socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2011

Interest in technology IPOs appears to have hit a new high Thursday, as daily deals firm Groupon filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raised up to $750M in an IPO. Southern California has had its own share of IPOs over the last year, including Demand Media, Active Network, and Boingo Wireless.

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MARCH 12, 2021

Do you have an article that would be useful to the SoCal startup and technology community? So, you want to leverage your software or tech offerings to expand in an adjacent market. The software and tech market is attractive yet demanding. Let us know! There is much money to be made in software and tech. Continued.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays? For Legalzoom, it's a very different model.

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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. This morning, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. That kind of investment is challenging for us.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In a resurgence of life from Southern California''s clean technology industry, Burbank-based eSolar announced this morning that it has raised $22M more in a funding round. According to the solar thermal power technology developer, the funding tranche came from Oak Investment Partners. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2016

In the world of on-demand driving�such as driving for Uber and Lyft--one of the biggest costs for drivers it the cost of owning, maintaning, fueling, and cleaning their vehicles. Why target the on-demand economy? When we first started, the largest demand was from government, particularly Mayor Greg Ballard in Indianapolis.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

According to some local Southern California venture investors, it absolutely is affecting how they are thinking about the investment environment. He explains, "Our partnership is spending time evaluating the impacts on our portfolio and our outlook on future investments.".

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This morning's reflections are from Richard Wolpert , a longtime Southern California investor, and now author of The Soul Of A Deal ([link].

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JULY 29, 2013

In our Insights and Opinions section, we feature the advice, opinions, and commentary of leaders in the Southern California technology community. insights advice communications startup technology entrepreneur ivan nikkhoo' You can change your world by changing your words. Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California. However (More.).

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

The telecommunications industry is under increasing pressure as customers demand high speeds and data transport, as well as implementing big data initiatives for their businesses. To keep up with demands, carriers are investing billions of dollar in infrastructure and service enhancements to help them grow. SONET Services.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college. These more basic needs can be solved with seemingly simple technologies—software for billing, scheduling, navigation and many other business workflows.

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MARCH 12, 2010

It's time again for us to thanks all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Clean, safe and reliable natural gas company Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) has established $1 million innovation fund in partnership with Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , to speed the development of clean technologies to meet current global energy needs and become a sustainable energy source.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. So, we're focused on applying technology more efficiently and creating more value for investors.

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APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. We don't have the resources to do typical diligence and assessment, so we just piggyback on other deals.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. To keep pace, carriers are making strategic infrastructure investments to expand and improve coverage. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Can you talk about your technology? The reason they do that, is we solve the peak demand problem they have on the grid. megawatts of energy.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Thanks to all of our readers who submitted their nominations for the socalTECH 100, our first annual list of the up-and-comers in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. The bad news? We also have a long list of community partners (which we will list soon), who are also helping to support the event.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. None tanked.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. Stay tuned.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The telecommunications industry is undergoing a transformational period as customers are expecting more reliable connectivity with more features as new technology rolls out, such as with 5G. Shifting consumer needs – Consumers are continuing to adopt cloud-based technologies with the communication capabilities they desire.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. I also find that Southern California is an amazing place for talent.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

How did you solve the problem that marketplaces have of supply and demand? On the customer side, there's been such a massive boom in and around e-commerce, with so many people looking for marketing talent, there's a huge ecosystem of customres and companies, which has allowed us to grow rather quickly. How are you funding the business?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. Carbonics is focusing on wireless technology, using new semiconductors that bring us into the 5G era.

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JULY 12, 2013

We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. You can really oversubscribe that capital investment, and drive up utilization to something really meaningful, like 80 to 85 percent utilization. Sean Lynch: Open source demands a very low level, engineering talent pool.

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JULY 18, 2018

How do you apply virtual reality (VR) technology, and turn it from just a nifty technology trick, to something which is truly a lifelike journey you can experience with friends? Comcast led our investment round, and the former CFO of Dreamworks joined us soon after. About two and a half years ago, we spun out of Dreamworks.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Corey Brundage: Honk is an on-demand, roadside assistance service. They''re really sizeable, but they have not been disrupted by the technology industry. The other thing, is these folks have had a monopoly in the space, so they haven''t innovated when it comes to technology. Tell us a bit about what HONK is about?

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MAY 23, 2017

We have already proven out that they are a high lifetime value user, someone who will actually stay in their game, so that they have higher retention, and the user ends up spending more money over time. No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before. The basic premise, is try before you buy.

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JUNE 3, 2013

We caught up with Field to learn more about solar power leasing, why this segment of the solar power industry has done well--in stark contrast to solar technology developers--and what''s keeping the market from growing faster. That''s in part because of a significant investment in China around solar manufacturing.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

It was about three years from investment to exit, which we were really thrilled about. So you weren't actually looking for the firm to be acquired at the time? We've got a number of companies which have now received subsequent financing and up-rounds, so we're now firing on all cylinders. Sharon Stevenson: That's correct.

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