socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

MyHeritage.com said it has raised $25M in a new round of funding at the same time, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, and Accel Partners. Geni.com offers up an online, family tree site, and was the parent company of Yammer.com, the enterprise micro-messaging startup sold by Sacks for $1.2 READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2016

in a funding round, and launched a new platform to help people compare pay and culture between companies. Nazar was the founder of Docstoc, which he sold to Intuit; his co-founders include George Ishii (Yammer/Geni), Mike Sheridan (DebtMarket), and Yadid Ramot (Investedin). READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2012

Yammer , the business focused micromessaging service which started as an offspring of Los Angeles-based family tree and genealogy site Geni , is reportedly in the last legs of a deal to be acquired by Microsoft for more than $1 billion. According to Bloomberg and other sources, the deal is expected to be announced as early as Friday.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2009

Sacks said that Geni, which spun out Yammer, remains in West Hollywood. Sacks revealed the move at the Twiistup conference Friday, explained the move by saying that "what I miss are all the technology companies are out of there, and I miss tapping the brain trust up there." READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

In no particular order, here are seven tech companies to watch out for in 2022. SoLo Funds. With investment being more at the forefront of social conversation, we may see massive growth from companies like Grifin in the coming years. Looking at the year ahead. Will the above startups win big in 2022?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , a new startup focused on "last-mile" electric vehicle sharing, has raised $15M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The funding was led by Craft Ventures, the newly formed venture capital fund founded by David Sacks and Bill Lee. Bird offers up electric powered scooters.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

12 is getting long unless your company is totally rocking! I then really quickly race through looking for some minimum qualifications such as companies for which they worked, education, grades, etc. You’re in it more for yourself than your company. OR … you make bad decisions about which companies you join.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

Tanz said that GRP's Mark Suster will be joining the firm's board along with the funding. Advisors to the firm include David Sacks of Geni (formerly of PayPal) and Vince Thompson (formerly of AOL and Facebook). Tanz said it was just a matter of finding the right partner. "We READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. Twiistup 6 featured 12 showoff companies as the opening act of a 2-day conference. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Nearly every company faces its crisis moments and only through the inspiration , focus and dedication of the leadership can you motivate teams to dig in deep and come out the other side stronger. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. VCs fund people all the time with no traction. ON LEADERSHIP.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. The company was co-founded by Eric Wei, a former product manager at Instagram who focused on the creator and influencer side of the business.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Brud , the actual company behind one of Instagram’s most popular virtual influencers (it’s a thing), has raised millions of dollars from Silicon Valley investors because this is 2018 and everything is awful. Our sources put the company’s funding somewhere around $6 million in its recent funding round.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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