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Four SoCal Startups That Thrived Despite--or Because Of--Economic Downturns

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There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in rounds, and even employees looking for safer jobs.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”.

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Funraise Creates $600K Fund For Nonprofits

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Los Angeles-based Funraise , the Los Angeles startup which develops customer relationship management (CRM) and other technology for nonprofits, says it has created a new, $600,000 fund to provide grants to nonprofits. Application for its first round of grants are due by July 31st. Funraise is led by CEO Justin Wheeler.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college. The city of Glendale, Calif.

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Reflections on 2020: Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams, co-founder, Alteryx

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Over the last 10 years or so, businesses have used disconnected point tools to do different parts of the analytic process. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format.

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