Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million.

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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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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

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. Connectifier was developing automated software to help companies with their recruiting, and had raised around $12.0M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2012

El Segundo-based Fetch Technologies , the developer of data aggregation and analysis software which was a spinout of USC's Information Sciences Institute, has been sold to New Jersey-based Connotate. According to Connotate, former Fetch CEO Ryan Mullholland becomes President of the firm with the acquisition. in funding.

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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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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

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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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

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. Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In mid-2018, Tom Bogan was the leader of business planning software company Adaptive Insights as it planned its own next steps. 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 billion acquisition offer.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

60% of all software is bought in the U.S., Vaish is already in talks with a handful of other startups and is open to more acquisitions, he said. Many players including Coca Cola, Oyo, Samsung, Tata Group, and KFC use Haptik’s chatbots in their customer support services. so for us that market is critically important,” he said. “We

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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. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Keith Bonnici: No!

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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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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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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

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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