socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you are a merchant, say you are Home Depot, or Ticketmaster, or Nordstrom, or Walmart, or Hotels.com, prior to Wildfire, there was no way for them to efficiently motivate and reward people for recommending their products. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company?

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). Dan Gould: Michele is too modest. It's a great example of a made-in-LA thing.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

Mentor 75

Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

When you use something like Eventbrite, or Ticketmaster, it doesn't matter who is buying that ticket�they'll let anyone buy a ticket, because you're just a bar code. Tell us a bit about the external funding, and why you decided to find funding now after being on the market for some time? It's fundamentally different.

Sales 100

Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. Harry Lin: Lottay originated before me, I've just been barely two months as CEO, from an entrepreneur, Andy Elliott. That's where I came along.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). My fund was an early investor in Overture.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Venture Capital Funding 7. Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. Relaxing 2. Incubation 3. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40