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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Tech Coast Angels announced this morning that it has had a first close on its Angel Capital Entrepreneurial (ACE) Fund 1, the firm's new early-stage investment fund. The fund--which has been in the works since last year--is aimed at making it easier for the TCA to move quickly to invest in companies. fundraising.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of a cross-screen advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $13M in a new funding round. According to the company, the second round of funding came from S3 Ventures, Performance Edge Partners and Zeitgeist Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

PICS Auditing , a software-as-a-service developer which provides contractor screening and credentialing software, has raised $35M in a funding round, the firm sai dtoday. The minority funding came from Norwest Venture Partners. PICS said the new funding will go towards expansion into new sectors and geographies.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based DataPop , the developer of advertising targeting technology headed byJason Lehmbeck, has raised $7M in a Series B funding round, the firm said today. The funding was led by MK Capital, and also included prior investors Rincon Ventures, IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, and Accelerator Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Irvine-based startup YouMail has just gotten a new competitor: search engine giant Google, which launched a significantly comparable service to YouMail's voice mail services. All of those features are key features of YouMail's service.

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MARCH 26, 2009

The funding came from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Trinity Ventures. According to Ripple, the firm plans to use the new funding to continue to deliver its services. Ripple places digital screens delivering news, information, and advertising to retail chains such as Borders, Einstein Bros. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

However, those services can be expensive, particularly for individual users and small and medium sized businesses. First, for folks who haven't used your service, what is Freebinar? What we've been able to do, is non-intrusively serve ads on the right side of the screen, which rotate every 60 seconds. It's not a freemium model.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. What we find, especially in the mobile world, is you've only got one or two screens to get a consumer to make a purchase, before they abandon the visit. How is the company funded?

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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. Talk a bit about your funding round?

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MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. So where is your service now, and where is it available? Aaron Robin: The service is currently available in California. It's essentially a three-fold service.

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JULY 25, 2016

The early stage, self funded startup recently launched its beta in Los Angeles. Avantika Shahi: The way the site works, is we walk buyers through a series of screening equestions. How are you funding the company? Avantika Shahi: Currently it's all self funded. What is Haus all about?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve is now in charge of Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign (www.telesign.com), which has quietly become a huge force in providing authentication services to nearly every major Internet service out there. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. To learn more, we caught up with Steve.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service? David Erickson: We provide a conference calling service, like any other kind of conference call. Other services give 800- and 888-numbers. Tell us a little bit about FreeConferenceCall.com? How is that?

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AUGUST 21, 2015

What you do, is you take a screenshot of your text messages, Tinder, or Hinge, or whever you met a person, and upload it to the service. I wanted to help other people with the service, like my sister had helped me. Isn't using your service kind of cheating in the dating game? It's for the iPhone only. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, Los Angeles-based Postcard On The Run (www.postcardontherun.com) is trying to recapture that sense of value of physical photographs, with its new service, which turns digital photos into postcards. For those who haven't used your service, what does it do? I created something like 80 to a 100 screens.

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MARCH 4, 2010

We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Almost all of our customers interact with us through their phone screen. That''s enough for most people to be fully serviced. Most people don''t need a hedge fund attached to their bank account. What that means, is that the majority of our customers range from 25 to 55 years old. But, it''s not skewed towards any one gender.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Alex Nocifera: We help the enterprise, large brands, working with brands like US Cellular, Panera Bread, Square, Uber, and help them generate demand for their products and services in a local, acute manner. Alex Nocifera: We're lucky in that we have LA's best seed funds. Talk about your financial backing?

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MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. We sat down with the two Los Angeles founders and heard more about the service. Nick Boutelier: We're funding it ourselves. How is the site supported?

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MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. We sat down with the two Los Angeles founders and heard more about the service. Nick Boutleier: We're funding it ourselves. How is the site supported?

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

The key to the LA tech scene is finding people who really understand content, and funding pepole in content who understand technology, and getting together. Michele Ruiz: The only thing I would add, is this is a software-as-a-service solutioneverything is on our online platform. Dan Gould: Michele is too modest.

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MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen.

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JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers?

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're in talks with a couple of agencies where we will provide an independent rating system, where they will go through the content, and we'll pay them to do that as part of our funding, and rate each script. You mentioned funding--you're raising a round? The funding is a requirement to get to the next step.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

It was just a matter of process to add iOS, and later, Android to the output, and start designing games for the larger screens, later bringing those games down to run on BREW and Java after that. Two, we've also been a full service, publishing and development house. Especially when you're trying to get as many downloads as we can.

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MAY 11, 2010

Once that a product has made that initial screen, we look further, to make sure it's also cost effective and easy to live with. I was speaking with a friend of mine, at a much later stage fund, to help make introductions. We're very transparent on what products we are approving on and our filtering process.

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APRIL 30, 2010

It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property.

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