socalTECH

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In the case of the kid getting much (much) larger than its parent, Yammer , the one time spinout of Los Angeles-based genealogy and family tree website Geni , has now squarely out-raised venture capital than its parent firm, saying Wednesday that it has raised an $85M funding round. in funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni , the online family tree and genealogy site, suffered an unexpected outage over the weekend, the firm reported Monday evening. Geni said that it had an issue with its PostgreSQL database, which it says it is investigating. Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni, and instant messaging spinout Yammer have both raised $5M in funding from the firms' existing backers, Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund, according to regulatory filings and reports. Geni and Yammer have both been fundraising since the middle of last year. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and family history service, said Thursday that it has promoted a number of employees, including naming two executives. Geni said it has named Justin Balthrop as its Chief Technology Officer, and named Michael Stangel as Vice President of Engineering.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and family history service, said Thursday that it has promoted a number of employees, including naming two executives. Geni said it has named Justin Balthrop as its Chief Technology Officer, and named Michael Stangel as Vice President of Engineering.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni , the Web 2.0 According to Geni, all Geni Pro subscriptions now include unlimited virtual gifts, the firm's virtual items which can be sent to other members of the service. Geni is venture backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2009

Hollywood-based online family networking and family tree site Geni officially announced late last week that the firm has launched a new, Facebook application. According to Geni, the new application will allow its users to access such features as building family trees, getting family news and birthday reminders, and more. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , which operates an online site for networking with family and tracking family trees, released a new feature Wednesday that allows its users to filter out cousins on the site. According to Geni, it has a new "hide" filter which will help users find cousins using the site that they haven't met yet. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0 READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni , an online genealogy and social networking site, has tightened up the firm's privacy settings, saying last night that it has added new settings which allows users to restrict viewing of profiles of kids younger than 13, and changed the firm's "family groups" defaults to a smaller set of relatives. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2009

West Hollywood-based family tree site Geni has rolled out a slew of updates for the service, saying today that it has added features to help users collaborate with others, map out locations, and see recent photos. The venture backed startup has scored funding from Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

According to Geni, it has completely revised its gifts, adding better quality graphics, more selection, and a focus on holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and other special events. Geni runs a Web 2.0-style The firm was started by former PayPal founder David Sacks, and is venture backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

A virtual currently startup, Pocket Change , with links to Southern California has just raised $5M more in funding. The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founded GumGum, and Amos Elliston, who served as CTO at Geni and SVP of Engineering at Yammer.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

MyHeritage.com said it has raised $25M in a new round of funding at the same time, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, and Accel Partners. Geni was venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. Geni was venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2012

Yammer , the business focused micromessaging service which started as an offspring of Los Angeles-based family tree and genealogy site Geni , is reportedly in the last legs of a deal to be acquired by Microsoft for more than $1 billion. According to Bloomberg and other sources, the deal is expected to be announced as early as Friday.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yammer offers instant messaging focused on internal corporate communications, and is the result of work by engineers at Geni. Geni is the online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web site headed up by former PayPal founder David Sacks; the firm is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2009

Sacks said that Geni, which spun out Yammer, remains in West Hollywood. The firm was spun out in September 2008 from Geni, and is backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. Tags: microblogging geni sacks david move valley silicon angeles yammer. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Santa Monica-based Crew32 , a stealth startup founded by Docstoc founder Jason Nazar, Betterworks, Geni, and Yammer co-founder George Ishii, and InvestedIn and MySpace co-founder Yadid Ramot, has raised $5.2M, as part of an ongoing $6.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm on Thursday.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

It all started yesterday when Jason Calacanis sent a Tweet telling GenY’ers / Millennials or whatever people under 30 want to be called these days that job hoppers look like “flakes. &# I simply sent a supporting Tweet saying that I agreed. When I’m looking to fund somebody I care about that loyalty and integrity.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him).

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MARCH 4, 2016

in a funding round, and launched a new platform to help people compare pay and culture between companies. Nazar was the founder of Docstoc, which he sold to Intuit; his co-founders include George Ishii (Yammer/Geni), Mike Sheridan (DebtMarket), and Yadid Ramot (Investedin). READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Our sources put the company’s funding somewhere around $6 million in its recent funding round. It feels like we’re not going to put the genie back in the bottle, so we’ve got to learn how to leverage these tools in positive ways.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

Tanz said that GRP's Mark Suster will be joining the firm's board along with the funding. Advisors to the firm include David Sacks of Geni (formerly of PayPal) and Vince Thompson (formerly of AOL and Facebook).

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. The company plans to give creators and influencers more independence from existing platforms by allowing them access to funding from a team well-versed in their unique capital needs. Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. focused fund.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

SoLo Funds. The Jeenie app is home to a host of certified translators who speak multiple languages and can be summoned (like a genie) through the phone, when needed. In no particular order, here are seven tech companies to watch out for in 2022. Looking at the year ahead. Will the above startups win big in 2022?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Sizhao Yang: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. George Ishii: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Early designer of Paypal. Josh Woods: Senior Engineer at BetterWorks. 8 patents pending, and world programming finalist.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , a new startup focused on "last-mile" electric vehicle sharing, has raised $15M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The funding was led by Craft Ventures, the newly formed venture capital fund founded by David Sacks and Bill Lee. Bird offers up electric powered scooters. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? VCs fund people all the time with no traction. They fund people with no customers. They even fund people with no product. They just aren’t funding you.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebooks earliest investor—paid $11.5 Wealthy Investors Flock to Puerto Rico. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. earliest investor—paid $11.5

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