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JANUARY 26, 2012

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the startup developer of a mobile app for tracking a user's travels, said today that the firm is now seeing posts from 125 countries and over 4,864 cities on its app. HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2012

HipGeo said its new app is a "complete redesign" of its platform, and is aimed at letting mobile phone users post text, places, and photos of their travels. HipGeo is backed by 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.

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Blogging eHarmony Seed Funding Journal 154

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2013

To accept the amount, a first-time recipient is sent to the Square Cash website , enters their debit card number and will automatically receive funds to their debit card. Android Apps & Software Business iPad iPhone Mobile Apple Apps Commerce eCommerce Email Gmail Google iOS Outlook Security SMS Square Square Cash Yahoo'

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2012

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures is backing a Bay Area gift card-based, payment network, Openbucks , as part of a Series A funding for Openbucks. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

HipGeo is venture backed by Morado Venture Partners, the investment fund of Yahoo execs Ash Patel and Michael Marquez; the firm also is backed by angel investors Galen Buckwalter of eHarmony, and San Diego angel investor Robert Bingham. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! And I’m also funding a new breed of entrepreneurs bringing tool sets to this new Hollywood ecosystem that has developed.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

When I first joined Crosscut Ventures five years ago, the firm had $20 million under management and was just starting to invest out of its second fund. We now have $250 million under management, are investing out of our fourth fund and have made more than 80 investments.

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Riot Games Southern California Startup Santa Monica 133

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APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. It''s mobile and mobile apps, but not just mobile apps. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. Prior to founding Tapiture, he spent quality time at big tech companies including Earthlink, Overture and Yahoo. With the mobile app launched in 2014, Tapiture continues to refine its technology to reach its users. I am drawn to it.

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MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! And precisely because buyers usually prefer to have limited money go to investors – investors almost always have the ability to say “no” to transactions in the terms of their funding documents (aka “blocking rights”). Does Yahoo!

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Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

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MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram. Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?)

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San Diego Social Media Social Network Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Competitors: Gowalla.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. Internet consumption is obviously growing massively on mobile devices. But we’re only in the first inning of mobile advertising. There are a lot of people that believe that this process will move to ad exchanges.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

They attended other DEV events such as the AT&T Aspire Mobile App Hack-a-thon hosted in LA to spread the word, created an event page and began registration through Eventbrite as early as September of 2012. Microsoft , MySpace , WIX and Nokia all joined the Sponsors list by providing funds and products to distribute as awards.

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UCLA Ideas Yahoo Competition 96

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 21, 2012

Speakers will introduce their new shows debuting this spring, including shows that were pitched at the NewFronts, YouTube-funded shows and other original shows. Works with Felicia Day on her Geek & Sundry YouTube-funded channel, as well as theThe Guild (Microsoft, etc.), Big Frame produces the YouTube funded channel Bammo.

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Content Silver Lake Electronic Arts THQ 80

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. Because GoTo.com was his idea. Overture sold for $1.6 billion pre-money.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. You don’t.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Skip to secondary content.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For example, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo have all either acquired small startups in the space or are forming big partnerships with other players like Yelp and FourSquare. Local search (powered by reviews/recommendations) is extremely important to any company with an interest in mobile, social, local or commerce experiences.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, I have often asked for funding for this accelerated development.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2013

Hike is a person to person messaging app and mobile portal which Yahoo Japan is interested in working with. BSB is a start-up funded by Bharti SoftBank led by Kavin Bharti Mittal. Hike is backed by Kavin Bharti Mittal, running Bharti SoftBank (BSB) and son of Bharti group chief Sunil Bharti Mittal. Who are its founders?

Competition 58

Competition Startup Yahoo Media 58

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. The New York Times doesn't know that we've mobilized their site--we didn't need to use their server development team to make this work. That means these sites can be mobilized overnight.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . Web and mobile technology have developed differently in Japan than any other country with hardware, Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, japan, Localization. . Bootstrapping a Lean Startup. Ash Maurya, WiredReach.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

Rincon’s Fund I portfolio is comprised of a number of such Serial Teams, some of which include: Alma mater, Rent.com: sold to eBay for $430 million. The team is applying its ad network and ad serving insights to the emerging world of mobile advertising. Alma mater, Overture: sold to Yahoo.

Startup 150

Startup IP Entrepreneur Software Review 150

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

However, TenHands’ “special sauce” is in its groundbreaking architecture as the 1st to deliver personal (desktop, mobile) video as a virtualized cloud computing solution and the 1st to commercialize WebRTC - the catalyst behind the effort to revolutionize the way we use our browsers to communicate. Any funding?

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. I’ve got guys getting funded at 23! If you’re not confident enough to get funded now, you’re never going to be funded. I’m not going to wait until you raise another fund.” Just forget it.”

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. In just a few minutes, anyone (no programming knowledge required) can create a mobile app. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78