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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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

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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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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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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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

MAY 20, 2020

But the broader issue that hasn’t garnished much press attention is how the restaurant industry itself is being transformed and what tools a modern restaurant will need to compete. Customers were happy and restaurants focused on their in-store business. What is the Shopify of the restaurant industry? so, too, are restaurants.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The funding was led by Okapi Venture Capital, and also included Serra Ventures, Cove Fund II, 1855 Capital, and Mooring Ventures LLC. According to the company, it has developed a platform that addresses the critical steps of data extraction, transformation, and analysis to give end users access to business data and metrics.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface. Movio’s user base is currently in the lower hundreds of thousands, with paying customers nearing 1,000. It has so far raised around $9 million in funding from investors including IDG, Sequoia Capital China and, most recently, Baidu Ventures.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2019

According to Halla, the funding was led by E&A Venture Capital, an early stage food industry investor, and also included SOSV. in funding for the startup, which it will use for further development of its artificial intelligence tools, scaling out its platform, and to help bring new customers on board. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down and chatted with >Zeb Evans, the founder and CEO of San Diego-based ClickUp (www.clickup.com), the developer of a workplace productivity software platform which is based by such companies as Google, Airbnb, and Nike. ClickUp has raised $135M in venture capital so far. Who are your typical customers?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. It was an early success for the regional ecosystem and proved to be one of the most valuable exits (from a capital efficiency standpoint) for the year.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

San Diego-based Perspectium Corporation , a developer of enterprise integration, replication and monitoring as a service tools for ServiceNow, has raised $8M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The funding was led by TVC Capital. As part of the funding, TVC's Steve Hamerslag joins the company's board. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan is providing integration of its platform with garage door manufacturer and supplier Clopay, the company said this week. Rowe Price, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and ICONIQ Capital, and recently raised a huge, $165 million Series D funding round.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

They’ve also had suppliers sell perishable goods as well — a vendor sold 80,000 dates on the platform a month ago. “We’re million in new funding for its predictive inventory recommendation platform, joining other similar companies, including Zippedi and Inventa. Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

With the new capital, SpotOn has raised $628 million since its inception. The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Bitvore has created an intelligence gathering and analysis system--originally developed for secretive intelligence agencies--but is now being used by finance and Wall Street customers to mine data for tracking investments.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Fair, the funding will help the company secure vehicles for entry-level car customers who might not otherwise qualify for a traditional loan or lease. Fair is led by automotive and startup veteran Scott Painter. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Now, the company has added to its haul with new capital and the cybersecurity expertise of Kleiner Perkins’ deep knowledge in the space through investors like Ted Schlein and Bucky Moore, who will be taking a seat on the company’s board of directors. and provided by the company.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

The Social Promotion Management Platform is for businesses of all types – small, medium and enterprise. is highly-advanced, developed hand-in-hand with existing enterprise customers including NBC Universal, The North Face, Virgin America, RedBull, WetSeal, and Warner Bros Studios, adding greatly to the value of such a product.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Shipwell combines a marketplace for shippers to connect with freight companies and online tools to manage those shipments. Fifth Wall led the company’s Series A round, which also included the new investor Global Founders Capital and previous investors First Round Capital, Base 10 Ventures, Capital Theory and Village Global.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

Thanks to that activity, a new, venture investor has moved into town, Core Innovation Capital (www.corevc.com) , to specifically take advantage of those opportunities. However, although New York may be the financial capital of the world it is a little out in the weeds. Tell us about Core Capital and the types of investments you make?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . “MetaCX sits above any digital product,” McCorkle says.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 25, 2022

— Fat Tail Capital (@FatTailCapital) March 25, 2022. Instacart also launched a new set of digital tools yesterday, “Instacart Platform,” which is designed to help retailers and grocers offer faster fulfilment, get better analytics, and potentially get started with advertising. Instacart Explores Advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

He has forgotten that new technologies are perceived by most customers as causing more pain than the problems they hope to eliminate. Yet we all know that many customers delay their adoption of the latest software platform, and fancy new hardware, for a year or two until all the “kinks” are worked out of them. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tillster , which develops digital ordering and engagement platforms used by quick service and fast casual restaurants, said yesterday that it is integrating its tools with mobile marketing company Kahuna. Kahuna is backed by Sequoia Capital. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 15, 2021

The startup was founded on the premise that the need for “co-warehousing and SMB-centric logistics enablement solutions” has become a major problem for many new businesses that rely on online retail platforms to sell their goods, noted Scriven. The company plans to use its new capital primarily to expand into new markets.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From state-of-the-art clean energy solutions to breakthrough podcasting platforms, here are six tech startups you should be keeping an eye on in 2023, and beyond. In a medical field where current tools aren't going far enough to reduce uncertainty, this breakthrough is pretty major. Wander's apex came in 2022, however.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

I like the summary of the competitive reality in a new book, “ Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age ,” by Ram Charan, who relates a wealth of current experience from global clients: Customers expect a personalized experience. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2022

A broad attack will likely confuse potential customers, and will spread your resources too thin to satisfy any. For example, a few years ago the experts were telling SkyBell that they needed to own the whole smart home platform. Capitalize on territory the competition has not penetrated.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you're a bricks-and-mortar retailer, looking for information on your customers, it's often very tough to figure out who's coming in the door. Those retailers look over at the online world, and wish they had the same kinds of tools that e-commerce retailers had to help them improve their business. How do they solve that problem?

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