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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

According to CrowdStrike, it received the highest overall rating among vendors named a 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Endpoint Protection Platforms. Crowdstrike's flagship platform, Falcon, is used for endpoint protection in corporate systems. CrowdStrike said Gartner gave it a 4.9

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to Netflix, it is shutting down its services ahead of Nintendo's announced closing of the Wii Shop Channel on Nintendo Wii in 2019. Netflix said that services on the console will only be available until January 31, 2019.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Via also partners with cities and transportation authorities, giving clients access to their platform to deploy their own shuttles. Austin’s Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority also uses the Via platform to power the city’s Pickup service. in early 2019.

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JULY 27, 2020

The company says the release simplifies previously complex processes and makes data accessible across more platforms. Growth Partners, Accel, and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, and last raised a round back in October of 2019. Invoca is backed by Upfront Ventures, H.I.G. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 7, 2020

2019 was all about building the best real estate website platform in the sector and I’m so proud of what our team was able to accomplish. Our focus was on how to make beautiful, functional and lead-generating sites that were easily customizable to fit the agent’s needs and demands, and we did just that.”.

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APRIL 29, 2020

According to Ford's Lincoln arm, "Lincoln and Rivian have decided not to pursue development of a fully electric vehicle based on Rivian's skateboard platform," although Lincoln said they will continue to work together on other projects. billion in funding in December of 2019 , from such investors as T. Rivian received $1.3

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MAY 28, 2019

Qualcomm and Lenovo said they have rolled out a new "5G PC" which uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform, Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chip specifically aimed at being used to power PCs. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

The company first announced the Vegas expansion in July 2019. “First the ability to securely, consistently and immediately enable and disable game development platforms; and second, our ability to expand and contract our infrastructure based on demand.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Joe Bayen: Grow Credit is the first platform to allow consumers to establish their credit, for free, using their subscription payments for services such as Netflix, HBO, or whatnot. Joe Bayen: We launched the platform officially, with our free version, in December of 2019. How long has the service been around?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The addition adds Delaware, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Maine, Idaho, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, Montana, West Virginia and Wyoming to its platform. HyreCar--which is publicly listed--said it expects the expansion to add at least 25 percent in terms of incremental 2019 revenues.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Theta Lake , a developer of security and compliance software which connects with Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and other collaboration platforms, has raised $12.7M The company's seed funding was in January of 2019. in a Series A funding. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren also wanted regulation in place that would block companies making over $25 billion that operate as social media or search platforms or marketplaces from owning companies that also sell services on those marketplaces. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. Often that barrier is licensing.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Whatnot offers up a live stream shopping platform and marketplace aimed at collectors and enthusiasts. The startup is led by Grant Lafontaine and Logan Head, and was founded in 2019. The company said it has raised a total of $225M now in funding.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The company says it the operator business is expected to report 2019 revenues of $4M. The company will use the buy to enhance its existing SafePath Connect Life Platform, which it sells to cable, broadband, mobile, and fixed line operators. Smith Micro said the asset deal was worth approximately $13.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Oneal has been at Blizzard since January, serving as Executive Vice President of Development, and was previously head of Vicarious Visions; Ybarra has been at Blizzard since 2019, serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Platform and Technology.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The company said that its platform helps those payers and MCOs with dealing with the challenges of compliance with government programs. Reveleer said that in 2019, it had more than $10M in revenues; the company is led by CEO Jay Ackerman. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The first content on the platform is targeted for early 2019. According to Fiction Riot, its new app, Ficto , will offer up subscription access to series from professional producers, writers, actors and artists, designed specifically for mobile usage. The new startup is led by CEO and co-founder Mike Esola.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

PCH) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired both alcohol delivery and logistics platform Saucey , as well as cannabis delivery and retail software developer Emjay. Emjay was founded in 2019, with Vaughn and Leeb taking over operations of the company in January of 2020. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Saturday, February 23, 2019 -- Quantum Computing: From Physics Lab to Applications. And what of software platforms will be needed to leverage these devices? Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Quantum computing is moving from lab experiments to real devices; but as with other disruptive computing innovations, what will be applications be?

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Viant's flagship software, Adelphic, is an enterprise software platform that is used by marketers and their advertising agencies to centralize the planning, buying and measurement of their advertising across desktop, mobile, connected TV, linear TV, streaming audio and digital billboards. The company reported $9.9M

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 15, 2021

Saltbox opened its first facility — a 27,000-square-foot location — in its home base of Atlanta in late 2019, filling it within two months. “We’re in that sweet spot between co-working and raw warehouse space,” said CEO Scriven, a former Palantir executive and Techstars managing director.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Maven then launched a service in summer 2018 in Chicago, Detroit and Ann Arbor that let owners rent out their personal GM-branded vehicles through its Maven car-sharing platform. The service’s demise seemed to begin after the company lost its CEO Julia Steyn in January 2019.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Vulog announced Tuesday during Automobility LA that Hyundai will use its technology platform for a car-sharing pilot that will launch in Los Angeles at the end of 2019 and will eventually grow to 300 vehicles. One of the efforts under MoceanLab is Mocean Carshare, the car-sharing service that will use Vulog’s technology platform.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Carlsbad-based satellite operator ViaSat 's new satellite platform, the ViaSat-3, which it announced earlier this week, will support 4K video streaming, and more than 100 Megabits per second residential Internet, according to the firm.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 -- LAVA Healthcare Presents: The ins-and-outs of celebrity partnerships and how it can increase your company's value. Discover how to navigate generational market complexity as Millennials and Gen Z look more to digital platforms and social media for healthcare guidance.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The merger is the first step of what’s a planned rollup strategy for PCH (also the nickname for the highway that runs along the California Coast), which aims to be the leading vertically integrated vice platform focusing on e-commerce, delivery logistics, and cross industry behavioral insights.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. It only happens when the margins get tight.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

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. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Investors from the latest Vision Fund first reached out to Canter shortly after the company announced its last round of funding in 2019.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2020

A social media platform used to match advertisers with thousands of influencers has been hacked. But in October 2019, the company’s entire backend database was stolen in a data breach. “We have just now become aware of this data breach that occurred in October 2019,” he told TechCrunch in an email Thursday.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and InvestorHunt.

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