TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Zweig was one of the architects behind the success of AdColony, a startup which sold to Opera Software in 2014 for $350 million. It was an early success for the regional ecosystem and proved to be one of the most valuable exits (from a capital efficiency standpoint) for the year.

Google 213

Google Los Angeles Southern California Platform 213

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

The startup--founded by Dan Altmann and Eric Posen--says it is enabling the creation of mobile-first content for Snapchat and other social network platforms. The funding was led by Third Wave Digital and Allen DeBevoise and also included Disney and Luminari Capital.

Snapchat 100

Snapchat Content Social Network Class 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Not only did they have to work 24/7 to build their startup, but they also had to invest the same effort in raising capital. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014?

Activision 191

Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 191

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

“Whether it be a passion for an obscure manga or your favorite football team, Kik has shown an incredible ability to provide a platform for new friendships to be forged through your mobile phone.” Whisper’s last round was a $36 million Series C back in 2014. Heyward did not respond to a request for comment.

Social Network 153

Social Network Los Angeles Social Media Blogging 153

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Founded in 2014 by CEO Adam Markowitz, Portfolium sells academic institutions access to what it calls its ePortfolio network, which, along with hosting student portfolios, also offers student assessments and job matching services. Students at schools that subscribe use the platform for free.

Software 87

Software San Diego Startup Education 87

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

It’s less well-known that the company is backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital investment — firms like Sequoia Capital. I’ve used my platform to raise real money for important organizations throughout LA and I’ve seen lives changed as a result. It worked. . “[Manufacturing] social influence.”

Social Media 254

Social Media Los Angeles Media Geni 254

Tech.Co

JUNE 14, 2024

of venture capital funding in 2023. Instead of offering one primary grant opportunity, the platform lets entrepreneurs search through an assortment of listings, and filter the results with various criteria such as deadlines and funding amounts. But it’s not just angel investors that favor the status quo.

Newsletter 102

Newsletter Entrepreneur News Design 102

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

Capital 40

Capital San Diego Invest USC 40

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital Santa Monica San Diego Coach 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

Startup 108

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). Platform Services – And I haven’t announced it before but we’ve also beefed up our platform services quite a bit. You can follow Hamet on Twitter here.

Venture Capital 324

Venture Capital Startup Blogging Platform 324

Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud platform to the world’s largest mining companies and government agencies monitoring major infrastructure, such as dams. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.

San Diego 62

San Diego Platform Invest Funding 62

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. The company is venture backed by Polaris Partners, Toba Capital, Amplify.LA, Wavemaker Partners, and Danmar Capital. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. What are you working on?

Startup 124

Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Software Review Woodland Hills 124

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. .

Startup 280

Startup Netflix Los Angeles Innocal 280

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. Build your own marketplace platform.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Venture lab & early stage fund for big data startups and scientists.

Netflix 82

Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

Startup 140

Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2014. They will need more money.

Startup 106

Startup Angel .Net Entrepreneur 106

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data. When we first launched in 2014, we found the average person might watch 1.2 Ilya Pozin: We launched in April of 2014, and sold in March of 2019, so just five years.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners--so we thought it would be great to catch up with co-founders Rich Raddon and Zach James to hear more about what the company is working on now. It felt to us, once we got on the platform, that it was a crowded space. Thanks for the time today.

Hollywood 159

Hollywood Help Media Content 159

socalTECH

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. That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business.

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

2013 was a huge year for startup investing to say the least, and with how things have been shaping up in Q1 of 2014, things are going to get a whole lot crazier. The formation of SeedInvest was deeply rooted in Ryan’s background in venture capital and investment. Introducing SeedInvest. 116,105,000.

Invest 100

Invest Startup Technical Review Software Review 100

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital. As the President of Start Co.,

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

Software 100

Software Activity Startup San Diego 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. According to David Rose , CEO of Gust, venture capital investors funded about 1500 startups last year, with Angel investors backing over 50,000 more. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

Startup 109

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

Snapchat 82

Snapchat Social Media Social Network Media 82

Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a report by the National Student Clearinghouse only 18 percent of women graduated with a science degree in 2014. Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo.

Artificial Inteligence 70

Artificial Inteligence Startup Product Cloud Computing 70

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. Trading platforms. Platforms for contributing Bitcoin to political and charitable causes.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

With this in mind, we figured it would be a great opportunity to get a direct look from someone who’s been immersed in the field, and spoke to Chance Barnett, CEO of LA-local investment platform, Crowdfunder. Throughout his company building career, he formed two bootstrapped companies, and a third that required significant capital.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Where is it Based? Silicon Beach (Santa Monica).

Social Network 104

Social Network Networking Content Web 104

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2015

billion in 2014 Singles’ Day sales, spurred by more than $2 billion in the first hour.) Amazon has already had tremendous success on one front, generating a massive amount of free publicity for Amazon and Amazon Prime across a wide range of platforms, outlets, and audiences across the country. Alibaba reported $9.3

Sales 40

Sales Social Media Competition Entertainment 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/03/2014. Start a crowdfunding campaign online. entrepreneurs funding investors startups'

Startup 113

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Amanda explains hardware production and the company’s decision to build their platform on Clearwire , an independent mobile broadband company (which was recently acquired by Sprint), and the ultra-fast pace Karma wanted to build. In 2014, Karma will be releasing an LTE device and with coverage in 300 US cities.

Outsource Development 108

Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108