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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. The funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, and also included Michael Ovitz and Ron Conway's SV Angel fund. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

socalTECH has mined our proprietary database of startups and other tech companies to find some of the firms spawned by former MySpace executives. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Venture backers : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners. www.demandmedia.com). Let us know!

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

A number of local, high tech companies are putting their efforts behind Movember , a charity which helps raise funding and awareness for men's health, and particularly prostate cancer. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The funding came from Cowboy Ventures, Crunchfund, Maynard Web, Snoop Dog, and a number of other angels. Philz opened an outpost in Santa Monica last year, due to the demand of Silicon Valley venture investors and executives who were spending an increasing amount of time in "Silicon Beach".

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Think Glendale.

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JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

It''s a web based controller, which gives you direct access to the system with their phones or browser. Most controllers out there now are timers, which basically do not react to water demand. Instead, we run a model in the cloud based on the weather and calculate actual water demand, and we adjust the schedule on a daily basis.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Among the technology focused firms on the list were San Clemente-based Kerosene and a Match , ranked at number 2, which is developing technology for searching for graphics, photos, and videos on the Internet; Irvine-based Private Access , a developer of software used for recruiting subjects for medical research, ranked at number 12; Yobra Linda-based (..)

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JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

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JULY 20, 2010

Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5 Because of the higher demand there, and because there were not a whole lot of providers, plus our good connections in Japan, we started there.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. John Delacruz: Right now, people come to our web site and tell us what they want. What is Foodme all about? How do users do that?

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MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

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MAY 18, 2010

"It's been tough to shake people loose from companies," Stuart Macfarlane , CEO of El Segundo-based iChange , explains, saying that the firm is actively looking to hire two to three web developers. Mangers said Webvisible today has slightly under 300 employees, and hopes to have slightly under 500 employees by the end of the year.

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Southern California Technical Review Playa Del Rey Technology 246

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

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MARCH 3, 2011

How is the company funded and backed? Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

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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. How have you managed to build the company to the size you have without outside funding? We''re able to track everything we''re doing, and report back on it.

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MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. It’s a chicken and egg problem. Past Startups Uncensored LA Tech Events.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web. What I found out very quickly, is there is a tremendous demand among the independent production community for this information. So what's this new service, OpusData?

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Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. One is that any producer of a short video on the web, or any producer of any content, can use out to find their desired content. What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

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APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. We''re heading into our Series B round of funding, and we''re growing quickly. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market.

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Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

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JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. It was fund to be savvy, to find that great deal.

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Sites Content Sales Demand 217

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. So you were able to fund your growth just from customer? Talk about Telesign and what you do? How did the company start?

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

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MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

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AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. So what's going on with the fund nowadays? Nice chatting with you today! Let's talk about the exit. Interesting.

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. How is the company funded?

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. How are you funded?

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Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

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MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different.

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Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

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MARCH 4, 2010

It's pretty typical in the life of a startup, where we've proven we have a product people like, and use and demand, and can scale, and we did a pretty effective job of learning about advertising and making revenues off high yielding, CPC advertising. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

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MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. How is the firm funded? We'll expand beyond to other verticals as we start to grow.

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Startup Buzznet Entertainment Social Network 213

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317