socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy has recently launched into the market, with an on-demand, car wash service--currently serving the west side.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

On demand valet parking service ZIRX said today that it has expanded into the Los Angeles area, and will begin offering up its on-demand, valet parking downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. The startup has previously been offering up its on-demand, valet service in San Francisco and Seattle.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter service Bird announced on Wednesday that it has launched a new "Warm Up Mode", which will help its riders as they get back on the company's scooters, which will offer "gentle acceleration" so that riders who are "out of practice" or new scooter riders "sensitive to social distancing guidelines" avoid sudden acceleration. (..)

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

Lyft , the developer of a service and mobile app which lets users find, and offer, rides across town, said it is launching today in the Los Angeles area. Lyft's app--which works with both iPhone and Android--lets users offer rides to people on-demand, at what it says is a "fraction of the cost" of a cab.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2020

Scoot , the on-demand scooter service which is owned by Santa Monica-based Bird , announced this morning that it has rolled out the Bird Two , Bird's next generation scooter, in San Francisco. Bird said that San Francisco will be the first city to have a fleet of up to 1,000 of the new e-scooters.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2014

On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has expanded in Los Angeles, saying recently that it is now covering downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, and will deliver groceries from Ralphs and Costco. The company--which launched earlier in April in Los Angeles--offers up personal shopping services driven by crowdsourcing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2015

Santa Monica-based WhipClip , the content discovery startup which was co-founded by former Demand Media founder Richard Rosenblatt, debuted its mobile app today , looking to help users create, share, and find music and television video clips. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Santa Monica-based Heal , the startup which provides on-demand, doctor house calls to patients, has raised $14.8M According to Heal, the new funding will help it expand its geographical footprint, broaden the range of medical services it offers and increase patient reach.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. The on-demand shuttle startup raised $400 million, TechCrunch learned. A city might dedicate its shuttle service to transporting goods or essential personnel. Via isn’t the only company shifting its attention to emergency services. Deal of the week. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Fluctuo, an aggregator of shared mobility data, found the average scooter trip length in Paris was 2.67 Most of the respondents (68%) said they are satisfied with the number of self-service scooters on the streets of Paris, while a quarter indicated they would actually like to see more. kilometers in July 2022 and 2.53

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. Elbaz said, in particular, that the firm's local data information is in high demand from developers of mobile and web applications. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Even so, ads only work if people can see them, and today’s ad formats need to be visible on any device.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. Aaron Robin: Essentially, iExhale is an online, on-demand, wellness and mental health platform. I was working at a job in Santa Monica, helping to run somebody's company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. On Demand).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. -DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust.

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LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. By allowing friends to collaborate during the planning process using a mobile app or SMS, Volly takes the burden of organizing casual gatherings off of one person. The Sponsors.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. Viddy, a mobile-video-sharing company, has its office a block from Google in Venice. FourSquare.

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