socalTECH

JULY 2, 2018

AdColony develops mobile video advertising technology, and was acquired in 2014 for $350M by Operat Software. Los Angeles-based Lucidity , a developer of blockchain advertising technology, said this morning that it has named AdColony co-founder Nikao Yang as its Chief Operating Officer.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Urban Airship , a startup which develops mobile analytics and engagement software, said today that it has named two executives--both of whom have had prominent roles at Santa Barbara area technology companies. The company--based in Portland--said it named Scott Allen as its CFO, and Eric Holmen as its SVP of Worldwide Sales.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In the world of drone aircraft and robots, right now everyone develops their own, on-board operating systems software to run those autonomous systems. We spoke with Dreamhammer''s CEO, Nelson Paez , about the company''s software and its vision for a interoperable operating system for drones and robots. What''s Dreamhammer?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based financial automation software develper BlackLine continues to see its revenues grow, saying Thursday that its 2014, year-over-year revenues were up more than 50 percent. The company''s new clients include JetBlue, T-Mobile, British Gas, Elsevier, and many, many others. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

If you want to know more about them and why they grew so rapidly I’ve written about them here ( online / offline mobile ad integration ) & here ( the most obvious mobile phone ad unit ). See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability.

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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.” In acquiring Kik, the holding company is expanding its mobile app portfolio.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Is the world ready for another event management software provider? Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology. We ended up with 12 people in San Diego at the beginning of 2014, and now we have 42.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2014

2014 SPEAKERS. Phil Easter, Director of Mobile Apps, American Airlines. Apps & Software Business Entrepreneurship Events Gadgets American Airlines glazed IndieGoGo Robert Scoble Technology Wearables' Listen in and learn how to turn your company into an innovation powerhouse. Just CLICK HERE TO CLAIM. … And More.

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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.

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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!

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2014

VSN Mobil presents photographers and videographers a new way to capture images and videos with the V.360, I call it ‘the Franken picture’, it looks like Frankenstein stitched together, says Matt Gordon, VP of development at VSN Mobil. “No VSN Mobil is releasing the V.360 360 VSN Mobil' 360 is an incredible camera.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014. In addition to working at Indiegogo, Kate is the co-founder and CMO of The Can Van, the world’s first mobile beer canning service made to bring reasonably priced and environmentally friendly packaging options to California breweries. Including wearables, gaming, smartphones, home and the car.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last Monday, Jan 6th, marked the culmination of AT&T’s Developer Summit at CES 2014 along with the release of open APIs for its U-Verse platform on Android. Android Apps Apps & Software Dev & Design Entertainment Gadgets Gaming Mobile' The company launched the original program back in 2011.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 7, 2015

For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startup community leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, app development, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. After the Y2K craze, REGARD expanded into a high-end boutique Internet strategy firm.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2014

Android Apple Apps Apps & Software Business Data Entrepreneurship Finance Gadgets Investment iPhone Mobile SXSW SXSW 2014 ABC App breathometer charles yim Crowdfunding device gadget IndieGoGo Shark Tank Smartphone wearable' The post Breathometer | The Pocket-Sized Life Saver appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. We sold Velocloud to Vmware, in the software defined network (SDN) area. If your company was mobile, or cloud based before, now it has to be AI-enabled. We started March Capital in late 2013.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/19/2014.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. So, as you are heavily into the mobile area, what have you learned over the last few years?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 24, 2014

All the technical challenges were solved, and all we needed was software.” ” And with the technology roadblocks out of the way, the software was developed – an app that constantly searches while you’re moving about your life. Beyond web, their first mobile app was, surprisingly, for Blackberry.

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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. Setting Up 2014. Some rapid fire discussion points. Bitcoin specific job boards.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

“We know we need to communicate more” he says, and in many instances, mobile developers also need to open themselves up to automotive needs in regards to safety and production. A crucial issue as mobile devices continue to become more integrated, since at the heart of the discussion, lives are at stake.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event attracted over 500 distinguished attendees from around the world in the digital media and technology industry including advertising, media, data, eCommerce, software, social and gaming. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. Personalize a simple web site.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Investors eager to bet on the mobility industry’s future handed ride-hailing company Lyft $2.2 Lyft’s pricey showing rivals Alibaba’s 2014 IPO as one of the largest deal sizes ever among US IPOs, according to. billion in new capital Thursday as the company completed an IPO that set its market capitalization at $24.3 Lyft sold 30.8

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We were CONVINCED Dropcam (then Nest) wouldn’t mobilize a competing product quickly if it did sell? Hardware + Software The world is filled with investors who will tell you, “We don’t do hardware.” Jamie is truly a visionary and a focused executioner. Were we SURE that consumers would buy a video doorbell? We weren’t sure.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Back in 2014, I wrote a column intended to help consumers walk away from their. With the growing interest in cord-cutting, you’d think it would be getting easier to find alternative sources for broadband Internet service. But no, it’s actually a bit more complicated than it used to be, because there are more options to choose from.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

pulls assumably free and public data from the CrunchBase database to provide a mobile accessible directory of contacts and company info. Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.) Speculation.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures. In October of 2014, my wife and I were about to have our first child, and I am thinking to myself, I am going to take a month off and be a great dad. What is Pledgeling? How did you decide to get into this as a company?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures. The process does not require the installation of separate mapping or navigation software, or the on-site assistance of Brain Corp. emerged in the collective glow of the Obama Administration’s brain initiative. Like many startups, Brain Corp.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. How did you two connect?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. After we had our app completed, our initial batch of drivers recruited, insurance in place, and a solid operational foundation set, we were able to open our doors for business on August 1, 2014. TZ: How long has Buddytruck been active?

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