TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Existing investors DST Global, 01 Advisors, Dragoneer Investment Group, Franklin Templeton and Mubadala Investment Company too doubled down on their investments in SpotOn, joining new backers Wellington Management and Coatue Management. We are deeply invested in growing the business together. Image Credits: SpotOn.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The automaker Tuesday said its Maven car-sharing service, which launched in 2016, will shut down for good. Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently.

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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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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company saw revenues grow tenfold in the last two years and its total number of properties balloon to over 1,000, and now it will use the new funding for expansion, specifically adding more properties to its platform; and to continue developing its technology as it expands into more aspects of the property rentals business.

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socalTECH

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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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. He thought there had to be a better way for companies to manage their audit and compliance processes.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

San Diego-based antenna developer Airgain has named a trio of new executives, saying last week that it has named a new President, Senior Vice President of Engineering, and Vice President of Global Human Resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? years of software development. I can’t wait until we can bring the service to your geography. We’ve been delighted with 8VC as a co-investor.

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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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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since that time the speed at which companies have developed both technologically and from a business perspective has been nearly as staggering as the 760 mph system itself. In January 2017, HTT announced that the company was opening a research facility in Tououse, France to work on prototyping.

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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. The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger this week as Fika Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm, announced its sophomore investment fund. More changes at Y Combinator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Let me give you an example.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. We gained so much knowledge about our own capabilities and potential when we began developing KidGuard. The Fund has expertise in technology development and data management.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service. million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

MediaLab said it has “some ideas” for developing Kik going forwards, including making the app faster and reducing the amount of unwanted messages and spam bots. Heyward was an early star of the budding Los Angeles startup community with the launch of the anonymous messaging service, Whisper nearly 8 years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Document the investment types you are willing to consider. The basic categories include equity, straight debt, convertible debt, services, and agreements for future equity. Many entrepreneurs see fund raising as a part-time task, behind high-priority solution development efforts.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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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. You won’t regret it,” Koduri said. Read more about startups showcased from CES Eureka Park 2018 here.

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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. Commitment by: The National Service Alliance, Cisco, and Lumina Foundation.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

To keep pace, carriers are making strategic infrastructure investments to expand and improve coverage. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. Like all service providers, all carrier network infrastructure vendors aren’t created equal.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

” Sharper Startup Focuses Warrant Investment. “RFP and response management software combined with PreSales is a strategic area for investment at the moment for a lot of VC’s and PE companies, so it feels like Avnio is in the right place at the right time.”. However, investors have seen fit to pump $31.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. Pick your niche, and continually invest in improving your expertise and keeping up with trends. Develop the courage to move on. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/12/2017.

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APRIL 5, 2017

How did the shift come from consulting services to a product? 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. For us, LifeRay was always about how we could grow the company without taking investments.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

However, being that I started a tutoring agency when I was 18, Beverly Hills Academics, I was able to understand the logistics on how to operate hyper-locally from the beginning, so HeyTutor could spend money on developing a platform where we knew exactly what we were doing. We pay the highest, and pay really well for our industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product. This is the most common model used by online businesses and apps today, the so-called Facebook model, where your service is free, and the revenue comes from advertising. This approach doesn’t typically apply to consumer products and services.

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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. Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old., Thanks, and good luck!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Startups and SMBs have been able to take advantage of the cloud, and all of the speed and flexibility it offers, long before large enterprise companies due to strict security and privacy standards, as well as regulations for major industries like banking, healthcare, and financial services. Clients want options. ” IBM gave this example.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We had a fine business in 1-800-DENTIST, our phone-based referral service. People are all now using their mobile devices to find products and services. To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. But, over the last ten years, consumers behavior has changed so drastically.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Minnesota food and agriculture brand Land O’Lakes — yes, the one you know from butter packages — launched an accelerator in July 2017. ” The incubator had two clients at launch, and plans to offer its services to clients for a length of five years. The Land O’Lakes Dairy Accelerator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

In fact, many experienced entrepreneurs argue that constructing a business model around your solution is far more critical and difficult than developing the product. In the investment community, this work is called proving the business model. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/20/2017.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Who will be in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, National Institutes of Health, and Medicare and Medicaid? CRISPR DEVELOPMENTS. NASDAQ: MDCO ) discontinued development of experimental heart disease drug MDCO-216. 6 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. .

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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. We're also excited about the areas around artificial intelligence for certain verticals.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

The clients we have are targeting the areas those trucks are already servicing. I had already spent all this money and investment, but he had never seen the truck in person. That was October 2, 2017, which also was my birthday, and that was the best birthday present I have ever received.

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