socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Traditional venture capitalists will focus on leading larger rounds of equity in fewer companies. Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen of Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Looking for a job at some of the hottest Southern California high tech startups? We provide healthcare establishments a much-needed and required HIPAA compliant solution that offers security, accountability and productivity that SMS text-messaging and communication platforms such as email cannot.

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Dollar Shave Club SoCalTech Technology Santa Monica 147

socalTECH

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 Michael Terpin , the CEO of Transform Group International and Chairman of BitAngels.

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Southern California Santa Monica Conference Newsletter 189

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need.

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Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 191

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google.

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Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. It was a portal, and partnered with ISPs so that those ISPs could generate ad revenue, and create stick entertainment for customers. So how did you end up back in Southern California? We sold that to IAC.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2012

We caught up with Sam Altman, the firm's founder, to hear more about the company, and how we went from working in private equity to heading up a company all about finding nightlife. Sam Altman: I was not born and bred in Southern California. How did you make the leap form private equity to nightlight? What is PartyEarth?

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Content Equity Startup Platform 196

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Platform G / Mindjolt. www.demandmedia.com). Generation Partners. www.mindjolt.com).

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Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need.

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Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 100

Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Whether it be renowned athletes looking to enjoy some sun in the off-season or movies stars basking in the glory of stardom in between takes, the number of recognizable faces in this southern California city can be too much for some fans to bear. studio and platform for badass female entertainment, its creators and fans.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Newsletter 70

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. I figured out the economy was a new and emerging space, and there was a big need for a platform to close the gap between entrepreneurs and investors.

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Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 He helped develop an airline tracking system for Homeland Security and is an organizer of the Agile Open SoCal conference.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. He also created a white label fundraising portal for individuals and businesses hoping to crowdfund ventures independently of major platforms. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Invest Startup Southern California Conference 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. So if you’re out to create content businesses there is no better time and no better place than here. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

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. Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. The third area, are the private equity players. In terms of that, they are people like Vista Equity, particularly, but also Summit, TPG, KKR, and Silver Lake.

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Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2013

SGN is the priemere cross-platform mobile game developer founded by MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe, delivering highly entertaining and engaging titles to millions of users around the world. Mob Science is an established four-year-old that aligns itself well with SGN as a sucessful Southern California technology start-up.

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Develop Development Technical Review Southern California 76

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This invitation-only summit will spotlight innovative enterprises and accelerate their growth by providing executives with a platform that enables relationship-building and idea-sharing. Attendees will include investors from leading growth equity funds as well as media executives. Email lauren.jenkins@siemer.com.

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Equity Email Platform Ideas 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We talked with Richard Yen, the firm's Director of Venture Capital and New Media, about the company's link to Univision, what kinds of investments it is making, and his impressions as an investor of the opportunity here in Southern California. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We talked with Richard Yen, the firm's Director of Venture Capital and New Media, about the company's link to Univision, what kinds of investments it is making, and his impressions as an investor of the opportunity here in Southern California. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

He was the CMO at Charles Schwab during the emergence of the online brokerage revolution, helping to guide the company’s transition from a high-touch retail broker to a no-touch self-serve trading platform. I think it is borrowed equity. It’s easy to talk yourself into, ‘So and so is interested and it will help me.’

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Google Technical Advisors Technical Review Equity 220

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California. We also have a growth equity firm out of New York, the Stripes Group, which is run by guys like Ken Fox, and his partner, Dan Marriott.

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Startup El Segundo CTO Hire Outsource Development 160

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform. OTHER DEALS: 1. Go Boulder!

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. It provides tools like the Equity Calculator and curates and vets vendors that service startups. Kaviani and his team will be in Southern California quarterly to teach at Cross Campus and to hold local CoFoundersLab Meetups.

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Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. We sat down with Paul to learn a bit more about the program at Amplfify. Can you tell us a little bit about the basics behind the program?

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Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

He was the startup-to-profitability CFO at Fandango, and really is one of the most incredible, operational executives in all of So-Cal. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner.

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? because I would like KlickFu to remain primarily a SoCal company and success story! What are you working on now?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Event Details. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

Through their professional services, I ended up investing in a private equity firm called iFormation, which was a three way joint venture between Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic Partners. People in LA and Southern California want to get connected to things that matter to them, and want to be part of the process.

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Mobile Buzzfeed News Tool 100

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

“It’s not intended to compete with the existing Silicon Beach accelerators that are doing so much for our community, or provide initial funding to startups,“ says co-founder and managing partner Scott Alderton. The idea is simply to foster the community and support up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

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Sherman Oaks Riot Games Tips Redpoint 44

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Participating companies get between $4,000 and $8,000 in addition to mentorship and office space while participating in the 12 week program, and have to give up zero equity in exchange. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming.

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

There are so many activities and events that have sprouted this year to support the thriving tech scene in Southern California. With all these many activities and so many people coming together it becomes inevitable that situations may arise that can interfere with the community’s best interest.

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Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100