socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Santa Monica-based voice and texting API developer CallFire said this week that it has just hit two billion messages send via its platform, and decided to donate $10,000 in credits on its service to a nonprofit to celebrate the milestone.

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Santa Monica Coach Activity Platform 187

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. The world is going mobile.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Platform Help Customer Custom 82

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

CallFire creates simple text and voice platforms for businesses to use to reach their customers. CallFire’s growth has been tremendous: surpassing the 200,000 user mark, reaching the 200 million campaign mark for executing calls and texts campaigns, and a 100% growth in the past 12 months.

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Platform PHP Santa Monica Customer 71

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. One example is Santa Monica-based hardware company, Ring, who transitioned to a hybrid business model that now includes recurring revenue. In the interest of full disclosure, Headspace is a client of SVB Santa Monica.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. LA has a serious technology scene.

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Startup Santa Monica Snapchat Yahoo 318

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Senior IOS/Mobile Engineer , DogVacay. DogVacay.com, the fastest-growing, Santa Monica startup, passionate about using technology to build a community where dog lovers can connect with one another to find and provide safe, convenient and affordable services to care for their best friend. Product Marketing Manager , TigerText.

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Dollar Shave Club SoCalTech Technology Santa Monica 147

socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2014

We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. Where do you fit into the ad market? I started my first business at eighteen, a retail cell phone business on Main Street here in Santa Monica.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Media 230

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

There were, of course, those who used the opportunity to make a marketing push or pitch a story. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Moovit, an Israeli-based Mobility as a Service startup, launched an Emergency Mobilization On-Demand service. It wasn’t just the number of you who reached out.

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Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2012

Santa Monica-based Factual and location-based, analytics and services provider Geoloqi said over the weekend that Factual will enhance enhance Geoloqi's location data and analytics offering with its data. Financial details of the deal with Geoloqi and Factual were not disclosed.

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Santa Monica Google Platform Help 150

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. Jason Reid: Giftagram is a mobile first company, that really redefines the way people gift. We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. How does Giftagram work?

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 10, 2013

Beta Invite, take the TechZulu Tech Crawl Tour of ROC Santa Monica to meet the hottest start-ups on the westside, and more. Beta Invite, take the TechZulu Tech Crawl Tour of ROC Santa Monica to meet the hottest start-ups on the westside, and more. On a mobile phone? CLICK HERE FOR MOBILE RSVP. PromoJam 2.0

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Santa Monica Startup Mobile Platform 82

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 16, 2010

This week on TechZulu Live we have special guest Michael Schneider of Mobile Roadie. Michael then went on to turn a high school hobby into a business. Fluidesign , an interactive agency based in Santa Monica that builds brands, creates websites, and markets clients online. Click here to watch live on Thursday 4pm PT.

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Mobile Santa Monica Startup News 66

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Even so, ads only work if people can see them, and today’s ad formats need to be visible on any device.

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Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. It is interesting to see you've been mobile as the first part of your launch--in fact, only offering up iPhone and Android versions, and no web version yet. READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

However, Santa Monica-based Dreamhammer (www.dreamhammer.com) has a different vision of the world, where entire fleets of aerial drones and robotics surface vehicles can all operate off a single, interoperable operating system--much like you get multiple smartphones running on Android today, or computers on the same OS.

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Startup Software Southern California Santa Monica 183

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2016

In particular, there are many platforms who enable taking ticket payments for sporting events, donation payments for non profits and rent payments for property managers, who don't fit into the current legacy way payments are handled. Those are the single merchants, who use Stripe to build a website, and also for mobile apps.

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Platform Startup Ticketmaster Writing 113

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Video chat by Stickam.com Last Friday, about 80 business leaders assembled at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, for CallFire’s first ever “un-conference&# called Biz2Beach. At their respective discussions, they spoke about online marketing, mobile marketing, company culture, and social media ROI, among other topics.

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Social Media Mobile SEO Media 71

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. a fbFund winner.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2011

South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. Dather – A social media marketing tool that packages videos, photos, tweets, and posts into one place. “Would you like a free drink ticket?”

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Technical Review Userplane Social Media Santa Monica 63

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Make sure to tune in!

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

" Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing. I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool. We were in the finals at TechCrunch50 this year and are waking up the neighborhood with our mobile application.

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Los Angeles Southern California Technology Angel 150

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

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Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. Former CEO of Myspace. Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

This month, Siemer and Associates hosted its 4th Annual invitation-only Silicon Beach Summit at Casa Del Mar and Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. Hitesh Chawla, CEO.

Media 84

Media Technology Truecar Southern California 84

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. I’m sure others have, too.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Mobile accounts for 25% of their traffic. Photos…the final frontier.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo!

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

“GumGum’s always been ahead of its time in what we’ve introduced to the market. GumGum’s goal is to continue educating the market and selling the product – they’re expecting 400% growth next year. LA is home-base for their design, publisher development, engineering, finance, and marketing teams.

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Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. Cookbook Cafe is the new DIY publishing platform from L.A.-based You cal also download the free mobile apps iPhone and Android.

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UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91