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JUNE 3, 2013

Brighter.com , the online, upfront dental pricing and referral service based in Santa Monica, and headed by longtime Silicon Beach entrepreneur Jake Winebaum, has relaunched, swizzling its model away from a monthly membership program and towards direct, upfront pricing and referrals to local dentists. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, Santa Monica-based Parking In Motion , a developer of parking information apps for mobile devices, announced a new round of funding, from IDG Ventures and Fontinalis Partners, the venture arm of William Clay Ford, Jr., We also have our own, branded mobile phone alls. Does your service work there?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2013

ParkMe is working with 290 garages and lots in San Francisco , and has a partnership with ABM Parking Services, which operates multiple facilities throughout the Bay Area to alleviate parking frustration in San Francisco. Data to eliminate the hassle of parking. Over 29,000 metered spaces and 100,000 parking spaces.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Todd is now Chief Operating Officer of Marmol Radziner (www.marmol-radziner.com), an architecture and construction company, which recently installed a eco-friendly mobile home park project in Santa Monica which was focused on applying clean and eco-friendly technologies to the pre-fab building market.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2011

Donnelly, and he also was behind eCompanies, which invested in such companies as JAMDAT Mobile, Boingo Wireless, and USBX. Jake's latest venture is Brighter (www.brighter.com), a service which is aimed at helping consumers find pre-negotiated rates on dental care. His last success was Business.com, which he sold to R.R.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

INRIX a leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected driving services worldwide, announced it has completed the acquisition of ParkMe , a Santa Monica, CA company that helps consumers find parking, make reservations and mobile payments worldwide. Today, ParkMe and INRIX become one company.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 1558 10th st, Santa Monica, CA 90401. In addition to working at Indiegogo, Kate is the co-founder and CMO of The Can Van, the world’s first mobile beer canning service made to bring reasonably priced and environmentally friendly packaging options to California breweries.

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Do you think there''s some challenge to the domain industry today due to mobile?

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APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. An online marketplace for legal services. Get free bids from lawyers on the documents and services you need! Spotlight Companies.

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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Born on the shores of Santa Monica, California, the company is taking its beta-tested Cv3 platform out into the public today. Some of the new CallFire Cv3 platform features a new and improved UI, helps enable CallFire customers to view from mobile devices and multiple desktops.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 21, 2013

With prices laid out on the map, you can always easily compare parking options,” they team said. San Diego, Santa Monica, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, Phoenix, New Orleans, Portland, Miami and several others in the US. Available in Over 500 Cities.

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JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

SideCar and Lyft are mobile apps operating in a sector known as the sharing economy where a driver with an empty seat in their car can offer it to someone headed in the same general direction. He calls SideCar’s service “matching” rather than “dispatching”, saying SideCar is to Match.com as taxis and Uber are to an arranged marriage.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Price: $15 (Early Bird). wonder what that might be?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

Where: Wokcano, 1413 5 th Street, Santa Monica, CA. Price: FREE. StartupDemo ( www.startupdemo.com ) is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. The conference is a global platform to connect people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. We've had a lot of focus on the cloud and that area, especially as the cloud is hollowing out IT.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Price: $15 (Early Bird). to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. County: 0.9%.

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