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MAY 23, 2013

UberMedia , the Idealab-backed startup best known for its Twitter client software, has recast itself as a mobile advertising firm, saying yesterday that it has launched a new mobile advertising product called UberAds. ubermedia mobile advertising twitter social signals' READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Mobile Idealab Social Media 173

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2014

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the provider of mobile advertising technology, announced this morning that it has raised $8M in a funding round. UberMedia--which is led by Idealab''s Bill Gross--currently offers up mobile advertising technology which uses social signals and location infromation to optimize ad campaigns. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Advertising Mobile Pasadena 164

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. They are looking for coders, roboticist, marketing managers, and community managers, to fill the areas of their Green Tech, Social Media, Big Data, and Enterprise companies. Where: Idealab. REGISTER HERE.

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Idealab CitySearch Social Media Pasadena 95

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

According to the startup--which is based in San Francisco--it will let participants in the process share in equity and other profits from those companies. ideamarket venture capital idealab marketplace' All of those ideas have a pre-commited amount of capital from investors willing to back those ideas. READ MORE>>.

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Ideas Idealab Startup Pasadena 159

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

Punchcard , the developer of mobile loyalty and rewards applications which is backed by Idealab, has won an award at an industry conference, the firm said this week. punchcard mobile loyalty application award idealab' Punchcard is based in Pasadena. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Conference Pasadena Mobile 147

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Pasadena-based mobile advertising firm UberMedia , one of the companies out of Idealab, said Thursdya that it has named a new VP of Sales, covering the company''s Eastern Region. Shapiro was most recently Vice President at Verve Mobile, and also has worked at Shazam, Flixter, The Huffington Post, AOL, IMDB, and Sony.

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Sales Idealab Advertising Pasadena 171

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile apps and other mobile advertising products, said today that it has named Yahoo veteran Eric Aledort as the company''s Chief Business Development Officer. UberMedia is led by Idealab''s Bill Gross. ubermedia advertising exchange yahoo mobile apps'

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Yahoo Idealab Advertising Pasadena 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

We have been holding off on this announcement for quite a bit and now we can officially announce Bill Gross of Idealab as our SuperDemo presenter. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall is garnering some excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2016

Pasadena-based mobile ad measurement platform developer UberMedia , one of the companies out of Idealab, has released a new, mobile attribution product that tracks cross-media advertisement and correlates that to foot traffic in stores.

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Product Idealab Patents Pasadena 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. He received a B.S. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based YP , which offers up online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online, has lauched a new offering, called ypWebsite Pro. According to YP, the new product will help local businesses earn top rankings in their organic search results. YP runs the yellowpages.com site.

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SEO Organization Services Organic Search 133

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2016

Armstrong and Mandal previously led Clearstone Venture Partners and idealab Capital Partners, Montgomery was the founder and CEO of Montgomery & Co., The firm said it invests globally, and invests in everything from mobile, enterprise, infrastructure, to gaming and other industries.

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Capital Funding Clearstone Internet Brands 172

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2016

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed company which is now working on mobile location data, has linked up with shopping mall data provider Directory of Major Malls (DMM), and business intelligence consultanty B.I.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

Pasadena-based Punchcard , the Idealab startup working on mobile loyalty applications, reported this morning that it is in a joint partnership with KDA Group , a local marketing agency, and mobile-local ad network xAd. Financial details of the joint partnership deal were not announced by the companies.

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Networking Marketing Idealab Pasadena 154

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2012

Pasadena-based Punchcard , the startup headed by Andy Steuer which is developing mobile applications to enable local businesses to run punchcard-based loyalty programs, said today that it has linked with the Pasadena CHamber of COmmerce to enable local Pasadena businesses to use its service.

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Pasadena Commerce Idealab Mobile 199

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down to catch up with Jon Waterman, the founder and CEO of Ad.net, to understand what the company's business is nowadays, how the company has evolved over the years, and how the company has adjusted to life during a pandemic. The company was founded in 2001, as Findology Interactive Media.

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Advertising Startup Google Commerce 203

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. Mobile Web America, Inc. The time has finally arrived!

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Punchcard , the mobile, consumer loyalty application developer backed by Idealab, has swizzled its model significantly today, with the release of a new version of its mobile app for iPhone and Android. The company is led by Andy Steuer. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Mobile Customer Custom 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile and desktop messaging and social media apps, is announcing this morning that it has hired Ken Rudman as its Vice President of Developer Relations. Rudman joins the company from AT&T Interactive, where he was Director of the Developer Program and Platform.

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Idealab Yahoo Social Media Pasadena 154

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer. Andy Steuer: Punchcard is a mobile loyalty rewards app. What is Punchcard?

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies! And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Winners: Spotlight Companies. It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Spotlight: LA Tech Summer SuperDemo is all electric car company CODA.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

had added support for MySpace in June, shortly after Twitter said it would not allow other companies to automatically include advertising into Twitter. The move is similar to a move by fellow Twitter ad startup TweetUp, started by Idealab's Bill Gross, which added Facebook status updates at the end of August. Both Ad.ly

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company.

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Los Angeles Angel Artificial Inteligence CalTech 207

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

It's the age of smartphones and mobile data, where there are now apps gathering an immense amount of information about where we are, what stores we visit, and what we are doing. Gladys Kong: UberMedia today is an ad and technology solutions company. We also work with companies doing measurement of marketing campaigns and store visits.

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Advertising Mobile Social Media Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. Crowd Seats came up first to give their two minute breakdown of the company. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipSwap is trying to break the mold of online marketplaces, with its highly visual, mobile and online marketplace for fashion and other items. We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. What's the story behind the company?

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Mobile Los Angeles Web Southern California 157

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Includes content mobile guides, ie.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful Internet company in college and since then, has founded, built and sold numerous online and mobile businesses. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency resulting in many successful investor outcomes.

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The event will feature a panel of some of SoCal’s brightest entrepreneurs who have received funding from TechStars, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Idealab and will be moderated by upStart.LA’s Co-Founder, Dan Dato. Joey Flores, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Earbits (a Y Combinator Winter 2011 company).

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. Terms not disclosed.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

We were recently introduced to Punchcard , a great new startup company that’s supported by prominent incubator (also based out of Pasadena), Idealab. The concept behind their company, driven by an iPhone/Android enabled mobile app stems from a couple of basic ideas: To help businesses build and maintain a loyal customer base.

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Software Review Idealab Pasadena Customer 95

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

What's the story on how the company came about? How did you end up working with Idealab? Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. He decided to invest in us in January of last year, and one of the first New Venture companies. It's great for networking, and for developing friendships.

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Startup Idealab USC Ideas 199

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Los Angeles area has seen a surge in the last month in companies and organizations looking to bolster entrepreneurial activity and startups in Southern California. Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. We'll do only a few every year.

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Incubator Startup Commerce Los Angeles 196

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49