TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 3, 2012

What do entrepreneurs, mathematicians, software engineers, physicists, physicians, biologists, anatomists, angels, venture capitalists and bankers have in common? Electrical engineers design and make the hardware. Software engineers write the programs for computers to process the data.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

The firm recently opened up a new office in Playa Del Rey, looking to tap into the market of Los Angeles area technical talent, and is also hiring in Irvine, on the heels of a venture funding round. Mangers said Webvisible today has slightly under 300 employees, and hopes to have slightly under 500 employees by the end of the year.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat. Brian McKelvey: For the last ten years, I've worked in software engineering, ranging from building social viral games for Paramount, Lionsgate, and GSN.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2019

Los Angeles- and London-based Engineer.ai , a developer of artificial intelligence software aimed at creating software for SMBs, said today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with DigitalOcean, a provider of cloud services for the development community. recently raised $29.5M and DigitalOcean were not announced.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. The funds have been used up on the existing development. The remaining 10%, takes the other 90% of the time. It's currently in beta.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Otherwise, good luck!

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Pasadena-based venture capital firm California Technology Ventures has staked a developer of a video game software engine, Blade Games , with a $4M investment. According to Blade Games, which is based in Bellevue, Washington, CTV funded the firm in an initial round of investment.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2018

Galvanize, which is based out of denver but has locations in Austin, Boulder, Denver, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle, said the acquisition and funding will add Los Angeles to its "innovation hubs" technology students, alumni, entrepreneurs, startups and established companies. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

3D Robotics has raised over $5 million in round two funding to accelerate its growth and expansion into new markets says Chris Anderson 3DR CEO and former Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, Entrepreneur and author. Anderson is opportunistic that the funding round and him joining the firm as CEO will propel the firm to new heights.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Huntington Beach-based BridgeCo , a developer of semiconductors for the home entertainment equipment market, fresh off a $6M financing round, said it will use some of that funding to open up a new, research and development center in Bangalore, India.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. If you start a company with 4 people you’ve just given away 75% of the value of the company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I ended up building a lot of their technology, but unfortunately, they ran out of funding. What are your specific plans for the new funding from the angels? What's your background, and how did you get into this?

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Both Sides of the Table

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

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises. From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 18, 2016

million funding round led by Chad Troutwine, the CEO of Veritas Prep. “Codesmith, the leading advanced software engineering school in the US is announcing a $1.1m “Codesmith, the leading advanced software engineering school in the US is announcing a $1.1m

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. So what's the status of the company, and what kind of funding have you received? We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round. Are people using the product now?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer. How's the company funded? Did you bootstrap this or get some funding? We had some small friends and family funding. John Singleton: I came at writing a little late in the game. I had lots of international projects in China.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

The company was formed and financed with $6.3 “What we saw as the problem is the content creation itself,” says Lee.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2011

Testifying to the rapid growth rate at which local startups operate, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the online employee benefits and perks firm headed by Paige Craig, revealed Tuesday that it is expecting to expand its team to over 80 people, after inking a round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the comparison search engine firm run by Kevin O'Connor, said today that it has received Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' sFund. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. O'Connor was the co-founder of DoubleClick. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. He praised DARPA for looking to fund “safety first, rather than jumping to fund unsafe work with only a handful of potential applications.” Some see it as a way to eradicate malaria.)

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

CFI is looking to enlist Indian-origin tech professionals, some who are software engineers from Microsoft, Google, eBay, VISA and Facebook among others to join other volunteers and organizations to give back to their community. Think Local, Hack Global. Over 20 years of experience. Mehta is not calling guys to join a gamble.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

You will need this granularity not only for successfully managing your business, but also when preparing for funding pitches and during investor due diligence. Do not assume that the software engineer you hired can also double as your business development specialist. Outsourcing can be an extremely cost-effective solution here.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Have you raised any funding yet? We closed an angel round of funding in March for $415,000, 90% of which came from investors in Chicago. Finding engineering talent is a struggle for everyone right now. opportunities for every software engineer in the field. We are keeping the names of our investors private for now.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Any funding? Co-founder and Lead Architect Venkatesh Venkataraman led architecture for Cisco’s TelePresence Video Exchange where the first B2B interoperability TelePresence Exchange was built. Exact terms are not released.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Bambi Francisco. Dave McClure. .

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire. Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911. Amazon Employee Warns Internal Groups They’re Being Monitored For Labor Organizing – Motherboard.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2013

Los Angeles-based business transactions and dealroom service CapLinked has rounded up some new investors today, saying that it has added additional investors in its Series A funding. The firm earlier had announced investments from.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). The new funding brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to over $3 million. million in the Series A round.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

When Cloud Services started to emerge, he joined the newly formed SQL Azure team as a senior software engineer, with the daunting mission of converting SQL Server into a cloud-based service. Any funding yet? Yes, we’re powered by a seed round, and funding from Start Engine LA. What is your business model?

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

Pitching one or two of your smartest friends and getting them to join your startup (or at least champion it) is crucial in those early days when nobody talented wants to join a no-name fledgling company with little to no funding. But how do you go about pitching your friends? First, figure out what motivates them.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 1, 2025

Looking at the successes of 2024 , it’s clear that AI startups will continue to receive the lion’s share of funding, as the technology continues to disrupt core industries and provide investors with lucrative returns. After a number of successful funding rounds in 2023, GlossGenius secured a total funding of $72.2

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