TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

The Grand Challenge series brings together companies developing new transportation or airspace management technologies, the Agency said. The idea is to bring companies to collaborate and also give regulatory agencies a window into the technologies and how they may work in concert to bring air mobility to the masses in the coming years.

Santa Monica

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009. How do we plan to do it?

Startup

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2013

The United Talent Agency is ramping up its outreach to early stage, digital media companies, with a new hire from the Los Angeles technology industry. The UTA has already been very active in approaching the startup commmunity, most recently backing the USC Viterbi Startup Garage with Kleiner Perkins.

Invest

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Santa Barbara-based C-Zero, a startup developing natural gas decarbonization technology--based on research out of UCSB--has raised $11.5M The company said the funding will go towards accelerating its first commercial-scale deployment of its technology. The company said it is actively hiring in Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

Although I’m not an aficionado of checklists in general, I really appreciate one he has included for keeping up with some of the latest technological trends that are reshaping business strategies, which should be the driver for startups to fill in the gaps. Are you driving the technology, or is it driving you? Cloud Computing.

Technology

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2018

California Lutheran University has been particularly active engaging with the startup and technology industry in Ventura County, and runs the Hub101 startup incubator and coworking space in Westlake Village, one of the most active locations for startup events and the local startup and tech community in the county.

Westlake Village

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Because it’s video it is understood so poorly by the normal tech elite but the company has an amazing combination of content production, marketing, talent management and technology (tech team of nearly 60) and I can’t think of a better partner and home to develop this great company than Disney. I’m already back to work.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In fact, it's one of the top five tech hubs, according to technology workers looking for job opportunities. We see it as a place with lots of technology companies hiring talent, lots of job seekers looking for opportunities, plus the cost of living in Los Angeles is actually a bit lower than other markets, such as the Bay Area.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2014

Pentland has been called the " Godfather of Wearable Technologies ". reQall is developing software which runs on Google Glass, smartphones, and other devices and helps people better manage their daily activities and communications. reQall''s headquarters are in Moffett Field, but Machiraju is a Ventura County resident. READ MORE>>.

Ventura

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based DASH Systems , a developer of technology that allows for precision airdrop of deliveries from cargo aircraft, has raised $8M in a seed funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by 8VC, and also included Tusk Venture Partners, Loup Ventures, Trust Ventures, Perot Jain, and MiLA Capital.

Technology

TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

There will be other chances to get the timing down, but for the first concert in Los Angeles, concertgoers were prompted to launch the SNKRS app and try and snag a pair of the limited edition shoes well before the activation actually went live. In April, Nike launched the first sneaker that’s integrated with its NikeConnect technology.

Los Angeles

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here are my key recommendations for how to prepare and what to do in more mundane business environments and organizations: Make sure your activities are aligned with business goals. Personal accountability must be aligned with business requirements, or your performance will never be appreciated.

Activity

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Irvine-based Cosemi Technologies has sold off its photodetector chip business to Avago Technologies , and is refocusing its business on "active optical cables", the company said over the last few weeks. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Avago is a unit of Broadcom Ltd. READ MORE>>.

Activity

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

Technology. And since I was 13 years old I have been accustomed to the debate about the limitations of technology or rather the downsides of being overly obsessed with gadgets, devices, software or applications. But I realized that one are that technology was having an unhealthy impact on my life and that was in the bedroom.

Mobile

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The worlds of technology, startups, finance, and business have long been criticized for lack of women, and the effort here is one of the few in Southern California trying to actively change that landscape. The effort looks to be the only effort to help startups led by women in the local industry. READ MORE>>.

Competition

TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion dollar acquisition ) think that its time to take technology where it’s never gone before — into targeted, direct mail campaigns using the best ad-targeting that money can buy.

Dollar Shave Club

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

Technical Review

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This is our second year of creating our list of the top 50 people to watch in Southern California''s technology industry, and it was NOT an easy task. As we found last year, it''s a tough, unforgiving task to narrow down a list of the folks in Southern California''s technology industry to just fifty to watch. Will Kassoy , AdColony.

Southern California

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

We've attempted to do that for the last three years, trying to ferret out exactly who the people--not companies--are to watch in the region's technology industry. This list--like any list--is highly subjective, and we've undoubtedly left out many worthy people on this list.

SoCalTech

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? That you cant do it alone.

Startup

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2021

Los angeles-based Silvus Technologies, a startup developing radio frequency (RF) spectrum scanning technology, has scored $1M from a Phase Three DARPA contract, the company said today. Silvus said its technology provides "extremely fast" spectrum scanning in a form factor the size of an iPhone.

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

You must invest in technology. They might spend actively on SEM (Google AdWords) if they can prove that the CAC (customer acquisition cost) is lower than the LTV (lifetime value) of a customer and the payback is < a given time period (say 1 year) or set number of purchases (1-3) until break-even.

SEM

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Earlier this month, Los Angeles became the latest city to task its various departments with prepping a feasibility study for deploying new software and monitoring technologies to better account for its carbon footprint.

Los Angeles

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Want to be an entrepreneur?

Santa Barbara

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. Everybody now knows that LA produced SnapChat, Tinder and Maker Studios.

Marketing

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

Company

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I am chairman of the Technology Division of the ABL Organization, a roundtable organization with multiple CEO roundtables of about twelve members each, meeting monthly. How much time do you devote to each type of activity? It is from over a thousand of these CEO presentations over the years that I attempt to make these generalities.

Class

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2020

Los Angeles-based Kernel , a startup developing "brain recording" technology which monitors magnetic fields and neural activity in the brain, has raised $53M in a Series C funding round, the company announced this morning. Kernel says it has developed brain recording technologies, called Flow and Flux. blood flow).

Activity

TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

TechCrunch surveyed some of the city’s leading investors in sectors like property technology and cannabis to get their take on how the city may survive — and potentially thrive — in a new era ushered in by the response to the pandemic. How do you think COVID-19 will change entrepreneurial activity in Los Angeles?

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I’ll still work with Kara managing the next few funds, but I’ve already been pushing for our firm to do more to diversify our activities and this will allow me to focus on some of that. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect.

Venture Capital

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A well-performing application will not slow, block, or otherwise frustrate the fulfillment of requests based on other users’ concurrent activities. If your application is in the known low-performance tier, the only advantage of high-performance foundation technologies (all else being equal) would be reducing long term hosting costs.

Web

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today. For example, Orange County with medical devices.

Pasadena

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , the nonprofit which runs competitions to encourage the development of new technology to solve some of the world's problems, has put its efforts behind forest health, saying it has put together an outline of potential breakthroughs required for healthier forest ecosystems.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. Technology pilots. They believe in you above all else.

Help

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2013

This is part of a series that describes a sales methodology for technology companies or frankly many other types of companies, too. Every company is inundated with products and technology so inertia takes over. In order for somebody with IA to be your champion he has to be actively helping you through the sales process.

Sales

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2020

Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it’s little wonder that there’s something of a boom in investments in technology companies servicing the market coming from the region. billion, active in the real estate industry in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles