Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

<JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

In recent weeks, online ticketing has seen a surge in interest and funding. Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. Describe SaveFans and what it does?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto. That''s one of the things we have going on with our platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. Tell me about Connected Travel?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. But, there are not many funded players in the space.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. You get higher quality software, faster.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries. 406 Ventures.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. On a slightly different topic, we understand you completed this funding through AngelList?

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

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. We felt we could win against extremely well funded companies by just having the best product out there, which is what Accordent was able to do.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. The history of tech will always tell you there was a defining moment for companies (like Twitter at SXSW in 2007) but the reality is often more nuanced. Same with Gaga. It’s the same story.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. That was back in 2007, when we started. What is RxVantage?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We have a market-leading tag management platform that is the on-ramp to a marketing-led customer management platform,” Lunsford said. Lunsford oversaw WebSideStory’s IPO in 2004, and Limelight’s IPO in 2007. For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript. It’s been about data.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll. Finally, how are you funding this business? Hyperlocal is the next wave.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

At this stage, both candidates have given major economic addresses, and both parties have published their platforms. The word “innovation” appears 22 times in the Republican platform and 14 times in the draft Democratic platform. Democrats: Clinton said back in 2007 that the U.S. Here’s the rundown. Immigration.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. What was the magic that make this go viral?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. What was the magic that make this go viral?

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

How are you funded and backed? Babette Pepaj: When we first started, we were totally self-funded. We have since raised a friends and family round in 2007, pretty modest--enough to get to our first milestone. We're going to make it easy as possible to share information on multiple platforms. What's next for the firm?

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. James Segil: There's a couple of things to consider with growth, around what does it take to fund a company's growth. We've grown really fast.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

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. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. Companies such as Starbucks, McDonalds, IBM, Motorola & SAP are using their platform that is now generating more than 1 million job leads per month according to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. That is conformity.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

funding round. The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. What's the story behind the funding? Last week, Ventura-based The Trade Desk (www.thetradedesk.com) announced a $2.5M Jeff, thanks for the interview.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

So, we really built some innovation into our platform, to make it ubiquitous in the mobile space. By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund. We knew messaging was early in the hockey stick here in the U.S.,

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. 1) I know that you guys are in the midst of a funding round and are hiring. iPhone for design, Android for being a more democratic platform. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Droid or iPhone?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. One of the interesting questions I’m keeping an eye on is at what level users will consume compute resources, in particular, where in the spectrum between infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency. The platforms will be using it to serve ads into their ecosystem, essentially allowing their ad sales teams to sell into their impressions. We'll do a rev share with those platforms.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Approximate valuations of each future funding round. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform. Per the chart below, the technology underlying GoToMyPC became a platform upon which we eventually built a family of products, such as: GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToAssist.

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