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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Pasadena-based Wallaby , the developer of software to help consumers maximize the points and benefits of their credit card spending, is powering an online tool for travel rewards website ThePointsGuy.com , the two are announcing this morning. Wallaby is backed by Founders Fund, Karlin Ventures, MuckerLab, SLP Ventures, and WI Harper Group.

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MAY 19, 2017

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. Let's talk about your funding. How are you backed and funded? What is Signal Sciences?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm is joining Google and Microsoft in a big, $110M funding round for Cloudflare , the provider of web site security and caching services. CloudFlare's service combine both caching and website performance tools, along with distributed denial of service (DDOS) protection and other security features.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Culver City-based Replicated, a startup that provides commercial and open source tools to streamline distribution and management of third party applications into enterprises, says it has linked in with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Global Startup Program. Replicated is led by co-founder and CEO Grant Miller.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a new funding round for gaming software development kit (SDK) developer Genvid , according to Genvid. in new funding led by March Capital Partners, and also including OCA Ventures. Genvid has now raised $4M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which supplies ad optimization software to web publishers, announced today that it has released a new version of its VANTAGE Firefox browser plug-in, which helps provide its publishers with revenue and impressoin statistics and other information. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 18, 2018

San Diego-based Agentology , which develops automated lead referral and management tools for the real estate industry, has raised $12M in a funding round, the company disclosed Tuesday. The funding was led by Defy.vc, which will add Trae Vassallo to Agentology's board. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. It took four years to build this tool, because no one else did.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife , a firm that develops tools and technology to sell merchandise to music fans, announced today that it has raised $1M in a bridge round of funding. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The firm said the round came as a single-tranche note, convertible to preferred shares. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last year at this time, SpotOn was on the brink of announcing a $60 million Series C funding round at a $625 million valuation. While the Series E capital is primarily funding the acquisition, SpotOn continues to double down on its product and technology. Image Credits: SpotOn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. By far, the majority of new businesses I know are self-funding (bootstrapped) from your own savings and prior assets. Take advantage of inexpensive tools to gather data and provide analytics.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Aliso Viejo-based Evolver , the online avatar software site developed by Darwin Dimensions, said Thursday that it has launched a new web site that allows end users to create avatars for social media sites like Facebook and MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2010

Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. We're trying to make monitoring of web sites and applications sexy and simple. That's why web performance and web monitoring mean serious dollars.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Irvine-based M86 Security , a developer of web security gateways and filtering devices, has raised $13.6M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. [ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Very few people fund individuals. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. And whenever I needed to round up signatures for future fund raisings it was difficult to track him down / get him to care.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The firm's tools allow web publishers to recommend content to users, while also inserting "sponsored stories" in those recommendations from advertisers. in a Series B funding round in October. The new API effort extends Gravity's technology into use in mobile applications, tablet apps, in addition to the web.

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MAY 21, 2014

Are you a content creator for the web? Juan Bruce: What we are doing at Epoxy, is we develop software tools for online video channels, allowing them to connect with their audiences where they audience connects most, which is social media. Most recently, we created a web series. We decided to embody those operations in a toolset.

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MAY 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based MashOn , a firm providing web-based personalization and brand marketing services, has raised $620,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. The filing indicates the funding is part of an ongoing $1.5M Source of the new funding was not disclosed. fundraising effort.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based CrownPeak , a developer of web content management systems (CMS), has raised $1.75M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The firm's software-as-a-service tools are used by customers such as Nissan, Earthlink, and Skype.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

San Diego-based AttackIQ, a cybersecurity startup providing a Web-based platform for assessing network defenses, has finally closed its Series A round of founding, after raising a total of $8.8 Chenette said the round also counts funding from AttackIQ’s early investors, a.

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund? All of that represents opportunity, as well.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

DB Networks , a developer of a firewall specifically designed to counteract SQL injection and database denial of service attacks on websites and web applications, has raised $4.5M in a funding round. As part of the funding, Shirish Sathaye of Khosla Ventures joins the company's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Howard Lindzon , the CEO of San Diego-based StockTwits , has made another angel investment, this time in Embed.ly , a developer of tools that make it easier for web sites to embed content from other web sites. said that StockTwits is one of the firm's customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Maybe we just have too many tools at our disposal. Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the Amplify startup which is developing app management, single sign-on, and other cloud-based app tools, said Tuesday that it has linked up with two companies in partnerships. The firm announced its seed funding in April. READ MORE>>. bitium partnership enterprise application cloud migration software'

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Orange-based M86 Security , a developer of SMB security tools and software, has raised $3.0M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The firm is the result of the mergers of firms Marshal, 8e6, and Avinti. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Some consider direct mail very expensive or dead as a lead-generation tool. You need to first purchase or build a targeted list of clients from a trustworthy source, then refine it with some new tools, like LinkedIn and Gist, before contacting them with a good script. Direct mail marketing. Yet it is more alive than ever before.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

At night I had a group dinner where I met 6 new entrepreneurs and hung out with some old friends from law firms, banks and other VC funds. But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

Silicon Valley company Arevo , which competes with a growing number of rivals to transform 3D printing into a tool for mass manufacturing, announced today it raised $12.5 million in a Series B financing round.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

a Boston-based software developer which develops self-service, publishing tools aimed at magazine publishers, catalog publishers, and others. The Gores Group said it acquired Zmags through its Small Capitalization Partners investment fund. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. As part of the buy, Gores Group has named Brian T.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Interested in getting some help in getting your startup off the ground and funded? The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2012

Goko is backed by Redpoint Ventures and Aslop Louie Partners from whom it raised raised $8m in Series A funding. It has an SDK for developers to create, distribute and monetize HTML5 social games across iOS, Android, Facebook, Google+ and Windows 8 and the web. Goko was founded by Ted Griggs as CEO and Kevin Binkley as CTO.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

They can manage all of their customer contacts, create customer profiles, and be able to message their customer through SMS and web-based push notification. We started a company called CallFire, which made SMS and voice automation tools for sales and marketing teams. How are you funded and backed?

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JUNE 2, 2017

is literally built out of what my co-founders and I, and a bunch of investors in first generation mobile, first games and tools like Burstly and Testflight had seen firsthand. We didn't see any tools that were built for this process, only marketing tools for attribution and analytics, or for reactive, feature-based analysis.

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