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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thin Line--formed in partnership with LA's Wavemaker Partners--is hoping to take advantage of the growth in the clean technology market to find startups able to tapping into those now established markets, without the huge investment requirements of those first wave of clean technology companies. Lots has changed since 2009.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based 9 , a startup offering consulting and production for brands, entertainment, media, internet and retail companies, has raised a small round of funding from private investors. Handschiegel sold Stylediary in 2007 to StyleHive. Details on the amount of funding were not released.

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APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. What drove you move from investing to starting up BetterWorks? I know you've talked about this before, but how did you end up in Los Angeles?

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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. We caught up with CEO and co-founder Brett Rossman to learn more about the company and how it''s been able to grow, profitably, all without raising a dime of outside capital.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based AudioMicro , the stock audio startup looking to provide music and sound effects, has some new competition this week: Getty Images, through its iStockphoto site. Born told socalTECH that the entry of iStock into the area "validates and expands the market" for micro stock audio. READ MORE>>.

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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. 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.

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JUNE 17, 2013

The amount of capital invested in Fisker makes the company the highest profile flameout ever in Southern California''s startup history, far surpassing the mere $375M in venture capital raised of of prior record holder Amp''d Mobile from back in 2007.

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APRIL 30, 2013

The startup says it added more than 200 new publishers and 100 new buyer channels for the six months ended March 31, 2013, and that its customers now include more than 500 of the world''s premium publishers, including eBay UK, Time, ABC News, the Wall Street Journal, Tribune Company, Virgin Media, People, Universal and many others.

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JUNE 20, 2013

In a demonstration that timing is everything, the huge, $604M acquisition of 3D printing maker MakerBot Wednesday probably has those who were involved in Southern California 3D printing startup Desktop Factory shaking their heads. Instead of a giant exit, the Idealab-backed startup shut its doors and sold its assets in 2009.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , the Internet television service startup backed by USVP, Sky, United Talent Agency, Terry Semel, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Chicago Ventures, Luminari Capital, said Wednesday that it has named Ken Parks as Executive Chairman. Parks had been at Spotify since 2007. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

One of the startups to come out of that 3D printing revolution is Deka Sounds (www.dekasounds.com), which is based in Orange County. We caught up with founder and CEO Erik Adams to hear more about what is startup is up to, and how it''s trying to use the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo to raise money for its startup.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

According to the WSJ, Amazon.com has already started connecting its users with plumbers, electricians, stereo installers, and others in Los Angeles, after they purchase specific items from the e-commerce site. READ MORE>>. amazon local service referral citygrid serviz handybook pathjoy'

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JANUARY 3, 2014

CheckAlt is led by Shai Stern, a serial entrepreneur who has a significant number of finance-related startups in the Los Angeles area. Stern founded Vintage Filings, which he sold to PRNewswire in 2007. Financial impact of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>. checkalt data processing software check21 credit union financial'

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JULY 27, 2015

I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. We were in the trenches, with our sleeves rolled up, building these things, and we had the epiphany that this was not going to last. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Business.com has a long, corporate history, having started life in Santa Monica in 1999, as a $7.5M domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. Purch is the publisher of such sites as Top Ten Reviews, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, Live Science, and many others.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We spoke with Erick Laubach , the founder of Crash--which is backed by famed startup incubator Idealab--to hear about how the company is hoping to tap the power of the crowd to help others find interesting, local attractions. How did the company start? Erick Laubach: Originally, I started a travel startup in 2007 called Driftr.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Interestingly enough, New Matter--whose chairman is Idealab''s Bill Gross--is the second time around on a 3D printing startup for Idealab, which was before its time with personal 3D printer company Desktop Factory, which it started bringing to market in 2007, but eventually sold to 3D Systems in 2009, well before the current 3D printing craze.

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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. However, Alex Quilici, the firm's CEO, told socalTECH that he actually sees something good from the competition.

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APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the group at the University of Southern California run by Krisztina Holly, and which was kick started by a major donation from Sand Hill road venture capitalist and USC trustee Mark Stevens, said Wednesday that it has appointed two directors to the institute.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. It's fun, I guess.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Matze sold Okapi in 2003 to Overland, and Siafu to Hifn in 2007, and was most recently VP of Storage Systems Products at Exar, Inc. Tags: bridgestor storage startup data backup appliance vmware virtualization reduction john matze. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

ELC is the firm behind startups RightScale, RightCart, and RightSignature, and also provides technology consulting and development to other companies. He currently heads up BestCovery.com. Rahmat was CEO of Tom's Hardware, which he sold to BestofMedia in 2007. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. At this time, we have ten startups, and are starting to click and do some exciting things. We charge by-the-workstation, it's designed to be really flexible and affordable office space for these startups.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Other findings in the report included a ranking of patent registrations in green technology, where California held the lead with more than 458 patents between 2007 and 2009, 150 more than second ranking New York, which ahd 307 patents registered.

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MAY 10, 2012

San Diego-based MP3tunes , the online music locker service started by Michael Robertson, has filed for bankruptcy, according to documents posted to the web by an ex-employee. EMI sued MP3tunes in 2007, accusing the firm of violating its copyright. EMI sued MP3tunes in 2007, accusing the firm of violating its copyright.

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JUNE 10, 2013

How did you start the company? That was back in 2007, when we started. The system is pretty mature, and provides lots of functionality, from the scheduling piece to actually looking up patient assistance programs for their patients, and handling coupons, vouchers, copay cards, and provides discounted medication searches.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. What is BakeSpace? READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 31, 2009

The stock market is showing progress these past few weeks, local start-ups are beginning to see an increase in VC funding and SoCal technology firms are hiring. millions jobs have been lost since 2007 in the US, and more are predicted this year, even as we slowly approach recovery. Yet, we are not out of the woods.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

I remember one day, looking up, and everyone was on their phone. 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. When did you decide to start working on this as a company?

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JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: We actually started two and a half years ago. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The service is a significant simplification to the service, letting users quickly search for stations featuring their favorite artists; bold, simple buttons to vote tracks up or down; and highlighting of photos within pages. The makeover is the first major redesign of the site's logo since its launch back in 2007.

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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. Greg Brogger: By way of background, I started at Wilson Sonsini as a securities attorney.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Phonevite , a startup which operates a service that allows groups such as schools and clubs to make mass phone calls to many people at once, has quietly relocated to Los Angeles from Silicon Valley, according to the firm's CEO and co-founder, John Nahm. Tags: phone startup mass phonevite notification telecom. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2012

We started working on the new IP, and that's the game we announced the deal with Zynga on. How did you start company? Michael Witz: I originally wanted to do a game on MySpace, so we started developing a game for MySpace. At the time, in 2007, Facebook had just announced they were opening up their API to third party developers.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

A new, Santa Barbara-based startup ZOS Communications, has launched a GPS-enabled, mobile phone application it is calling Zhiing , the firm said Monday. ZOS is backed by around $1M in Series A funding, and was founded in 2007. The application allows friends to send directions to other people via a cell phone. READ MORE>>

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MAY 8, 2013

We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. We have over 400 million contacts backed up for our users. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. How long have you had your product available?

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