Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012.

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San Diego CIO Incubator Startup 67

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 -- Poly Founders Hosts Hypemarks @ Cal Poly Pomona. Hypemarks is a social way to share and find content on the web. They were graduates of Start Engine's first batch and now reside at Idea Lab in Pasadena, CA after receiving 350k in seed funding. link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 29, 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012 -- aunchFEST Demo Night. PROGRAM: Track One: Attracting Funding and Strategic Investors for Startups followed by Panel Market; Track Two: Attracting Funding and Strategic Investors for Startups and Panel: Digital Media, Web Services, Apps, Mobile, Social Media, Games, Consumer Services, Consumer Electronics.

Tech Coast Angels 113

Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Clearstone Pasadena 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This was the first in her string of web properties. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do. After some encouragement from him she decided to launch her own website – Recycled Bride. She’s infectious.”

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets. Then I founded Tradeupwebs in 2012, and Supperking is the first, big company that Tradeupwebs is going to launch.

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Platform Mobile UCLA Sites 250

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets. Then I founded Tradeupwebs in 2012, and Supperking is the first, big company that Tradeupwebs is going to launch.

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Platform Mobile UCLA Sites 247

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In contrast, San Francisco-based RichRelevance, founded in 2006, has raised nearly $102 million from 11 investors through nine funding rounds, according to CrunchBase. When you get all that data and analyze it, you get interesting insights,” Sheik said.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

Research 74

Research Software Engineering Software Technology 74

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

San Diego 40

San Diego Help Software Review Funding 40

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

Software Review 40

Software Review San Diego Funding Customer 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. If you think of literally any large consumer web company, they are either a client today, or in a pilot process with us. Steve Jillings: We have been doing super well.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. So I began talking to him about joining the fund. He walked me through both the logic and the math. Community builders. Approachable.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

With over 650 accredited investors and over 450 companies seeking to raise funds via SeedInvest, the February 2013 launched firm projects a better future than other platforms in the equity crowdfunding market. ” Over 650 accredited investors and over 450 companies. ” Free online tools.

Software Review 69

Software Review Platform Equity Tool 69

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We're partnering with the biggest insurance brands, including Nationwide, and many, many others�25 different insurance companies�and taking their insurance policies and selling them in a unified way, making it available to consumers via iOS and Android apps and the web. We were eventually acquired by a large competitorin 2012.

Southern California 244

Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

million since it was founded in 2012. According to a recent ScoreStream statement , San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, a longtime ScoreStream investor, led the round, and was joined by Sinclair Broadcasting, Verizon Ventures, and R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of the advertising agency R/GA.

Avalon 56

Avalon Invest Social Media Media 56

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. Quality tech news from around the web. Will “Diet CA-HSR” even get done as feds look to pull back California funding.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It''s a web based controller, which gives you direct access to the system with their phones or browser. I think that''s basically the story as a lot of people saw in 2012, whe it was cloud and cold and it was beginning to rain, and my sprinklers starting going off. What your product all about?

Demand 258

Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. How's the company funded? Did you bootstrap this or get some funding?

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Arterys feeds the gigabytes of MRI information into its Web-based software application, which takes advantage of the outside computing power now broadly available from the network of servers-for-hire we call “the cloud.” In 2012, when we started, Amazon had just released the GPUs into the public cloud,” Axerio-Cilies says.

Cloud Computing 40

Cloud Computing Startup Web Chief Technology Officer 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2012

You can find a dozen more on the Conscious Capitalism web site. Of course a profitable model isn’t required if you intend to rely totally on donations, or have deep pockets to fund your socially conscious efforts yourself. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 11/19/2012.

Capital 99

Capital Entrepreneur Guide Startup 99

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. Any funding yet? Who are its founders?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. October 17, 2012 1:15 PM.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. Give us an overview on KidZui. I know curate is the buzzword of the moment, like pivot, and they sort of go hand-in-hand.

Content 165

Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself. I wasn’t.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. This means not having to worry about spending extra time negotiating and collecting superfluous paperwork at the storage facility.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Njoku in April this year closed an $8m funding investment round from Tiger Global and another $2m from a Swedish firm, Kinnevik and still he says more is yet to come. Tell us about funding rounds you have had? We closed on the final round of funding earlier on this year with Swedish-based hedge fund, Kinnevik.

Netflix 82

Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

The simple answer is that if you want to be found on the Web, the perfect domain name can be well worth a few thousand dollars, but don’t pay a fortune for one. Only one sold for 7 figures in 2012 (investing.com sold for $2.5 The faster you fund the account the better chance you have of the seller not being able to back out.

Startup 87

Startup Pricing Tips .Net 87

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

DinnDinn launched on Tuesday, August 28 2012. Unfortunately we can’t give too much information about how we’re going to monetize DinnDinn, but what we can say is that the dynamics of web 3.0 Any Funding Yet and How Much? At the moment we have not raised any funds yet but we started with Founders Capital.

Startup 65

Startup Software Review Ideas Social Network 65

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. Getting Mobile-Ready.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85