socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The data startup--which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, Index Ventures, Miramar Venture Partners, and others-- just posted a data scientists''s view of holiday shopping, using the company''s vast trove of location-based data to pinpoint where to go shopping for certain items in Los Angeles, by crunching the numbers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Los Angeles-bassed data startup Factual , which is led by Gil Elbaz, said Thursday that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding round.

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Miramar Google Los Angeles Sales 100

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg which is focused on celebrity endorsements, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series D funding round. BAT said it has now raised $34M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data. Second, we only incubate companies we ourselves start.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2012

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the online advertising and celebrity sports endorsements startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, has raised $4.5M as part of an ongoing, $7.0M funding round, according to a filing from the firm this week.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

On Tuesday, July 10, Crowdfunder hosted Crowdstart LA, the first crowdsourced startup contest at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The event was sold out, attracting founders, angels, VC’s and future entrepreneurs in the LA Startup Community. This will most likely take event in January 2013.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2009

San Juan Capistrano-based OptionEase , the software-as-a-service startup developing a service for managing stock options, said this week that it has seen "record sales" for the firm's quarter ending September 30th. Tags: optionease saas software stock option accounting startup. No financial details were released by the firm.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 13, 2009

Maneesh Goyal, Senior Associate, Miramar Ventures; Featured Business Case: "Autopsy of a Startup" Kerry Shih, Strategist and Founder, SyncVoice, SoCal Entrepreneur of the Year, 2007. Tuesday, May 19, 2009 -- AccessEN. Featured Presentation: "What Will It Take to Succeed in the New World Order"? See [link] (more).

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Miramar SoCal Southern California Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the latest startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, announced today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the new data focused startup run by Gil Elbaz , the co-founder of Applied Semantics , which invented Google's AdSense technology, is announcing the investors in the firm this evening.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2010

Los Angeles-based Factual , the open data startup headed by former Google engineering director Gil Elbaz, said this weekend it has partnered with Newsweek on a "America's Best Public High School" initiative. The firm said that Newsweek and Factual will enhance Newsweek's list with a mix of proprietary and open data. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

VC Shut Down – Software startup Miramar Systems negotiated a seven year provision with their venture capitalists which gave the company an option to refund the their investors’ money, if the company was not sold within seven years. Tarzan Cleans Up – In 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs sold the Tarzan film rights for a nominal sum.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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