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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. Stubbs, Alderton, and Markiles is a longtime sponsor of socaltech.com, and represents a wide range of clients, including a significant number of Southern California's most visible startups.

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MAY 3, 2018

On-demand, car wash startup Washe , which lets users connect with professional mobile car washers, said this week that it has raised $3.5M in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Startups Uncensored , the popular series of events around creating and running startups, is headed back to Los Angeles, according to organizer and startup entrepreneur Jason Nazar. for a new startup , Comparably, which lets users search for information on pay for different job titles, broken down by market and gender.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Our interview this morning with an entrepreneur is with Anthony Citrano , the founder of Los Angeles-based Acquicent (www.acquicent.com), a startup which wants to make it as easy for you to invest in museum-grade collectibles such as classic cars and art, without having to invest millions of dollars in those assets.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Our interview this morning is with Vahid Manian , the Chief Operating Officer of Morse Micro (www.morsemicro.com), a semiconductor startup which is developing chips for the Wi-Fi HaLow market. Vahid Manian: Morse Micro is an Australian startup company, headquartered in Sydney. What are you working on? It's a new Wi-Fi starndard.

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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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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition of Business.com is just the latest saga in the business and domain name; the.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, modern point-of-sale (POS) technology for the food service and retail markets, says it has doubled its employee count in the last year to 200, as it sees what it calls "exponential" growth in its business. 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. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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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. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. Certainly was enough to keep us busy.

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MAY 16, 2019

San Diego-based bioClarity , a skincare brand which markets itself to millennial and Gen-Z consumers, has raised $13M in a funding round, the company said thsi week. The company was founded in 2016. The funding was led by Prolog Ventures. The company is part of Adigica Health, Inc. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M The startup said it is developing AI agents which will learn users' travel preferences via their calendars, emails, and photos, as well as their social media and in-app interactions.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Lasergen , a startup developing technology for the DNA sequencing market--and which has an office in San Diego--has been acquired by Agilent Technologies for $105M, the two said late Tuesday. Agilent already owned a 48 percent ownership stake in Lasergen, as part of an investment it made in March of 2016.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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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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DECEMBER 28, 2015

As is a tradition for socaltech, we feature reflections on the past year from those in the community all during the last week of the year. In doing so, I've been able to go deeper than just the surface layer of startup management and not only learn to get better at investing, but also to be more helpful to portfolio companies.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Jay Goss , CEO of the startup--who is a veteran startup CEO here in Southern California-- talked to us about the new startup, which was developed by the technical co-founder of AskJeeves. Jay Goss: I got involved around April of 2016, as the company was putting the final pieces together on the app. What is exactly.me?

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. That said, overall dollars invested in startups was down 12 percent year-to-year, and 22 percent down in terms of deals. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso?

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APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. What the key to make model work?

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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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APRIL 11, 2016

Goleta-based Resonant , a developer of RF radio filters used for the smartphone and other markets, is struggling, and may run out of cash, according to a report. The report, from the Pacific Coast Business Times, says Resonant only has enough cash to support operations through the second quarter of 2016.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We caught up Stewart to see how the company has significantly pivoted its vision for the company, the recent deal with Honda to offer up certified pre-owned vehicles to its users, and more. Let's start out at the top, for those who haven't been following what's been going with Fair, what is your business now?

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MARCH 9, 2017

Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment. Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. As they did that, they were not only increasingly connected internally, but people started to have remote access to those same systems.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Marcus Filipovich: I joined as Chief Executive Officer in January of 2016, however, our founders are really the pioneers in the area of using eye signs for drug enforcement. They set aside what they were working on, and started working on bringing this technology to law enforcement. How big of a market is there for all of this?

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JANUARY 13, 2017

as the venture market eased off its torrid funding pace. According to the report, for the whole of 2016, more than $69.1 Venture capital investment dollars declined in Q4, to $12.7 billion was invested across 7,751 companies, the second highest annual investment total in the past 11 years in terms of dollars.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. I started as a VC in the Bay Area shortly before the Internet bubble popped in 2000, and it was an otherworldy experience after the crash.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

John Paglia , an associate professor of finance and senior researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. The city is also home to more than 1,100 startup companies -- the type of companies with the potential for high-growth and strong return on investment.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

The startup was part of the Techstars Dubai Accelerator earlier this year. Parker Wells: We do a lot of different things, but all of them are build around one core piece of technology, which we started working on at UCLA as researchers. We keep on moving up, and already have penciled out how the technology will scale.

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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. For those of us not familiar with the market, what is it that you are adding with mPulse which isn't out there already?

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What's the background on the company, and how did you start?

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JULY 27, 2015

Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond. WE're providing a really affordable replacement for the standard banner, and which is counter to what the market is doing right now. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

KeyInfo has also been a big sponsor for socaltech over the years). For Key Information Systems, it was building, productizing, and going-to-market with a complete set of data center services. What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016? Vendors and startups will embrace OpenStack and Dockers.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

We caught up with Mike recently to better understand the company's technology, why there's an interest in energy storage by utilities, and more about that deployment. Plus, we do it in a much greener way, by not adding fossil fuel generation, not adding more peak power, and not having to add wire or dig up streets. megawatts of energy.

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