TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

“ We were targeted to a small number of very premier customers. “ 2020 was a blowout year… People needed an interactive streaming platform that they could spin up quickly that they could launch on their website.” “The third piece is a developer ecosystem,” Evans said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2022

Both self-leadership and business leadership require a solid platform for decisions, based on moral and personal values. Your character, as a business leader, will determine your perceived reputation by peers in business, team members, and customers. Build positive psychological capital to sustain your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2014

The new API is part of its new SampleCORE platform, which it says helps automate sampling for its customers. The company is venture backed by DFJ Frontier, Dupont Capital, Greycroft Partners, OpenView Venture Partners, and Webtigo.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Santa Monica-based text messaging provider TigerText reported Thursday that it now has more than 250 healthcare facilities using its HIPAA compliant messaging platform. The company is venture backed by Easton Capital and New Science Ventures. TigerText's text messaging services are encrypted and HIPAA compliant.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Big banks rush to back Greenwood, Killer Mike’s Atlanta-based digital bank for underrepresented customers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based Retina, a startup that is using artificial intelligence for predicting customer lifetime value, said on Tuesday tht it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Alpha Intelligence Capital and Vertical Venture Partners. Retina is led by co-founder and CEO Emad Hasan.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

Mythical Games , an NFT games startup based out of Los Angeles, has banked a $75 million raise from new and existing investors betting on the startup’s aim to expand the ambitions of their first title and locate a substantial platform opportunity amid helping developers build blockchain-based gaming experiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

Santa Monica-based location analytics software developer MomentFeed announced Tuesday morning that it has signed on some big brands as customers of the firm. MomentFeed is backed by Gold Hill Capital, DFJ Frontier, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, as well as a long list of local angel investors.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The round was led by Qumra Capital, a new investor. Microsoft’s venture fund M12, also a new investor, participated in the round alongside Acrew Capital, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Munich Re Ventures, and Israeli entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer, who co-founded security firms Check Point and Imperva.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based involve.ai, a startup developing artificial intelligence-based customer retention software, said today that it has raised $16M in its Series A funding round. The company said its platform uses artificial intelligence to help businesses prevent customer churn and accelerate its revenue growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

If you sell a product direct to a customer – in person or on the phone – you need to understand what their pain points are and position your product benefits against those pain points. Many, many tech companies I meet start with a set of “awesome features” and present them to me (and I suspect also to customers). Why Buy Mine?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

This year, we're again sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. What has been the biggest lesson you've learned in retaining and keeping customers? listen to them to iterate our product, and that's how we get buy-in from our customers. Kevin Anderson.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2019

Laguna Hills-based Centercode , a developer of software used for managing product and customer testing efforts, has raised $4M as part of an ongoing, $6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company this week. Centercode was founded in 2001, and offers up a platform used for customer validation. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2021

Culver City-based Replicated, a developer of a container-based platform which makes it easier for software vendors to deploy cloud native applications inside customers'​ environments, has raised $50M in its Series C funding, the company said Tuesday.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Boulevard , a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. Through those months of interviews the two developed the booking management and payment platform that would become Boulevard. million in funding.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million. ” Replicated now counts 85 customers who pay for access to the platform and for every on-premise deployment that customers develop through the platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Thus the rise of the “ sharing economy ,” with collaborative and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms , including Lyft (rides), Airbnb (lodging), and WeWork (workspace). There are always opportunities to participate in existing platforms, such as becoming an Uber driver, or to start your own platform sharing your favorite hobby.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

1 priority was to ensure long-term financial stability and secure the core team, technology development and customer programs no matter what the scenario, Czinger said, adding that there is still enormous uncertainty surrounding the real impact and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Divergent 3D has two global OEMs as customers.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 25, 2019

And it’s why the company has raised $7 million in financing led by Casa Verde Capital — the investment firm launched by legendary cannabis aficionado, Calvin Broadus (AKA Snoop Dogg). It’s backed by around $200 million in venture capital and debt financing. . ” .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. In fact, Conscious Capitalism companies, for example, historically have outperformed the S&P 500 index by a factor of ten. Shared risks (open capital).

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

According to Tapcart, the funding was led by Left Lane Capital, and also included Shopify, SignalFire, Greycroft, Act One Ventures, and Amplify LA. Tapcart says its platform allows cusomers to create apps using drag-and-drop, codeless tools which merchants can customize for their customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Tumblr – “Microblogging platform&#.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2021

Los Angeles-based PayEngine, a startup developing a white label, payment platform for software-as-a-service companies, has raised $1.6M The funding came from Mucker Capital, BAM Ventures, I2BF Global Ventures, HIVE Ventures and other strategic investors, according to the company. in a seed funding, the company said this morning.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2021

Santa Monica-based business texting software developer EZ Texting, which is venture backed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Investor AB, and ROCA Partners, said last week that it has partnered with Shutterstock. According to the companies, the partnership makes millions of free images available to EZ Texting customers.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

” Genies last earned a $1 billion valuation from heavy-hitting tech investors including Silver Lake and Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital during its most recent raise, a $150 million Series C round announced in April. An image of the Genies platform showcasing a fashion collection designed by creator Ian Charms.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. Three Arrows Capital, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2020

San Diego-based Omniome , a startup developing a DNA sequencing platform, says it has raised $60M in a Series C financing round, bringing the company's total raised to $145M. Omniome says its DNA sequencing platform is "capable of delivering unsurpassed sequencing accuracy". The company is led by President and CEO Dave Mullarkey.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

These days, most of the games developed need to be social, multi-platform and extensible, but there are only a few developers with the expertise to bring those toolsets to the profusion of new games that crop up every year. The company raised $4.2

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2021

The funding was led by Carthona Capital. The company--which was founded in Australia in 2012--says it will use the funding for US growth, plus national rollout of its platform. The company says its customers include McDonald's and 7-Eleven. in a Series A funding round. The company's founders are Matt Elsley and Nick Larkins.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Customers were happy and restaurants focused on their in-store business. The problem for the restaurants is that the more successful the “aggregators” of customer demand become over time, the less power the restaurants themselves have individually. they just put up with the food delivery company fees. so, too, are restaurants.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2020

A new initiative from a Los Angeles investor is taking stock of venture firms and their ability to commit capital in an effort to match firms that are still open for business and cutting checks to startups that are fundraising in the age of COVID-19. There’s also a list for startups that are looking for cash. .”

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