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DECEMBER 28, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Richard Wolpert , the co-founder of HelloTech (www.hellotech.com), an in-home, technology and IT support service. For Amplify it was the raising of our third fund.

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JULY 24, 2019

Bryant Stibel , the Los Angeles area venture capital investment firm of Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel, has backed item tracking startup Tile in a new, $45M funding round. The growth equity funding was led by Francisco Partners, and also included GGV Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, plus new investors Bryan Stibel and SVB Financial Group.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fitplan Technologies , a startup that develops mobile apps which connects users with workouts with routines used by what the company says are the "world's most influential fitness personalities", has raised $4.7M in a funding round. The funding was led by Lerer Hippeau, Bullpen, Advanceit and Imaginary VC.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Irvine-based Bitvore , the big data, artificial intelligence, and data analytics startup, has upped its latest funding round to $14.2M, as part of what appears to be an ongoing $17.75M funding effort. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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DECEMBER 29, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Today's thoughts are from Lawrence Ng , who founded Oversee.net, and just launched the OnRamp Fund (onrampfund.com).

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MARCH 24, 2017

Cool Planet , the former Camarillo, California startup working on carbon conversion technology, has resurfaced in Colorado with a $19.3M Series A funding. The company still lists an office in Camarillo. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2020

San Diego-based Lead Inclusively , a consulting firm which provides technology-enabled services around diversity, equity, and inclusion, said last week that it has raised $1.5M in a funding round. The funding came from angel investors Christopher Craig and Fran Craig. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based Hyperloop Technologies , one of the companies looking to bring Elon Musk's concept of the Hyperloop, high speed transportation technology to life, has named Rob Lloyd as its new CEO. Lloyd was most recently President of Cisco Systems, and is also an investor in the company. Sacks, and others. ft location in downtown.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

La Jolla-based Aira.IO , a developer of software tools which use Google Glass to help the blind and low-vision individuals, has raised $790,000 in a seed funding round, the company said this morning. The funding came from Lux Capital and ARCH Venture Partners,a long with futurist Ray Kurzweil and blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayor.

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MAY 2, 2016

Three, local Los Angeles organizations -- DIY Girls , LA Maker Space , and Teens Exploring Technology (TXT), have scored nonprofit funding from Google, as part of the 2016 Google RISE Awards , according to the groups. All three groups help increase access to computer science (CS) for Los Angeles kis and youth.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based Hyperloop Technologies , one of the startups looking to bring Elon Musk's grand idea for high speed transportation to life, has inked a deal for a test site in North Las Vegas, as it looks to complete an $80M, Series B funding round. Hyperloop Technologies says it now employs 72 full time in downtown.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Zingle had been backed by Rincon Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, and had raised $3M in its Series A funding round in 2016. Medallia said that Zingle's technology is now being used by hospitality and travel companies to deliver "high touch service in real-time" at scale. Zingle was led by founder and CEO Ford Blakely.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

ServiceNow , the developer of information technology service management software which has major operatinos in San Diego, has acquired Mountain View-based Passage AI , a developer of conversational AI tools. Passage AI was founded in 2016 and had received funding from Blumberg Capital, Storm Ventures, Engineering Capital, 11.2

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners has chalked up another exit in its enterprise software portfolio, after VMware said Thursday morning that it has acquired VeloCloud , a developer of cloud-based, software-definied, wide-area-network (SD-WAN) technology. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The deal apparently comes after Mashable failed to raise additional funding for the company, despite a round valued at around $250M in March of 2016. In recent years, Mashable has focused mostly on popular culture, entertainment, and popular consumer technology products and services. J2 Global acquired Ziff Davis back in 2012.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Pasadena-based Episona has raised $4M in seed funding, to go towards expansion of its male fertility testing product, Seed, the company said last week. According to Episona, the funding came from the Pasadena Angeles, as well as other high-net worth individuals from Pasadena and San Francisco. The company is led by Dr. Alan Horsager.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Southern California's venture capital totals dropped significantly in Q3 of 2016, to a mere $663.2M in funding, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree report, based on data from Thomson Reuters. in funding in Q3, down from the much larger, $2.5 billion in funding received in the region in Q2.

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JULY 16, 2018

The company also said Scott Sorenson will serve as Interim Chief Operations Officer; Sorenson was most recently Chief Technology Officer at the company, having previously been at Ancestry. Human Longevity is venture backed by Illumina, Celgene, GE Ventures, and others, and raised a big round of funding in 2016 worth $220M.

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MAY 3, 2018

in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. The Boca Raton, Florida-based startup said the lead investor in the round was Ron Zuckerman, a technology entrepreneur and investor. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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MARCH 2, 2017

VeloCloud Networks a , a developer of software defined, wide area networking (WAN) technology which is backed by Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners, has raised $35M in a big funding round, the company announced today. VeloCloud was one of the first disclosed investment in March Capital's first fund. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Santa Monica-based HomeHero , the home care technology and services startup founded by Kyle Hill and Mike Townsend, has linked up with Cedars-Sinai to launch a new program called Safe Transition Home. Financial impact of the deal was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2016

A new survey, released this week by Silicon Valley Bank, finds that even as the availability of venture capital in Southern California is tightening, and lofty unicorn valuations are declining, startup entrepreneurs are still optimistic about the future of technology in the region. and China for their opinions.

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JULY 18, 2017

The list of technology startups in Southern California who are "unicorns"--valued at more than $1 billion--surprisingly, might not be who you think, and in the sectors you might expect. and no, there aren't any entertainment-technology companies anywhere in sight). SpaceX (www.spacex.com). Honest Company (www.honest.com).

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software that particularly caught your eye in 2017?

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MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. What is Miso Robotics? Coli, they become Chipotle.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Last week, Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems (www.oculardatasystems.com) announced a funding round from the Pasadena Angels, for its camera-based systems used by law enforcement to capture evidence in drunk or drugged driving cases. How did the company and its technology come about? What does Ocular Data Systems do?

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Over the last week or so, we've featured the reflections of our readers on 2015 and what it has meant for Southern California's technology industry. Hamet Watt: Upfront Ventures raised a brand-new $300 million fund, Upfront V. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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AUGUST 19, 2019

com), based in Glendale, which has developed new heat energy storage technology aimed at use in the industrial sector. Parker told us about the origins of its technology, and how the company hopes to use its technology to make a big impact on fossil energy use at heavy industrial facilities. That was a $1.5

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The ICO madness through 2016 and 2017 was bad, initially, for the industry as a whole, because there were lots of crooks and charlatans, but now, the SEC has cut through a lot of the BS. Anthony Citrano: The only thing I've been longer into than technology is cars. How are you funding the startup? It's a passion of mine.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Healthcare typically moves a bit slower than retail, and as we were at Human a looking for innovative technology, we found that they just didn't have stuff available for healthcare and compliance. So, after a fifteen year career there, I saw a tremendous opportunity here to build out that technology. It's a highly competitive market.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. It was really a meeting of the minds with the fund.

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MARCH 9, 2017

That's what we call OT, or Operational Technology. That's about the same time the Department of Energy put together a program to regularly fund projects to secure or improve the grid. We won that in late 2016, and have now kicked off a $4M project to help provide security as part of the team for the Department of Energy.

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