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APRIL 24, 2012

Pasadena-based Punchcard , the developer of mobile loyalty applications which is headed by Andy Steuer, said today that it has signed an agreement with KDA Group , a local marketing agency. KDA helps its clients drive local leads for their brands. to sell, manage, and promote Punchcard's products. The firm is backed by Idealab.

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JULY 11, 2017

Pasadena-based Spokeo , which offers up an online "people search" tool, said it has launched a new product specifically aimed at the law enforcement market. According to Spokeo, the new tool will help officials better track down, monitor and contact individuals.

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MAY 14, 2019

Pasadena-based startup Soulmates.AI said today that it has launched a new tool, Social ROI Reporter, which it says helps brands and agencies with measuring the dollar value of their social media and influencer marketing campaigns. The startup did not announce the pricing behind the tool. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Pasadena-based software developer Bluebeam Software has been acquired by German software company Nemetschek AG , the two said late Friday. Nemetschek said the deal will help it reinforce its market presence in North America, and will expand Bluebeam''s access to European and Asian markets. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

2014 Pasadena Angels Performance. • I have never seen such energy at the Pasadena Angels in my decade+ as a member. Angels have been attending many outside events, both in Greater Pasadena and further afield in Silicon Beach. Our partnership with Andy Wilson and the Innovate Pasadena team has been enormously helpful, too.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, the Idealab-backed startup which is looking to help publishers monetize their underutilized and archive content, said Wednesday that it has created a new advisory board. The firm is hoping its automated tools can help large, branded content publishers a way to drive traffic to their sites.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues? One way is developing testing tools and infrastructure around that market, to help those manufacturers in their research and development, which is just what Calabasas-based GridTest Systems (www.gridtest.com) is doing.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Pasadena-based MobLab , a new startup which develops personalized learning software for the education market, has scored a round of funding, the company said today. The funding came from the Andrew Nikou Foundation (ANF), which is the foundation of entrepreneur Andrew Nikou. Size of the investment in MobLab was not announced.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile analytics software, said this week that it has sold its managed media business unit to Los Angeles-based Gimbal. According to Gimbal, the buy will help it gain access to new markets where it did not previously have a presence.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Pasadena-based Wavemaker Three Sixty Health, LP , the healthcare startup investment fund led by Jay Goss, has teamed up with the University of Southern California's MESH (Medicine, Engineering, Science, Humanities) Academy at the USC Keck School of Medicine. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Goldstar , the online service which helps connect people with special deals on live entertainment, has tied with Google on support of Google Now. The Pasadena-based company said it has integrated with Google Now, to provide consumers with information about live entertainment in their area. Goldstar is led by Jim McCarthy. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2017

Pasadena-based Impact Health said Monday that it has raised $13M in a Series A funding, to help connect patients with health insurers. The startup, led by Christine Carrillo, says it helps patients enroll in health plans, find doctors, help contesting surprise medical bills, and check for what is covered under their health plan.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their archive content, said Monday that it has acquired technology from Mediariver, which can be used to match content and advertising to any web page. Jay Budzik will become CTO at Perfect Market.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Pasadena-based ObEN , which develops virtual reality avatar technology, has scored funding from SoftBank Ventures Korea, SoftBank said this morning. Size of the investment was not announced. SoftBank Ventures Korea said the investment came via its SB Next Media Innovation Fund. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has lost its Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Dossett, to startup Porch.com , only eight months after Dossett was named to the position after the loss of former Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer Bradford. Porch''s founders are split between Seattle and Southern California. and Microsoft. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2014

Pasadena-based Jacobs Engineering Group said this morning that it has entered into a deal to acquire Federal Network Systems (FNS), a provider of system integration and communications, information technology, and data security, which is a subsidiary of Verizon Communications. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2013

According to The Design Accelerator , it will help startups by selecting promising early stage, design-driven technology companies from the Art Center and Caltech communities for an intensive three-month program. >. design accelerator pasadena startup incubator entrepreneur' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2014

Pasadena-based mobile payments and commerce technology provider DoubleBeam has scored a win with Hawaiian grocery store chain Foodland. Foodland''s mobile app helps provide loyalty card point information, shopping lists, in-store location information, and more to grocery shoppers for the chain. The company is led by Ted Tekippe.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

According to the startup--which is based in San Francisco--it will let participants in the process share in equity and other profits from those companies.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Adhesive Games , the Alhambra-based, independent game publishing studio which is part of Meteor Entertainment has just scored a big, $18M funding round from Rustic Canyon Partners , Chinese game publisher KongZhong, and others to help bring its first title to market, Hawken. Alhambra is a suburb of Los Angeles, just south of Pasadena.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Last week, Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems (www.oculardatasystems.com) announced a funding round from the Pasadena Angels, for its camera-based systems used by law enforcement to capture evidence in drunk or drugged driving cases. That's a bridge to our Series A, which we'll be using for scaling up sales and marketing.

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MAY 5, 2016

Pasadena-based mobile ad measurement platform developer UberMedia , one of the companies out of Idealab, has released a new, mobile attribution product that tracks cross-media advertisement and correlates that to foot traffic in stores.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The company--which develops software-as-a-service which helps local businesses manage scheduling, staff management, point of sale, ecommerce, marketing, and more--said the funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Catalyst Investors, W Capital Partners and Montreux Equity Partners. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Pasadena-based payment services provider DoubleBeam said Friday that it has acquired GoPago , a provider of e-commerce solutions for merchants and mobile payment products. DoubleBeam said that the deal will help it deliver a turnkey mobile commerce platform that includes an integrated POS system. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

Pasadena-based Central Desktop , the developer of cloud-based, project collaboration software which is headed by Isaac Garcia, said Wednesday that it has bolstered its board. The firm said it has added Brent Rasmussen, president of CareerBuilder North America, to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. The firm so far has signed up a number of restaurants in the Pasadena area. What is Foodme all about? How do users do that?

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MAY 20, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small and local businesses place Internet advertising, was up 15.2 The firm's stock was up in its debut despite a down market for the day, with the NASDAQ down -4.11 percent after its IPO Thursday, closing at $14.98, up $1.98. The firm sold 4,166,667 shares of stock at $13.00

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

Sharpening its focus on the electronic discovery market, Pasadena-based X1 , the enterprise search tools provider backed by Idealab, has split out a new company called X1 Discovery , headed by John Patzakis, the former President of eDiscovery at X1. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 25, 2011

MINDBODY is venture backed by Bessemer Venture Partners , Catalyst Investors , the Pasadena Angels , Tech Coast Angels and Frontera Capital. SpaFinder operates a marketing service which helps connect consumers with spas and other wellness facilities. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , a provider of travel distribution software for specialty lodging suppliers, said today that it has been powering lodging for Snowcreek Resort, in Mammoth Mountain. The firm did not disclosed details of the win, but said that it is helping to increase the visibility of the resort in distribution channels.

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JULY 12, 2012

Punchcard , the Pasadena-based startup providing loyalty focused mobile applications and Wipit , another local startup focused on mobile payments, said this morning they're partnering to offer their services to the prepaid wireless market. None of the terms of the partnership were announced.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , a developer of distribution software for vacation rental, timeshare, and other specialty lodging providers, said today that it has launched a new product targeted at online rate pricing. The firm said its tools bring the same technology as airlines and large hotel chains use to maximize their yields.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

How do you make sense of all that data and actually help it to drive business decisions? Pasadena-based UberMedia (Www.ubermedia.com) is taking that data, and sorting through it to help businesses. We also work with companies doing measurement of marketing campaigns and store visits.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Irvine-based WebVisible announced today that it has acquired Pasadena-based Adapt Technologies, a developer of search engine marketing tools. WebVisible is a provider of local online advertising services, which helps small and midsize businesses place search engine marketing. in 2005.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Pasadena-based Cogent , the developer of fingerprint and other biometric readers, is being acquired by 3M , the two companies announced today. The firms said the deal would help Cogent accelerate its growth and reach in the market. The firms said the deal would help Cogent accelerate its growth and reach in the market.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

That's exactly what the software from Honey (www.joinhoney.com) does, by automatically helping users of Google's Chrome Browser to find and try out e-commerce coupon codes. We spoke with Ryan Hudson, one of the co-founders of the Pasadena company, to learn more about the tool. Describe what Honey is all about and how it works?

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