socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Smith , the founder of Croquet (www.croquet.io), a new Los Angeles startup which actually has its roots at the very beginning of the modern computing era. I realized, as we were building this, this multi-user collaborative platform was so powerful and neat, we should make ti available now, before the full operating system was done.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

Software Review 238

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Customized content. Stage and settle debate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. If a creator or celebrity were to sell personalized videos on Cameo , they’d lose 25% to the platform.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2012

We sat down earlier this month to talk with Josh Yguado , President of SGN (www.sgn.com), to learn more about the importance of being nimble in the game market, the company's platform, and hear more about its recent move into real money gaming. Our largest offices is in Los Angeles, which is our headquarters.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto. We have been growing, and profitable for the last ten years.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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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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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? That's the story we got from Tobi Bauckhage , the co-founder and CEO of Moviepilot (www.moviepilot.com), a German firm which is setting up shop in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. In addition, Web 2.0 In addition, Web 2.0

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site. We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do. At a high level, what does Gotcast do?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup urRadio (www.urradio.com) thinks so. Our CTO was the Senior Web Engineer at Yahoo Music, and helped launch many of its international platforms, and helped rebuild the original Yahoo Music and Messenger radio players. You don''t see many young startups, because of two major reasons.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. Lunch.com is based in Los Angeles. Lunch.com was the platform to do all of that. We spent a lot of time proving out the platform, to see that it works.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. The Sponsors.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. We're very focused on just on iOS and Android, and not on the web side or administration. Any shift in the types of music you have on your service?

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Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Every founder can directly access any investor or mentor in the Amplify army of cohorts, which adds up to more than 70 of the most influential business professionals in Los Angeles and beyond.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version?

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. It's just sign up here, so we can get them into the system.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. ABCSearch, is not a search portal that a user would visit, it's really a platform designed to allow advertisers to reach users that are on search enabled sites.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Every founder can directly access any investor or mentor in the Amplify army of cohorts, which adds up to more than 70 of the most influential business professionals in Los Angeles and beyond.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. To the Trade show Floor!

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. That was an interest in the ecosystem level.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. -New Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. In Los Angeles you have large industries in garment industry, defense, games (both physical like Mattel and virtual like Activision) and music.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Are you going to do all of this? You have too much on your plate.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. All of this was supported by the technology platform (adMonitor) that I invented at ReaXions, Inc. 2: “7th Horse in a 7 Horse Race&# We were not the first to build an ad-serving technology platform.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Sequoia has a tremendous reputation, but it was also important to us to have a local (Los Angeles) VC as well. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. The Importance of Twitter.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. you’re not following him?

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News Web Email Startup 324