socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Most recent investments: Ring, Flipagram, Snapchat. a month, and which gives you access to this information, company profiles, contact names, and much more for local technology companies, venture investors from around the world, private equity, angel investors, and many others. Local exits: Maker Studios, Viddy, AwesomenessTV.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2014

Snapchat, the messaging pioneer leads the charge with a staggering $123 million raised (and a valuation of $3-4 billion) even amongst a strange series of uncertainty surrounding their denial of Facebook’s $3 billion cash offer and security leaks. Originally posted by the good people at Built In Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Snapchat 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

raised by SnapChat , and $320M in an investment in NantHealth. HJ Paik, director of the Southern California Emerging Company Services practice at PwC, said that much of the growth came through an influx of private equity investors into the industry. The report tallied $1.09 in investments in San Diego. billion in 4,356 deals.

Southern California 100

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business. They want to advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and they want to see what they can do with Waze, Snapchat, and Yelp. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. They are texting their friends about the sunglasses they love, the shoes they love, the tennis racket they use. Indi stands for individual.

Help 113

Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Sweat equity. This unpaid work component is sized in dollars, added to any funds contributed, to represent the total contribution of a founding partner and converted to an equity ownership percentage in a new startup. Equity crowdfunding.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Some of the most well-known include Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, Xiaomi, and Pinterest. Don’t be afraid to give up equity to get a small share of a very large pot. I’m sure all of you know one or more of the 200 or more young companies that are currently valued at one billion or more by investors and stockholders.

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Company Companies Startup Statistics 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

Do they have positive equity in their home? We've also developed technology to target them, once we've found them, across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Waze, whatever they are using most frequently. They have to go out and find buyers. That's the same thing with Zillow or Trulia. How long have they livedin their home?

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Woodland Hills Orange County Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug? On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful.

Startup 150

Startup Google Software Review Snapchat 150

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Similar to when Snapchat got rid of the “hold to view” function , or how Facebook routinely shifts and evolves its newsfeed algorithm, if Twitter can move on from what used to define it and create a new space, it could have a bright future. I believe that Twitter has enough scale and enough brand equity to succeed. The word of mouth.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Uncertainty surrounding this year’s presidential election has kept U.S. IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016.

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Research Activity Capital Funding 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Smart phones finally took off leading to enormous wealth creation for Apple employees and investors but also helped propel Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others. In the case of startups the “buyer” is the VC looking to part cash for “purchasing” equity in your startup.

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150