socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.

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Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

For one�according to Los Angeles startup mPulse Mobile (www.mpulsemobile.com), you can help remind people about their appointments, and make sure they take their prescriptions�along with many other use cases. So, after a fifteen year career there, I saw a tremendous opportunity here to build out that technology. What is mPulse?

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Mobile Southern California Startup Marketing 100

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization. But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. How did you start the company? Scott Chisolm: Actually, the organization started as a charitable pub crawl, for the cancer society here in San Diego.

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Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

It was founded by Paul Sidlo, who is from Los Angeles, and it''s very much a Southern California company. We morphed from a kiosk company, to a provider of a fully digital store platform for the restaurant industry, and in particular, multi-unit restaurants. Our platform encompasses several things. What is Tillster?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. Unicornless. Clearly not a ringing endorsement.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. I recently caught up with Len outside of George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch. Len remains an active advisor to several startups. “So much power has ended up in Google’s search box.

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