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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Irvine-based Bitvore , the big data, artificial intelligence, and data analytics startup, has upped its latest funding round to $14.2M, as part of what appears to be an ongoing $17.75M funding effort. The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based Pagewoo , the mobile advertising startup founded by Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly, has quietly scored a round of funding, which was disclosed by the Tech Coast Angels this morning. Financial details of the angel funding round, which closed earlier this year, have not been announced.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

How did you start the company? George Collado: I worked in Hermosa Beach, with a restaurant group, and we had opened up several restaurants. Through that, I designed a system using Excel spreadsheets to track this, and went on to start the company because I saw the need for it. They can use our platform to do the audit.

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Help Hermosa Beach Technical Review Redondo Beach 223

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JANUARY 23, 2013

However, it appears the spirit of innovation and technology didn't leave Google's old space: instead, that office has become Real Office Centers (realofficecenters.com), an office center which on a recent Friday looked to have become somewhat of a hub for Silicon Beach's startup and investors. It's up to the community.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! We had MBAs, undergrads, engineers, designers, and visitors from all throughout the LA tech scene participate in the event. Then we had the CMO of Startup Weekend, Joey Pomerenke , guide everyone through the Startup Weekend process and then we were off!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Anna Sergeeva is co-founder of the company, and tells us how the firm pivoted from its former life as trueRSVP, focused on event RSVPs, into instead helping event organizers round up sponsors. Planana is a reward platform that has perks like benefits, such as discounts to tickets to attendees who engage with their brands.

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Tech Coast Angels Organization Platform USC 191

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. That's what really started to get us interest from the angel community.

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Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

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AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

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JUNE 11, 2010

Frank, who podcasts every week on topics of interest to entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists, talks about mixer events, such the Open Angel Forums from Jason Calacanis, and similar entrepreneur mixers from the Tech Coast Angels--and how to best take advantage of them. Know what's tired.

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Tech Coast Angels Networking Sample Venture Capital 145

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MARCH 25, 2013

Shervin Talieh, founder and CEO of Drumbi , an OC-based startup, is one of the bright tech stars in Orange County who is disrupting telephony through the creation of an innovative communications platform. Many consider him to be the godfather of the burgeoning tech scene in the region.

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MAY 2, 2017

He was just trying to collect more data for his startup on what was happening on real estate deals that the company had been referring to brokers. However, starting in 2015, we found that creating this was really hard. So, what I did was pick up the phone, and start talking to those agents. How's the startup funded?

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Sales Startup Email Tool 145

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JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. He is looking to find more.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Summer can be a slow time in San Diego, but its startups have stayed busy. Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community. Based in Carlsbad, in northern San Diego County, Ezoic launched its platform in 2011.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Exatly a year ago was the very beginning of KarmaGoat, where I was trying to come up with something that would work as a marketplace donating items. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

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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. Crowd Gathers for San Diego Tech Coast Angels “Quick Pitch” Competition.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc.,

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

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JANUARY 20, 2011

To address the need for more affordable webinars, services like DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier this month), and Huntington Beach-based Freebinar (www.freebinar.com) have been offering up free webinar products to users. Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

How did you end up at Unified Dispatch? Dan Tamkin: I was brought in by some of the venture capitalists and angels behind Unified Dispatch, after I did a prior company turnaround at Computer Motion, the first medical robotics company, where I had been CFO, and which had just been sold. We ended up buying Unified Dispatch Inc.

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Outsource Development Startup Outsource Altadena 190

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JANUARY 30, 2012

All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. This way we keep the questions fresh and up to date with current events. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. We write and create our own content for the game.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. Why start another one? There seem to now be a slew on kids-focused virtual worlds. Can I be an editor?

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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MARCH 14, 2011

LaughStub is backed by a number of notable angels in the Los Angeles area, including Mark Suster and Paige Craig. We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. How did the company start? What is Laughstub?

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Social Media Week is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Social Media Week as partnered up with Ustream to bring some of the events live. The Startup/Entrepreneur Guide to Social Media Week. What is Social Media Week? You are in Luck!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m. Community Sponsors.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. For those of you who may not know about StartupDemo, it is an event that TechZulu and Schmoozd have partnered up to bring you some of the hottest startups around.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

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JULY 8, 2011

LawPivot is a legal Q&A website enabling companies, especially startups, to confidentially receive crowdsourced legal answers from highly qualified lawyers for a fraction of the cost. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

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JANUARY 12, 2010

You folks are just that awesome that we try and hook our readers up whenever we can so you are Welcome! Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. He is a frequent public speaker.

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