Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5 aims to create a network of support and mentorship along with access to capital where people can build on creative ideas with the help of successful business people, and connect with investors to get their concepts off the ground. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

San Diego 56

San Diego Southern California Orange County SoCal 56

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The group announced today that it has named the incoming Presidents of its area networks, with Steve Flaim in San Diego, John Glanville and Jeff Kurfess in Santa Barbara, Stu Roberts in Orange County, Scott Sangster in Los Angeles, and John Tillquist in the Inland Empire. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels 157

Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

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JANUARY 11, 2012

HipGeo is backed by Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. READ MORE>>.

Blogging 154

Blogging eHarmony Seed Funding Journal 154

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

San Diego-based RealGifts has a new take on earning dollars from Facebook applications: allowing users to purchase real, tangible items from the popular social networking site. RealGifts is one of nearly 600 startups competing for funding from Facebook's fbFund, the $10M seed fund run by the Founders Fund and Accel Partners.

Seed Funding 100

Seed Funding San Diego Social Network Sites 100

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

I recently spoke to an international group of entrepreneurship professors at San Diego State University’s Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. Network – Colleges are populated by motivated individuals, many of whom will excel in their chosen fields. You will have ample time to make a huge impact on the world, after you graduate.”.

Entrepreneur 150

Entrepreneur Case Study Education Seed Funding 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. Tell us about your backers?

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They track user consumption across mobile devices and network and build usage patterns that they can then sell this anonymized data back to carriers and to other relevant sources who have an interest in knowing mobile consumption patterns. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274