Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

The common denominator in both companies is Howard Lindzon, the Wall Street trader and hedge fund manager who founded StockTwits in San Diego in 2008. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lindzon led StockTwits as CEO until last year, and continues as chairman.

Mobile 40

Mobile San Diego Social Media Services 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit? Tom Allanson: Yes, I came to San Diego in 2000 to run the tax business for Intuit, including the TurboTax group.

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

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. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. They sponsor TWiVC.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

That results in huge savings--up to 75 percent--in price, and you can also do it all in about ten minutes, because we've integrated directly with your course schedule, and filtered through the entire web simultaneously. How did you come up with the web site? The data was only made available very recently. I graduated in May of 2010.

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. 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.

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. Prior to that, the big title at MyNUMO was Match 3D, which was a very ambitious title in 2008, and was a freebie game. In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it.

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We closed our fund in August of 2008. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum.

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Rustic Canyon Palomar 153

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing. Read more: PEHub. Read more: PEHub. OpenCandy. Around fifteen investments have now been closed in the new fund.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He is currently CEO of ThisWeekIn.com , a web television network he co-founded with Jason Calacanis and comedian/actor Kevin Pollak. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008. Clark Benson is the founder of Ranker , a consumer web startup that is a platform for ranking. Michal Braun.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. "We with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. Downtown San Diego Condos.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44