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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Sonos said on Wednesday afternoon that it has acquired Snips , a developer of an artificial intelligence platform for enabling voice interaction with connected devices. Snips has over 50 employees, and is based in Paris, France; the company was founded in 2013. According to Sonos, it paid approximately $37.5M

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

WiseBanyon provides personal finance and investment management tools and its own technology platform, and was based in Las Vegas. WiseBanyan was founded in 2013, an is known as a "robo advisor"--providing financial and investment management services for its clients using software tools.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Resolve Systems said the deal will help it create a unified platform which combines artificial intelligence with automation. FixStream was founded in 2013, and was based in San Francisco. Resolve said it paid $24M to acquire FixStream, in a deal which is expected to close at the end of September. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Santa Monica-based AirMap , the startup developing aerial traffic mapping and UV management platforms, has added former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler to its board of directors, the company announced on Monday. Wheeler led the FCC from 2013 to 2017, after being appointed FCC CHairman by President Barack Obama.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fisker says it will use a modified version of an EV platform developed by Magna for its Fisker Ocean SUV, using Magna's existing EV platform as the starting point for its own vehicle. Fisker says that it has paid reservations for more than 10,400 of its vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The Director of Operations role puts you in a leadership position in a firm that helps 100+ well-known Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups build the right foundation for their next generation technology platform.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

On Friday October 25th, this innovative spirit was put on display at the 2013 Student Innovator Showcase. It’s not about the money for us,” said Cosmo Scharf of Coursewiz , a college course-scheduling platform. “We Overall, the event provided students with a platform to display their interesting ideas to the community.

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JANUARY 19, 2013

TechZulu had the pleasure again this year to help bring all the New Media Expo (NMX) 2013 Keynotes sessions live. Under her leadership, Technorati Media has become a profitable integrated online media company with an advertising network, social rich media technology platform, and the internet’s largest blog directory.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. Founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2013, Calendly’s growth skyrocketed during the pandemic, and its steadily increasing users and successful funding rounds have allowed it to thrive ever since. million site visits in October alone.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Paulson has been at Qualcomm since 2013, most recently heading up the company's QCT Platform organization. San Diego-based Qualcomm Incorporated said on Tuesday that it has named Larry Paulson as Vice President, and President of Qualcomm India. Paulson also has served at BrightPoint and Nokia. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2016

--said the data stolen included user login data from a portion of accounts that were created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform. Myspace said it had invalidated all user passwords for affected accounts created prior to June 11, 2013. Reports place the number of compromised user accounts at 427 million passwords.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Santa Monica- and Irvine-based Onica , a provider of IT services focused on cloud-based platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), has raised $20M in a funding round, the company announced this week. The company--formerly known as CorpInfo--said the funding came from Sunstone Partners. Onica is led by CEO Stephen Garden. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” The platform carefully vets every company applicant and only presents less than 2% of opportunities to its investor base. ” Over 650 accredited investors and over 450 companies.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

Irvine-based online local advertising provider Local COrporation said this morning that it has expanded its Krillion local shopping platform, and now has approximately 120,000 retail store locations in its database. The company said the local shopping data platform has grown 60 percent since October of 2013.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which got its start as a startup accelerator but is now focused on offering up a platform for companies to raise equity crowdfunding, said Friday that a $25M crowdfunding effort by Elio Motors has been qualified by the SEC using its platform.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

According to Viacom, the acquisition will help it with "key strategic priorities", including expanding its presence across next-generation distribution platforms and growing its advanced advertising business. 1, Scripps Network Interactive, Prizker Group, and individuals like Ross Levinsohn, Ken Parks, and Stephane Kurgan.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Analytics and optimization startup, FlxOne , aims to deliver insights and actions for real-time advertising by use of cloud-based infrastructure and data crunching to deliver insights and actions, making it the first platform to optimize performance automatically. The Internet ad revenues surged to a landmark $20.1 billion, up from $8.7

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

In a related move, Myspace said it has enhanced its mobile support, to let users stream their music videos and other content to mobile platforms. million monthly uniques on its site, which it says is a 170 percent growth since its mid-2013 relaunch. Myspace says it now is seeing around 35.1 READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Freeletics , headquartered in Munich, Germany, is today announcing its first round of private capital after bootstrapping since 2013. One of Europe’s most popular fitness applications is poised to flourish in the U.S. market with the help of several Los Angeles-based investors. The startup, however, has no plans to expand into hardware.

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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and InvestorHunt.

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JULY 3, 2022

As far back as 2013, Pew Internet & American Life Project started reporting that their focus groups found “waning enthusiasm for Facebook” among teens, that Facebook has become a “social burden” for them, and that “users of sites other than Facebook express greater enthusiasm for their choice.” Maybe they just don’t care.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

According to the two, they are in a partnership where Norton's security technology will be embedded in Broadcom's BCM4708x series of 5G WiFi (802.11ac) home router platforms. The two companies said that Broadcom's home router platforms will run NOrton's advanced home gateway security solutions, helping to block suspicious behavior.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Virtually every collaboration platform and mainline business process today has a cloud-based deployment option.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The company did not disclose any finances, but said it has seen its enterprise customers grow by 375 percent since 2013. Invoca's platform is used by companies to track exactly which marketing campaigns are driving inbound calls to companies and their sales handling lines.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Don't bet on any one platform. Platforms come and go, remember Beta and VHS? What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013?

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AUGUST 7, 2019

On social media, players would take screenshots of their playlists and post them to platforms like Twitter or Instagram, Fox said. “There’s a social platform for everything, but in the days of terrestrial media distribution music has remain isolated,” he says. . Image courtesy of Earbuds. Logging on is easy.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.) What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? toward one or two major dominate players.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

effective December 2, 2013 in a move to emphasize its commitment to Wearable Technology and the Internet of Wearable Things (IOWT). The space will be that platform for entrepreneurs in the wearable industry to engage, learn and connect with the global Wearable Technology ecosystem.

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MARCH 28, 2013

March 28, 2013. Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. If the framework provides no JSON serializer, a best-of-breed for the platform is selected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and InvestorHunt.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2013

Saturday, January 12, 2013 -- Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. ?Game,? the phoneme, has spread its wings far beyond familiar "teenage" video games: it now embraces a variety of new and important applications. Evolving from pre-computer roots (e.g., "war See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

“Netflix is the most innovative content creation and distribution company of the last decade, leading the way in streaming since 2007 and changing the original content game with House of Cards in 2013,” said Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell, co-founders of Impact, in a joint statement.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). He hit me from two very trusted sources.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

“ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. Now, we're investing in our own team, firm, and platform so we can further support those founders. Liquidity and transfer of wealth.

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