TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The merger is the first step of what’s a planned rollup strategy for PCH (also the nickname for the highway that runs along the California Coast), which aims to be the leading vertically integrated vice platform focusing on e-commerce, delivery logistics, and cross industry behavioral insights.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2015

San Diego-based RNA therapeutics developer Arcturus Therapeutics announced this morning that it is in a strategic collaboration deal, with Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Plus, Janssen will assume responsibility for development and commercialization costs associated with the new program.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2011

San Diego-based ShowUhow , which develops video-based sales and product information for online retailers and manufacturers, said today that it has added a suite of social media integration features for the firm's offering. ShowUhow is venture backed by Syncom Ventures, and raised a round of capital back in August.

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MAY 3, 2011

San Diego-based ShowUHow , the startup headed by Kim Folsom developing video-based product guides for e-commerce sites and manufacturers, has rolled out an Android version of its platform. The firm said the Android mo bile application gives users access to its content via the mob ile platform. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The San Diego biotech company, which is testing an antibody discovery platform intended to speed products to patients with cancer and pancreatitis, said Thursday it has retained a local investment banking firm, Objective Capital Partners, to guide its sale. As of Sept.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

San Diego-based Astute Networks , a developer of a flash-based iSCSI networking device used in the data center market, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding round. Astute said the funding will go towards funding its sales, marketing, channel development, and support.

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JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. Jimmy Hendricks: Our lead product is a white label, daily deal product.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2009

San Diego-based Transaction Wireless , a developer of mobile gift card and other mobile marketing products, announced this morning that it has raised an additional $2M in funding. The company said the new funds will go towards ongoing technology and customer deployment and sales and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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Mission Ventures San Diego Mobile Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

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. Seismic, a sales software company, raised $100M and became a unicorn. Prior to the L.A.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization.

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MAY 5, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides white-label software for hosting and distributing digital video, said this morning that it has launched an effort to attract value added resellers. VMIX said it will provide market and sales support, training, tech support, and reporting to those partners as part of the program. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. He told the audience Revolve sales had generated $1.8 Echo Labs image).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In the move to online commerce, one of the latest areas of interest by online retailers has been the use of online video, to showcase products and provide training and instruction. That might be consumer electronics, children's products, or home improvement, the areas that we target. Kim Folsom: Both.

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Guide Training Platform Product 113

Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). Vuforia’s headquarters has remained in San Diego, and Vuforia continues to operate four offices in Europe and Israel, Wright said.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. What is Tradesparq? Grow, grow, grow.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. Kevin Hell: We''re going all the way down to the chip design and production, which is coming out of Asia. Is this a chipset, a system, modules, what''s the range of technology involved?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2015

Offering a curated, ever-changing menu, EAT Club leverages professional chefs and food designers, local restaurants and a massive logistics platform to ensure timely, consistent deliveries. Food is an integral part of a happy, productive workplace. As part of its L.A. As part of its L.A. has to offer. adopter of EAT Club.

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socalTECH

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. It's a green field opportunity.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. They kept building really great functionality into the platform, and they were always ahead of the market, and always able to anticipate what customers wanted next.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. Students who might use Bookrenter might be stealing sales from Chegg, but we're actually open, and just direct students to one of the other. That reduces the costs more. Thanks, and good luck!

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales. These drivers have become the destination for their spaces like Amazon with consumer products, Aetna with healthcare needs, and USAA for life events.

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Organization Customer Custom Study 91

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2011

Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. How much involvement did Mission have in that sale?

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Since then, Zingle has evolved into a platform that aggregates message apps, including Facebook Messenger, Twitter direct messaging, SMS (text messaging), and in-app-chat (for branded apps), in a single user interface, enabling a hotel front desk, for example, to respond to guest requests. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. Don’t be frazzled … this is just the way it is.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned.

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