socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2021

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, sposors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. For the tech/startup ecosystem in SoCal, I am looking forward to continued momentum in addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workforce and support for emerging entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2019

Blais was previously Head of Corporate Sales and Vice President of Inside Sales at ZipRecruiter; Souza has previously served at such comapnies as Gem, Deep 6 AI and iMeet Central, along with Everbridge and Ariba. Richards has a number of high tech startups under his belt, most recently Internships.com. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

My time with TFA instilled in me a deep commitment to education, inspiring me to dedicate my life to guiding young minds through the world of mathematics. To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2012

Over the holiday I became aware of a new tech blog that aims to have deep insights into the next generation of technology, which they call The Hypernet. Why should you care? Well, it is established by some of the industries more successful investors – Mike Maples and Roger McNamee.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2018

Walmart Labs , the technology arm of retail giant Walmart , is planning a major expansion in San Diego--hoping to tap into the area's deep depth of technology talent. Walmart said the new office--which is led by site lead and senior director of engineering Claude Jones--recognizes the value in the San Diego tech talent pool.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

“We’re in a new tech bubble!” Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. If you fast forward one generation of tech companies it’s a completely different story.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

San Francisco-based Atomwise has developed deep learning techniques for use in structure-based small molecule drug discovery. Two venture-backed startups that have developed technologies intended to speed up the drug discovery and development process are combining those tools in a bid to achieve their goals together.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 14, 2021

As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

A partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB), one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Eric also has deep ties with the Los Angeles tech community, having served as the founding CTO of Hulu. Moderated by Patrick Anding, Attorney @ Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. Streem buys Selerio in an effort to boost its AR conferencing tech. Our premium subscription service had another great week of interesting deep dives.

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Startup Venture Capital Newsletter Tips 223

Xconomy

JANUARY 30, 2018

Tech vendors know when they knock on the doors of local politicians to pitch smart cities technologies and promising billions in savings, they are going to find a receptive audience.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

Orange County's latest, high tech employer, Zillow , launched a grand opening of its new offices on Michelson Drive this week, saying that it plans to hire up to 100 people in its new office in the location.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3 Syrup Tech bags $6.3M They have the unique mix of deep apparel and commerce expertise, empathy for the customer and need set through the businesses they have run, speed, and product-first mindset. Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

I'm excited by some of the deep tech generated by UCSB, which has resulted in such companies as Apeel Sciences, Aurrion (acquired by Juniper) and Calient (acquired by Suzhou Chunxing Precision Mechanical Co.). Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar The company plans to take its new capital and “go deep into the product side.”. So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Later, at Jeffries Technologies, and the $120 million Entertainment Media Ventures seed and early stage venture capital fund, Norton was intimately involved in bringing tech to market and focusing on early stage investments. “We want to connect them to the right person at those companies to create a commercial relationship. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. And these are people with deep pockets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our annual conferencefocused on educating our community on growing valuable tech enterprises-- set a record with over 500 attendees and our best attendee feedback to date. I think next year will be a big year for tech M&A and we are excited to be immersed in it. What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This year I dove deep into the rarefied world of investment-grade collectibles (fine art, vintage cars, etc.) The campaigns will consume a lot of sociocultural oxygen and the tech world is not insulated from that. My biggest business lesson was that emotional affinity is one of the most valuable things in the world.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

“There was this idea of having connectivity between tech and innovation… that’s when we formed M Ventures [but] that understanding of media and culture… that focus… was complimentary with what Marlon was doing at Cross Culture,” King said. “We “We look at all verticals.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

I believe that the most important thing for tech companies will be to turn inward and create mature leadership and organizations that can handle growth. Too many tech companies fail due to co-founder conflicts, lack of diversity, inexperienced leadership, and breakdowns in employee connection to vision.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

But at a higher level, I think we are going to see a continuing reconciliation of the move fast and break things attitude that has historically fueled hyper growth of tech companies with the growing need to both anticipate and mitigate societal impacts of new technologies. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

It’s always been Xconomy’s mission to reach audiences—both here on our website, and at our many live events around the country—with deep insights into the innovation process, divined from experts embedded in the world’s most important hubs of high-tech entrepreneurship. And now we’re doing that in one more medium: podcasting.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

As you can imagine, when you introduce tech professionals or VCs to a grammy-award winning rap artist they start with pre-conceived ideas but of course that “pattern matching” is what leads our industry to underestimate people. He has embodied the typical founder journey you would expect from any dropout kid from Stanford or Harvard.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I think they care that there is a deep bench of talent. But not anal if one founder who shares equity graciously with early employees who are treated as “co-founders” My idea startup team is heaving on tech personnel but also has strong product management. PMs are a vital part of a tech startup. Know the difference.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From state-of-the-art clean energy solutions to breakthrough podcasting platforms, here are six tech startups you should be keeping an eye on in 2023, and beyond. Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? The post Six Tech Startups to Look Out For in 2023 appeared first on Tech.co. Please fill in your name.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Platform Newsletter 119

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our two founders, Amy Salzhauer and Maureen Stancik Boyce, have been working since 2000 building very deep tech companies based on university research and other partners. That's one of our big strengths, both our operating experience and our really deep network. They have built 18 companies now, worth billions in value.

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Southern California Capital Technical Review Startup 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Unlike other job sites, Shaffner and Ovitz say that their startup is focused not on churning out job postings, but helping companies find and retain the best employees; the company also is looking to aim at the broader market, as opposed to the tech-savvy, Silicon Valley centric job startups.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 26, 2010

Ben has invested the past 10 years in tracking the Southern California Technology market, maintaining a deep database of technology firms and publishing realtime news about local high tech companies through his website, socalTECH.com.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Mountain View, CA-based Esperanto is vying with a host of competitors to create new processors for high-order tasks like machine learning and deep learning, while also minimizing power consumption. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We made 7 investments in SoCal founders in our first year (out of 8 total), and even the 1 exception has deep SoCal ties and we hope to relocate her here in 2021. Contact our editors for details.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The new group, The Tech CEO Network , said it is looking to help bridge between the technology present at local schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and other universities, and actual, viable companies. Tags: startups university research mentoring network tech. Wedbush Morgan Securities and NewCap Partners, among other firms.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar Cutler backed the company because of her deep knowledge of the issues associated with housing. trillion-dollar industry. Our Quickship program is the fastest way to add housing,” said John Geary, CEO at Abodu. The interior of an Abodu home. Photo via Abodu.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Simply – we believe it’s hypocritical to sit with tech startups every day and talk about the need to innovate while ourselves making no major changes. It would be like calling yourself health food while serving up deep-fried carbohydrates. It’s not clear to me how anybody in our industry can advocate for that.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2015

By understanding the "how", I can make genuine suggestions for our companies that are rooted in a deep understanding instead of just pattern matching the "what". Arteen Arabshahi: This year felt like a massive inflection point for LA tech. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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