TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Now, Thrive Global is adding a tech tool to its arsenal of cognitive behavioral therapies with the acquisition of the Los Angeles-based startup, Boundless Mind. The Boundless technology works by monitoring what activity is happening on the phone’s tap screen (similar to Apple’s screen time monitoring).

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JUNE 23, 2014

Los Angeles-based Ebyline , which operates an online marketplace for freelance writers, said today that it has begun offering up a seven day, free trial to prospective customers. The company said most of the people in its database are veterans of the news industry. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The latest to launch is an at-home test for urinary tract infections from the Los Angeles-based startup Scanwell Health. Companies continue to refine digital diagnostic tools for in-home healthcare at a rapid clip. The company was founded by Stephen Chen, who literally grew up in the diagnostics testing business.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which operates a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots, said today that it is now accepting PayPal for purchases of its Wi-Fi access service plans. Boingo also accepts credit cards, an iTunes account, and Skype credit. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based uSamp , the online panel and survey firm headed by Gregg Lavin and Matt Dusig, said today that the firm has updated its panel service, SampleMarket. service allows its customers to access its panel of screened and vetted survey respondents in real time, and will be available in beta in December.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

The startup — based in Oslo but with a significant presence also in Los Angeles — plans to use the funding to continue building out its platform and operations en route to its first commercial launch: PortalOne Arcade, a journey into a retro “arcade” featuring multiple games. .

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Extra precautions have been taken because of the outbreak, including frequent disinfecting of work spaces and requiring workers to wear masks and undergo regular temperature screenings, according to the company. Polestar will only sell its vehicles online and will offer customers subscriptions to the vehicle.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. The staff is very helpful and provides great customer service too. Same with CreatorUp. See you there!

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MARCH 26, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , a provider of 3D theater projection technology, has signed on theater firm AMC Entertainment as a customer of the firm. According to AMC and RealD, AMC is set to deploy up to 1,500 RealD 3D screens in the US and Canada. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , which provides technology for projecting 3D movies on digital theater screens, announced this morning that it has signed up another theater chain as a customer. RealD said that Vue Entertainment, which operates multiplex cinemas in the UK, will add RealD to 200 screens in its chain.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds. What is Sidebar all about?

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JANUARY 23, 2018

We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. If you just bought a big screen television from Best Buy, it's like you're not going to be buying a new home soon. Where is the company now in terms of the service? Jack Ryan: We've now been doing this for three years.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. Who is the idea customer for you? David Scult: Customer focus is one.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Los Angeles-based Gumiyo (www.gumiyo.com) has been developing mobile websites for SMBs and publishers for a number of years, and recently started to offer up self-service tools to make it easy for those customers to create cross-device mobile websites. Customers are looking for something that works.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. For example, take a product from a major electronics retailer, a 42-inch flat screen TV. Search Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We then spent much of 2013 proving out the merchant model in one city – Los Angeles. I am stunned at the speed at which the team cranked out this application while at the same time building out an entire suite of merchant solutions to help them better manage customers. ” Ah, but that’s exactly the point.

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MAY 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based Stamps.com , which provides online postage and personalized postage, announced this morning that the firm has successfully completed its market test of PhotoStamps. The firm said it shipped more than 70 million PhotoStamps to customers since 2005. Postal Service since 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Awareness Years ago Upfront Ventures rented out a movie theater of 350 people in Santa Monica to screen the movie, “ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap ,” an important movie by Robin Hauser and we invited senior members of many local tech firms to attend. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!”

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

ReplyYes is a frictionless e-commerce over mobile messaging experience: customers simply reply “YES” to buy the product and have it delivered. Read more about startups in the Los Angeles area at TechCo. ProductionPro pulls scripts, research, designs, and continuity together to empower creative decision-making.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? million paying customers when Cricket sold to AT&T. They understand their customers, and know how to build incredible, deeply emotional relationships with them.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2013

One of the startups looking to help power the "branchless banking revolution" is Los Angeles-based Card.com. Ben Katz: Our customer is basically anyone who trusts their smart phone enough to bank in the cloud. What that means, is that the majority of our customers range from 25 to 55 years old.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. It was founded by Paul Sidlo, who is from Los Angeles, and it''s very much a Southern California company. What is Tillster?

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipSwap is trying to break the mold of online marketplaces, with its highly visual, mobile and online marketplace for fashion and other items. There's a screen that we throw a product at you, an image of that product, which lets you "hip it" -- similar to a favorite or like -- or "skip it".

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? million paying customers when Cricket sold to AT&T. They understand their customers, and know how to build incredible, deeply emotional relationships with them.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. When we first alpha tested this, we just had watchable entertainment, movies and TV, many of them popping up in second screen apps. Is it a challenge to cover so much?

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2016

myLAB Box From Los Angeles California. myLAB Box was conceived by Los Angeles-based entrepreneurs Ursula Hessenflow and Lora Ivanova who saw the opportunity to fix a major gap between the way we all approach our sexual health and a health crisis of epidemic proportion.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the startup areas where we've been seeing renewed activity in the last few months is in the enterprise software space--specifically, in software-as-a-service applications targeted at corporate customers. I and my business partner moved to Los Angeles, less than two years ago. Salesforce has 55,000 customers, and 1.5

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. All inclusive.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Enter Joymode (www.joymode.com), a new, Los Angeles startup, led by serial entrepreneur Joe Fernandez , which is entirely focused on enabling those wonderful, memory creating experiences�without having to own any of that stuff. Have you though beyond Los Angeles and how you scale this further?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. Watch this space.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. All inclusive.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Campbell was new to Los Angeles, freshly inspired from a TED conference, and after attending a smattering of Barcamps and Westside Meetups he was ready to produce his own event that was a mixture of all. In 2006, Douglas Campbell started Mindshare LA out of the downtown art colony The Brewery.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

The founders, who are part of the Los Angeles StartEngine accelerator, talked to us about what they're doing. You need to be able to make landing pages that work on every single type of layout, every screen and tablet size, and so on, and we think we've done a great job with that. What exactly is PageWoo?

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. Our customers tend to be mostly moms, but also some dads who support their families, uncles, aunts, and their friends, but primarily moms. What EcoMom is all about? They come back to us proactively.

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