socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
San Diego-based Younity is announcing this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding, for its cloud-based media storage service. The funding was led by Marker LLC, and also including Draper Associates and PROfounders Capital. Younity said it has now raised $11.25M in total. Younity, which is led by Erik Caso, said the new funding will go towards improving its app, for hiring, and office expansion.
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 3, 2015
The #1 radar detector is the Valentine 1. A great gift of the speeder in your life. Looking for the gift for the speed racer in your life? We all have one. You know, the person with the lead foot. While I wouldn’t generally endorse speeding, I definitely can’t get behind anyone accruing those pesky little tickets that can only be absolved by the payment of cash.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Pasadena-based CodeSpark , the startup developingmes which teach kids how to code software, has released a big new product release, according to the company. The startup, led by CEO Grant Hosford, said it has added a new feature called "Foo Studio", which lets kids make and share games with others. CodeSpark's software teaches the basic of software coding--even for kids as young at five.
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Smart, wireless lighting is clearly the future of illuminating our homes and businesses. However, there are two distinct paths one can choose to automate lighting: smart light bulbs or smart switches. Smart light bulbs are “connected” to a home automation protocol that allows you to wirelessly control them via an app. Smart switches are similar, except instead of automating the bulb, you are automating the on/off switch.
Advertiser: Aggregage
Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Santa Monica-based Crew32 , a stealth startup founded by Docstoc founder Jason Nazar, Betterworks, Geni, and Yammer co-founder George Ishii, and InvestedIn and MySpace co-founder Yadid Ramot, has raised $5.2M, as part of an ongoing $6.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm on Thursday. No details on the startup have yet been announced.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Credit Dr. Mark Goulston with this headline. Mark teaches that there is a process to innovation that can be summed up with these four words. In fact, he states, that’s exactly how Steve Jobs described his “aha moment.” So let’s paraphrase Mr. Jobs as we describe this process. Jobs was invited to Xerox Parc research facility and – against the better judgment of the research coordinator – shown three projects the engineers were working on.
Southern California Tech Central brings together the best content for technical professionals in Southern California from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Santa Monica-based Hollar , a startup which offers up a wide range of low cost, bargain priced gifts, has raised $17.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The funding came from Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others. Hollar's executives were previously at Honest Co., including David Yeom (CEO, formerly in Business Development at Honest Co.) and tech veteran Brian Lee (LegalZoom, Honest Co., ShoeDazzle), who serves as Executive Chairman of the company.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Google said this morning that it is in a major, renewable energy push, and has added 842MW of renewable energy agreements, as part of a commitment to triple its purchase of renewable energy by 2025. Google said it is hoping to eventually power 100 percent of its operations using clean energy. Google's new renewable energy projects include 200 megawatts of new, renewable energy from San Diego's EDF Renewable Energy.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Manhattan Beach-based 3PL Central , a developer of warehouse management software, announced Thursday that it has raised $17.5M in a funding round. The funding came from Mainsail Partners. 3PL Central, which was founded by John Watkins and Nancy Rohman in 2006, is used by third party logistics providers for their private warehouse management. Mainsail's Jason Payne and Stephen Wolfe will join the company's board. 3PL Central said it received financial advice from D.A.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Oxnard-based Multisensory Fitness , a startup developing games which combine both cognitive (brain) training and physical exercise, said Wednesday that it has launched a new product called SMARTfit , which combines both physical and mental fitness exercises. The exercise system revolves around a "smart wall" and "pods", which combines video-game like activities integrated into real life, physical exercise.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Westlake Village-based cancer diagnostics developer Cynvenio Biosystems is in a collaboration to conduct an array of clinical cancer trials, at the University of Southern Denmark , the company said yesterday. According to Cynvenio, the strategic collaboration is with the Institute of Regional Health Research for the Region of Southern Denmark at the University of Southern Denmark, and involves studies on colorectal and breast cancer patients.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
San Diego-based, nonprofit fundraising software developer Classy said it pulled in $3.4M in donations on Tuesday, which has been billed #GivingTuesday, a social media effort to prompt peopel to donate to their favorite nonprofits. Classy said the numers were 4 times the number of donations on the platform from last year's push. Classy said organizations on its platform received received 31,445 donations from 29,882 people in 94 countries, with an average donation size of $108.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
152 
Let's personalize your content