TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Keeping the focus squarely on tools for artists and designers the company talked up its tools like Zync Render, which Google acquired back in 2014 , and Anvato, a video streaming and monetization platform it acquired in 2016. in Los Angeles. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

San Diego-based EMN8 , a developer of self-service, restaurant kiosks, said Monday that the firm is in a agreement with IBM, where the two will jointly manufacture, market, and support its products. EMN8 said it will transition production of its OrderM8 4000 kiosk hardware to IBM. EMN8 is backed by GRP Partners, Sid R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the last 50 years. No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Companies follow each other rather than the market. Morgan (chemical manufacturing).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days of Microsoft from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the startup of the IBM PC. In retrospect, however, Bill Gates did a lot of things right as a startup that I still look for today in aspiring entrepreneurs and their companies: Build a strong team.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

So far, the story of IBM Watson Health has been mostly about growth and potential. The healthcare computing giant, now headquartered in Cambridge, MA , is unveiling a collaborative effort in medical imaging that includes partnerships with health systems, radiology providers, tech companies, and academic medical centers.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Santa Barbara-based Well Health, a developer of digital health software, said this week that it has named Robin Hackney as the company's Senior Vice President of Marketing. She also has served at Azalea Health, Ingenious Med, Greenway Health, Equifax, and IBM. The company said Hackney will be based in Atlanta.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. I (and TechEmpower ) have worked with IBM, HP, Xerox, etc.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company's products now include a tool to track information relevant to municipal bond investors; high yield bonds, investment grade bonds; direct lending and syndicated debt, private placements, and more. The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh.

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MAY 3, 2021

According to the company, it is using machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) to help businesses find opportunities within their contracts, and help those companies simplify their contract management process. The company said it has just released a beta of its platform, with global availability planned in Q3.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

The company said the new funding will go to build out its exec team, for enhancing its market presence, and technology development. NVISIONx develops enterprise software, used to find and defensibly purge files that have no business value, to help to reduce data risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Too many companies and entrepreneurs find it hard to stop a bad project.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

The company said LuPriore and Burvill were added as a result of expanding its board size to 11 members. LuPriore is CEo and co-founder of Wujitech, a mobile software and analytics company focused on personal development; LuPriore previously also was at Asyst Technologies as interim CEO, and also has served at IBM.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Los Angeles-based fintech startup FastPay , which offers up faster access to advertising revenue for media companies, said this week that it has named Michael Wehner as its General Manager and Senior Vice President of Payments.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Ng has also worked at Nokia, Qualcomm, and IBM. Mobilogix said the addition of Ng will help the company to grow, citing Ng's global business experience and connections. SGUA International is a big manufacturer of electronics, including professional audio equiment, AV, smart cards, interactive education, Wi-Fi, and many othe rproducts.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Irvine-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike appears to be the latest victim of unsubstantiated "facts" from the current White House administration, as President Trump inferred that the company, incorrectly, is owned by a "very rich Ukrainian". The company is actually backed by Google Capital, Rackspace, Accel Partners, and Warburg Pincus.

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JULY 3, 2018

According to BlackLine, Smagh has more than 20 years of experience serving for such companies as Hyperion, IBM, Informatica, and Qlik. He most recently was working for IBM's Asia-Pacific cloud and analytics business. Smagh will be based in Singapore.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Westlake Village-based Eta Compute , a company developing machine learning software for embedded devices like mobile phones, has named Dr. Ted Tewkbury as its new CEO. Eta Copute says it is working on delivering machine learning to mobile and edge devices. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Los Angeles-based TaskUs , which provides outsourced customer support and other back-end support for technology companies, said today that it has named Jarrod Johnson as Chief Customer Officer. Johnson was previously SVP of Sales at TaskUs, and will be based in the company's Dallas offices. Johnson also had served at ACS and IBM.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 14, 2019

Joe Latone from IBM will discuss a quantum computing performance metric called quantum volume that they have developed. A representative from quantum communications company Qubitekk in Vista, Calif. Wednesday, May 15, 2019 -- Southern California Quantum Computing Meetup.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster. For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

San Diego-based Pathway Genomics has scored an investment from Google , the two said Wednesday, as part of an investment out of IBM''s Watson Group. According to the companies, the investment brings the total invested in Pathway Genomics to more than $80M in the last six years. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The company said it has named Ross Webster as Managing Director Europe as part of the expansion. Webster previously was at IBM Watson Advertising (formerly The Weather Company), where he had been Managing Director and VP of EMEA for nearly 10 years. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

On a micro level, you can do your part to fix tech's gender problem by recruiting people with diverse backgrounds and place them in a company culture that rewards those who challenge the status quo. Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell. Share and Enjoy.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Thompson to the company's board of directors. Thompson previously was CEO of Symantec and Virtual Instruments, and also has served at IBM. San Diego-based Illumina announced this morning that it ha added John W.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Montgomery Summit, the investment, business, and technology conference run by Jamie Montgomery, and being run now by March Capital, announced its keynote speakers and presenting companies on Friday, saying it will be running virtually this year--and, for the first time, will be free.

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MAY 14, 2019

According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has sued The Weather Channel , saying in a lawsuit that the company's mobile app, the Weather Channel App, is fraudulently and deceptively collecting user geolocation data, and selling that to third parties. The Weather Channel (TWC) is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

This morning we heard from Jamie Montgomery, CEO of the venerable Montgomery & Co investment bank who is at the heart of what is going on in M&A for venture backed companies. I have to admit that I was greatly encouraged by Jamie’s outlook for venture backed companies, which if true will be a welcome relief for our industry.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

San Diego-based cloud storage company Nirvanix has officially shut down its service, saying in a posting on its website that it is actively winding down its business, and is scrambling to transfer data on the cloud storage service to other providers.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Lantern Credit said Korns previously has served at such companies as IBM, Tymshare Transaction Services, Xerox Imaging and Investment Science. Lantern Credit said it acquired the Abstract Regression-Classification (ARC) Machine Learning Library, and also hired the creator of the software, Michael Korns, as its Chief Data Scientist.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based hosting provider Media Temple has been acquired by GoDaddy , the two companies announced Tuesday. According to GoDaddy, the two companies will continue to operate independently. Media Temple''s customers include Sony, Nordstrom, The Wall Street Journal, Starbucks, IBM, Volkswagen, and many others. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Series C funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), IBM--via its new "Watson Fund"--and Qualcomm Ventures, along with existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, InterWest Partners, Miramar Venture Partners and Okapi Venture Capital. Miramar and Okapi are prior investors in Welltok, having backed the company last year in its Series B.

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MAY 8, 2018

Harris was most recently Sales Vice President for QuestSoftware, and also had served at such companies as ICSynergy, Verisign-Symantec, Arsenal-IBM and Nortel Networks. Inseego said Harris has more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise sales area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Too many companies and entrepreneurs find it hard to stop a bad project.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets. “The

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good.

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