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MARCH 11, 2021

A new, Pasadena-based fintech startup, Cheese, said on Wednesday that it has launched a digital banking platform focused on Asian communities. According to the company, it is offering up zero-fee, cashback banking services to customers, serving primarily Asian-Americans and immigrants in the United States.

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Idealab Seed Funding Pasadena Organization 164

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MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. It provides consumer rewards, and on the merchant side, it allows them to identify local customers and reacquire them by pushing them offers and incentives to come back.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Pasadena-based payment services provider DoubleBeam said Friday that it has acquired GoPago , a provider of e-commerce solutions for merchants and mobile payment products. DoubleBeam said that the deal will help it deliver a turnkey mobile commerce platform that includes an integrated POS system.

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SoCalTech Commerce Pasadena Mobile 159

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JUNE 2, 2011

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the developer of Twitter client applications, announced this morning that it has scored an additional, $5.6M UberMedia said the funding will allow the company to further grow its relationship with partners such as 50 Cent and Ashton Kutcher, both of whom now have custom Twitter clients powered by UberMedia.

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Pasadena Platform Funding Invest 140

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MAY 11, 2010

Pasadena-based LeisureLink said Monday that it has added Springdale, Utah-based Majestic View Lodge , a vacation lodging firm near Zion National Park, as a client. According to LeisureLink, the lodge has been using the firm's distribution platform since the fall of 2009. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed.

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Pasadena Platform Customer Custom 124

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

What our technology platform does, is determines what about a marketer's offers that will matter to the consumer. That's based on insights into the customer and product, so that we can build relevant, optimized, geotargeted, and customized ads that will engage consumers. We've got the momentum going on customer adoption.

Yahoo 171

Yahoo Platform Advertising Startup 171

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Pasadena-based Fox Dealer, which creates custom websites for car dealerships, says it has acquired Brea-based Simplext Digital, a provider of texting products for the automotive industry. Fox Dealer also said that, separately, it has partnered with LetzChat, a text-and-chat platform which provides real time translation.

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Pasadena Sales Acquisition Tool 113

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Pasadena-based food services robot developer Miso Robotics says it is expanding its crowdfunding efforts, with a goal of reaching $30M in funding in its Series C crowdfunding effort this year.

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Pasadena Demand Platform Funding 113

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Pasadena-based Central Desktop, a provider of on-demand project management and collaboration software, has rolled out new social networking features on its site. Central Desktop said the idea is to "deepen customer-to-customer" engagement within its platform.

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Social Network Networking Pasadena Tool 100

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Both investors and customers have told us we stand out for our ability to consistently deliver on new content, new partnerships and improving core metics. Grant was formerly an executive at eHarmony and Idealab and lives near Pasadena with his author wife and 3 kid coders. Regular wins mean more people are willing to bet on you.

Education 172

Education eHarmony Southern California Idealab 172

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. I immediately was recruited out into another company in webcasting, CTM Marketing Group, building out their platform for them. We'd also like to form partnerships in other verticals that reach our customer segments. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

We also found that our customers didn't want to outsource their calls overseas, because they were worried that people calling for transportation services would either be offended, or find it hard to communicate with people speaking with an accent. Dan Tamkin: Veolia had been a customer of ours for awhile.

Outsource Development 190

Outsource Development Startup Outsource Altadena 190

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MARCH 26, 2009

Yesterday, Pasadena-based LeisureLink (www.leisurelink.com) announced a $6.2M Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel. The first, is our platform helps them generate revenue.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We casught up with CEO Jay Ackerman to learn more about the company, its market, and how the company is looking to help its customershealth plans and managed care organizations--with risk management and quality improvement using technology. I've been a sales leader, a Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Customer Success. What is Reveleer?

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence SoCal Southern California Software 113

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. There are lots of music and messaging apps out there, but is there room for an app which makes music the message?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

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JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Event Details.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. wonder what that might be?

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

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JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. They all were very different companies.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

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JUNE 24, 2010

Pasadena-based Idealab 's newest company, Feedback.com , said today that it has launched an effort to help the gulf cleanup effort. Feedback.com said it has launched an online platform to allow businesses to gain feedback from their customers, and help protect their reputation on the Internet.

Idealab 154

Idealab Search Engine Optimization Pasadena Sites 154

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JULY 12, 2013

The Pasadena firm''s co-founders, Sean Lynch and Steve Curry , sat down with us to talk about the service. We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. One of our customers has 6,500 separate and distinct applications. We''re really excited to see the storage platform grow pretty substantially.

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

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MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. He thought that was b t, and he said-if you are able to do this, he told me he'd be my first customer and supply us with seed capital.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Event Details. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84