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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based RingDNA , which develops analytics software used for understanding the sales process and sales conversations, said last week that it raised $30M in a growth capital funding. The funding was led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (GS Growth), and also included Palisades Growth Capital and Bryant Stibel.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Holiday sales? Summer vacation sales? In a sign of the times, instead of the more traditional sales, Los Angeles-based online electronics retailer Newegg is aiming its next sale at people who are preparing to spend more time stuck at home this summer due to the pandemic, saying it has launched a new "Big Sale for Those Inside".

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based ringDNA , the venture-backed startup which is developing artificial intelligence tools to help sales teams, says it has acquired a popular podcast focused on sales. According to the company, it has acquired the sales podcast "Accelerate!", Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Riot Ventures , the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Los Angeles-based online technology retailer Newegg has officially kicked off the holiday shopping season, saying it has launched its Black November sales, as of this morning. According to Newegg, this year it expects to reveal 20 to 50 new, early Black Friday deals each Friday up until Black Friday itself. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2021

Los Angeles-based Zefr, which provides services to help monitor brand safety and other services for online videos, particularly on YouTube, has named a new sales VP. According to Zefr, it has named Kelsey Garigan as Executive Vice President, Head of North American Sales.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Online real estate brokerage Redfin said this morning that it is launching a brand new, "concierge" service in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., where the company will take care of the deep cleaning, painting, staging, and landscaping of a home before a sale. and will be available for a 2 percent listing fee.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Los Angeles-based Subspace, which operates a WebRTC, real time application network, has appointed Davide Petramala as its new Vice President of Sales, the company said today. Petramala was most recently at Avaya, where he was Managing Director of Avaya's public cloud business unit.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

When it comes to venture capital, Los Angeles is a city on the rise. In the past year, it’s seen one of the most profitable venture-backed exits of any tech ecosystem (with the $4 billion sale of Honey to PayPal) and investors are minting billion-dollar companies in the region at a torrid pace.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based ringDNA , which develops sales engagement software, says it has launched a new, artificial intelligence (AI) product, which it says helps recommend actions for sales reps, to increase success.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based expense and invoice management software developer Chrome River announced this morning that it has named Matt Gahr as its new Chief Sales Officer. Gahr was most recently Vice President Sales, Americas at Cornerstone OnDemand, where Chrome River said he oversaw more than 100 sales professionals.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

Representatives from the government and the utility managing the power of Los Angeles are proposing a sweeping infrastructure package worth roughly $150 billion centered on the broad electrification of transportation and industry. There’s $25 billion in money set aside for public transit and $12.5

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JULY 14, 2021

Los Angeles-based Endgame, a developer of software that links user behavior with sales opportunities, has raised $17M in funding, according to the company. The funding was split between a $12.25M, Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures, and an earlier $5M Series Seed funding which was led by Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Los Angeles-based EcoFlow, the developer of portable power stations, says it reached $200M in annual revenues in 2021, up 275% from the year before. The company said it more than tripled its sales in 2021, the second consecutive year for the growth.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based Fandango , which offers up online and mobile movie information and ticketing, said it has sold more than $127M in cumulative sales for Avengers: Endgame. According to Fandango, those sales numbers represent the biggest cumulative box office haul through opening weekend in the company's history.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 9, 2018

What could be more perfect than moving the inaugural championship finals for an esports league from its Los Angeles home to Brooklyn? Those games are set to begin July 11th and will take place in Burbank at the company’s “Blizzard Arena Los Angeles.” Tickets go on sale on Friday, May 18th, at 10 a.m.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The move coincides with a number of SpaceX and Tesla-related projects in Texas, the sale of several of Musk’s Los Angeles homes as well as his disagreement with how California public officials have handled the COVID-19 pandemic. His remarks confirmed a CNBC report that Musk had told friends of his intent to move to Texas.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. Sales, Sony Music Entertainment, in a statement. .

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2019

Tesla will pull back the curtains and unveil its Model Y crossover vehicle at an event in Los Angeles on March 14th, according to a tweet from chief executive Elon Musk. Model Y unveil event on March 14 at LA Design Studio. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019. There will be some layoffs as a result.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Based in Paris and Los Angeles, Snipfeed’s 15-person staff is particularly interested in the “long tail” of creators, which it says encompasses more than 46 million people. Snipfeed is free to set up, but if you make sales, the company takes 15% — this percentage is inclusive of any transaction fees.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

Even as NFT sales dip below their most speculative highs, startups aiming to tap into their potential are still scoring big funding rounds from investors who believe there’s much more to crypto collectibles than the past few months of hype.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I’ve met in my 5 years in Los Angeles. You can monetize via Google Ad Sales before you have enough revenue to build your own sales team. It was founded by Danny Zappin, Lisa Donovan & Ben Donovan. Sound familiar?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. Canoo said it will provide engineering services to develop the electric platform.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Our interview today is with Amos Schwartzfarb , the author of Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups , which comes out tomorrow, Wednesday. Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. Last year, the company unveiled its tools for managing Kubernetes deployments and immediately saw sales increase.

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MAY 14, 2014

Los Angeles-based Contender.com , a new online event ticket marketplace headed by Wes Brodsky and Ken Blaustein, has launched, looking to help buyers and sellers of secondary tickets connect. The company says it leverages PayPal to make sure that deals will be done in a secure way.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. A couple of quick stories / examples: 1.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of business transaction and deal management software-as-a-service, said today that it has raised $1M in an expansion round for the company. The new funding came from Subtraction Capital, FF Angel, 500 Startups, and other investors. The startup--which is led by PayPal veteran Erik M.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

On a mild Thursday night at the Los Angeles Forum , Nike’s public relations team and a group of journalists from some of the country’s leading lifestyle, tech, and general interest websites gathered to see the debut of Nike’s most ambitious SNKRS stash drop.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Co-founded by Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez, Curri aims to solve one of the major hurdles for local construction suppliers who miss out on sales because of an inability to deliver to contractors when they need it. The company estimates that it saves its customers roughly half the cost of deploying an in-house fleet for delivery. .

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based electronic products retailer Newegg said on Monday that it is kicking off its Black Friday deals today, through midnight on Cyber Monday a further indication of how the holiday shopping season has blurred into a continuous stream of promotions that now start, in many cases, in October.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. how to evolve our management team.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based Ordermark , the online delivery management service for restaurants founded by the scion of the famous, family-owned Canter’s Deli, said it has raised $18 million in a new round of funding. The round was led by Boulder-based Foundry Group. Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Los Angeles-based Signal Automotive , a startup which develops software for managing buying, selling, and inventory allocation for automobile dealers, has raised $20M in a funding round. The funding was led by Kayne Partners Fund, the growth private equity arm of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP.

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