TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The firm has largely flown under the radar, but it has been investing in startups applying innovations in automation, artificial intelligence, computer vision, computational biology, material sciences and robotics to industrial products and processes for the past two years. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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MAY 17, 2018

El Segundo-based CUJO AI , a startup developing artificial intelligence software for detecting security attacks on consumer networking infrastructure, has raised a Series B funding round, the company said this morning. CUJO AI offers up its AI software to network operators, to help secure customers. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

The company has such customers as Dish Network, U.S. Bank, Dignity Health, and Gusto, and says its tools now use artificial intelligence to discover the purchasing intent of consumers. The company--which is now led by CEO Gregg Johnson--said it now plans to double its headcount over the next three years. READ MORE>>.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2017

According to Jones, SpringRole is the first professional reputation network powered by artificial intelligence and blockchain. The new startup--the first Blockchain startup out of Science--lets employers and educators verify information on user profiles, and also uses Blockchain to weight endorsements of others in your network.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M The startup said it is developing AI agents which will learn users' travel preferences via their calendars, emails, and photos, as well as their social media and in-app interactions. READ MORE>>.

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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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JUNE 13, 2019

According to the TCA, its angel network members invested $2.5M Atlazo is developing systems-on-a-chip technology specifically aimed at use in the hearing aid, wearable, and healthcare IoT market, with ability to provide AI and machine learning support for bio-sensing and other applications. in the round.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model , where the machine is capable of creating new text, images and videos based on simple human input. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

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socalTECH

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. It's been exciting, being able to start a company with revenue, as opposed to venture capital money, and to build the company the old-fashioned way, with revenues.

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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. Or, depending on your definition, perhaps as early as Space Ghost Coast to Coast , the mid-1990s Cartoon Network series featuring an animated superhero interviewing real celebrities.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. Ginkgo Bioworks raises capital at a $4B valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2023

This requires proactive networking and active participation in relevant industry conferences and forums. In my view, a relatively recent technology which has already transformed many businesses is “ artificial intelligence (AI) ,” yet the potential is even larger. Build more relationships with experts and peers.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. What is TrackStreet?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service.

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APRIL 8, 2013

What''s the idea behind the incubator--which gives its startups $20,000 in capital, education, mentoring, working space, and more--and how is it tied to USC? We spoke with Ashisih Soni , who heads up the incubator, to learn more, and why the two, very notable investors are backing the effort. We have a very large Ph.D.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. So, where's the company now?

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MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). We sat down with Derek to learn more about the new $5M fund and what it's all about. Tell us about the new fund?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Eslambolchi, who had served as a LonoCloud advisor and CEO, told Caldwell he had an idea for a cybersecurity startup that would use analytic software and machine learning technology to monitor the data flowing in and out of networks for anything that looks out of the ordinary. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

David is an award-winning entrepreneur, and often described as an early revolutionary in the telecom industry, based on early innovation in fiber networks, cable TV systems, and international communications. The diversity of ideas, cultures, and motivations is a powerful change agent. Achieving the impossible is within reach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

I’m not looking for a personal guess, but some real homework done via networking and the Internet to see what other companies pay for the same role. Then look ahead to assess the likelihood that your job could be eliminated with new technology, artificial intelligence, or robots.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S. Accel led the B, Morgan Stanley the C and now HIG the D. Over the past 2.5

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? Kaaan Jemili: At uCast, we have a rich solution that encompasses multiple business models around deliver content. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015. Our panelists include: Alyse Killeen – Early Stage Venture Capital Investor and Associate with March Capital Partners. Silicon Valley Bank.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

The San Jose, CA-based company, begun in 2003 by four co-founders who bootstrapped its funding, has built a customer base of 1,100 firms including Google, GM, Siemens, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Juniper Networks. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. in a seed funding round.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

With its new funding, Seattle-based Convoy plans to continue expanding its network of customers and truckers to more U.S. With the online network covering more ground, it can offer more options. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2019

CyberX, an industrial “Internet-of-things” security startup, has raised $18 million in a funding round led by the venture arm of chip-maker Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) and Inven Capital, a cleantech and new energy fund based in Prague, the Czech Republic.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. However, if you’re going to start a company and be an entrepreneur, you need to network and you have to hustle. AI : artificial intelligence.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

That's securing the network, looking at endpoints, and making other security investments across the board, and on such things like mobile device management for mobile phones. We're looking to see if a phone number has been ported recently, or if it's coming from a virtualized network. You might remember Quest Software and Vinny Smith.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

The Seattle e-commerce giant is “a hefty competitor, but that doesn’t mean brands and retailers don’t have the ability to fight back,” says Kay Koplovitz, co-founder and managing partner of Springboard Growth Capital in New York. Commerce Department.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. Social networking. With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Here’s a quick snapshot of what you’ll learn: Aneil Mallavarapu Blipboard – a free mobile map where local “gurus” clue you in about interesting things in your city. Mallavarapu calls Blipboard a social map that gives you location based alerts in a follower network, not unlike Twitter’s model.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

This channel of our website, with its own home page, will feature all articles about these subjects and related topics from across our 11-market network. Xconomy editors around our network will be contributing to the new channel. and Cybersecurity. Today we have three articles to kick off our coverage.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This dedicated portion of our website, featuring its own home page, will bring together all articles about education and edtech from across our 11-market network. to find all articles on this vital subject from across our network. Agtech and Food, and Cybersecurity. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 15, 2019

AlwaysAI says it is getting ready to sell its software for enterprise developers looking to make applications that use deep learning to better process the immense amount of data from embedded devices, such as cameras, drones, wearables, and robots—and announced Tuesday it has raised $4 million to commercialize the platform.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading.

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