Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Some companies turned to cutbacks over boosting financial reserves; others focused on reducing overhead and expenses. Many are planning to be more aggressive in grabbing market share from competitors, and you should, too. A healthy manufacturing sector, likely to gain even more strength in 2015, is creating an impetus to invest.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

Arteen Arabshahi: While Karlin Ventures has had an excellent first few years as a firm seeing over 6 exits and making 40+ investments within 3 years, what was most exciting in 2015 was the addition of our third team member, Erin Shipley. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Note: the company has asked to remain anonymous, as they don’t want to alert their competitors to the success of their Stealth Campaign. My friends launched a marketing campaign in which they were reaching out to owners of a certain type of lease, in order to offer them more attractive terms. The Stealth Campaign.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based j2 Global continues to have a ravenous appetite for acquiring companies, saying this morning that it has acquired nine companies in the first quarter of 2015. Financial details of the various acquisitions were not announced. j2 said it also added offices in Paris, France, and San Mateo during the quarter.

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JUNE 16, 2017

The company says it has been developing its systems since 2015. The company's co-founder is Xiaodi Hou. TuSimple says it is the only San Diego company to have a permit for testing autonomous vehicles in California. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

For Key Information Systems, it was building, productizing, and going-to-market with a complete set of data center services. Whether it's for a cross-country race or building an IT organization, if you don't pay attention to your journey, you may miss something meaningful about the company's success or an important opportunity.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

We've attempted to do that for the last three years, trying to ferret out exactly who the people--not companies--are to watch in the region's technology industry. Here are this year's winners, along with the companies they are associated with: Brett Bouttier , AwesomenessTV. Joe Huff and Bridget Hilton , LSTN Sound Company.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Santa Monica-based matchmaking site eHarmony is looking to the overseas market to grow its service, saying today that it is launching a "globalization initiative" this year to add one new country per quarter to its service. The first new market for eHarmony is Singapore. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

Amid hand wringing about an IPO slowdown in 2015, there's one shining region which had a banner IPO and acquisition year last year: Santa Barbara. billion acquisition of lynda.com by LinkedIn last April, and three companies-- MindBody , Appfolio , and CytomX Therapeutics (founded out of UCSB)--all had their IPO on the NASDAQ in 2015.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It seems, however, that the company has found plenty of opportunity for growth while remaining focused on the San Francisco Bay Area. Hall also noted that the company opened a new, larger warehouse in Oakland just a few days before shelter-in-place orders took effect last March. Image Credits: Good Eggs. Glade Brook’s J.P.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The company said it the consumer business was a "very difficult business to scale" and even harder to "scale to great profitability", and that it will officially shut its consumer business on February 29th. Zirx began offering up valet parking for employees of businesses in September of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based GOAT Group , which operates an online marketplace for collectible sneakers, apparel, and other accessories, has raised another $100M in funding, the company said this morning. The company is led by co-foudner and CEO Eddy Lu. The Series E funding was led by D1 Capital Partners. GOAT has now raised a total of $290M.

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JULY 20, 2020

in a seed funding round, the company said late last week. The company is led by founder and CEO Travis Boatman. Carbonated focuses on developing "highly competitive" games for mobile devices, which are more in line with the hard core games found on consoles and PCs, rather than the more usual casual gaming market.

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JULY 15, 2016

Southern California companies raised $2.49 Other big fundings contributing to the total included a $220M funding round for San Diego biotech firm Human Longevity Inc. , $111M raised by Marina Del Rey-based Thrive Market , and $100M raised by Irvine cybersecurity sofwtare developer Cylance. billion round for Venice based Snapchat.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The Chief Marketing Officer of high flying, Los Angeles-based job recruiting technology developer ZipRecruiter has resigned from the company, after a story was published last week by BuzzFeed, detailing alleged sexual misconduct at his prior employer, Uber. Eyal Gutentag reportedly resigned on Friday. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But the no-longer nascent sneaker and streetwear market is a big market, with the potential to reach $30 billion in sales globally by 2030, according to a recent report by the research firm, Cowen ( cited by The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the financing). ” Money, it’s gotta be the shoes.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Santa Monica-based cloud-based learning and human capital management provider Cornerstone OnDemand is looking to attract more small business customers, as it extends from its core enterprise market, by offering up a free trial to those businesses. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2016

wind energy projects, with 12 percent of the market share in installed capacity in 2015. megawatts of installed wind energy capacity in 2015, which gives it the largest share of the market. The company has a number of very large wind projects installed in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Iowa, and Illinois.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Snapchat had reportedly been on track to hit a $100M run rate--a longtime milestone--in 2015, however, has not announced yet if it hit that goal. However, three local startups-- OpenX , Steelhouse , and Thrive Market all have pushed past the $100M mark in the last few months with public announcements. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Anchore , which is developing security software aimed at the "container" market, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company disclosed this morning. The funding came from local angel Andreas von Blottnitz, along with Doug Carlisle of Menlo Ventures.

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MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. I suspect those days will end soon, and 61% of LPs polled said they felt VCs were coming back to market too quickly.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Garfinkle was most recently SVP and Head of Capital Markets for Renovate America, and has been at the company since 2015. San Diego-based Renovate America , which provides home improvement financing for energy efficiency projects, said this week that it has named Adam Garfinkle as its Chief Financial Officer.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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MAY 4, 2018

Ontario, California-based Safariland , the parent company of body-worn camera maker VIEVU , said this morning that it has sold VIEVU to Axon Enterprises. VIEVU's cameras are used by law enforcement and others in the public safety market. Safariland acquired VIEVU in 2015. Financial details of the sale were not announced.

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JULY 18, 2016

San Diego-based Airgain , a developer of embedded antenna technology for the wireless networking market, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raise $17.5M in a public offering on the NASDAQ Capital Market. The company has applied to list as AIRG.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 31, 2016

Two, Southern California investors-- Qualcomm Ventures and Greylock Partners --have backed San Jose-based Innovium , on its efforts to develop semiconductors for the next generation, data center market, Innovium revealed this morning. The company said the Series B included the same investors, but a lead from Greylock. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of several companies a few years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter. In fact, IPOs are down again this year, with just 31 companies going public in the U.S. These include the following: Taking a company public is an expensive process.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2015

Here are some of the fun and the weird highlights found at CES 2015. Bitcoin had a few companies relating to anything Bitcoin, but what was great about the booth was the free swag. There is much more to see, but take some time off and explore some of the fun things companies have to offer at their booths. Creative Audio.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , which develops software for wireless servie providers and others, said it has regained compliance with listing requirements for the NASDAQ Stock Market. Those moves included a shift to the NASDAQ Stock Market in March. Smith Micro trades on the NASDAQ Stock Market as SMSI. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

According to the company, the move also will include exclusive shopping opportunities and joint efforts in Foot Locker's physical stores. in total since it was founded in 2015. New York-based Foot Locker said the strategic minority investment came through its subsidiary in 1661, Inc. GOAT has now raised $197.6M READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. But these data points are often lagging indicators and perhaps a better barometer of the future would be to gather data on VC perceptions in the market right now.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Culver City-based Clutter , which offers up "on-demand" self storage of your extra stuff, has raised $200M in a Series D funding, the company announced on Wednesday morning. Clutter has now raised nearly $300M in total funding since 2015. The company's co-founder and CEO is Ari Mir. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2017

Levinsohn, who is a well known advisor and investor in the digital media and technology market, has previously served as CEO of Yahoo!, The company passed up the $100M in revenues mark back in 2015, and has been rumored to be seriously considering an IPO. to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Los Angeles-based finance and accounting automation software developer BlackLine reports this morning that it added 393 new customers in 2015 and now has over 1300 customers around the world. The company said that among the new clients it added during the year were Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Malaysia Airlines, Roku and Trivago.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Lynwood, California-based NEXT (formerly, NEXT Trucking), has raised $97M more in a funding round for its development of an online marketplace for shippers and carriers, the company said on Wednesday. The startup, led by Lydia Yan, said the funding came from Brookfield Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and GLP.

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MAY 5, 2015

San Diego-based software developer Tealium , which develops software used to manage enterprise "tags", those snippets of codes used for tracking advertising, marketing, analytics, and other efforts, said today that it had 100% growth in the first quarter of 2015. The company did not disclose any actual revenue numbers.

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