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OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). I'm also interested in technology companies, in data analytics, and low CAPEX hardware.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Irvine-based startup YouMail has just gotten a new competitor: search engine giant Google, which launched a significantly comparable service to YouMail's voice mail services. All of those features are key features of YouMail's service.

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MAY 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based 3D technology provider RealD announced today that it has named Bob Mayson as President of the firm's Consumer Electronics Division, and appointed Marlene Songin as Vice President of Cinema and Appointed General Director, RealD Europe. Songin has been at RealD since 2007. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You can check out Parenting.com, MyWedding.com, ThePennyHoarder.com, all these sites are using Search IQ technology, and it's our own version of inside search. I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. Our core competency was in the search space.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

Torrance-based LiveOffice , a provider of hosted email archiving and related services, reported today that the privately held firm had "record-setting" revenues in Q2. No actual financials were disclosed by the company, however, the firm said it now has over 9,000 clients using its services. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has acquired Fabrik , the San Mateo-based data storage firm which owns the G-Technology and SimpleTech data storage brands. Fabrik is a provider of data storage hardware, flash memory, USB hard drives, and memory upgrades, along with an online backup service.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Zag , the online car buying software firm headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, has scored an investment from financial services firm USAA , USAA disclosed Thursday. According to USAA, it is taking an equity position in Zag, which is also providing the firm with its car buying services. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

Among the few bright spots for Southern California as a whole was the Information Technology industry, which was up both quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year at $222.4M, up from $184.4M Among the hot spots in Southern California's venture market was clean technology and energy deals. billion, down 8 percent from 2007, when $31.4

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MAY 8, 2013

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. So, if you''re a cloud storage provider, how do you get to the next level in terms of your service and company? Raghu Kulkami: We are an online backup storage and sync service. Raghu Kulkami: There are many services.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Santa Monica-based Teleflip, which operated a service which allowed users to send and receive email using text messages, has been sold to an undisclosed buyer, according to creditor Hercules Technology Growth Capital. HTGC had invested $1M in debt financing in June of 2007 to Teleflip. READ MORE>>

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MAY 1, 2019

I was at LegalZoom until last year, and I was the CEO of the company for its first seven years, from 2000 to 2007. So where is BizCounsel now, and where is the service at the moment? But, the reality is, this is 80 to 90 percent different kind of a service, with the clients we're attracting, how we sell this, and how we deliver.

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APRIL 26, 2011

When you want to order something from a catering service, or order gym membership for all of your employees, or you want to go out and pick up your drycleaning or set up daycare, each relationships falls into a unique framework. Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Most sectors saw drops in investment during the year, with the exception of few--including a couple of sectors where Southern California has a significant presence, in Clean Technology and Media & Entertainment. The only other sector seeing an increase was IT Services, up 17 percent to $1.8 in 37 deals in 2007. in 10 deals.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: The position of MomentFeed, is that it is essentially a layer in the location based services stack. They have an interest in all of the data being generated through location based services apps, which give them an opportunity to connect with consumers. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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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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MAY 2, 2011

I ended up switching to selling on Stubhub in 2007, after eBay made it much more difficult to search for tickets. Wes Brodsky: We have been bootstrapped so for, and our service has been live for about 16 months. We're also building out our platform, leveraging new technology like mobile and social technology.

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MARCH 12, 2009

We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. John Nahm: We offer a basic service, which allows you to send up to 25 calls at a time for free. People use the free service for small parties, groups, or gatherings.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. For readers who haven't heard of Cogi, can you explain what your service does? That company was sold in 2007. We started a variety of different companies.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. In late 2007, Chi.mp Rob Farrow: The reason behind Chi.mp

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Who is using your services--retailers or manufacturers? We were founded in 2007, with the mission of leveraging video -- which is a much more, exact medium -- to help consumer with this problem. Most manufacturers are very good at manufacturing their products, but their support and service are more of an afterthought, and reactionary.

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JULY 6, 2015

Almost any name of a product or service, and many generic domain names are available in.LA. It's not just a real estate or technology or entertainment town, it's all of those, which we can show off with a new namespace. We bought and sold domains, and it's now been over two million since 2007. How did you get involved with.LA?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. Donnelly in 2007. The, I moved back to LA and helped build out our strategic account management and our strategic sales team for HotJobs.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Kevin O'Connor: We're an objective comparison engine for the more complex products and services. Kevin O'Connor: I've been really fortunate in life, in that I love technology, and love solving problems. What do people find the most useful about your service?

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016.

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JUNE 9, 2010

We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. We're expanding the men's offerings, and also launching into two other verticals, gourmet food and wine, and services and experiences. We'll also be using that to improve our technology and our user experience.

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JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Explain how your service works? Wilson Sonsini, in fact, represents us.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. They had been slowly building their technology and growing customers, and it was a very much break-even type of business. When did you invest in the firm?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Where did the technology come from? Zare'' Baghdasarian: This technology was funded by the Department of Homeland Security, the Army Research Lab, and the Department of Defense. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007.

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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JULY 15, 2015

It's software-as-a-service based, and we have organizations worldwide, from very small companies, to 100 employees and up, to Fortune 500 companies, across a wide variety of industries. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009.

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MAY 14, 2012

Few people in the technology world are unfamiliar with the huge rise in the popularity of the photo sharing service Instagram, which was topped off by a $1 billion acquisition of that company by Facebook just a few weeks ago. How does InstaCanvas work? Explain how a user might experience that?

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Last month, San Diego-based Advanced Telemetry (www.advancedtelemetry.com) announced that the company had scored a Series B round of funding from clean technology investor Quercus Trust and 21Ventures, for the firm's energy monitoring solutions. We can also provide additional services, above and beyond information about energy consumption.

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MARCH 4, 2010

We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. I think one of the main reasons, is that LA has some unique challenges when it comes to a technology community. In San Francisco, it's technology people looking to find business people.

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JULY 20, 2009

It's smaller than other alternatives, and is much easier to add to existing software and devices, is lots more scalable than alternatives, and works with both rich web or back end database, web services queries, such are used in transactional banking or gaming type applicatoins. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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JULY 15, 2009

Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. What was the path from taking the technology from UC Irvine and commercialization it? Back to the service--how do people use Quub?

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

I'm not the guy to just walk up and talk to someone, saying hey--I'm Josh, I'm into videogames and scotch--so I thought, there must be another way, from a technology standpoint, to solve that problem. We need lots of people in this service, who are able to connect on those long tail, unique interests.

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