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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. Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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Southern California SoCal Culver City Venture Capital 133

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JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients.

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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Funding San Diego Hollywood Platform 40

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Media 113

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JULY 25, 2016

Our interview with a startup entrepreneur this morning is with Avantika Shahi , the founder and CEO of Haus (www.grademyhaus.com), a new Los Angeles startup hoping to create a new way for people to search for homes. Avantika Shahi: We are a home search platform. We're hoping to expand in San Diego and San Francisco next.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Los Angeles Platform 100

Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

There was a new controversy seemingly every week, whether it was Uber’s myriad scandals ; more personal data breaches ; Russia’s use of social media and other online platforms to try and influence U.S. Xconomy recently reached out to business and technology leaders from around our network to put 2017 in perspective and look ahead.

Social Media 68

Social Media Media Platform Networking 68

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The company was founded by Bong Koh, a former EIR at Prism VentureWorks and venture capitalist at Advanced Technology Ventures; he also co-founded ibeatyou. Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. What is LifeCrowd?

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

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JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. Our platform encompasses several things. That was also the driver of the name change.

Mobile 127

Mobile Platform Custom Customer 127

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JUNE 21, 2013

The San Diego firm is headed by Ethan Senturia , who sat down with us to tell us how Dealstruck is trying to help build small businesses and jobs--and also tells us a bit about what it''s like to come from a family full of very successful, and high profile entrepreneurs, and how that has influenced his experience as an entrepreneur himself.

Startup 247

Startup Software Review Entrepreneur Equity 247

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

Capital 40

Capital San Diego USC Invest 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

But a new entrepreneur on the block is already reaping the benefits of choosing the road less travelled. Recycling Waste Platform. Recycling Waste Platform. In this position, Allison also advised the board on waste to energy (W2E) technologies to extend landfill capacity. One man junk, is another mans treasure.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

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AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. I spent a lot of time outside of the country, running technology companies. I''ve both been an entrepreneur, as well as the head of the division of a public company.

Mobile 159

Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

One of the largest areas of Southern California's technology base is in the wireless and communications market. To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks.

Networking 153

Networking Startup Software Tips 153

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China.

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Think “innovation” and you might picture some scrappy entrepreneurs toiling away in a kitchen or garage, hoping the landlord doesn’t notice what they’re up to. from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east. So it ranges.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Startup San Diego Class 40

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APRIL 28, 2011

Earlier this month, Fullerton-based HipGeo (www.hipgeo.com) announced a $500,000 funding round from Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. Explain what HipGeo does? Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

eHarmony 219

eHarmony Seed Funding Yahoo Examples 219

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem. How do you recommend that entrepreneurs approach you?

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Rustic Canyon Palomar 153

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Are you using your own technology for the virtual world, or are you leveraging technology from others? Sherry Gunther: We're using existing technology. But, the platforms themselves exist, which makes the job quite a bit less risk in terms of the development process on the technology side.

Media 150

Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

Napa Valley met the Silicon Valley at the recent Xconomy Retreat on Technology, Jobs, and Growth ( aka the Napa Summit ). Experts in cutting-edge technology huddled with business leaders and investors in the California wine country to explore what’s on, and just over, the technological horizon.

Examples 40

Examples Services Technology Study 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization.

Help 100

Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

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APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. Is there anything specific you are looking for in an entrepreneur or company? That means a lot of different things.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” You see – running a SaaS platform for customers like you is the ONLY thing our team does.

Sales 150

Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

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JULY 19, 2016

However, every summer, of every year since I was fifteen, I'd go to San Diego and spend a few months with family there. We now have technology in everyone's hands has real time geolocation, where it's easy to connect, share photos and videos. I thought, why not use this same kind of technology to solve our problems with surfers.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California Social Network Activity 100

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move. Cloud storage. Enterprise.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Tech entrepreneurs are likely considering how hospitable the new leadership might be to their specific industry sectors. Educational technology is one field worth examining, even though education hasn’t been a front-burner issue in the final months of the campaign. schools don’t do now.

Education 40

Education Platform Company Companies 40

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

At this stage, both candidates have given major economic addresses, and both parties have published their platforms. The word “innovation” appears 22 times in the Republican platform and 14 times in the draft Democratic platform. The Democratic platform says that the U.S. On that matter, there’s far more room for debate.

Education 40

Education Platform Training High Tech 40