socalTECH

APRIL 9, 2019

EvoNexus did not say how much funding companies joining the incubator will gain, or the structure of the incubator. According to EvoNexus, the incubator will work with startups focused on technology areas that will impact financial services companies of all sizes and the customers they serve.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2020

in a funding, and launched a new, mobile fitness app which combines live instruction with real time sensing of motion and metrics. The startup--cofounded by Dr. Masaki Nakada and Robert Jadon--says its combines artificial intelligence with live personal trainers, and runs on the iPhone.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

The companies who join the startup incubator gain "collaboration opportunities" with RBC and Franklin Templeton, which EvoNexus says early business unit exposure, technology steering, and potential beta customer trials and early stage funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you an entrepreneur, looking for capital here in Southern California? It's turning out to be a great time for entrepreneurs looking for funding in the region, with not only high profile exits of such companies as Snap Inc., but a bunch of new, early stage investors looking to seed or fund the next big tech success story.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. To learn about the new fund, we sat down with Jamie Montgomery , one of the fund's co-founders, to hear about March Capital's strategy and the new fund.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2018

Irvine-based Syntiant , a developer of semiconductors used for "edge computing" and machine learning applications, has raised a Series A round of funding, led by Intel Capital, Syntiant said on Tuesday. The size of the funding round was not disclosed. Syntiant's CEO is Kurt Busch.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2020

Pasadena-based QLess , a developer of artificial intelligence software for managing lines, says it has scored a number of wins with local governments, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company says it uses artificial intelligence to help drive its mobile tool. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

San Diego-based Tourmaline Labs , a startup developing location-aware smartphone software for mobile apps hsa raised a round of funding, and appointed a new CEO. Size and details of the funding were not announced. Brungger was previously CEO of Spireon, and also served as EVP & GM at Mitchell International. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Carlsbad-based Zingle , a developer of mobile messaging and customer experience software for the hospitality, travel , and retail markets, has been acquired by San Francisco-based Medallia , a provider of customer experience management software. Medallia said it will pay approximately $42M in cash for Zingle.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Los Angeles-based Dave , a developer of artificial intelligence for preventing bank overdraft fees, said this morning that it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Mark Cuban, SV Angel, The Chernin Group, along with Jonathan Kraft, Skip Paul and Diplo.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Freeletics , headquartered in Munich, Germany, is today announcing its first round of private capital after bootstrapping since 2013. As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99 for one month or $74.99

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

Many online business today have a big problem: users are increasingly coming to their websites as mobile users, not desktop users, which means lower ad revenues and conversions. How do you make those mobile users just as profitable as desktop users? All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Los Angeles-based Freeletics , a startup focused on digital fitness, has raised $45M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led FitLab, Causeway Media Partners and JAZZ Venture Partners, and also included Courtside Ventures, Elysian Park Ventures, ward.ventures, plus Tony Robbins. 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. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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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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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Now following a $62 million round of funding led by Battery Ventures last month, the company is worth roughly $800 million, according to people with knowledge of the investment, and is on its way to becoming Los Angeles’ next billion-dollar business.

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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.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. “We saw the impact that the rise of mobile was having on linear. “We looked at mobile and we saw the massive animation gap. Its show, the Danogs, has 4.5

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2017

SoftBank’s new Vision Fund has led a $114 million investment to advance the company’s artificial intelligence technology. was the only other investor in the Series C funding round. SoftBank’s share of the funding (the split was not disclosed) came from what has been described as the biggest tech fund in history.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6 Barnehama was tight-lipped about the specifics of the technology that Elementary is using for its robotic stack.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Mountain View, CA-based Esperanto is vying with a host of competitors to create new processors for high-order tasks like machine learning and deep learning, while also minimizing power consumption. Esperanto plans to use its new influx of capital to produce its first generation of 7-nanometer chips.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

First, entrepreneurs vying to invent self-driving vehicles, virtual assistants, and intelligent industrial machines created a hunger for more powerful semiconductors that could enable scattered devices to take over sophisticated calculations powered by artificial intelligence software.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Palo Alto-based company uses emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology to tackle pressing questions in cancer care. This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. Screenshots from Wander's mobile app. million in funding through investors like Combinator and Adjacent.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Certona describes itself as an “omnichannel” vendor—meaning its technology enables retailers to collect consumer data across online, mobile, e-mail, call center, and in-store interactions. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. Can you talk about how your company is funded?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. This is a pretty big round and is a lot of funding--what are you using it for? So, with funding in hand, what are your particular goals in the next few months?

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2016

With 360flys’ newest camera, they make it easy to capture video in stitchless 360-degrees and easily edit it with their mobile app. The Series C round will be used to continue their research and development with a greater focus on machine learning, product integrations, and hardware integrations.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. How do you discover the right people to follow?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 20, 2017

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA ), the Santa Clara, CA-based maker of specialized graphics processing chips that have become workhorses in artificial intelligence, has joined a group of investors that put $20 million into TuSimple, a Chinese startup developing self-driving technology for long-haul trucks.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. Keep it coming.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Mitek Systems, which is being targeted for takeover by a subsidiary of Elliott, billionaire Paul Singer’s activist hedge fund, has unanimously rejected its $380 million offer. ASG offered to pay $10 per share for Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK ), which has developed technology that is used for mobile document capture and digital identity verification.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily do with your smartphone or tablet. They want to remain relevant.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

million in a Series D investment round led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek. That brings the total funding raised by the Redwood City, CA-based company to $160 million. Poshmark , a social media e-retail company, has raised $87.5

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies. All this is done while they guide startups through other external challenges such as fundraising droughts and overall market downturns.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Convoy , an online marketplace that connects shippers with freight truck fleets and independent drivers, announced today it raised $185 million in a Series C fundraising round led by CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says.

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