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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Once again, we'd like to thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Startups Made Simple. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Think Glendale.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. What is Tradesparq?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

It's the age of smartphones and mobile data, where there are now apps gathering an immense amount of information about where we are, what stores we visit, and what we are doing. We take mobile behavior signals, and create actionable insights to power advertising, business intelligence, and measurement.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Moviepilot , which operates an online movie discovery site, said last week that it has opened up an office on Abbot Kinney in Venice, California, as part of its expansion into Los Angeles. Moviepilot is headed by Tobi Bauckhage, and was started in Germany; the firm took $7M in May to help it expand and build its office here in Los Angeles.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Startups Made Simple. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Advertisers. Technology.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica-based Gradient X , the programmatic mobile advertising startup backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Walter Kortschak (Summit Capital), and Mark Suster, said today that it has exited its beta. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 30, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in a new startup, Backtracks , a developer of podcast analytics software. backtracks develops a podcast analytics product for audio, which helps collect behavioral information and details on the performance of podcast advertising.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

To better understand exactly where EV technology is today, we caught up with Caradoc Ehrenhalt , the CEO and founder of a Los Angeles startup, EV Safe Charge (www.evsafecharge.com), to chat a bit about his view of where EV charging technology today. Caradoc Ehrenhalt: EV Safe started when I got an electric vehicle, for the environment.

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MARCH 30, 2017

What's wrong with the online advertising industry? Initially, we were focused on adtech, but we have split up our team and initiated based on deploying our Blockchain-based protocol, called adChain. We just started the conversation. We've just started talking about our initiative, and how to bring Blockchain to the industry.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Startups Made Simple. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Technology.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Up to 90 million people are now listening into podcasts, and we have been lucky enough to find a series of producers, directors, talent, and hosts, that are truly high quality and impassioned on their subject matter. It ends up being good for both. That, of course, is what you're selling to your advertisers. Why podcasting?

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MARCH 11, 2013

Are you trying to figure out where your competitors and running in-app advertising on Android? San Diego-based WhatRunsWhere said today that it has launched a brand new service, which helps advertisers track what ads competitors are running into mobile apps for the Android operating system. Pricing on the new tool was not announced.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Our interview today is with Gabe Gottlieb , Co-founder and CEO at Santa Monica-based advertising analytics firm Pathmatics (www.pathmatics.com). Gabe Gottlieb: We provide competitive and market intelligence for online advertising. How did you start working on this? Tell us about your company? It's been a good ride.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , the newest Internet advertising startup of Jeff Green, former co-founder of AdECN, said today that it has tapped an eBay vet for its new Director of Platform Solutions. The Trade Desk said that Adrienne Buhmann, who previously was at eBay, will head up the new position. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2012

It's not an uncommon experience, and one which drove Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly to start PageWoo (www.pagewoo.com), a service which is aimed at helping businesses create mobile-friendly landing pages for their advertisements. What drove you to make this a product startup, after running an agency for several years?

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Technology.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

The top 10 companies only make up 45 percent of the entire space. In the last few years, we've seen a spurt of activity where technology has started to penetrate the industry, and has started to change it. Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages.

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APRIL 21, 2017

If you think about it today, everyone is selling through Amazon, but Amazon keeps all of that customer information. Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. How did you get into this?

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JULY 5, 2016

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you're a bricks-and-mortar retailer, looking for information on your customers, it's often very tough to figure out who's coming in the door. The startup is backed by Morpheus Ventures, NextEquity Partners, Visa, and March Capital. We caught up with Amit to hear how things are going. They ask us, where can we sign up?

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: We started the company in the summer of 2012, with five totally random people. The initial idea, was we wanted to transform what a digital display was, after seeing that all of these digital displays in the shopping mall only showed information, but did not allow you to post information. That''s ridiculous.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore (www.bitvore.com) has created a system which takes thousands of sources of data, and extracts intelligence out of it to create actionable information out of that vast stream of real time data. Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time. Why did you start in that market?

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly Analytics services allows users to see how many engaged followers a user has, audience gender, location, and other information. The new service is part of an effort by the firm to provide publishers with more information on their audiences on the Twitter micro messaging site.

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MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

To better understand exactly where EV technology is today, we caught up with Caradoc Ehrenhalt , the CEO and founder of a Los Angeles startup, EV Safe Charge (www.evsafecharge.com), to chat a bit about his view of where EV charging technology today. We started doing residential installations, and then commercial installations.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Tags: sponsor advertisement. Technology.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The company started here in 2002, and we were basically an agency. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

However, one area has mostly been ignored, which is vertically focus, business-to-business information. Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Los Angeles-based HomeMe , a new startup founded by Mark Douglas, the CEO and founder of Steelhouse, said today that it has launched into the App Store, and hopes to make it easier for renters to find apartments. Douglas remains the CEO of Steelhouse, an online advertising company which recently said it just surpassed a $130M run rate.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products.

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APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. We distill that information with very high accuracy.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

We recently spoke with the CEO and co-founder of Kixer, Keith Bonnici --most recently SVP of Business Operations at Scopely--about the startup, which recently announced a seed financing round. You see users moving to a platform that doesn''t monetize advertising as well. Why start Kixer now, and why not stay at Scopely?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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MAY 31, 2012

Earthlink founder and Southern California entrepreneur Sky Dayton is leading an angel investment in a new startup out of Stanford, which is developing a service which allows developers to track changes and extract information out of web pages. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

We spoke with Michael Tringe , one of the startup's co-founders, to learn more about what the company is getting set to launch. We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue. What is CreatorUp all about? What's your background?

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