socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based advertising exchange and technology developer OpenX said on Tuesday that its net revenues rose to $172M in 2017, as it saw 20 percent growth in its revenues for the fourth quarter. OpenX said the growth came from its mobile, video, and quality initiatives. OpenX is led by CEO Tim Cadogan.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2019

San Diego-based Inseego , the developer of the popular MiFi mobile hotspot devices, has gotten back on track with its release of a new hotspot for Sprint. According to Inseego, its new MiFi 8000 Mobile Hotspot will roll out beginning June 14th to Sprint customers, to provide gigabit-speed performance and enterprise security features.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2018

San Diego-based Qualcomm has negotiated a settlement in Taiwan, which will reverse most of a giant $774M fine levied against the company in 2017, reducing that fine to just $93M. Qualcomm paid $93M to Taiwan in July after an antitrust dispute with the country. Qualcomm paid $93M to Taiwan in July after an antitrust dispute with the country.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Costa Mesa-based venture capital investor CerraCap Ventures says it has seen an exit out of its investment portfolio, saying that the sale of digital gifting and exchange company Swych resulted in a 4.3X Swytch was a developer of digital gift card and mobile gifting apps, and was acquired about four weeks ago by a company called Finablr.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

According to the companies, Nadavon Capital Partners originally invested in Clubspeed in April of 2017. Clubspeed offers up an online booking engine, mobile app, secure payments, and other customer management tools for famil entertainment centers. Nadavon is based in Newport Beach.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

It’s a strategy that has now netted the company $33 million in financing led by the Silicon Valley-based investment firm Altos Ventures and New York’s Left Lane Capital. Founded by David Cabello, Black and Mobile was started in 2017 by the 22 year-old college dropout.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Michael Terpin: My personal biggest news in 2017 was moving to Puerto Rico. Whether it was sticking with bitcoin and blockchain as a sector when naysayers abounded, working to develop talent on my team, or investing in travel and education as a vehicle for personal and professional growth, I find one generally reaps what they sow.

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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.” In acquiring Kik, the holding company is expanding its mobile app portfolio. Heyward did not respond to a request for comment.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Now following a $62 million round of funding led by Battery Ventures last month, the company is worth roughly $800 million, according to people with knowledge of the investment, and is on its way to becoming Los Angeles’ next billion-dollar business.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. Fund I was fully deployed by June 30th of 2017, and we went out to raised Fund II, which was a wet close, where you invest as you close. Those investments have really broken out. They're all big winners.

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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. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app. Rob Freelen: Focus. He earned a B.A.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fieldwire , whose mobile app helps builders and construction crews coordinate their work, announced today it has lined up a total of $33.5 million in a Series B funding round in 2017, and it has just added another $25 million from a Series C funding round led by veteran Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The car-sharing service has struggled for months, long before COVID-19 upended the “shared” mobility sector. For instance, the company launched in 2017 Maven Reserve in Los Angeles and San Francisco to allow customers to rent its GM-branded vehicles for a month at a time. The Verge was the first to report the story.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2019

and raised some capital from the Los Angeles-based investment firm, Science. Earlier this year, Spartan, the French manufacturer of a silver-lined underwear designed to block EMF radiation from cell phones and wireless routers, relocated to the U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company. After about a year of research, the company launched with an initial investment of $1.2 ” As a result of the investment, Fika Ventures co-founder and managing partner Eva Ho will take a seat on the company’s board of directors.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In January 2017, HTT announced that the company was opening a research facility in Tououse, France to work on prototyping. Subsequently, Hyperloop One began testing their full scale system in May 2017 and continued tests throughout the year. In July 2017, Musk announced that he had acquired a verbal permit to build a tunnel from D.C.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? In healthcare, I think the impact of mobility is still in its infancy as far as the enterprise is concerned. Prior to that, Brad worked for investment banking corporation Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. READ MORE>>.

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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. Setting up the device is very easy and you can start your cooking from their app on your mobile. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. Lawrence C.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. The startups selected for this year’s list began, as it did last year, with a master list of companies screened by the San Diego Venture Group for its annual venture summit.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. We provide everything from your website, to your mobile app, to your kiosk in an in-preson environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2017

It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. Mobile devices and apps enhance social interactivity. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 07/30/2017.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We The Consumer Technology Association estimates that nearly 44 million voice-enabled assistants will be sold this year in the United States. We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website.

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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. Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The pervasive Internet and mobile device access allows instant communication of new options, total sharing of customer experiences, and mass customization, on a world-wide scale. Basic business theory states that businesses have three clear paths to success: cut prices, be more efficient, or invest in sustained technological advantages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). There are new investment vehicles, like crowdfunding, which gives everyone a chance to own a piece of a new opportunity.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

People are all now using their mobile devices to find products and services. Howe we started Densitry.com, is in September of 2017, I spent three hours talking to the CEO of our parent company, and we went through it, and I explained to him what was going on and why we needed Dentistry.com. That inconvenience is a really big piece.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. Last year 300,000+ American angels invested an estimated $25 billion in more than 70,000 startup deals. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. The average amount raised also increased to $175 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

We all want to get out there ahead of the crowd, and invest in that truly innovative idea that seems so obvious in its appeal that you wonder why nobody ever thought of it before. Mobile apps for everything and anything. million mobile apps available to download for iOS devices, and even more for Android devices.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Mutual funds had begun marking down the valuations of their private investments in high-profile deals. And my guess is the market will normalize throughout 2016 and by 2017 much of the shake out will have taken place. One by one they “loved us” but just didn’t know if they could get there in our timescales. Fall turned to winter.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

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