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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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2021

Our interview today is with Jamey Edwards, the CEO of Cloudbreak Health, a Los Angeles-based telemedicine company, which provides telehealth services, including interpretation and access to specialists, within healthcare facilities. We now have 1800 hospitals across the country, and have had over 100,000 encounters over the platform.

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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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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Were part of the uCast Global video highway, which is our way of illustrating how content is being driven locally, regionally, and globally, using our platform, but also technology we have integrated and continue to integrate with our partners. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen.

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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. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based FameBit (www.famebit.com) has developed a new platform which lets any content creator connect with brands, without the need for an agency or MCN, to help them grow their content and network. We have a 98 percent approval rate on our platform. Agnes Kozera: Self service enabled us to grow very quickly.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I see many good video companies (media companies, mobile apps, distribution platforms, monetization platforms) but it’s often hard to distinguish good from great. Second, videos that we do share end up in fragments across Facebook, Instagram, cloud services, email or text messages. Mark Suster (@msuster) April 23, 2015.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy. In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/13/2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

These trends will likely involve cloud based architecture, enhanced platform mobility, real time data analysis, improved fraud detection capabilities and greater niche functionality: Cloud Based Architecture. Enhanced Platform Mobility. These trends appear likely to keep clouds important to business computing in the foreseeable future.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. One of the stars of 2015 was undoubtedly Slack. The global online audience currently stands at some 3.2

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I moved over to work in software-as-a-service, at Cornerstone OnDemand, before its IPO. We took it to the market in January of 2015. The very first product we built got us into Amplify, but we ended up scrapping that entire platform. Mike Whitmire: It was borne out of my own background. How long has your software been available?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/25/2015. Here they are: A crowdfunding campaign.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

Audiences have moved very quickly to mobile, and I think that mobile is a brilliant platform on which to build a next generation brand. In 2015, I think you''ll see us provide a lot more content, and a whole lot more creative publishing, interesting partnerships, and new platforms. This is not a product, it''s a service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Interaction with customers is usually started by responding dynamically to customer-service requests, but must be extended to online chats, comments and social media. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/19/2015.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. Where are you now with the service?

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different. It's a green field opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The objective is not to delay payments, but to avoid the expense or capital payment altogether, by working in house, bartering for services or just doing without. With today’s social media and crowdfunding platforms, you can effectively test the waters before you build. Cushion your investment requirements.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The IoT for Cities Summit and Challenge , scheduled for March 10-11, 2015 , in San Francisco will welcome government officials, industry representatives, entrepreneurs, investors and residents to conduct a large-scale listening and idea sharing session.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. All of this is possible on every entrepreneur’s budget, since the major blogging platforms, including Tumblr, WordPress and Blogger (Google) are free. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/15/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Incorporating a business entity early through online services. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 30, 2016

Taking into consideration that total global card volume for 2015 weighed in at almost $29 trillion, it’s easy to see how billions of dollars are lost globally to card fraud each year. A new ecommerce platform that assists businesses to process payments, SecurionPay supports 23 languages and more than 160 currencies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. Scott Chisolm: We have raised $23M, $18M from our Series B, which we did in early to mid 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The service was founded by analyst Andrew Thomson who, after many experiences working with startups, recognized the need for a database that links corporates with new up and coming businesses. The platform also offers a more advanced search that allows users specify the location, organization type and data sets they’re interested in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

But this is just a reflection midway in June 2015 of the some of the products I love, enjoy or use frequently, and am not an investor in. OneShot – Ok, I know that OneShot is a narrow feature set and that frankly Twitter should offer this service but it works so well for what it does. Only tool I love but don’t use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Smart startups are already doing it on crowdfunding platforms. It takes time to learn how to do customer service, interviews and demonstrations. Yet some entrepreneurs find it hard to resist the urge to get their product or service into the hands of a large number of people at one time. Proceed with caution.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We spoke with Andrew about how the company pivoted from its original model after finding a huge amount of traction for its sales software and data, and its ability to guide brokers on the best practices for them to close more deals, which it is now offering as software-as-a-service. What is Digsy? My background is in commercial real estate.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 11, 2022

Its approach is also drastically different from most fertility service providers — it has savvy, intelligent marketing; a tech-enabled and fully virtual care facility; a focus on compassion; and ample customer education to help patients feel involved and understood. The company today has 12 outlets in 10 cities in the U.S.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems. The former is a developer platform, while the latter was a consumer subscription service.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For those who have never used Happy Returns, tell us how the service works? Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. 2019 will be all about more and bigger, with a bigger retail presence and services we offer. There are two things.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Take Watson , IBM’s artificial intelligence platform as an example: it has advanced significantly since it handily defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy game show four years ago. This is a must for any new car coming in 2015—no car owner expects any less than that, right? Control Your Car from Your Smartphone. Are you ready for it?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

5) It is 2015. One of the interesting questions I’m keeping an eye on is at what level users will consume compute resources, in particular, where in the spectrum between infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. We’ve been very deliberate making services a cost center that focuses on referenceable customers.

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