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

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The seed funding was led by Okapi Capital, and also included Stage Venture Partners, SaaS Capital, and angels. According to the company, the new funds go towards further development of its artificial intelligence technology, and to extend its platform and for market efforts. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2019

The funding was co-lead by FINTOP Capital and JPMorgan Chase. According to Trovata.io, the funding will go towards ramping sales and accelerating product development for its treasury management software. San Diego-based fintech startup Trovata.io , which is developing software to automate cash management, has raised $5.5M

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socalTECH

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? How are you able to do all this?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I've been a sales leader, a Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Customer Success. We're backed by Upfront Ventures, which is a well known venture capital firm here in SoCal. Number three, we made our first foray into machine learning last year, and we've introduced some pretty fascinating technology around medical records.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. The heads of sales operations were emphatic in ways I have seldom experienced. You might want to ask, “What is the Q3 sales forecast for the central region?”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

When Roger Ehrenberg & I agreed to fund Nick’s first institutional VC round we agreed it knowing that he was staying in the UK, that he was building out product & engineering in the UK and that he was the CEO of the company. Although he seemed to be in the US incessantly – his home and his family were rooted in England.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

It’s one big black hole with groceries, not knowing what is exactly on the retail shelf and available for sale,” says Richard Schwartz, president and CEO of Pensa Systems in Austin. Instead, inventory is typically tallied by employees by hand in a slow and laborious process. Inaccurate inventory costs retailers $1.1

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

A short week makes for a shorter roundup. As we’ve come to expect, however, there was no dearth of health and life-sciences news from Washington, D.C.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Part 1: Inside the mind of an angel investor and how it differs from professional seed investors and VC. A typical VC (A round) will reserve at least 100-200% of initial investment. 2) People/companies who are solving the merchant problem of managing the influx of location-based services, increasing sales and repeat business.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2018

As the Xconomy Forum on Big Data Meets Big Biology draws near, one of the best arguments for understanding the significance of the convergence of data science and the life sciences may lie in what came out of the 2013 sale of San Diego’s EcoATM.

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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. in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. What is Halla?

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—IBM’s Watson Health group said that a commercial product could arrive in 2017 that uses machine learning to digest patient scans, medical records, and other information to help doctors with care decisions. —Warsaw, IN-based OrthoPediatrics filed for an IPO to help support sales expansion and new product development.

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