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DECEMBER 31, 2018

This morning's reflections are from Kelly Perdew , managing general partner of at Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com). Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Capital Venture Capital News Patents 113

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Westlake Village-based Eta Compute , a company developing machine learning software for embedded devices like mobile phones, has named Dr. Ted Tewkbury as its new CEO. Eta Compute's backers include Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman of Walden International and General Partner of WRVI Capital, who sites on Eta Compute's board. READ MORE>>.

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Westlake Village Artificial Inteligence IBM IBM 124

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MAY 14, 2019

Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. Curtail is developing a network traffic analysis product, aimed at software and DevOps teams.

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Funding Chief Technology Officer Santa Barbara Seed Funding 133

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Three, local venture capital investors -- Miramar Venture Partners , Okapi Venture Capital , and Qualcomm Ventures -- are part of a group investing $22.1M in healthcare software developer Welltok , which announced a big funding round this morning. Miramar and Okapi are in Orange County, and Qualcomm is in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Miramar Artificial Inteligence SoCal 147

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. Cloudant had been backed by Avalon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, In-Q-Tel, Rackspace, Samsung, and Toba Capital, and had only raised around $14.0M

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Avalon IBM IBM San Diego 173

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops human capital management and employee learning software, has cut its sales head count, and shuffled its sales and services organizations, the company said late Wednesday. com, SAP, and IBM. It also named Jeff Lautenbach as President of Global Field Operations.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Sales Santa Monica IBM 100

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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Artificial Inteligence Tech Coast Angels Funding IBM 170

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman.

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IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

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JULY 27, 2016

Beverly Hills-based Influential , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M. The company says its clients include Hershey's, Coca-Cola Company, NBC Universal, Nestle, General Mills and Sony Pictures.

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Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Marketing IBM 100

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud computing software run by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has released a "significant upgrade" to its mCloud Controller product. Morphlabs is the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, who was the founder of GlueCode, which he sold to IBM. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Manhattan Beach Product IBM 208

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a software for compliance and risk,” Lee said.

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Startup Cerritos Los Angeles IBM 155

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Irvine-based property management information and software provider CoreLogic said late Tuesday that it has added two new members to its board of directors, including a venture capitalist and a private equity investor. Munce has also served at IBM READ MORE>>.

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IBM IBM Equity Software 113

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? That's given us a lot of the attention in the space.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Morphlabs , the developer of cloud-based infrastructure software, announced today that it has launched a new, Openstack-powered public cloud platform. The firm said the new software allows service providers to implement their own, public cloud software--and claims that it out-performs the giant in the market, Amazon Web Services.

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Platform IBM IBM Web 157

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev. READ MORE>>.

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Java Manhattan Beach SoCalTech Mission Ventures 242

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Venture Capital Guide CTO Coach Southern California 150

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JULY 14, 2010

The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. and AO Capital Partners Ltd. Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. READ MORE>>.

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El Segundo EC2 Cloud Computing Venture Capital 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Fortunately, in many attractive business domains, including mobile software, Internet apps and ecommerce, the cost of product development is at an all-time low. Commercial product prototypes.

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Resource Ideas Funding Research 102

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Corent , which develops software tools to more easily port traditional software to the software-as-a-service model, has raised $3.2M Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. in a funding round.

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SaaS Tool Funding IBM 157

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

IVT serves clients such as Oracle, Rohm & Hass, IBM, and NEC particularly for corporate communications, investor relations, and training webcasts. Tags: software webcast capital venture video interactive. IVT was formerly known as Interactive Video Technologies, and last raised funding back in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Oracle IBM IBM Training 145

SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Software 150

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

Damarillo founded GlueCode (acquired by IBM), MorphLabs, DevZuz, Simula Labs, and other open source software firms in Southern California, all with strong ties back to the Phillipines for engineering and technical resources. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Angel Southern California IBM 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Fortunately, in many attractive business domains, including mobile software, Internet apps and ecommerce, the cost of product development is at an all-time low. Commercial product prototypes.

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Help Research Startup Funding 165

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Winner has served at Ideal Soft and Blink Logic, in addition to working at IBM, Compaq and KPMG. Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: technology executive brands software community online passenger. READ MORE>>.

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Steamboat Ventures Technology IBM IBM 100

Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people.

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Artificial Inteligence IBM IBM Examples 64

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Middle Market Investment Banking. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. Dedicated to our Clients.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

MeLLmo's Roambi app allows users to access business data from their mobile phone, connecting those phones to IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Endeca, Google, and Salesforce data visually. MeLLmo said the new round will go towards product innovation and go-to-market strategy. MeLLmo is headed by Santiago Becerra. READ MORE>>.

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Oracle IBM IBM San Diego 145

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MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. Jamie is currently also co-founder of March Capital Partners, in addition to running the summit. The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities.

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Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Coremetrics (acquired by IBM). Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

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MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) IBM has shared ideas with us, EMC, Microsoft, and a whole raft of other major companies are working closely with us now.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. CSK Ventures in Japan is on eof the largest data center operators, and they have their own venture capital firm, which provided us with our seed funding. Gluecode, my first, I sold to IBM.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

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JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

Services entrepreneurs can more easily capitalize on the trend to treat each customer personally, whether entrepreneurs be interior designers working from home, marketing consultants, or offering Angie’s List to find the best local handyman. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS).

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. I understand his frustration. Thus, you may starve working on your labor of love.

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Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

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MARCH 31, 2014

We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. I then spent a few years at IBM as their Chief Strategy Officer in their identity management area. There''s a fair amount of software and computer science involved in this area. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245