socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2018

Westlake Village-based Pray.com , which develops social networking applications for religious communities, has raised $14M in a Series A funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by TPG Growth, and also included Science Inc. and Greylock Partners.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company has a new residential solar plus energy storage program for homeowners in Queens that’s going to be rolled out in partnership with ConEd. With the virtual power plant, ConEd won’t need to build out new transmission and distribution infrastructure, but can still ensure network reliability.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Yellow , the accelerator program launched by Snap in 2018, has selected ten companies to join its latest cohort. The list of new companies include: Brightly — an Oakland, Calif.-based based media company angling to be the conscious consumer’s answer to Refinery29. Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Here’s one for executives of any company with next generation products in mind. In many companies, there are quiet geniuses, wanting to work on projects outside of the daily focus of the department or company. Technology companies are prime targets for this problem. . First, let’s recognize the problem.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2021

A new startup, Richie Knows, says it is launching new, social network targeted at gamers, in Los Angeles. According to the company, the startup is looking to match up players with new friends and competitors as they travel.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Shuttle startup Via and the city of Cupertino are launching an on-demand public transportation network, the latest example of municipalities trying out alternatives to traditional buses. The network will span the entire 11-square-mile city with a satellite zone surrounding the Sunnyvale CalTrain station for commuters, Via said Monday.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

And it applies to business relationships & networking as much as it does to remuneration in the workplace. But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. Jason Nazar is a master networker. ” It’s a philosophy, really.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And investing in content companies won’t return money! Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Now the largest network on YouTube according to ComScore. Come on, Mark. Crushed, I say!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The company said the EV charger ompany will use its NimbeLink embedded modems for its nationwide network. San Diego-based wireless products maker Airgain said it has scored a win with an un-named manufacturer of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Financial impact of the win were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop. Yellow’s small batches are much easier to manage than other accelerator behemoths like Y Combinator that are pushing hundreds of startups through their network. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2022

in a Series A funding round, the company said this week, to launch what it says is a national network of community physicians to expand access to clinical drug trials. The company is led by co-founders Alexander Saint-Amand, Andrew Kirchner, and Mac Parish. Los Angeles- and New York-based Topography Health has raised $21.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? Network Up. Prices down. But what else?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Yet as obvious as it is to create messaging for your company, many people don’t consider their personal brands.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2018

My boss’ boss’ boss was on CNBC this morning touting Verizon ‘s new 5G services and naming Los Angeles as the second city in America to be treated to a commercial rollout of the new networking technology. Verizon first announced its plans in early 2018 to begin bringing 5G to the masses.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Qatalyst Partners is acting as financial advisor to Signal Sciences, while Goodwin Procter was the company’s lawyer. Morgan Stanley & Co.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

Performance was essentially identical to the plaintext tests, confirming earlier suspicions that the impact of small JSON serialization workloads on high-performance platforms is trivial compared to the HTTP network traffic. We are a small company and hiring opportunities are rare. We are hiring. We have one such opportunity right now.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Raising capital for a female-led startup can be very diffiult--which is what Justine Lassoff and Melinda Moore found out when they started their own company, LovingEco, in Los Angeles. Justine Lassoff: Melinda and I founded TuesdayNights to help women connect and to impact change through networking events and infinite gatherings.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cybersecurity insurance startup At-Bay has raised $34 million in its Series C round, the company announced Tuesday. It’s a huge move for the company, which only closed its Series B in February. It’s a bet that’s paying off: the company says its frequency of claims are less than half of the industry average.

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Tech.Co

MAY 6, 2022

Ecommerce company Shopify supports small businesses with technology like ecommerce website builders and retail Point of Sale systems. billion in stock and cash to buy the ecommerce shipping company. Deliverr ships over one million orders monthly and gaining its network will more than double the size of Shopify’s fulfillment team.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company said the funding came from Lorentzen Investments. According to the startup, the company leases its module electric scooter charging stations to its customers. The company said the funding will go to expand coverage in "key strategic markets" across the U.S., Size of the funding was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. company is applying its own twist to the genre. The result?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 7, 2019

PodcastOne , the celebrity podcasting network from the founder of radio powerhouse WestwoodOne, is launching a free hosting platform for podcasters. “As the leading ad-supported podcast network, we are embracing the over 700,000 podcasts out there, and are here to support the long-term growth of independent podcasters.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. ” But they want to do it with leverage.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

If a station doesn’t send out an error or a driver doesn’t report it, network providers might never know there’s even a problem. “There was an abandoned vehicle parked there and the station was surrounded by mud,” said Terry who is CEO and co-founded the company with Evette Ellis. Hiring approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network. Portfolio community building. Industry reviews.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The project will pair 200 megawatt hours of distributed energy storage with 100 megawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity, the company said. To finance these projects — and others the company expects to land — Swell has cut a deal with Ares Management Corp. The goal is to make local grids more efficient.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Over the past five years, virtual reality was the latest new thing to make or break fortunes, and the founding team behind the Korean company AmazeVR are the latest would-be dream-makers to take their turn spinning the wheel for Hollywood fortunes. There are significant economic reasons for companies to persist.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 7, 2019

The company is one of a growing number of startups trying to rejuvenate the music streaming market by combining it with social networking so that audiences can listen to the playlists of their favorite athletes and entertainers… and their friends. The company currently has seven employees. Logging on is easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. But my contact told me that many viral videos start through close networks on Reddit where a degree of formal and informal collaboration of individuals takes place.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Los Angeles-based Seed Health, which is focused on microbial sciences, says it has acquired Auggi, a digital health company which develops artificial intelligence and machine learning software to track and analyze digestive health. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. Commercial policies gained influence, companies could charge for domain registration, and credit card encryption opened the door for e-commerce. That’s how the Internet was conceived and nurtured.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Grindr, one of the world’s largest dating and social networking apps for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, has fixed a security vulnerability that allowed anyone to hijack and take control of any user’s account using only their email address. Grindr has about 27 million users, with about 3 million using the app every day.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in a $120 million round for that the company announced today. Instead, the company relies on the unused kitchen capacity of restaurants that the company has vetted to act as its quasi-franchisees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

Yet along with “authenticity” they are two of the key attributes I look for when I meet with companies I may consider funding one day. This is how Upfront Ventures came to fund Tristan Walker – one of the most talented and passionate entrepreneurs with whom we work whose new company is called Bevel.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company, which has raised roughly $250 million from investors including the celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr.’s ’s Footprint Coalition, and Orlando Bloom and more traditional institutional investors like AlphaEdison, Capricorn Investment Group, the Omidyar Network, and Allen & Co.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. KickStarter?

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