socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Seismic said the buy will power a new integrated offering it is calling Seismic LiveSocial, which will use the artificial intelligence (AI) engine created by Grapveine6. Seismic recently raised $92M in a Series F funding, and is led by co-founder and CEO Doug Winter.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

TRASH — using this machine learning-based video editing toolkit, users can quickly create and edit high-quality, short-form video. Since launching the platform in 2018, startups from the Snap accelerator have gone on to acquisition (like Stop, Breathe, and Think, which was bought by Meredith Corp.)

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Will Roper, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L). Red 6 just raised $6M in a funding round which was led Red Cell, Snowpoint Ventures, and Octave, and also included Moonshots Capital, Irongate, TR Aeroventures, and Marlinspike.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. We spoke with Retina's CEO, Michael Greenberg , to learn more. We see you do that through machine learning and artificial intelligence?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based ZipRecruiter , which operates an artificial intelligence-driven online employment marketplace, has named three new, high profile board members, the company said last week. The company just raised a $156M funding round in October. Ian Siegel is CEO of ZipRecruiter. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company’s mobile application lets users take a photo of any bill and then its artificial intelligence-powered “bill-understanding technology” makes sure it gets paid (after a user has provided payment details, of course). Our cost of customer acquisition is very low relative to a lot of fintechs,” he said.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based FanAI , a venture-backed developer of artificial intelligence software used for sponsorship engagement and analytics, has acquired Waypoint Media , the two announced this morning. Financial details of the buy were not announced. FanAI is led by CEO and founder Johannes Waldstein.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Costa Mesa-based Connectifier , the artificial intelligence software developer led by John Jersin, has been acquired by LinkedIn , the companies said Thursday afternoon. in funding from such investors as Galeo Ventures, Goldcrest Investments, Okapi Venture Capital, and True Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall. Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity remained front and center in tech, as new.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2012

According to Connotate, former Fetch CEO Ryan Mullholland becomes President of the firm with the acquisition. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. in funding. The firm originally was developed from the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute's Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes. With a formalized venture fund, Microsoft now has a seat at the table.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

But it turns out VCs weren’t the only driving force behind the change in fundraising prospects for the young companies now inventing chips suited for artificial intelligence tasks, and daring to compete with giant chipmakers such as Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA ), says Silicon Valley Bank ’s Matt Trotter.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In contrast, San Francisco-based RichRelevance, founded in 2006, has raised nearly $102 million from 11 investors through nine funding rounds, according to CrunchBase. Salesforce added another digital commerce giant earlier this year with the acquisition of Burlington, MA-based Demandware in a deal valued at roughly $2.8

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. Moving forward, this recent funding is going towards creating more personalization around that text experience. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Vaish is already in talks with a handful of other startups and is open to more acquisitions, he said. “For that, we need team and dedicated operation there. You can’t expand in the U.S. sitting in India, or on a plane.”. Other than that, the firm is currently exploring and developing voice bots as it expands its offerings.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. I had seen how things were working over there, and went through a number of acquisition.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

billion acquisition offer. But like Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” the big enterprise software company Workday lured Adaptive Insights away from the IPO altar with a more attractive deal—a $1.55 Pleasanton, CA-based Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY ) wanted to marry Adaptive’s financial decision-making applications with its own suite of.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Talk a bit about where the company was at the time of the acquisition? Keith Bonnici: Yes, only about $950,000. Keith Bonnici: No!

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. Saudi Arabia uses your gas dollars to fund solar energy Health Cisco helps build first U.S. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Enterprise.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The company recently closed an impressive $19 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to build out the engineering teams. In her interview, Eisnor discusses the nature of user acquisition, and the growing connection between cars and mobile apps. It currently offers language provision for 54 languages.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Another week of White House chaos and American gun violence. Amid it all, we tried to parse what the Trump administration’s 2019 budget proposal meant for the biomedical and life-science worlds.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.

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