socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? With large well-known brands, Wal-Mart, for example, using this technology, we will definitely see more companies bring their applications to these platforms as they see their peers and competitors succeed with it. When we returned to the U.S.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2019

Black Mountain Systems was previously owned by another, private equity investor, Stone Point Capital LLC , which acquired Black Mountain in 2015. Black Mountain said the investment y Vista will help it grow both domestically and internationally, and also provide new capital ti invest in development of its platform. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015. Sponsorship opportunities for events.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2021

Parabol says it has developing a platform focused on enabling remote and hybrid teams to conduct structured meetings, using the "Agile" methodology. The company was founded in 2015, but apparently has seen pickup as a result of the pandemic and the move to remote work. The company is led by CEO and Co-founder Jordan Husney.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2019

Burbank-based Causecast , which developed an online platform to help employers increase employee engagement with charitable causes, has been acquired by America's Charities , a nonprofit focused on getting employees to support causes they care about. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. GOAT now counts retailers like Alexander McQueen, Nike, and others among the brands that sell their wares directly on the platform. ” Money, it’s gotta be the shoes.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. imperson provides an artificial intelligence platform enabling fans to have conversations with their favorite movie and TV characters. StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. In fact, ecommerce website builders and platforms have become seriously big business over the last few years. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

According to L Squared, since its investment in Virtium in July of 2015, Virtium saw its organic revenues more than double, and a tripling of its EBITDA. L Squared said that Virtium was its second platform investment and third exit for the firm in the last twelve months. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2021

We created this in 2003 for the medical interpreting market, but since then, we've expanded the platform so that it's not just about language. We now have 1800 hospitals across the country, and have had over 100,000 encounters over the platform. Jamey Edwards: Our go-to-market platform is an iPad Pro mounted on a specialized cart.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The relationship between Sphero and Disney was first developed within the Disney Accelerator program in Burbank in 2015, when Disney's Bob Iger connected Sphero with Star Wars and its new BB-8 drone. According to Sphero it will discontinue its popular Disney licensed products, due to the declining popularity of those toys. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

The team at Native Ads hope that they can help all websites remove ‘disruptive display ads’ with its innovative platform. The platform bridges the gap between live streaming channels and website owners to provide a useful and effective advertising experience for online audiences. StreamSpread. Sta Media actually boasts a U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Now you’d think we’d be a bit farther along today in 2015, right?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Nexon said the investment will go towards developing games based on Robotoki's multi-screen, cross-platform games. Robotki's first title is Human Element, a first-person, survival game based on a "zombie apocalypse", and is expected to be released in Q4 of 2015 across consoles, PC, and mobile platforms. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Los Angeles-based dental care marketplace Brighter --which is led by startup veteran Jake Winebaum--said Thursday that it has launched a new platform called Brighter PRO. The new platform is aimed specifically at employers, helping them to gain control of their dental costs and claims. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 I would summarize the qualms and feedback from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs trickle down to angel groups. A startup that is listed on a crowdfunding platform gets no formal pushback or negotiation on its declared valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 I would summarize the qualms and feedback from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs trickle down to angel groups. A startup that is listed on a crowdfunding platform gets no formal pushback or negotiation on its declared valuation.

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Equity Statistics Platform Entrepreneur 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The company--which currently has offices at ROC in Santa Monica--says it is in the mist to moving to a new office in Santa Monica in order to accomodate that growth in Q1 of 2015.

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Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2019

Forge Therapeutics, founded in 2015 with the goal of developing drugs that target metalloenzymes, said Wednesday it had agreed to let Basilea Pharmaceutica use its chemistry platform to develop new antibiotics.

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San Diego Research Platform Develop 79

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2013

TriQuint says it expects the TWTA market to be worth $600M by 2015. CAP Wireless develops its platform based on gallium arsenide-based (GaAs) MMICs. CAP Wireless develops RF amplifiers which replace traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) in communications and defense systems. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2015

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project says that mobile advertising spend is now more than 20 percent of the activity on its ad platform, as the company has ramped up its mobile efforts. The company said mobile managed revenue is expected to surpass $200M in its fiscal 2015. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based PlayVS (pronounced “play versus”) wants to become the dominant platform for amateur esports, starting at the high school level. We were focused on internet infrastructure – this is 2015-ish – and I was appointed to lead our strategy in esports.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms. We had lots of success reaching the GenZ and millennial audience with video content on that platform. You have to create unique stories and content across multiple platforms, and build different narratives across those platforms.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2020

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Technical Review 117

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 20, 2012

The mobile phone is the perfect platform for marketers to engage consumers wherever they may be. in 2011 to more than $20B by 2015. Marketers understand this and it's now a big area for future advertising budget dollars and overall industry growth. In fact, Gartner Research predicts the mobile advertising industry to grow from $3.3B

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Sometimes the platform can be right about their business but the market loses. And so powerful with Twitter.

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AMA Newsletter Startup Networking 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

This platform takes our web-based technology from the computer screen to the concert experience, as L.E.D. The post Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier appeared first on TechZulu. The TrueCar L.E.D. now to September 10. “TrueCar L.E.D.

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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 technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? 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

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. Meet the tech company that wants to make you even more addicted to your phone. “The

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And all the platform stuff. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 12, 2015

There’s a company in LA, Qtee.com , which specializes in taking custom clothing to an entirely new level with their web platform. Because our tech platform is so robust, we were able to quickly get these lines on our site and begin selling to our customers.”. Bags and underwear, for example, are two of our newer product offerings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) January 24, 2015. It’s an online relationship and I actually believe that as of 2015 I’ve met more of my close connections in the past 5-7 years online before offline. years before… — Shafqat Islam (@shafqatislam) January 24, 2015. Theory: it’s really that simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

So by the time people started using Facebook for more business purposes or general “social networking” in 2010-2015 I really didn’t have any interest. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me.

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Startup Blogging Newsletter Social Network 150

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. How does Giftagram work?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Financial terms were not disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday by GoFundMe.

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