socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Today's contribution is from Alon Goren , the co-founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups. Alon Goren: This year, my partners, Josef Holm (Krowdster), Darren Marble (CrowdfundX) and I started Crowd Invest Summit. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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socalTECH

MAY 31, 2019

the parent firm of Snapchat , has sold off Placed , a developer of location intelligence and offline attribution software tools. had acquired Placed in 2017, paying $135.2M The acquisition by Foursquare came after it raised a new $150M investment from the Raine Group. Los Angeles-based Snap Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund. Fika invests roughly half of its capital exclusively in startups headquartered in LA, with a particular fondness for B2B, enterprise and fintech companies.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 The new investment follows Scopely’s milestone of achieving more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Empirico, a biotech that has developed tools to analyze genomics data and use those insights to identify potential therapeutic targets, has signed a collaboration deal with antisense drug developer Ionis Pharmaceuticals that includes a $10 million equity investment.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017. “The energy is super tiny. It’s immaterial.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Our learnings and developments from Maven will go on to benefit and accelerate the growth of other areas of GM business.”. Maven developed and launched a smartphone app, which was used by customers to search for and reserve a vehicle, unlock the door and remotely start, cool or heat the car. . Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

“Whether it be a passion for an obscure manga or your favorite football team, Kik has shown an incredible ability to provide a platform for new friendships to be forged through your mobile phone.” . “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? This is a trend from 2016 that should gain momentum in 2017. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year, Embodied announced a $22 million round for its personal robotics platform focused on healthcare and wellness, while InVia Robotics collected $20 million for its own take on the robotics industry. That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

founded in summer of 2017. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. How we do hat, is we've built an analytics platform, Daasity, for data-as-a-service. At the same time, our first platform, Shopify, completely exploded.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018. Anna Barber is the Managing Director at Techstars LA where she invests in B2B and B2C early stage startups. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Y Combinator, the popular accelerator program and investment firm announced this week that it has promoted longtime partner Geoff Ralston to president. Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud-native development .

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

alone in 2017 (not to mention the roughly 32 million consoles sold at the market’s peak in 2008), according data on the Statista website. . That experience, a more extravagant investment than Survios’ humble multi-bay storefront, was one of the first in the U.S. The benefits of location-based experiences are clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Rose, according to his latest book, “ Angel Investing.” Investing in startups is a numbers game.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. So, in 2017, we though it was very important for us to understand the unit economics. The second thing, is tools. That's the Visa round.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Long hours in co-working offices with CEOs fresh from university with big ideas and a lot of vague, nebulous chat about platforms. Back in 2017, the New York Times opinion section was graced with an article entitled: Jerks and the Start-Ups They Ruin. Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in?

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

Robbie Cabral, CEO and founder of Benjilock , the first biometric and rechargeable smart lock, is a veteran to Eureka Park and recipient of the 2017 CES Innovation Award. Invest in your company’s future by joining CTA. Get Your Playbook Together. You won’t regret it,” Koduri said. Learn more about becoming a CTA Member here.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. How is it you made it to $100M in revenues without outside investment? However, they tend to be maverick developers in a large organization, or working independently. Can you explain that in a more concrete way?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2014

In 2014, Sodexo committed $1 Billion to creating a more inclusive global supply chain for its hospitality products, forming partnerships between its local operations and small to medium sized businesses run by women in the developing world. Partners(s): Iqbal Paroo; Andrew Adelson; Alan J. Commitment by: Bluedrop Learning Networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

“With the delivery of Bluemix Local , IBM now has the broadest spectrum of hybrid cloud capability in the industry,” said Steve Robinson, general manager, Cloud Platform Services, IBM. At the push of button Relay can ensure data that flowsthrough all cloud environments across all geographies is current and synced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product. Advantages for your business include a stable revenue stream, customer retention, and increasing customer investment over time. It is a very competitive approach, but requires design and development effort for value at every level.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. Greathouse: Z Supply has developed a highly successful network of boutique retailers. Secondly, eCommerce is a powerful marketing platform for us.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities. Are you looking to build a big platform, or build something for a $100M exit?

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