socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software says it has acquired the operator business of Circle Media Labs , a developer of parental control software. in cash, and included customer contracts and a perpetual software license. The company says it the operator business is expected to report 2019 revenues of $4M. READ MORE>>.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2020

Glendale-based Reveleer , a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, has raised a Series C found of financing, the company said this week. The company said that its platform helps those payers and MCOs with dealing with the challenges of compliance with government programs. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2021

Irvine-based Viant Technology, a developer of advertising software, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC that it is looking to raise up to $150M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. in net income on $164M in revenues for the year ended December 31, 2019. The company reported $9.9M

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socalTECH

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. Will it be limited to a handful of niche scientific and government uses or will there be broad applications?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software that you found most interesting in 2018? Consumer companies will continue to dominate headlines, but I think the companies that shined brightest in SoCal this year were B2B software companies, many of which may have the option to go public.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. And its software monitors and manages the full spectrum of the customer relationship with that product. What is it that they want to achieve and why did they buy my product.

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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. The French-based company has been providing the underlying hardware and software needed for car-sharing services since 2006.

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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. 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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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform. Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

This year we’re in > 100+ cities and 100+ campuses and we’re operational with street teams, better software, better bikes and a more informed ridership. But what is unique about Bird is that with each generation of scooter platform we launch our unit economics get better and better.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

For the second year in a row 8 of the 10 companies selected for Techstars LA were local and we anticipate that trend continuing in 2019. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

It has inked a licensing deal with Merlin , the global agency that represents tens of thousands of independent music labels and hundreds of thousands of artists, for music from those labels to be used legally on the TikTok platform anywhere that the app is available.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From state-of-the-art clean energy solutions to breakthrough podcasting platforms, here are six tech startups you should be keeping an eye on in 2023, and beyond. million-strong market of digital nomads (up almost 10 million from 2019) has proved to be a smart move for the Austin-based company. Screenshots from Wander's mobile app.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Evelozcity rebranded as Canoo in spring 2019 and unveiled its prototype electric vehicle several months later. At CES in 2018, the company introduced its new Samsung DRVLINE platform — an “open, modular, and scalable hardware and software-based platform for the autonomous driving market.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

Incentive , the Venice-based socially powered mid-market and enterprise collaboration platform has created a secure solution that takes the pain out of collaboration by centralizing all content into one place. The platform empowers companies and their employees to work, share, communicate and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we talked with Gina Callari , the COO of RelayCars (www.relaycars.com), a unit of a larger company called EVOX Images, which has developed virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) software which lets consumers view and experience automobiles using things like Magic Leap and even just smartphone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/27/2019. Where is this effort on your priority list?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. The unique part of this company is their Internet-of-Savings® platform that helps users multiply savings for big ticket items and create a shared experience. Love Intently (Austin, TX). The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Today, we help enable returns in-person, but we also provide software for retailers that want to outsource their return portal. We feel pretty good on the growth of our locations, and we're now focused on getting all of our retailers live on the platform ahead of the busy holiday season. David Sobie: That's a great question.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

million, or $150 per record lost, according to a Ponemon Institute and IBM Security 2019 Cost of a Data Breach report. Network partners can recommend hardware and software platforms tailored to a company’s IT security and compliance needs. The average data breach costs $3.92

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . In 2019, for example, Google reported its attrition rates of Black and Latinx talent — which indicate the rate at which employees leave on an annual basis — were higher than the national average.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

Add that to the company’s expansion into new markets with strategic acquisitions to fuel development and growth in Toronto and Bogota, and it’s clear that the company is looking to make more moves in 2019. The data and analytics firm suggests that mobile gaming will capture some 60% of the overall gaming market in 2019 as well.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Pipe Technologies , which is developing a subscription financing platform to help software companies finance their businesses without debt or dilution, has raised $60M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. Pipe was founded in September 2019 by Harry Hurst, Josh Mangel, and Zain Allarakhia.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

VW Group, Intel’s computer vision subsidiary Mobileye and Champion Motors said in November they plan to deploy Israel’s first self-driving ride-hailing service in 2019 through a joint venture called New Mobility in Israel. In other micromobility news … Micromobility data platform Populus raised some skrillz — $3.1

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