Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

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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. “With its patented app demo technology and tools, users will now be able to experience their apps and games on-demand and without an install across various platforms, starting with Google.”.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based The Mobile Majority , which develops a mobile ad platform that helps companies create, serve, track, analyze, target and analyze advertising, says it has just hit a $50M run rate, as of November 2014.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? Each social media platform enforces rules which punish fakers. Thus, in 2014, accrue your social media status the old-fashioned way - earn it. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. At $6,800, it is probably cheaper than you thought. The Downside.

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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. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed, however, THQ said it expects the new title to be released in its fiscal 2014, on console and PC platforms. Agoura Hills-based videogames firm THQ said this morning that it has linked with gaming developer Crytek , to develop its next title in its Homefront franchise.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. An upside of this environment diversity is visibility into the ways various frameworks and platforms work with the myriad variables of cores, clock speed, and virtualization technologies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2021

Apple announced on Monday at WWDC 2021 that it will be extending its Testflight beta testing service to the Mac and the MacOS platform. Burstly, the developer behind Testflight, was acquired by Apple back in 2014. The software--which was previously only available on iOS--was originally developed in Southern California.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

SGI-DNA said it has created a fully automated gene synthesis platform, which includes an instrument that converts digitized DNA code to biological entities. SGI-DNA spun out of San Diego's Synthetic Genomics in March, and was founded in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The merger is the first step of what’s a planned rollup strategy for PCH (also the nickname for the highway that runs along the California Coast), which aims to be the leading vertically integrated vice platform focusing on e-commerce, delivery logistics, and cross industry behavioral insights.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

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? 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.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

The account “hack” was architected by brud as part of an ongoing virtual reality drama playing out on Instagram and other social media platforms between avatars it had developed, all designed to attract media attention, according to people with knowledge of brud and its plans. ” That was a lie. It worked. .

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2017

Playa Vista-based virtual reality content developer SPACES announced on Wednesday that it has added Ian Richter, the former EVP of franchise and emerging platform development at Legendary Entertainment, and Joe Garlington, formerly of Walt Disney Imagineering, to its advisory board. Boost VC, Colopl VR Fund, GREE Inc.,

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Unfortunately, many of these professionals are doing so with a desktop mindset more akin to 2004 than 2014. These platforms, including Invoca''s , provide advertisers with sophisticated quality controls and bulletproof tracking which makes these concerns a legacy of the desktop era.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based Zefr, which helps marketers measure brand impact and advertising on such platforms as YouTube and Facebook, said this week that it has named a current Bed, Bath, and Beyond exec to its board of directors. Zefr is led by co-CEOs and co-founders Rich Raddon and Zach James.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sherman Oaks-based BEN Group , a company which places brands into influencer, streaming, TV, music, and film content, said on Monday morning that it has acquired TubeBuddy , a platform which helps YouTube creators optimize their audience and channel growth. TubeBuddy was founded in 2014.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . GitHub talked about making these changes as early as June, when CEO Nat Friedman tweeted that it was something the company was already working on. But GitHub is by no means the first company to consider and make these changes.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to the two, Green Dot will serve as the infrastructure bank partner for Gig Wage, adding banking services to its payment services platform for gig workers. Gig Wage is based in Dallas, Texas, and was founded in 2014. Size of the investment by Green Dot was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity has acquired LiveOps Cloud Platform , the companies said today, in a deal which will split LiveOps into two different companies. The two parts of LiveOps have been run separately since 2014. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. LiveOps is based in Austin, Texas.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

PCH) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired both alcohol delivery and logistics platform Saucey , as well as cannabis delivery and retail software developer Emjay. Saucey was launched in 2014, and says it now serves 22 U.S. A new, Los Angeles-based operating and holding company, Pacific Consolidated Holdings Group Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

And we’ve begun relaunching our “platform services” for entrepreneurs. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. And did I mention RELAUNCH A NEW WEBSITE !

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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. Allen Debevoise and Daniel Leff of Luminari will join the company's board.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Santa Monica-based secure messaging app provider TigerText , which is led by Brad Brooks, said yesterday that its annual sales grew more than 300 percent in 2014, and also doubled the size of its staff. TigerText did say that more than 500 million messages per month are now being sent using its platform.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. What''s a unique part of what we do, that no other competitor does, is that we''re built as an open platform. That means third party developers can create apps on top of our platform.

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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.

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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.” Whisper’s last round was a $36 million Series C back in 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The space will be that platform for entrepreneurs in the wearable industry to engage, learn and connect with the global Wearable Technology ecosystem. It aims to provide an innovation platform to foster the blend of technology, art and humanity. “ Wearable World is the answer to the call for a united community voice.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. It only happens when the margins get tight.

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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.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

On top of that, we are making our platform available for third party application developers, similar to the way developers can create software for the iPhone or Google Android. Starting in 2014, we expect to start having major announcements of companies who are releasing and bundling drones with our software. That''s a key factor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me. By 2014 my wife had set up private groups for our families so the kiddie photos mostly get shared there and it’s easy to mentally separate the private FB sharing in a groups from more public sharing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at the blue line below in what we are calling “private-market IPOs” you’ll see the discernible trend that began in 2014 and has continued through 2018 and you’ll see the impact this has potentially had on public IPOs in green. trillion in value. There are significantly more Internet users and we’re no longer newbies b.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

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. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

If you look at the history of companies who have been built on the YouTube platform, you''ll see that most of them come from a traditional media background, using different media to distribute content. It felt to us, once we got on the platform, that it was a crowded space. It''s just a different wave with brands and media companies.

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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.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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