socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. in its seed funding round. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2015

Two, local Los Angeles area startup investors have gotten an early--and potentially, very lucrative--exit over at Wit.ai , a Bay Area startup working on natural language processing software and voice recognition technology. said today that it has been acquired by Facebook. Financial terms were not disclosed, however, Wit.ai READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets/devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2019?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers. in a seed funding round. So, operators both are getting software to run their businesses, as well as new leads. What's Swoop all about?

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. Many software companies have > 80% gross margins which is why they are more valuable than say traditional retailers or consumer product companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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