socalTECH

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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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2019

Yet most executives are struggling with how to harness this data with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and use it to hone their intuition and improve their business leadership. He anticipated his future customers and what they might want. Aim for 10x gains, not 10 percent.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

With over 305 million start-ups being created every year globally, standing out from the crowd is a huge challenge. We've scoured the startup scene to find out which budding businesses have made big waves in 2022 — and whose growth is showing no signs of slowing down. Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Irvine-based Bitvore , the big data, artificial intelligence, and data analytics startup, has upped its latest funding round to $14.2M, as part of what appears to be an ongoing $17.75M funding effort. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Santa Monica-based Retina , a startup developing artificial intelligence and predictive analytics tools, is integrating its software into the popular Shopify e-commerce platform, the company is announcing this morning.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

Yet, new startups—aided with tech tools like artificial intelligence, chatbots, and the like—are trying to reinvent how to connect shoppers with the goods they want to buy.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

That’s still a steep price for customers to pay out of pocket. The company is in talks with some insurance companies and expects to have some pilot projects up in the last quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2020. That’s still up to a physician and requires additional testing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

One of the biggest challenges in any business, large or small, is overcoming the natural human preference for status quo , or fear of change. Even customers, while they all want the next big thing, want it to happen with minimal new learning. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Marty Zwilling

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Today's contribution is from Jaspar Weir , co-founder of TaskUs (www.taskus.com), which powers much of the back office and customer support behind some of the best known startups here in Southern California--not to mention the rest of the world, and for many established companies, too. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Other Disney startups such as Atom Ticket , a new movie ticketing app, partnered with the next Star Wars movie and will continue to work with Walt Disney Studios on major film releases. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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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. Movio’s user base is currently in the lower hundreds of thousands, with paying customers nearing 1,000.

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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. Image courtesy of Maslo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

One of the biggest challenges in any business, large or small, is overcoming the natural human preference for status quo , or fear of change. Even customers, while they all want the next big thing, want it to happen with minimal new learning. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The current land rush in chip development, spurred as new technologies such as artificial intelligence create new needs, is pitting established semiconductor companies like Intel and Nvidia against tech titans like Facebook that are building their own chips. So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2023

Therefore, I often recommend to entrepreneurs and business professionals that they not get too frustrated with initial failures or give up too soon. Of course, there are some basic principles that people in all careers follow today in maximizing their success, including discipline, determination, learning from mistakes, and practice.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

We caught up with Claude Jones , who is in charge of growing Walmart's technology team in Carlsbad from 70 people and tripling the team, out of new offices it announced this month. My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

We caught up with Claude Jones , who is in charge of growing Walmart's technology team in Carlsbad from 70 people and tripling the team, out of new offices it announced this month. My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With lead investors like Fika Ventures and Fathom Capital, and co-investors, including Toyota AI Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Riot.vc, Osage University Partners and Stage Venture Partners, Elementary Robotics is readying itself for commercial pilots with a few undisclosed customers as it proves out its technology.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We casught up with CEO Jay Ackerman to learn more about the company, its market, and how the company is looking to help its customershealth plans and managed care organizations--with risk management and quality improvement using technology. I've been a sales leader, a Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Customer Success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Every business leader I know is overloaded with data these days, with a wealth of new business tools, social media channels, and countless emails and text messages. For example, just think of the data generated and captured for every online customer purchase transaction on the Internet.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

Connected classroom technology can also help customize the learning experience for each student, making lessons more effective. Those fundamentals are just the start. Artificial Intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligence in the educational field (AIEd for short) isn’t new.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Let’s start with the most important fact that wasn’t discussed. We plan to work with Twitter to migrate these companies to work directly with Gnip (Twitter’s in-house data supplier) and for those that want value-added processing on top we plan to ingest Gnip data for our customers who request this. billion people.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

How did the company start? As we move forward, we are hoping to personalize that relationship as much as possible, based on life events, and provide a customized experience. Scott Grimes: I previously started a company, Uproxx Media, which I sold to Time Warner Music. That's why I started Stackin. What's your background?

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socalTECH

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. We've learned many interesting things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Tech may be the tool, but hospitality – making life a little easier, more comfortable, and more enjoyable for your customer, is the winning focus. Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. The customer is really struggling to regain their lost humanity. What is Halla?

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Apple announced more progress on their privacy initiatives, while Google remained highly product-focused, announcing numerous apps, new pieces of hardware, and more development tools for VR. Customer experience is a high priority for both companies. Success of the app stores starts with developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in any business, large or small, is overcoming the natural human preference for status quo , or fear of change. Even customers, while they all want the next big thing, want it to happen with minimal new learning. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Southern California is often criticized for having too many startups which only revolve around brand, celebrity, ecommerce, and. marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. Are you trying to track and figure out what makes your customers tick?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Companies that didn’t properly embrace mobile have largely faded.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

RelinkLabs is a pioneering HR SaaS tool based in Scandinavia. Self-described as a recruitment data store, RelinkLabs molds data science, machine learning and recommendation algorithms into one tasty package in order to aggregate and make sense of publicly available data about candidates and employees. RelinkLabs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in an industry where output is the goal, things start to look scarily homogeneous when everyone relies on the same tools, sounds, sync buttons, and formula for success. So what’s your particular background and how did you end up with a team of musicians?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2016

Hanson Robotics uses a combination of Alphabet’s Google chrome voice recognition technology and other tools for speech processing. I think that the artificial intelligence will evolve to the point where they will truly be our friends,” says David Hanson. It’s a good opportunity for me to learn a lot about people.”.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

I've been doing that, and building the tools and networks for those brands for a long time, but I wanted to try my hand at an actual, physical product. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand. We're learning more about how Google Shopping works, and looking to dominate there.

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