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JANUARY 15, 2019

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software tools that helps multi-location brands manage the customer experience of mobile consumers, says it is making it easier for its customers to build landing pages for their locations. Pricing on the new product were not announced.

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JULY 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based startup Kuapay has tapped a Nobel prize winner as its newest advisor, the startup announced today, and has added Myron Scholes as Chairman of its Advisory Board. Scholes is the economist best known for co-creating the Black-Scholes options pricing model. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

The new service offers those vehicles through a monthly price which includes maintenance, comprehensive and collision insurance, and roadside assistance--all through a mobile app or web interface. The new Turn service looks to be a direct competitor to Santa Monica-based car subscription service Fair. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

Santa Monica-based parking information app developer ParkMe has officially released its Android application, allowing users to tap into the company''s wealth of parking information. The app , which is free, allows users to find nearby parking spaces, get details on parking availability, pricing, and more. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Brighter.com , the online, upfront dental pricing and referral service based in Santa Monica, and headed by longtime Silicon Beach entrepreneur Jake Winebaum, has relaunched, swizzling its model away from a monthly membership program and towards direct, upfront pricing and referrals to local dentists. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Santa Monica-based data startup Factual now boasts more than 1.2 The firm--which provides a cloud-accessible, real time dataset available via APIs--said it also bolstered data on hours of operation, delivery, cuisine, and price across those restaurants, with hours for over 1 milion of the restaurants. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. “Lime would have an opportunity to control the narrative, engage with the local community, and invest in Santa Monica. And with similarly cheap pricing, the decision of which to use comes down to brand affinity.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Tecca said today that it has launched a new, personal electronics shopping and information service with the backing of Best Buy Co. Tecca's software currently runs on Apple iPhone and Google Android devices, and the firm said it will be offering up mobile web, PC, and tablet versions later this fall.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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JANUARY 21, 2015

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the developer of analytics software used to help retailers understand the link between their retail locations and mobile consumers, said this week that it has rolled out a new offering called LocalVoice Community Management. Pricing on the new service was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2015

Santa Monica-based HONK , the on-demand, roadside assistance app startup led by Corey Brundage, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding round. Honk offers up guaranteed upfront pricing on those services, and does not require a membership. Honk said the new funding brings its total raised to $13.8M.

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MAY 30, 2012

Santa Monica-based ParkMe , the mobile apps startup founded by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel, has launched its coverage of parking in Austin, Texas, the company said Wednesday morning. The firm said its free, iPhone app allows users in Austin to now find real-time availability of garage and street parking.

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MAY 16, 2016

Santa Monica-based secure messaging app developer TigerText is looking to see if it is, with a new "bot" it has created for its secure messaging applications. Is a messaging "bot" the answer to helping to improve the quality of health care?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , a provider of online car pricing information and other automotive content, said Friday that it has updated its Android application. The company said the app now includes used car pricing information, and allows for more thorough research on both new and used cars.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , the online automotive information site, said this morning that it has launched a new iPad application. According to the firm, the free app provides information about new and used cars, pricing information, car reviews, as well as inventory of new cars at local dealerships.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Currently, there are millions of drivers accessing parking data directly through ParkMe’s branded mobile apps and through its partnerships with GPS and in-car navigation systems,” said Alex Israel, ParkMe COO and co-founder. Over 29,000 metered spaces and 100,000 parking spaces.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Todd is now Chief Operating Officer of Marmol Radziner (www.marmol-radziner.com), an architecture and construction company, which recently installed a eco-friendly mobile home park project in Santa Monica which was focused on applying clean and eco-friendly technologies to the pre-fab building market.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, Santa Monica-based Parking In Motion , a developer of parking information apps for mobile devices, announced a new round of funding, from IDG Ventures and Fontinalis Partners, the venture arm of William Clay Ford, Jr., We also have our own, branded mobile phone alls. How did you get into this?

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MAY 26, 2011

Donnelly, and he also was behind eCompanies, which invested in such companies as JAMDAT Mobile, Boingo Wireless, and USBX. The way brighter makes that dental care more affordable, is it empowers consumers to find dental benefits, and allows them to compare that by price and reputation. 45 billion of that is spent out-of-pocket.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 1558 10th st, Santa Monica, CA 90401. In addition to working at Indiegogo, Kate is the co-founder and CMO of The Can Van, the world’s first mobile beer canning service made to bring reasonably priced and environmentally friendly packaging options to California breweries.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

INRIX a leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected driving services worldwide, announced it has completed the acquisition of ParkMe , a Santa Monica, CA company that helps consumers find parking, make reservations and mobile payments worldwide. Today, ParkMe and INRIX become one company.

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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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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Current round: $4.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

We invite you to the Second Annual Digital Family Reunion on Wednesday, December 2nd at Wokcano Restaurant in Santa Monica from 6-11pm. Use discount code: DFR30 to receive $30 price. Toyota, Pizza Hut, NBA, Fandango, and More Share Their Success Stories with Mobile and Social Apps. Read more below for details.

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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. You cal also download the free mobile apps iPhone and Android. Spotlight Companies. digmybrand. Spotlight Judges. Parking Information.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Born on the shores of Santa Monica, California, the company is taking its beta-tested Cv3 platform out into the public today. Some of the new CallFire Cv3 platform features a new and improved UI, helps enable CallFire customers to view from mobile devices and multiple desktops.

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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. Do you think there''s some challenge to the domain industry today due to mobile?

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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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MAY 21, 2013

With prices laid out on the map, you can always easily compare parking options,” they team said. San Diego, Santa Monica, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, Phoenix, New Orleans, Portland, Miami and several others in the US. Available in Over 500 Cities.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. By allowing friends to collaborate during the planning process using a mobile app or SMS, Volly takes the burden of organizing casual gatherings off of one person. . Price: FREE.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! 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. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Where: Wokcano, 1413 5 th Street, Santa Monica, CA. Price: FREE. The conference is a global platform to connect people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media. When: Wednesday, Sept 22 nd , 2010 - 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. What: A Startup Demo event. RSVP: [link].

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. If you thought about our last funds, where we came from, we were very conventional.

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MARCH 26, 2013

SideCar and Lyft are mobile apps operating in a sector known as the sharing economy where a driver with an empty seat in their car can offer it to someone headed in the same general direction. I used SideCar last week to get a ride from Santa Monica to Westwood. I can vouch for Paul’s assertions.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. By allowing friends to collaborate during the planning process using a mobile app or SMS, Volly takes the burden of organizing casual gatherings off of one person. Price: FREE.

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