socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' in its seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2018

The funding came from Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR, the Tech Coast Angels, plus WME. The company says its uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social data to help match brands to audiences and influencers on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

There’s Snapchat that uses photos and then instantly disappears after 10 seconds, and then there’s the up-comer, Emojli , that uses tiny cartoonish icons for engagement. Snap Away with Snapchat. Snapchat, founded by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel, boasts of its massive following among kids and teenagers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2017

Hootsuite said the acquisition specifically was geared towards the Snapchat analytics solutions created by Naritiv. Naritiv was venture backed by Luminari Capital, Third Wave Digital, Walt Disney Co., Hootsuite said that members of the Naritiv product team will join Hootsuite as part of a new Los Angeles office. and Allen DeBevoise.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. But even this is changing.

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JULY 21, 2017

We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market. How is the parent company of Snapchat involved in drone development? Our list below: 1.

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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. ” Crypto gaming giant Dapper Labs takes its next shot with Genies NFT platform ‘The Warehouse’

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

By moving away from the “influencer house” model, Collab Crew can also expand to include more BIPOC creators and entrepreneurs in the Georgia capital. A post shared by Collab Studios (@collabstudiosatl). The new studio could help energize a cohort of creators that has found success despite serious hurdles.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

billion in Southern California startup, according to the latest MoneyTree Report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association last night, based on data from Thomson Reuters. raised by SnapChat , and $320M in an investment in NantHealth. Venture capitalists invested more than $1.3 The report tallied $1.09

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software). John Jersin , Connectifier (Newport Beach, recruiting software). Jason Koch , Telogis (Irvine, fleet tracking software).

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JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. How does this work? We're taking a different approach.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. venture capital market leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

We started in October of 2013, and last year, in December, we closed our Series B with Sequoia Capital with $21M. At the beginning, we did see some pushback, but the software really helps truck drivers. So far we've been very successful in recruiting, with people from Blizzard, Apple, Snapchat, and other great companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Social video sharing platform Viddy has not been doing well as of late, even though it had struck a chord with loyal consumers and had a raised a significant amount of capital to see it grow. Android Apps & Software Business iPhone Clique Epic Media sharing social Viddy Video'

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube. That''s what we call our rights ID or rights management software stack.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The funding came from Manta Ray Ventures and Upfront Ventures. The company was founded by Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business. They want to advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and they want to see what they can do with Waze, Snapchat, and Yelp. So what does your customer look like nowadays? ,p>

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. And so is venture capital. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. FourSquare. Everywhere. Commitment. Startups are hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Growth hackers are the marketing equivalent of clever software hackers and are highly respected by investors. Could your startup be the next one?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. The institutional research firm is predicting a surge of IPOs in the weeks and months to come.

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