socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2015

Favor--which is based in Austin, Texas--said it raised $13M in a Series A funding, from S3 Ventures, Silverton Partners, Tim Draper, and other angels, specifically for the expansion move. The company currently operates in Austin, Boston, Houston and Dallas. San Diego will be the company''s first foray into California.

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San Diego S3 Draper Incubator 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2011

Nirvanix said Steve will be responsible for strategic marketing initiatives and driving brand awareness for the company. Nirvanix operates a cloud storage service, which allows developers to store their data on the Internet via an API; the company also serves the corporate market, and competes with Amazon's cloud storage service, S3.

Marketing 172

Marketing S3 San Diego Services 172

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2013

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the cloud storage service operator, has snagged the current CIO of Zynga as its new CEO, according to the company Monday. Current CEO Dru Borden will become Senior Vice President Planning and Development, and will remain on the company's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

CIO 138

CIO Windward S3 Mission Ventures 138

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

Other local companies involved in the OpenStack movement include Morphlabs , MediaTemple (which launched its own OpenStack offering in October of last year), and Metacloud (fully managed OpenStack cloud offerings). DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.

Cloud Computing 193

Cloud Computing EC2 S3 Web 193

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2010

The new company, headed by Joe Moreno, said it will allow users to post photos to the web, and that it will share advertising revenue with users when people view their photos. Epics3 also allows users to serve up photos using their own domain names, and can link photos stored in the service with Amazon S3.

S3 189

S3 Web Advertising Sites 189

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2013

The company said it is offering up a 100GB and 100GB bandwidth, 30-day trial for the service, which is also compatible with Amazon S3's APIs. DreamObjects said it now has thousands of users using the service, which costs a low 7 cents per GB of storage, with 7 cents per GB of transfer-out bandwidth.

Services 159

Services S3 Web Los Angeles 159

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2013

As part of that ramping of its efforts, the company said Friday that is expanding its hiring efforts in Los Angeles--with such positions as software development, marketing and business development, and other titles--as it looks to continue to grow out its staff. The company said it increased its staff by a third last year. READ MORE>>.

Services 150

Services S3 Los Angeles Software Development 150

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

RightScale said the new software helps companies deploy, monitor, and manage grid processing applications in the cloud. The new software connects into Amazon AWS, and its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), SQS (Simple Queue Service), and S3 (Simple Storage Service) to coordinate grid processing.

Product 140

Product EC2 S3 Cloud Computing 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The company said that current President and CEO Jim Zierick will continue to serve on its advisory council. The firm's services both compete in the general cloud storage service market against such giants as Amazon S3, and also have been applied to the enterprise market, providing cloud-based storage for tiered storage and backup.

Windward 153

Windward S3 Mission Ventures San Diego 153

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

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S3 149

S3 Technology Product Company 149

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2009

Lyon joins the company from Brocade Communications, where he was Director of Services Sales for the Americas. Nirvanix is a developer of storage-as-a-service, allowing companies to store data on its servers via an application programming interface (API), instead of buying and managing their own data storage. READ MORE>>.

Sales 100

Sales S3 San Diego Networking 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Round sizes of > $100 million or more now account for 47% of all VC dollars (62% if you count rounds > $50 million) This has made venture capital significantly more valuable for VCs and LPs who invest in the best companies As part of our study we noticed a trend many have spotted but few have explained?—?why

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2008

According to ElephantDrive CEO Michael Fisher, the company will provide free file transfer from Xdrive to ElephantDrive for users, as well as a 30-day free trial account. ElephantDrive is venture backed by Intel, and uses Amazon's S3 storage service as its back end data store. READ MORE>>

S3 100

S3 Southern California Los Angeles Services 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix, which operates an online, storage-as-a-service which competes against Amazon's S3 storage service, has shuffled its CEOs, the firm said today, replacing CEO Patrick Harr with Jim Zierick. Zierick has also previously been at Peregrine Systems and McKinsey & Company. READ MORE>>.

Windward 100

Windward S3 SaaS Mission Ventures 100

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. What kind of company do you represent?

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 That’s awesome for users of Salesforce.com or companies that want to cater to them but less awesome for pure startups that want independence and are really just looking for cloud infrastructure. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. So, if you''re a cloud storage provider, how do you get to the next level in terms of your service and company? We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost. What is iDrive?

Southern California 133

Southern California Google S3 Symantec 133

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Company still in beta. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Before working in California, Chris worked for Maryland based game companies MicroProse and Games Workshop. Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

What's your new startup all about, and why did you start the company? How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? They are making storage available to people or to institutions who have data they want to share publicly, for free, on S3. Is this similar?

Startup 190

Startup Google S3 Platform 190

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Related to this, one of my personal initiatives at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) is called Social Software for Security, or S3. John Culberson (R-TX). The report suggests that an NIF would boost productivity, innovation, and growth.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. companies versus the Web 1.0

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343