TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention. Part of that is because of how PortalOne has built out its platform. “This is part of our secret sauce.”

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Attention Marketers - The Medium Has Changed, So Should The Message. As Facebook''s mobile ad revenue attests, marketers are stepping up their "phone based" spending. In order for them to take full advantage of Facebook the phone company, they will have to abandon traditional online marketing conventions. But Why Now?

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2011

Irvine-based VIZIO announced today that it has entered the tablet market, with its VIZIO Tablet, an 8-inch, touch screen capable tablet with HD video playback. The new tablet is build on the Android platform, and has full access to the Android Market. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Search Marketing. Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem. Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures' They also had much experience before that. Watch this space. (as

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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. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. How is the company funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). think Apple.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. And…they have opened up their API for all of you clever developers to create the amazing interactive second screen apps of the future. It is essentially a super large screen pad.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2021

We created this in 2003 for the medical interpreting market, but since then, we've expanded the platform so that it's not just about language. We now have 1800 hospitals across the country, and have had over 100,000 encounters over the platform. We bring language interpreters to the point of care.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. What we've been able to do, is non-intrusively serve ads on the right side of the screen, which rotate every 60 seconds. Thanks, and good luck!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. If you can find a market that you believe in, craft your product around that market.

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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. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2013

Pixicle, a photo sharing device that makes it easy for users to view photos with their friends and family on the big screen instead of the frustrating smartphone screen passed around the room has raised $10K of its $38K Indiegogo goal to make photo viewing less strenuous. How many platforms so far-iOS, Android etc?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Matthias Kurwig: Enervee is the world's first, personal energy efficiency scoring platform. It's a data business which runs through what the offerings are in the market, identifies those offers and products that are in the market today, and uses lots of data sources to identify the energy consumption of those products.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Entertainment Apps Conference will bring together top digital distribution and marketing execs from the major studios and networks, CE and set-top box makers, technology and platform providers, developer and content creators for a day-long conference on the emerging world of app-based entertainment content and services.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Platform Senior Software Engineer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. You can also use socalTECH.com's database of high tech companies in Southern California to locate employers near you, companies which have recently received funding and are likely to hire, or screen for companies in certain industries. Software Engineer , West LA, Shopzilla.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

AppFolio supplements its SaaS revenue with add-on services for customers that include background (credit / criminal) screening and credit card processing, both of which generate transactional revenue. In the case of Invoca, customers pay a monthly subscription price for the company''s inbound call marketing platform.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2018

Santa Monica-based mobile movie ticketing platform Atom Tickets said this week that it it expanding its platform to the independent theater market. According to Atom Tockets, it has launched what it calls the "Independent Exhibitors Program",which will support independent theater owners and operators on its platform.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For Oliver, that was when he and his partner were looking at IVF as a way to screen for the BRCA1 gene from her embryos after she found out that she was a carrier. ” Once Oliver started doing research into the market and discovered that there were only 460 fertility clinics in the U.S. Bakersfield, Calif.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. Jordan Hudson. I thought that was the end of it. Sam had different plans.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal screening. He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. And we had to then build out new marketing materials and a website. Portfolio community building.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

We don’t mind investing earlier if the situation warrants and we don’t mind leading a B-Round if we know the team well or the market. And Stuart Lander is also a partner and runs all operations and platform teams. And anybody who works with us of course knows Kerry Bennett who runs marketing and our CFO Dana Kibler.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

. “Any time someone sends a communication, that will trigger an alert that floats as a Mojichat animation on top of the screen,” Greene said of the earlier activation. . “My plan is to become the avatar solution for all of Unity,” Greene told me earlier. and the work with Dr. .

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Yekra has introduced the first DRM-protected player that can run on any connected device or screen. Their baked in marketing technology helps producers determine the best distribution system by matching genres with online viewers demographics across 4,000 affiliate sites. The company has been funded for $3.1M

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). No doubt the platform that Francisco built will take Twiistup 7 to a whole different level.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , which says it is developing a "screen optimization platform" aimed at the TV and video ecosystem, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , which says it is developing a "screen optimization platform" aimed at the TV and video ecosystem, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. If you can find a market that you believe in, craft your product around that market.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But there's more to the city than what's on the big screen. million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform. CoSchedule , a calendar platform for marketing teams, has been growing so rapidly lately – they may have the most noticeable and explosive growth.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Before his career moved online, Len worked on major marketing campaigns for credit card companies and rolled out MCI’s highly successful “Friends and Family” marketing campaign.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. I live in the city of Santa Monica.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. It's always in your face, and always on screen. You have to jump from one screen to screen within Salesforce.com to do this.

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