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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

DogVacay.com, the fastest-growing, Santa Monica startup, passionate about using technology to build a community where dog lovers can connect with one another to find and provide safe, convenient and affordable services to care for their best friend. startup technology employment jobs' TigerText Inc. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 28, 2015

Light Emotion Data) to the Santa Monica Twilight Concert Series. Utilizing technological innovations spun out of the renowned MIT Media Labs and visual artistry by GMUNK , TrueCar is melding the company’s data analysis and visualization abilities with new, entertainment technology. The TrueCar L.E.D.

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JULY 21, 2017

Who are the companies in Southern California that are part of this growing industry? We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market.

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MAY 23, 2012

In what is a huge blow to Silicon Beach, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the software-and-technology-meets-employee-perks startup run by Paige Craig, told its users today that it is sunsetting its site on May 31st. BetterWorks--and Paige Craig--have been one of the companies driving the growth in Santa Monica's Silicon Beach.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone onDemand , the provider of talent management software, reported today that it has signed Grass Valley , a provider of broadcast technology and professionals services, as a customer. Size of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Silicon Valley-based payment technology provider Yapstone has big hiring plans in Los Angeles, with plans to double the size of the company''s office from 35 to 70 people in the next year. According to the company, it is hiring across marketing, sales, engineering, and product. YapStone was founded in Santa Monica in 1999.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Santa Monica-based TrueCar announced late Thursday that it has acquired a 20 percent stake in Accu-Trade , a provider of vehicle apparisal technology. Financial terms of the deal were not annoucned.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Santa Monica-based Freenfly , a startup that helps brands tap into a network of content creators and brand advocates on social media, has raised $8.5M in a Series B funding, the company said today. Greenfly says the new funding will go towards technology, user acquisition, marketing initiatives, and new hires. in funding.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2022

Uber Eats is launching two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles on Monday with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, and Motional, an autonomous vehicle technology company. Until this point, Motional has focused on robotaxis, securing partnerships with companies like Lyft and Via.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Santa Monica-based TigerText , which is best known for its text messaging and communications tools for the healthcare industry, is expanding the reach of its software. The company said this morning that it has launched TigerFlow, a clinical communications platform, aimed at use by care teams. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Santa Monica-based Callfire is teaming up with another company to help power political campaigns and non-profits, the firm said this week. The two said CFB Strategies will use CallFire's call center, voice broadcast, and SMS technology for political candidates, PACs, non-profits, and political campaigns. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. Though we bank companies large and small around the globe, here in L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Have a look at the companies below.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform.

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APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Today, we just had a screening for the Tech Coast Angels, they're screening companies and having lunch here.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. What was the big news for you or your company this year? Michael is a huge early adopter and proponent of Bitcoin. CryptoKitties!

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APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. A few of the highlights include biking as one of the few bright spots, how some companies have pivoted to providing rides to healthcare workers and insights on how the industry and cities might have reacted had the pandemic occurred two years in the future. A novel rewards program.

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MAY 15, 2013

In the second piece of aerial drone news to come out of Southern California today, Santa Monica-based software developer DreamHammer said it has launched a beta of its drone control software, aimed at controlling unmanned drones and robotics from multiple, different manufacturers in a single system.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

LA has a serious technology scene. Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! And I’m proud of that, too.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online automotive purchasing program and technology developer, has just topped 500,000 cars sold on its platform, the firm reported this morning.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. In 2018, many of them sold their companies or raised massive equity rounds. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Viewdle , the developer of cross platform, facial recognition technology backed by Santa Monica-based Anthem Ventures, has scored another round of funding, worth $10M, according to Viewdle. As part of the investment, Best Buy's Kuk Yi and Blackberry Partners Funds' John Albright have joined the company's board.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. It's unclear. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2018

Santa Monica-based Ordermark (www.getordermark.com) is looking to tame that chaos with a system which takes all of those online orders, and feeds them into a single printer at a restaurant. I grew up in the business, working in al lthese different positions, bringing in new technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

This month, Siemer and Associates hosted its 4th Annual invitation-only Silicon Beach Summit at Casa Del Mar and Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California. Presenting companies included: Add This, Cognitive Networks, TrueCar, Trunk Club, Invidi, ID.me, Datacratic, BeyondCORE, ParkMe and many more.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Make sure to tune in!

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JANUARY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based BetterWorks , the employee perks and benefits firm headed by Craig Paige, has expanded its platform again today, saying that it is now handling in-office catering through its system.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

In the first time that President Barack Obama has paid a special visit to the epicenter of Southern California''s high tech industry, the President spoke for over an hour to an audience of entrepreneurs at Cross Campus , the Santa Monica coworking space, touching on topics around providing an infrastructure for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the new data focused startup run by Gil Elbaz , the co-founder of Applied Semantics , which invented Google's AdSense technology, is announcing the investors in the firm this evening. Factual is developing an online platform which allows anyone to share and mash open data. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. Ryan Costello: We're a software company. We provide an event and experiential marketing platform.

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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. For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Event Details.

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