socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Who do you think are the top 50 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California's technology industry this year? If you'd like to nominate an individual (not company) for this award, we've just started collecting your nominations online. Nominations will close on Friday, October 30th. Interested in sponsoring the awards?

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SoCalTech Southern California Startup Sales 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Who are the top 50 people to watch in Southern California? Another note: for some nominees, our nominating committee was unable to separate closely tied founders of startups, and so we've listed those founders together for convenience.

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SoCalTech Lootcrate Southern California Snapchat 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Startups related to the many University of California campuses in Southern California may soon have a new source of funding: The University of California itself, via a new, $250M venture capital. The fund would seek to invest in companies started on campus, from University research, and from students.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. We spoke with Bryce Maddock , founder of TaskUs, about the company and how it has been providing the manpower behind a lot of LA''s technology startups. So, what is TaskUs?

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Startup Technology Outsource Santa Monica 231

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

It was refreshing to see my team make so much progress in my absence. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? Vendors and startups will embrace OpenStack and Dockers. Lief resides in Southern California and enjoys photography and martial arts. When we returned to the U.S.

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San Fernando Ventura Southern California SoCalTech 100

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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Southern California Platform Los Angeles Design 138

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015.

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Los Angeles Angel Southern California Study 100

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Techpreneurs.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We feel this is a great validation for the LA and SoCal venture market place, and for the startups and founders in LA. About sixty-six percent of those, or 2/3 of our investments, historically have been in Southern California and in the Los Angeles ecosystem. It's really all about them. Let's chat about your strategy.

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Funding Southern California Riot Games Activision 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Our investment strategy has always been to do predominantly Series Seed & A round deals, which makes up > 85% of our first investments.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Over the holidays, we''re featuring a few reflections on 2014 from some of the movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry. What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? Today''s thoughts come from John Greathouse, who is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners.

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Southern California SaaS Venture Capital Entrepreneur 157

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We caught up with Jim Armstrong to learn more about the new fund, areas of interest, his insights into what makes startups successful, and where he thinks the venture market is today. I think there are a lot of opportunities across all of these areas of technology, especially as it relates to Southern California.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We caught up with Fuel50 founder and CEO Anne Fulton to learn more about the startup. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. How did you start the company? Even when I had babies, I started a company making baby clothing with designers for a few years. What is Fuel50?

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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 191

TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

On a given weekend, roughly 30,000 products would ship from the company’s warehouse to locations across Southern California. In all, the company acquired 2,000 unique products — from beach and camping equipment to video games, virtual reality headsets to cooking appliances.

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Invest Services Southern California Ideas 263

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. So, what is PeerStreet? How did you guys start the company? I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. Brett Crosby: A lot of things.

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Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. It allows us to start peeling the onion. How did you start the business?

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund.

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IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

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

Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Some entrepreneurs, though, are acting as if Prop 64, known officially as the California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, has already passed. Co-founder and CEO Eric Gomez said Canopy San Diego won’t enroll startups or entrepreneurs who are directly engaged in the cultivation or sale of marijuana or its derivatives.

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San Diego Startup Southern California Invest 40

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today. They've filled up pretty quickly.

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Pasadena Orange County Idealab CalTech 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2015

REACH will host a one day Pitch Show-Down on September 24, 2015 pitting the best startups against one and other in front of a panel of experts. Investors looking to connect with the top startups. Press looking to rub elbows with the latest and greatest tech companies from the SoCal area. Startups who are….

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SoCal Southern California Technical Support Los Angeles 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 21, 2015

Pocket Sun didn’t want to be the only girl in the room at startup conferences. So she started a conference for girls. Hundreds of founders, speakers, mentors, and students flocked to the University of Southern California on March 28 th , 2015 to be inspired by female entrepreneurs. She didn’t stop there.

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Entrepreneur Southern California Conference Startup 40

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. 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. So, we created this bar crawl, where we could meet new people. What is Classy?

Help 100

Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

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. However, in 2008 we were focused almost exclusively within Southern California. Unicornless.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 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 bring that into an integrated package for restaurant operators, which allows them to pick and choose where they want to start, but knowing over time they can add additional channel and marketing ability seamlessly.

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Mobile Customer Custom Platform 127

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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Google Technical Advisors Technical Review Equity 220

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I recently saw him Tweet this so I thought it would be a great title for my post on his spectacular early success in building his VC profile and bona fides. I’m gonna to start all SaaStr posts with “One Weird Trick To …” from now on and see how much better they perform. Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 31, 2015.

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SaaS Venture Capital Conference Technical Review 150