socalTECH

JULY 27, 2016

Beverly Hills-based Influential , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M. The company says its clients include Hershey's, Coca-Cola Company, NBC Universal, Nestle, General Mills and Sony Pictures.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2018

Los Angeles- and Las Vegas-based Influential , which operates a service to help match brands with influencers, has raised $12M more in a Series B funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR, the Tech Coast Angels, plus WME. Influential is led by CEO Ryan Detert.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Los Angeles-based KidGuard.com , a startup backed by Lawrence Ng's OnRamp Fund, said this week that it has launched a new product which can help parents monitor their children's texting and cell phone usage. According to the startup, it's able to track communication in Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Skype, Viber, Kik, WeChat and Line.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. 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%).

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

The biggest deal for the quarter was for Venice-based photo messaging app developer Snapchat , which raised a huge, $60M funding round in the quarter. By far, the largest investment category for the quarter was software--helped by Snapchat--with $177.872M in investments for Q2, according to the report.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2017

We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market. How is the parent company of Snapchat involved in drone development? Our list below: 1.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

Currently, the studio is funded in part by partnerships with Monster Energy and Snap’s 523 program , which supports small content companies and creators from underrepresented groups. “Some of these programs are cool, but it’s like, what’s after that?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

The numbers in Southern California were significantly helped by two, mega-funding deals in Los Angeles, including $485.6M raised by SnapChat , and $320M in an investment in NantHealth. Industry wise, by far, the largest investment was in the software area, with $1.02‎ billion in investments across the region.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The funding came from Manta Ray Ventures and Upfront Ventures. The company was founded by Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. And then the world changed. KickStarter?

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

A lot of money went into software, mostly because of some big, expansion-stage deals.”. billion that a non-traditional investor (the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) invested in San Francisco-based Uber, and the nearly $1.3 billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. Included is the $3.5 billion in 379 deals. Venice, CA.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Our software just has to be on a user's device, and we have lots of ways to get there.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

Yan tells us how the company's revenues, growth, and profits--even in the early days--drove $21M in funding from Sequoia for the company. When we started the business, we really didn't have a lot of funding, but it made a lot of sense, and we got lots of drivers on the platform. Explain what NEXT Trucking is all about? We're hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. To grow faster businesses need resources in today to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. million to fund operations in their first year of operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it. I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. Now that you have some new funding, what's the big goal for the company? They want to advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and they want to see what they can do with Waze, Snapchat, and Yelp. It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Planning and dealing with extra-ordinary events: M&A, fund raising, crises. Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references. Mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Growth hackers are the marketing equivalent of clever software hackers and are highly respected by investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) Traditional software vs. SaaS. It’s a bit of all of these. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

But this is no time to trash talk the IPO market, according to Kathleen Smith of Renaissance Capital , a Greenwich, CT, firm that manages IPO-focused Exchange Traded Funds. The institutional research firm is predicting a surge of IPOs in the weeks and months to come. Smith anticipates a flurry of IPOs between Thanksgiving.

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