TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last year at this time, SpotOn was on the brink of announcing a $60 million Series C funding round at a $625 million valuation. But the company says its offering extends beyond traditional payment processing and point-of-sale software. Today, SpotOn said it has closed on $300 million in Series E financing that values the company at $3.15

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

Sales tax compliance is not a typical sexy startup area. So, it was a surprise when a number of smart, insider angels -- including Roy Rubin (founder of Magento, which he sold to eBay), and Dan Rose (VP of Partnerships at Facebook)--put their money behind TaxJar (www.taxjar.com), a San Diego startup developing sales tax compliance software.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But today a startup that’s tackling a different aspect of the market — addressing the supply chain that subsequently turns the wheels of the bigger food distribution machine — is announcing a big round of funding as it continues to grow. The funding is coming from a wide mix of investors. software platform.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With each sale, 70% of money raised goes toward a cause of the athlete’s choice. Causes currently listed on the website include Milwaukee Freedom Fund, Girls and Boys Club of Portland and With Us Foundation. The product started as a video e-commerce platform, basically creating a video version of eBay.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

San Diego-based Cordial , a developer of marketing software which automatically tracks the actions of consumers, which triggers personalized messaging to those consumers, has raised 6M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Upfront Ventures. The investment was led by Upfront's Kobie Fuller.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. Source tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2014

The funding was led by the Bitcoin Shop, Inc., The funding also included angels Andrew Frame (Ooma), David Neumann (Current TV), and others. GoCoin said the new round will go towards engineering resources and to ramp up its global sales force. in a Series A financing, the company said today. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Ribbon, the developer of a social commerce platform which lets users list items for sale, distribute that through their social networks like Facebook , and accept credit card payments--said today that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

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. What is Retention Science?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. Deal of the week. million, to be exact.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. How does this work?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s help get their funding get finalized or the company sold if it’s already in play. And VCs scrambled to raise their own funds. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. Fundings boomed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Depressing.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. If a fan know they can get their entire brand fix there, rather than having to jump across multiple profiles, multiple social media platform, and networks, that's very compelling. What is Fliptu?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

Lars Helgeson: We started about ten years ago, with an email marketing platform called CoolerEmail. With email, there is a lot of information collected, and the challenge to any sized business is how to disseminate that to other business units, sales people, and so on. Switching topics for a moment, how is the company funded?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

Rostoker’s legacy lives on inside TAE through the company’s technology platform, called, appropriately, “Norman” In the last 18 months that technology has demonstrated consistent performance, reaching over 50 million degrees in several hundred test cycles.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. Under CEO John Ellis, Tapiture progressed from category browsing, to a socially-driven content and social media commerce discovery site that was more predictive by incorporating Big Data for a tailored user experience. “We We use machine learning to analyze the behavior.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform. Stitching Content With Commerce. What’s So Cool About Coull?

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. Talk a bit about your funding, and how you got to it?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

By the end of the year, we expect to have ten to twelve different types of insurance available on our platform. That means in the next five to 10 years, 400,000 people, the main distribution channel for insurance sales and consumers buying insurance�that entire part of the market is retiring. Wayne Slavin: That's a good question.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. Bessemer approached us.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

Yan tells us how the company's revenues, growth, and profits--even in the early days--drove $21M in funding from Sequoia for the company. Lidia Yan: My background is in e-commerce, but my family is in logistics. Explain what NEXT Trucking is all about? How did the company start? Lidia Yan: You're right.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis: PurePhoto is a social commerce network, for buying, sharing, and selling original photographic art. We looked at online photo marketing, and what the real needs are out there, and launched our platform last year, aimed at helping photographers publish and perfect their art. How is the company funded?

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. Dave Fink: I was one of the original partners at Sciences, and Jonathan was CTO of the e-commerce staff. in funding in that round, which closed about a year ago.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In the move to online commerce, one of the latest areas of interest by online retailers has been the use of online video, to showcase products and provide training and instruction. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. How the firm funded and backed? READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

<JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Founded in 2007, GumGum has become the largest in-image ad platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. People from San Francisco, Detroit, and elsewhere have requested that we duplicate or take the platform and brand, and incorporate it into their city and towns or suburban neighborhood. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. It''s everything they need to thrive in the e-commerce world, and we hand it to them with a simple, 30-second signup on BloomNation.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

You guys did a lot of self-funding before you approached the venture capital community. Within the first three-months of starting the company, we had our first IO and were able to fund the first year and a half of our business.”. 5) Most great companies have inspiring Origin Stories. The Core team had worked together at Yahoo!

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