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JULY 13, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Santa Monica- and Irvine-based Onica , a provider of IT services focused on cloud-based platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), has raised $20M in a funding round, the company announced this week. Onica said it will use the new funding to focus on growth of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) consulting and managed services business.

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JULY 18, 2013

EdgeCast explained that it is in its fourth consecutive year of profitability, and that the funding will help launch new web acceleration, routing and security services, plus help with international sales and marketing efforts. edgecast venture capital content delivery network internet traffic' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2013

According to Tealium, the new funding comes from Tenaya Capital, Battery Ventures and Presidio Ventures. Tealium is a developer of software used for "tag management" on company web and e-commerce sites, and counts such clients as Petco, Lenovo, A+E, Mattel, Fox Networks, NOkia, Urban Outfitters, and Sony Online Entertainment as customers.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Irvine-based Kareo , a developer of web-based medical billing software, announced today that it has raised $9.5M The firm said the new funding will go to enhance customer service, expand its product suite, build out sales and marketing, as well as to bolster its management team. in an investment round. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

San Diego-based Zesty.io , a startup developing web content management systems, said on Wednesday that it has raised $1.5M said the new funding will go towards sales and marketing, plus its product development roadmap. in a new funding. The funding came from ClearVision Equity Partners, a local San Diego investors. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2010

The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included current investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. Eucalyptus said the funding will go to scale development, marketing, and sales of its commercial open source private cloud management software. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $25.5M.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The round was led by Okapi Venture Capital, Arboretum Ventures, and Baird Venture Partners. The firm said the funding will go towards its web-based laboratory information systems, a field sales force, and for its cancer diagnostics laboratory. Tags: pathcentral venture capital medical healthcare services lifescience.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. Seismic, a sales software company, raised $100M and became a unicorn. Prior to the L.A.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

socalTECH has mined our proprietary database of startups and other tech companies to find some of the firms spawned by former MySpace executives. Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The firm said the new round is a Series B, and comes from investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partnes, and Windward Ventures. Genereux was most recently at Nirvanix, where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Tags: nirvanix venture capital executive storage data cloud. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

San Diego-based ShowUhow , a developer of an online web site focused on video instruction guides for manufacturers and retailers, said today that it has raised $3M in a funding round. ShowUhow maintains a library of videos providing information about consumer electronics and other products, used for pre-sales and helping in set-up.

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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. The firm's prior products were used by major online publishers and their sales teams to quote and book more traditional, direct ads.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5 Adam, thanks for the time.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Agoura Hills-based inQ, a provider of outsourced web sales services, has renamed itself TouchCommerce, the firm said today. inQ offers web chat services for e-commerce web sites, which helps to close online sales and guide users to select and find products. inQ did not detail reasons for the name change.

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JULY 16, 2012

The firm said the round was led by Battery Ventures, and will go towards funding growth across the company, including product development, plus staffing in marketing, sales, and account management. Tealium was co-founded by Mike Anderson and Ali Behnam, both WebSIdeStory vets.

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MAY 7, 2012

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. building a web site for him. had their first sales, which made us profitable.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Meritech Capital also participated in the funding. Robison reports that the company now has over 400 employees, spread across seven building in a Carpinteria campus, in addition to a web development branch in Calabasas, and sales offices in the UK and Australia.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In further details on the FAN deal, Addante also said that it has not acquired the advertising sales team at FAN, saying that it "is not, and will not be, an ad network." Rubicon Project operates a service which helps web publishers optimize the advertising on the site, by selecting the best ad networks to run on a particular publisher page.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

ShopIt said that the round is the first tranche of a $7M capital raise planned for the firm. Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

RoyaltyShare develops web-based software used by music publishers to track and report on web-based sales. The firm is venture backed by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Trident Capital, and William Morris Agency. wireless carriers. Financial arrangements of the deals were not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

RoyaltyShare develops web-based software used by music publishers to track and report on web-based sales. The firm is venture backed by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Trident Capital, and William Morris Agency. wireless carriers. Financial arrangements of the deals were not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Unitas Global (www.unitasglobal.com) recently raised a round of funding from MK Capital and Azure Capital for its vision of helping enterprises make that transition to cloud technology. What we do, is we build them private, cloud infrastructure, and make it available in an easy to consume web portal.

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JULY 29, 2009

Yahoo and Microsoft said that Yahoo will use the technology behind Microsoft's Bing search engine to power all of the web search aspects of its web site, with Yahoo taking over premium search advertising sales for Microsoft.

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JUNE 1, 2012

My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. That's why we pivoted into this market, and learned a lot in onboarding local businesses, and how to leverage a phone-based sales force to grow.

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JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 23, 2017

We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily do with your smartphone or tablet.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We caught up with CEO and co-founder Brett Rossman to learn more about the company and how it''s been able to grow, profitably, all without raising a dime of outside capital. We generate thousands of new customers everyday for clients such as Ally Bank, GE Capital, Transunion, and a few other big brands.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Nirvanix provides cloud-based storage which can be used by both Internet and web-based businesses, as well as enterprises; the firm recently hired a VP of Sales from Brocade, and in October rolled out CloudNAS, software which creates a network-attached-storage device based entirely on the firm's Internet-based cloud storage API.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development. We also have sales offices in the UK and in Australia. We also want to expand and work on our web platform, as the scaling of the business requires us to scale that platform. There are many opportunities for us.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development. We also have sales offices in the UK and in Australia. We also want to expand and work on our web platform, as the scaling of the business requires us to scale that platform. There are many opportunities for us.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Eventful, which operate an online web site for promoting and sharing information about events, said it will use the new funding to expand sales and marketing, its mobile channel, and international expansion. According to Eventful, the investment round also included existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Bay Partners.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. We raised money from Frost Data Capital.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

The way we get compensated, is we receive a percent of net sales that flow through the website. If you look at the Internet Retailer Top 1000, which is a list that tracks e-commerce sites by sales volume, you''ll see that Amazon is number #1, and number 1000 does a few million in sales online. Our clients like that a lot.

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