in funding. The panel of experts not only judged the competition but also gave the companies feedback after their pitch.

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Startup Miramar Venture Capital Santa Monica 85

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

A number of web services has popped up in recent years that has helped cater to people with busy lives. Zipments is a web service that connects your delivery needs with couriers in your area. We are a logistics platform that enables three things: 1. What was the motivation to start Zipments and when did you open for business?

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Los Angeles Angel Examples Mobile 79

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group.

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Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203