socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C. Noam Ohana, who heads up Exor Seeds, the holding company’s early-stage investment arm, will join Via’s board.

Layoffs 136

Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

On the automobile side, there are at least six Southern California companies also working on their own, electric or other alternative vehicles, competing against Tesla and the traditional carmakers. Boone Pickens; Aptera Motors , in Carlsbad, which has funding from Google and Idealab; and Phoenix MC , based in Ontario.

Southern California 176

Southern California Rustic Canyon Marketing San Diego 176

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are not far off from socalTECH's totals from last quarter, which totaled up around $932M in investment activity. San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with a large number of the biggest VC deals all located in the area.

Southern California 140

Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Happy Holidays!

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Southern California SoCal Pasadena Startup 113

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. The growing clean technology sector also helped numbers, with $74.0M for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive.

Southern California 160

Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M The second most active industry was Medical Devices and Equipment, which saw $103.37M in investments. in investments. According to the MoneyTree Report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, Los Angeles companies led the region with $385.6M

Southern California 113

Southern California Orange County Funding Report 113

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

has done is give you easy access to a domain, for free, and given you enormously valuable software that you can use for free, and which allow you to use the services you've been part of, invested in developing identities on, and allows you to create and promote that identity in a.mp What Chi.mp California is the biggest part of the U.S.

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

. —Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ), of Santa Monica, CA, said that it could file for FDA approval of an experimental treatment known as KTE-C19 by the end of 2016 —meaning there’s a chance Kite could be the first to market with a “CAR-T” product, a form of cellular immunotherapy for cancer. In the U.S.,

Google 40

Google Technical Review News Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. I live in the city of Santa Monica. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. But we do have great technology developers. Let me use LA as an example. Los Angeles.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. MSN Money Investing. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. MSN Money Homepage.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44