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Price Check on Aisle 3: Retailers Turn to Robots to Manage Inventory

Xconomy

And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics. Inventory management is crucial to operating a successful retail operation.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. 15mm in Series A. OpenCandy.

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Cybersecurity Startup MedCrypt Gets $750K to Defend Health Devices

Xconomy

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. A San Francisco investment firm, Muddy Waters Capital, announced on Sept.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. Another guy who is helping is Richard Yen, who is at Saban Capital, and has joined as an advisor. Was it useful to you having been in venture capital to be able to get funding quickly?

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. Now, despite bootstrapping, you actually have some connections to the venture capital world, don't you?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.