socalTECH

MAY 10, 2013

We caught up with CEO Walter Delph to hear how the promise of social media advertising has measured up to reality, and what that means for brands and marketers today trying to leverage the new reality of social conversations. When you say social media, what does that encompass for you now--Twitter, or beyond just Twitter? Millenials?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Costa Mesa-based Veritone , which develops software for analyzing advertising campaigns, reported a win with radio broadcaster Beasley Media Group. Financial details of the expanded licensing agreement with the radio station company were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based FanAI , a venture-backed developer of artificial intelligence software used for sponsorship engagement and analytics, has acquired Waypoint Media , the two announced this morning. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2018

Two, San Diego-based software development and integration companies-- Solekai Systems and Fairway Technologies --said this morning that they have merged into a new company. Solekai's customer base is in the digital media, smart grid, and IoT areas. Financial details of the merger were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based CreatorIQ , a developer of enterprise software used for influencer marketing, has raised $12M in a Series B funding round, the company said Thursday. Affinity Group is a partnership between TPG Growth and Evolution Media. The funding was led by TVC Capital, and also included Affinity Group, and Unilever Ventures.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2017

Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Managing Directors: Jeff Stibel, Kobe Bryant Investment interests: Focus on the convergence of technology, media and data (TMD), as well as in industries such as sports and wellness. Section 32.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2016

Newport Beach-based Veritone , which is developing artificial intelligence software used for sentiment analysis for media firms, political campaigns, corporations, and the government, said it has closed on a $50M funding agreement. The funding comes from Acacia Research.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Costa Mesa-based Veritone says its artificial intelligence software was deployed for the 2019 College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship, and was used to produce transcriptions, automated facial recognition of players and coaches, logo identification, and other tasks for the CFP's Media Day. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Moonshots said the new fund will focus on seed stage deals, holding reserve capital for follow-on pro rata.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2021

San Diego-based artificial intelligence software developer Netradyne annoucned this morning that it has named Tom Schmitt as CFO. He also has served at such companies as VideoAmp, FreeWheel Media, Salesforce, NetApp, and GAP. Netradyne's AI software is aimed at driver and fleet safety.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Managing Director: Derek Norton Investment interests: Connected consumer, Internet infrastructure, next generation e-commerce, digital media, gaming, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, consumer Internet, and some ad tech. Fika Ventures. Fund size: $40M. www.amplify.la. Fund size: $10M Managing Director: Paul Bricault.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based Postie , the machine-learning-meets-diirect-mail startup backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, said today that it has named Zev Gollender as the company's Head of Sales. Gollender was most recently Vice President of Media Sales at Taboola, and also has served at Adiant and AOL.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Los Angeles-based GumGum Sports , which develops artificial intelligence powered software which helps sports team measure advertising being presented in sports coverage of their teams, has rolled out a new analytics module it says streamlines sponsorship analysis and reporting.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2019

Santa Monica-based GumGum , which develops artificial intelligence-driven advertising software, has partnered with ad safety firm White Ops , to provide anti-fraud protection to GumGum's programmatic advertising exchange, the two said this morning. Terms of the deal between the companies were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2012

EverySignal said it has created a new service--built on machine learning algorithms and social search software--to help filter out life's most important moments from users' social streams. EverySignal , the latest startup out of startup incubator/studio Science, Inc. officially launched today to tackle that problem.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Los Angeles-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) software developer MeetKai said this morning that it has partnered with the Los Angeles Chargers. According to MeetKai, it will be developing an "AI-based locker room tour" plus will have its logo at the Chargers' home and away media backdrops.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Ransomware: Social media will be the number one vehicle for ransomware distribution in 2018. Currently, there are nearly 1 million social media accounts compromised every day, and that number will continue to rise, thanks to the plethora of easily identifiable targets. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2017

That was one of the issues raised Wednesday during a panel discussion at a conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning held at the MIT. But if driverless cars become a reality, those vehicles will also need to be able to reliably communicate with each other, using wireless communications technologies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

said today that it has launched a new tool, Social ROI Reporter, which it says helps brands and agencies with measuring the dollar value of their social media and influencer marketing campaigns. Pasadena-based startup Soulmates.AI

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Tech.Co

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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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The startup said the funding was led by Proxima Media. 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. READ MORE>>.

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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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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. Avoid the stress of trying to make sense of random data, and the cost of experts and software to extract value where there is none.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? Do you need to process user-contributed media? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

He warned the multi-generational audience that artificial intelligence is going to wipe out a huge swath of the kind of high-paying, white-collar jobs that Baby Boomers once strived for—jobs like business executives and radiologists.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

On one hand, it’s about labels trying to evolve with the times, collecting revenues wherever audiences happen to be, whether that is in short-form user-generated video, in advertising that runs alongside that, or in a new music service capitalising on the new vogue for streamed media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This notion of a Web where machines can better read, understand, and process all the data floating through cyberspace first surfaced in 2001, when a story appeared in Scientific American. This article describes a brave new world where software “agents” lead the way in performing Web-based tasks that elude most humans.

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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 We're a company at the intersection of media and technology, so this is a very fertile place for us to grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

There is so much in the media about “The Internet of Things” that it has lost meaning and for many for some strange reason it became a short-hand for wearables. It’s been so great to collaborate and work towards this common purpose) and with Jonathan Triest at Ludlow Ventures, Amit Kapur at Dawn Patrol and several others. How I Invest ?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

With 10 years of serving some of the largest enterprise customers in the US, our machine learning advantages actually get better with more data and more time and the value of our IP has been growing exponentially. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic. Some start, some scale, some can do both.

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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. Founded in 2021, Skio is a software startup that makes it easier for brands on Shopify to sell subscriptions. The podcasting and multi-media market is a notoriously hard one to break into.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

The ten companies in this year’s program represent a diverse cross-section of technologies, and are inspired by their visions for the applicability of these technologies in the media space. imperson provides an artificial intelligence platform enabling fans to have conversations with their favorite movie and TV characters.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Essentially a business model where software is licensed and distributed from a central location, SaaS companies can now be found in telecoms, human resources, and more. This could include information on LinkedIn, media sources and more.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up. There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out.

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