socalTECH
MARCH 8, 2010
West Hollywood-based Citysearch , the online local business guide owned by IAC, announced today that it has launched a new online advertising service for local businesses called CityGrid Complete. According to Citysearch, it made an investment in OrangeSoda to build the new service. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
MARCH 9, 2010
Los Angeles-based IVT , a provider of web casting software and services, announced today that it has named Jim McGovern as its new CEO. McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM. McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM. IVT recently landed $5.5M
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 12, 2013
We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. We knew he had to be an investment partner.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). Let me not bury the lede. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. The company was called Red Beacon.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. We have invested $17.3 Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. CincyTech today has $28.5
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
We had a fine business in 1-800-DENTIST, our phone-based referral service. People are all now using their mobile devices to find products and services. To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. It's no different here in this business. However, the dental industry has been slot to adopt.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing.
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