Bambee Raises $15 Million for HR Platform
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 18, 2020
has raised $15 million in Series B funding for its human resources platform for small businesses. Santa Monica-based Bambee Inc.
PodcastOne is launching LaunchpadDM, a free hosting platform for independent podcasters
TechCrunch LA
AUGUST 7, 2019
PodcastOne , the celebrity podcasting network from the founder of radio powerhouse WestwoodOne, is launching a free hosting platform for podcasters. The company is also billing itself as a discovery platform, offering free promotion for the services various podcasts across its own network of popular podcasting talent.
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BuildFire Launches Platform For Instant Mobile App Creation
socalTECH
AUGUST 7, 2014
Newport Beach-based BuildFire said yesterday that it has released a new platform, aimed at helping businesses and nonprofits to easily create native smartphone, tablet, and web apps. BulidFire said its mobile app creation platform supports e-commerce capability, straming video, calendar integration, social features, and much more.
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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 3, 2016
In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.
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Bambee Raises $15 Million for HR Platform
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 18, 2020
has raised $15 million in Series B funding for its human resources platform for small businesses. Santa Monica-based Bambee Inc.
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130 How This Founder Wants to Apply Her Technology to Help Save the Planet’s Resources
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 2, 2017
[link] And I think we’re all rooting for the Rebecca’s of the world to develop platforms to help us evolve our world and deal with the kind of resource-constrained systems we will likely encounter.
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SoftBank bets big on a ‘digital Ellis Island’
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 21, 2021
Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Today, Welcome’s platform is approaching 3 million active users, according to co-founder and CEO Amir Hemmat. s SB Opportunity Fund.
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Esri Launches Platform For Caribbean
socalTECH
APRIL 9, 2020
Redland-based geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping software provider Esri has launched a new, online analytics platform it is aiming at the Caribbean community, the company said late Wednesday. According to the company, the new, online portal was built in collaboration with its Caribbean distributor, Spatial Innovision.
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5 Reasons For Monetizing The Idle Resources Of Others
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the Internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get more out of their own assets and time, and capitalize on the idle resources of others. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives. Restaurants.
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Cornerstone OnDemand Acquires Hiring Platform Workpop
L.A. Business Journal
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Santa Monica-based human resources management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. acquired Santa Monica hiring platform Workpop Inc.
Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The employees who participated in the walkout want Netflix to “adopt measures to avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech,” they wrote in a letter. But this is a watershed moment — as Netflix employees we have both the privilege and responsibility to create change on and off the platform.
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Scarce Natural Resources Are Startup Idea Goldmines
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 5, 2014
You can start a new e-Commerce site on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. This not only saves scarce natural resources, but adds value to the economy.
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96 Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 12, 2015
I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better. Simply put: We never intended to build a business on one company’s platform and despite market perceptions – we never did
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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2012
NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. Damir Davidovic: NEOGOV is a cloud-based, human resources suite. For the last few years, we've been working on our full blown human resources platform, which is built on the latest technology.
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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. We made mistakes ourselves that proved to us that you can’t make markets move faster than they inherently want to just by throwing more resources at them. And ever since then I have been reluctant to over-resource tech projects.
Docstoc's ExpertCircle Looks To Become The Yelp For Business Services
socalTECH
MAY 22, 2013
Online business resource site Docstoc is in a big expansion of its services today, with the launch of a brand new service to help businesses connect with products and vendors. A key part of ExpertCircle is the peer reviews, from both other users and experts, on different vendors and products in a category.
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Framework Benchmarks
TechEmpower
MARCH 28, 2013
Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. We aim to know the upper bound being set on an applications performance per unit of hardware by each platform and framework.
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On Launching a Brand – Upfront Ventures Four Months In
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
The link for the video is here and if you want a short firsthand view on our changes it’s a great resource. Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). A brand is a marathon, not a sprint. You can follow Hamet on Twitter here.
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Frameworks Round 1
TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
Authors'' Note: We''re using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. If the framework provides no JSON serializer, a best-of-breed for the platform is selected. Since Vert.x
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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments
TechCrunch LA
MAY 12, 2020
The 10 startups in Yellow’s third batch include: Brightly : a media platform and community that promotes ethical and sustainable brands. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup.
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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Ways to Make Your MVP More Minimum We spent quite a bit of time talking about a complexity scale and the kinds of resources you can viably use at different levels of complexity. If you do not break it down into small pieces, its hard to make progress with part-time resources, freelancers, etc.
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Google Cloud will launch its Los Angeles region in July
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 26, 2018
“ The LA region will provide our media and entertainment customers with fast, scalable compute resources, so visual effects and animation studios can spend less time waiting on renders, and more time bringing their creative visions to life,” Google notes in its announcement today.
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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact
TechEmpower
MARCH 4, 2024
This shift allows business to reallocate human resources to more complex and strategic roles, or eliminate those positions entirely. AI can significantly aid Human Resources (HR) departments in reducing costs through various means. This not only speeds up hiring but also lowers the costs associated with lengthy recruitment cycles.
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SOA Software Debuts New Product
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
SOA Software said its new product, the SOA Software Datacenter API Platform, is aimed at the "software-defined datacenter", and helps its customers abstract data center resources from applications. Los Angeles-based SOA Software said this morning that it has launched a new product.
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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
.&# What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. These are very different.
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ExpenseCloud Acquired By TriNet
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2012
Human resources service provider TriNet confirmed Thursday that it has acquired Los Angeles-based expense report management software provider ExpenseCloud. According to TriNet, it will incorporate ExpenseCloud's offering into its client service platform later in 2012. Financial terms of the sale have not been announced.
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Relaunching Both Sides of the Table
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 10, 2014
I considered changing to a blog publishing platform that would allow me to change the visual design more easily myself. He runs platform for Upfront Ventures and is doing an amazing job. I appreciate beautiful design – I just wasn’t blessed with the skill of producing it. But that seemed too much work for me.
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294 SRCH2: Fastest, Lightest Search Engine For Android, Hands Down
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
According to CEO Dev Bhatia via an interview, the company''s tools are far lighter and faster than other options for Android--just one of the platforms the company is developing its software for. READ MORE>>. srch2 search engine technology software instant'
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190 Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
If I understand correctly it was initially a platform for sending SMS messages to friends via a website. After that they realized the power of the platform for “microblogging.&# Only later, for example, did people come up with the idea for hashtags that help organize information. They are at basecamp.
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BetterWorks Shutting Down On May 31st
socalTECH
MAY 23, 2012
According to an email from Craig, the company decided to close down the BettterWorks perk platform, and will not longer be active after next Thursday. Craig said that the shutdown came as a result of not being able to sustain a large enough market, relative ot the high cost of customer acquisition.
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Eucalyptus Joins In Cloud Computing Alliance
socalTECH
OCTOBER 6, 2010
According to newScale , rPath , and Eucalyptus , the three have created a new coalition called the "NRE" alliance, which will promote the firms' integrated technology platform for the cloud computing market. The three vendors first announced the three way collaboration back in August.
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Disney Accelerator Shows Off First Class Of Startups
socalTECH
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M in its seed funding round. in its seed funding round.
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185 GoCoin Gets $1.5M For BitCoin Payments
socalTECH
MARCH 27, 2014
GoCoin said the new round will go towards engineering resources and to ramp up its global sales force. GoCoin has around 7,000 square feet on the 3rd Street Promenade, and is developing a platform to allow merchants to accept Bitcoin and other digital currency payments on their e-commerce sites. READ MORE>>.
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157 Gamzee Shifts Staff, Looks Towards Smaller Games
socalTECH
JANUARY 18, 2012
According to Marks, the firm has decided to rethink the opportunity, and now sees that it's important to create smaller, rather than bigger games, due to the time it takes to load games on mobile platforms. As a result, the firm has laid off three programmers at the firm, in order to spend more of its resources on marketing.
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Startup CTO or Developer
TechEmpower
AUGUST 7, 2023
More on the Role of the Startup CTO Eric Ries, a great resource, answers the question What Does a Startup CTO actually do? And you certainly don’t want to be the company that spends time and money building something you could have picked up off the shelf. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !
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260 Wiser Capital Gets $1.25M For Renewable Energy Efforts
socalTECH
AUGUST 13, 2013
Santa Barbara-based Wiser Capital has raised $1.25M in a funding round, to go towards its online platform for sourcing and funding commercial solar projects. The company said the funding came from private investors, and will go towards adding personnel and resources to the company.
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5 Ways Creative Startups Can Sustain The Environment
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 5, 2021
Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. This not only saves scarce natural resources, but adds value to the economy. Marty Zwilling.
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Interview with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton, PromoJam
socalTECH
MARCH 29, 2012
We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. What is PromoJam?
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217 SharesPost Hooks Up With NASDAQ On Private Shares Market
socalTECH
MARCH 6, 2013
According to the two companies, the move will create a new marketplace for private growth companies, which combines NASDAQ OMX's experience in the market and resources, and SharesPost's web-based platform for trading private stock. As part of the deal, NASDAQ will retain a majority stake in the new NASDAQ Private Market (NPM).
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Allylix Raises $18.2M
socalTECH
MARCH 12, 2012
Allylix is developing a platform to product renewable specialty chemicals, particularly terpenes, which are used for flavor and fragrances. The firm says its technology allows for creating compounds which were previously only available from natural resources in limited quantities. According to BASF, it invested $13.5M READ MORE>>.
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147 Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 13, 2011
I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point.
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Interview with Jamey Edwards, Cloudbreak Health
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. That saves valuable PPE and care resources, lowers the risk of contagion, and we're able to help reduce patient isolation by connected them to families in a HIPPA compliant fashion.
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How Younity Is Unifying Your Files Across Devices, with Erik Caso
socalTECH
DECEMBER 17, 2012
What's different with Younity, is instead of creating another cloud and walled garden, we're actually incorporating the resources you already have, such as the storage on your devices, and over time, your other online services, photos, and documents. You can share those resources between both computers.
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