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AUGUST 13, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital is the lead investor in a $51M, Series C funding round for Uniphore , which also included Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures), Sistema Asia, CXO Fund, ITP, Iron Pillar, Patni Family, and others. March Capital's investment in Uniphore was led by Sumant Mandal.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Venice, California-based Thankful, a new artificial intelligence software startup focused on customer service, announced this morning that it has raised $12M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Alpha Edison, and also included Bonfire Ventures, Ten-One-Ten, Greycroft, Omega, and Miramar Ventures.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

ServiceNow , the developer of information technology service management software which has major operatinos in San Diego, has acquired Mountain View-based Passage AI , a developer of conversational AI tools. Passage AI was founded in 2016 and had received funding from Blumberg Capital, Storm Ventures, Engineering Capital, 11.2

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Today, we share the thoughts of Aaron Fyke , the founder and Managing Director of Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com), a venture capital firm in the energy and sustainability space. With support from prior backers of mine, Thin Line Capital was launched. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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JUNE 29, 2017

Core Innovation Capital. Managing Directors: Tx Zhuo and Eva Ho Investment interests: Data, artificial intelligence-enabled technologies, and automation being applied to enterprise software, financial services, marketplace, and digital health. Moonshots Capital. www.corevc.com. Fund size: $100M fund. HashTagOne.

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MAY 17, 2017

San Diego-based TealTech Capital , a new, $60M venture investment fund backed by Torrey Pines Investment, has launched its new investment fund, and made its first investment. TealTech said today that it has made is first investment, in TealNet Mobile Medical Office (MMO) , a startup focused on point-of-care diagnostics and telemedicine.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

El Seguno-based SmartAction , which is developing artificial intelligence-driven, call center automation software, said today that it has raised funding in a management recapitalization by private equity investors Staley Capital and TVC Capital. Staley Capital is based in Boston, and TVC Capital is based in San Diego.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Iyuno-SDI Group, a provider of localization services to the media industry with an operation in Burbank, said this week that it has raised $160M in a funding round. Iyuno-SDI Group says it is now using artificial intelligence and machine translation along with traditional translation for its efforts.

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JULY 19, 2018

Reali , a Silicon Valley startup which offers up a high-tech, and artificial intelligence-enabled real estate service, said this week that it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round, which it specifically will use to launch in Southern California.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The funding was led by Matrix Partners, and also included Moving Capital, Craft Ventures, Act One Ventures, and Wonder Ventures. The company's service helps provide rate quoting for freight forwarders and import/export shippers, using artificial intelligence and other software. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based RingDNA , which develops analytics software used for understanding the sales process and sales conversations, said last week that it raised $30M in a growth capital funding. The funding was led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (GS Growth), and also included Palisades Growth Capital and Bryant Stibel. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Medallia said that Zingle's technology is now being used by hospitality and travel companies to deliver "high touch service in real-time" at scale. The company's artificial intelligence (AI) driven tools allows consumers to interact with hotels and other companies for common requests in a natural way, via texting and chat.

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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. billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The summit is now associated with March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com). What's your role at March Capital? What's your role at March Capital? Meredith Finn: I joined March Capital at the beginning of the year. That carried through to March, where the big theme is Artificial Intelligence in the enterprise.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Irvine-based technology distributor Ingram Micro has made an investment in e-commerce logistics startup HDS , which is developing a robotics system which uses artificial intelligence and mobile, articulated robots for the logistics industry. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

Costa Mesa-based Veritone said Monday that it has acquired Denver-based Wazee Digital , a provider of cloud-based video management and licensing services. Veritone is a developer of artificial intelligence software used to analyze audio, video and other data sources. Veritone said it paid $15.0M in cash and $7.5M READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company’s mobile application lets users take a photo of any bill and then its artificial intelligence-powered “bill-understanding technology” makes sure it gets paid (after a user has provided payment details, of course). But of course, part of its capital will go toward building awareness and growing its headcount.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catasys , a provider of AI- and technology-enabled healthcare services, said today that it has received $10M in a debt financing round, split between a receivable facility agreement of $2.5 million with Heritage Bank of Commerce and a four-year term loan of up to $7.5 million with Horizon Technology Finance Corporation.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based Sunbit , a fintech startup which provides point-of-sale financing for purchases, using machine learning to qualify consumers, has raised $26M in a Series B funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Zeev Ventures, and also included Group 11 (formerly SGVC), Chicago Ventures, and others.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Are you an entrepreneur, looking for capital here in Southern California? Here's a rundown of some of the venture capital investors who have set up shop in Southern California, plus those with big new funds, which have been announced so far since January of this year. Moonshots Capital. Core Innovation Capital.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Greylock Partners and Village Capital. Watson--along with his co-founders, John Myers, Ali Golshan and Laszlo Bock--were engineers and developers who had worked for the National Security Agency, Google and Amazon Web Services. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand said Tuesday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire Evolv , a machine learning and data science company based in San Francisco. According to Cornerstone OnDemand, it will use the buy to bolster its big data analytics and machine learning efforts. in cash, plus assume up to 2.0M

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JUNE 22, 2020

While the accelerator program backed by the BMW-owned Mini Cooper automaker and the venture capital firm Urban Us is based in Brooklyn, it’s conducting its latest program virtually, with participating startups coming from Atlanta, Sydney, San Francisco, Boston, Burlington, and Los Angeles, according to a statement.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

The startup--cofounded by Dr. Masaki Nakada and Robert Jadon--says its combines artificial intelligence with live personal trainers, and runs on the iPhone. The company's app and service cost $49.99 Los Angeles-based Presence.Fit announced it had raised $1.5M READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based I.am+ , the tech startup started by pop star will.i.am , said on Monday that it has raised $117M in a venture funding round, and has launched itself into the artificial intelligence tools market for the enterprise. According to I.am+, the round includes Salesforce Ventures, along with other.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

REX says it acts as a licensed, residential real estate brokerage, using artificial intelligence and big data to power its services. The company says it offers a fixed, two percent commission covering both sides of a real estate transaction. REX has now raised $75M in total. The company's co-founder and CEO is Jack Ryan.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The company's technology uses pressure sensing and machine learning to monitor for leaks, monitor individual usage of fixtures, and much more. According to Phyn, its debut product will ship in late spring, and will cost $850, with installation through Uponor's service arm, Uponor Pro Squad. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2019

A 25-person startup developing advanced computing tools to speed up pathology work has raised its first institutional financing from a group of investors led by Intel Capital, the corporate investment arm of the chipmaker.

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JULY 12, 2017

“And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

San Diego-based Certona , a developer of personalization software which uses machine learning and predictive algorithms, has raised $30M in a combined growth investment and minority recapitalization. The funding came from private equity investor Primus Capital. Certona was founded in 2004.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

According to Blue Ox Healthcare Partners, it led the $52M investment, which are being used to accelerate Epic's clinical studies for oncology decision support services in its pipeline and execution of its long-term growth plan. Names of other investors in the round were not announced. Epic has now raised more than $137.5M READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triller , which operates a social video sharing service which competes against TikTok, has raised $28M in a Series B funding round, the company said on Wednesday. In conjunction with the funding round, Triller said it has acquired UK-based MashTraxx , a developer of a machine learning platform for music and video editing.

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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. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016.

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APRIL 12, 2018

More specifically, it’s the contractors that service equipment like the heating, ventilation and cooling systems at commercial and residential properties across the U.S. The two men built a suite of services to help contractors like their fathers manage their businesses.

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JUNE 12, 2022

Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Large corporations no longer create jobs in their home location. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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