TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Warby Parker filing to IPO last week was one more sign that direct-to-consumer (DTC) is an extremely powerful e-commerce trend. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

Santa Monica-based Tapcart, a startup focused on helping Shopify-powered e-commerce brands with mobile apps, has raised $50M in a Series B funding round, the company announed Monday afternoon. Tapcart says its platform allows cusomers to create apps using drag-and-drop, codeless tools which merchants can customize for their customers.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. Search Meets Social = Commerce. The Search and Social Commerce toolset helps us get deeper insights and more effectively scale more tailored consumer experiences wherever the searching for and discovering products”.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. GOAT now counts retailers like Alexander McQueen, Nike, and others among the brands that sell their wares directly on the platform. ” Money, it’s gotta be the shoes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile credit startup Float , which is developing an iOS app to provide credit to consumers, has been selected as part of the commerce-focused startup accelerator Commerce.Innovated.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2020

Los Angeles-based, low-cost e-commerce products site Hollar is no more, and will be swallowed up by new owner Five Below , six months after the acquisition of Hollar by Five Below. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed by either of the companies. It's unclear how much of Hollar's operations remain in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. E-commerce sales typically account for 80% of Glossier’s revenue, the Business of Fashion reported last July. .

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based Magento , the developer of e-commerce software headed by Roy Rubin, said Wednesday that it has launched an iPhone version of its product. The firm said it has launched Magento Mobile, which allows retailers and developers to create their own, customized and branded iPhone app storefronts. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spoke with Ann Wang , co-founder of Enrou, to learn more about how the company wants to help tie together the world of e-commerce and worthy causes to help improve the world. They were doing great work, but they had no e-commerce or marketing team to get them out there. What is Enrou? How do you work with those organizations?

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based Fans.lu , a developer of an e-commerce storefront to help game companies sell merchandise such as shirts, hats, posters, and more directly to their gamer fans, said over the weekend that it has partnered with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. Skimlinks has proven effective for thousands of publishers (including, for a time, Pinterest), because its frictionless, self-serve platform automatically generates revenue from previously existing online content. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

So Khan set out to change the selling experience for these new companies that want to have a better way to communicate with their potential customers… a way to really tell their story online. “[Now] we’re launching ‘Verified Shop’ where any DTC brands can sell on our platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Brand that have Facebook fan pages are seeing less than two percent visibility on any of the posts they put out, and it's widely known that Facebook commerce is not doing so hot, and Facebook ads are not doing so well either. Customers, fans, and buyers can get a brand's essence, their personality, and vibe, in one, visual display.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Pasadena-based payment services provider DoubleBeam said Friday that it has acquired GoPago , a provider of e-commerce solutions for merchants and mobile payment products. DoubleBeam said that the deal will help it deliver a turnkey mobile commerce platform that includes an integrated POS system.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The city is one of the most dense conglomerations of Shopify customers with over 10,000 merchants using the company’s technologies in the greater Los Angeles area. Like Apple, Shopify is staffing its store with experts on the platform who can walk new customers or would-be customers through whatever troubleshooting they may need.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

But if you want to be able to repeat your success on your next campaign you need to know more about how you drove those clicks: Which social platform were they published on? The other major pilot customer was. Of course it’s valuable to know how many clicks you drive. Which followers drove your RTs that drove your clicks.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? Lars Helgeson: We started about ten years ago, with an email marketing platform called CoolerEmail.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2012

What do you do when a new industry, which serves the same customers as you do, suddenly appears and starts to grow astronomically? It takes mo bile, email, and retail into a single engine, which increases the value of new and existing customers. What kind of customers are using your product? We're linking online and offline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users. Accept no excuses.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks. We’re excited to work with them. Watch this space.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SteelHouse’s Behavioral Commerce platform increases online conversions via targeted incentives based on shopper personality and behavior. How does SteelHouse enable its customers to leverage the existence of these various consumers? You can watch the video below or on YouTube here: [link].

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based Magento , a developer of e-commerce marketplace products, said this week that it has rolled out a new mobile version of its product. Magento said its Magento mobile product provides native, mobile e-commerce applications that run on the iPhone, iPad, and Android phone platforms.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

Who are the customers for your technology? Dev Bhatia: You can think of them as lots of different platforms and devices. It''s not just mobile, it''s also e-commerce. With e-commerce, it''s a whole separate value proposition. The conversion rates go up, when e-commerce sites deploy instant search. release; our 2.0

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Live Shopping is an integral part of the “social commerce” phenomenon – a general term for ecommerce experiences within which customers don’t even have to leave social media platforms to buy items – but other tech companies like Meta, as well as TikTok, have struggled with it in the US and Europe so far.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 19, 2018

She also serves on the board of Shoes of Prey, a custom shoe company currently aimed at the women’s market. And also, our current customer bases, primarily male said, I’m sure you know, 85% of consumer spending is controlled by women. We’re open to whatever the customer tells us they want to need.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Zweig says that the service is the first from a third party to be directly integrated into a platform like Google’s Play store.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! Thanks to his custom blurb, instead of closing his browser and feeling inadequate for the rest of the day, Mark completes his bio and becomes a happy customer. Which means better conversions and happier customers.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface. Movio’s user base is currently in the lower hundreds of thousands, with paying customers nearing 1,000. Movio has also opened its API to third-party websites, some of which are using its engine to create pop-up customer support avatars.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Santa Monica-based Retina , a startup developing artificial intelligence and predictive analytics tools, is integrating its software into the popular Shopify e-commerce platform, the company is announcing this morning. Retina is backed by Comcast Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

They’ve also had suppliers sell perishable goods as well — a vendor sold 80,000 dates on the platform a month ago. “We’re million in new funding for its predictive inventory recommendation platform, joining other similar companies, including Zippedi and Inventa. How e-commerce companies can brave the new retail environment.

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