Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Enterprise software startup Classy, which developed a platform through which it says nonprofit organizations have raised nearly $1 billion for their causes, has hired its first-ever chief revenue and chief product officers. Adam Aarons, the new chief revenue officer, was also named Classy’s president.

Software 40

Software San Diego Startup Platform 40

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

However, fast forward to today, and the two players behind the two biggest CRM software products of the desktop PC age--Pat Sullivan and Jon Ferrara--are head to head again, as Sullivan''s new startup, Contatta , announced a funding round for its launch of a new, customer relationship management software product.

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Funding SaaS Santa Monica Customer 222

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2017

The new software is epcifically aimed at helping companies manage corporate accounts and buyer-seller relationships, managing price lists and catalogs, automating business workflows, and more, according to the company. OroCommerce also says it integrates with existing ERP, CRM, and product information software and tools.

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Platform West Hollywood Commerce Hollywood 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Lockerz' San Diego team came from the January, 2011 acquisition of Plixi, which was formerly known as TweetPhoto, which developed software and services which allowed Twitter users to share photos. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 164

San Diego Commerce Acquisition Sites 164

socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2013

Pasadena-based X1 Discovery , the Idealab-backed developer of enterprise search and electronic discovery software, said Wednesday that it has added Ingram Micro as a distributor. X1 said that its products are now available through DistiNow, part of Ingram Micro''s Advanced Computing Division. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Pasadena Software Sales 138

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Frank Slootman , the CEO of San Diego's ServiceNow , has made an investment in a developer of data storage products. ServiceNow named Slootman as its CEO in 2011, as it began ramping up for its IPO, which happened in June of 2012.

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San Diego Invest Software Product 153

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

Green Dot , the provider of prepaid debit cards and other financial products, is looking to launch its big move into the mobile banking market on July 4th, the company said Tuesday afternoon. Green Dot''s banking services came via the acquisition of both an FDIC approved community bank back in 2011, and mobile software developer Loopt.

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Mobile Software Development Software Tool 173

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Through two strategic acquisitions, one made in late 2011, and one made in early March of 2012. Green Dot--which launched its mobile banking app and service, GoBank , this week--apparently was positioning itself for the move in 2011, when it acquired a small community bank in Utah, with a mere $35.7M

Mobile 153

Mobile Monrovia Acquisition Startup 153

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2011

Google said in January that it was expecting 2011 to be its biggest hiring year ever. A quick look at the positions at the location include Software Engineers, Product Managers, Technical Leads, and more.

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Google Southern California Santa Monica Software Engineering 191

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of human resources and talent management software headed by Adam Miller, is continuing its growth trend, saying in its Q2 2011 financial results that the firm had a 65 percent, year-over-year increase in its gross revenues. The firm reported revenues of $17.4M READ MORE>>.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Resource Report 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It's a new world out there for online marketers--users aren't just on their PC anymore, they're surfing the web, buying products, and using services across their tablet(s), desktops, and smartphone. Convertro's software then helps apply that information to retarget ads and present ads to users.

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Southern California Advertising Examples Web 159

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 14, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- Mobile Business Apps. It is a chance to not only hear about mobile business apps and productivity tools but also see them in action. It is a chance to not only hear about mobile business apps and productivity tools but also see them in action. Come find out what to expect in 2011.

Mobile 100

Mobile Software Development Tool Software 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 13, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- Mobile Business Apps. It is a chance to not only hear about mobile business apps and productivity tools but also see them in action. It is a chance to not only hear about mobile business apps and productivity tools but also see them in action. Come find out what to expect in 2011.

Mobile 100

Mobile Software Development Tool Software 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The deal is worth $6M in upfront payments, plus payments linked to revenue in 2010/2011, and 2011/2012. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers.

Software Engineering 133

Software Engineering San Diego Competition Acquisition 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

The startup said that it will be demonstrating its products at SXSW at March 8th, at the conclusion of the program. The founders first thought up the idea for the Planana's original service, trueRSVP, at a 2011 Los Angeles Startup Weekend event. Planana was formerly known as trueRSVP.

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Class Los Angeles Ideas Startup 178

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database.

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Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. We want to delight the end user, and want to create a really, highly addictive product here.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. But it might not.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 5, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011 -- The Assemblage of Play. Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. This presentation will look at the way online multiplayer gaming is constructed through an assemblage of practices, artifacts and actors (human and non).

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Email Networking Software Product 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 12, 2011

Friday, March 18, 2011 -- Customer Loyalty: Creating "Raving Fans" San Diego Software Industry Council. This workshop will go through each of the 7 steps for taking a suspect (someone you suspect would be interested in your product or services) to Raving Fan (someone that does proactive selling for you).

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San Diego Advertising Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , a developer of PC security and antivirus software, announced Thursday that the firm has raised $2.0M According to the firm--which is traded OTC--the restricted common stock investment by Guthy-Renker also came with an extension of an agreement the two companies have until June 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Commerce Invest Equity Los Angeles 100

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’re moving away from being this institution with multiple products and really just focusing on early-stage venture capital,” Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman said when the firm announced its last fund. “Everybody thinks valuations are too high since 2011 and people are thinking there’s going to be a recession.

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IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. NastyGal -- which was just about unheard of a year ago -- has rocketed to a over $100M business, driven by women's clothing, shoes, and other products. LiveNation.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, the founder recognized back in early 2011 that they wanted to take the platform to another level, and get DreamHosting in front of a much bigger audience, worldwide. We saw early on that the cloud as we know it today--utility services, software, and so on--was an entry point to do that, including with hosting.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

End result, the company’s product timeline has been pushed back substantially and the company’s morale is at an all-time low. As shown in the following chart, the overwhelming focus of investments during Q1 of 2011 was in later stage companies. SECTOR: Software, Energy, Bio Or Bust. Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC. Do The Math.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Technical Review 233

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. That’s much tougher than getting people to play with your hot product for 6 months.

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator. Explain that?

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. For folks who haven't used ChowNow, what does the software do?

Mobile 197

Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

Explain what Zadara''s products are about? Basically, what that means is we create software that runs on servers, which forms a cloud storage service. One would be for test, the other for production. Many of our customers are software-as-a-service companies, and don''t know upfront how many customers they will have.

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Startup Customer Custom SaaS 193

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Launched in 2011 by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, Nest is popular for its Nest Learning Thermostat , one that learns a user’s temperature preferences, which has been also been its top seller. As early as 2011, Fadell and Erik Charlton showed Sergey Brin a video of their early model of the Nest Learning Thermostat.

Google 86

Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. ” The Details.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

SeatMe was founded in San Fransisco in 2011 and makes managing reservations easy and affordable to restaurants and nightlife establishments through technology solutions that are consumer-centric with features such as texting guests when their table is ready. SeatMe has developed a truly compelling product for restaurants and bars of any size.”

Class 81

Class Web Pricing Customer 81

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Do your customers understand the need for your product, and has that been an issue? I think we'll see a dramatic escalation of demand for the software this year.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We are focused on the investment in and acquisition of software firms that are generating $2.5M They've grown their businesses through word of mouth more than through a large, established sales organization and they have done that by building a software product that is very well received, and unique in their particular niche market.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Just as we are summed up by the advertising methodologies of the 1950’s as unpredictable and irrational (The Economist, Sex and Advertising, 2011), not only are we both these traits, but also with the power of click-a-mouse comparison shopping we are perhaps pickier, more demanding and less ‘experience’ oriented over product features.

Customer 74

Customer Custom Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Just as we are summed up by the advertising methodologies of the 1950’s as unpredictable and irrational (The Economist, Sex and Advertising, 2011), not only are we both these traits, but also with the power of click-a-mouse comparison shopping we are perhaps pickier, more demanding and less ‘experience’ oriented over product features.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rock Prodigy is Music Prodigy’s pioneer product and is a revolutionary interactive music app powered by patent-pending polyphonic pitch-recognition technology that allows musicians of all skill levels to use any instrument and provide instant performance feedback to accelerate learning. Winning Not By Sheer Luck.

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Education Startup Technology Patents 106