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JANUARY 25, 2010

Newport Beach-based Sendio , which develops appliances and services which reduce spam and other unwanted email, said Monday that the firm has added a new mobile management support feature for its products. Sendio is venture backed by Athenian Venture Partners, Momentum Venture Management, Shepherd Ventures, and Vicente Capital Partners.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Many online business today have a big problem: users are increasingly coming to their websites as mobile users, not desktop users, which means lower ad revenues and conversions. How do you make those mobile users just as profitable as desktop users? All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal. has been an anomaly, with only 3% of bills being paid by a mobile device. We saw a huge business opportunity with mobile bill payments.”. In this respect, the U.S.

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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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JUNE 16, 2014

Tapatalk''s software is widely promoted in online community forums to help users better browse and read messages from various community forum software products on their mobile phone or tablet. mobile software capital venture community forum tapatalk' The company was part of MuckerLab''s third accelerator class. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. What was behind that decision?

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital. Other Deals.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

and Fuse Capital. The firm, which did not disclose financial details of the investment, said the digital media fund established by Best Buy and Fuse Capital are backing its launch of a product information, pricing, and shopping mobile application. Fuse said that Tecca was incubated from within the firm. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Fundamentally venture capital is about human capital. The explosion of mobile phones has led to a boom in inbound click-to-call traffic that has proven to convert at a higher close rate and increase average-order-value over web-only sales & marketing. Venture Capital is a people business. Nothing fancier.

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MAY 13, 2013

According to Greentoe, it will use the funding for marketing of the site, including a multi-platform advertising campaign across the web, television, and mobile. greentoe venture capital angel ecommerce retail retailer seed' Size of the funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Vinny Smith , the former CEO of Orange County''s Quest Software, has backed a developer of web and mobile application development, via his investment firm, Toba Capital. software quest smith vinny toba integration continuous mobile capital venture labs sauce' READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009 -- CONNECT Software, Cyber and Web 3.0 CONNECT will showcase the top five IT companies in the region at the inaugural Software, Cyber and Web 3.0 Venture Roundtable to an exclusive audience of capital providers. Venture Roundtable. sensor and nanotechnologies, and other software specialties.

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JULY 7, 2011

The funding came from VantagePoint Capital Partners, Siemer Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. YouMail said it will use the new funding to roll out more mobile applications and services, expand its platform, and accelerate growth of its services.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. “And importantly Web 2.0

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JANUARY 23, 2013

Director National Sales & Strategy for Amazon Media Group, working on the entertainment vertical for such properties as Amazon Mobile, IMDb, IMDb Mobile and Kindle/Kindle Fire. He also has served at NBCUniversal and AOL. READ MORE>>.

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Sales GRP Partners Advertising Entertainment 178

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this week that it has backed field sales software developer SalesRabbit. SalesRabbit offers up both native mobile and web-based software aimed at field sales organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The firm's tools allow web publishers to recommend content to users, while also inserting "sponsored stories" in those recommendations from advertisers. Gravity is backed by GRP Partners, Redpoint Ventures and August Capital, having most recently raise d$10.6M in a Series B funding round in October. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. The funding was led by Shamrock, and also included other, existing, un-named investors.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Daniel Scalisi is the CEO of Los Angeles-based MobileCause (www.mobilecause.com), a startup focused on the mobile, nonprofit fundraising area. We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What is mobile fundraising? What's your startup all about?

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Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Los Angeles-based Border Stylo , the developer of the Glass browser add-on and GlassThis web site for sharing and conversing about web sites, plus the Retrollect mobile app for social sharing, has raised $20M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Border Stylo is headed by Oscar Guido.

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Web Mobile Sites Los Angeles 153

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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). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

She also served as SVP of JAMDAT Mobile. Gaikai is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, Limelight Networks and Intel Capital. The firm's technology allows users to play any games inside a web browser, with having to download or install game software. READ MORE>>.

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Rustic Canyon Electronic Arts Web Los Angeles 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Complements are products that must be bought together in order to be useful, like apps with mobile phones, and fitness products to go with your fitness app.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

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JANUARY 19, 2011

According to ChaCha, it raised $3M in total funding, including $900,000 in outstanding warrants from Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital arm of Qualcomm. ChaCha offers up an online question and answer site, which allows users to ask any question via the web or mobile SMS.

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JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Current round: $4.2mm led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

FastPay offers up invoice financing and other related finance products, which helps web publishers, online game develops, mobile app develops and others better manage their cash flow. gofastpay investment publishing gaming finance capital venture fastpay' READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Web Los Angeles Mobile 157

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JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. We now have around 500,000 businesses, and 1 million by the end of the week, where people can check in and get points.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Woodland Hills-based FatTail , a developer of software for managing online advertising for web publishers, announced today that it has launched a new, self-serve display ad selling system called PageGage Direct. FatTail is venture backed by Fuse Capital, Ted Meisel, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Woodland Hills SaaS Advertising Web 140

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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