Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. It’s something you must earn over time by living up to the name you define. We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. It would be out of sync.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based scooter rental service Bird has laid off approximately 5% of its full-time staff, according to a report on Thursday, in what has been attributed to an effort to "contain costs". In Lyft's case, most of those employees were part of a startup called Motivate, which was acquired by Lyft about three months ago.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. application services (security, integration), etc. It's funny.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Santa Monica-based TradeYa said Wednesday that it has raised $1.1M in a venture capital funding, to launch its social platform for trading goods and services. The startup is led by Jared Krause. READ MORE>>. angels coast tech angel social swapping bartering barter trading capital venture tradeya'

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. Most of that digital media is display, and we have a platform which automates a lot of the optimization decisions, based on a strategy we''ve developed collectively as a media team. How much of this is technology versus services?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin.

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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Santa Monica-based Fair , which operates a vehicle subscription service that lets users subscribe to gain access to cars without the restrictions of a traditional lease, has raised $100M in a combined debt facility and equity investment, the company said this morning. Fair is led by automotive and startup veteran Scott Painter.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the startup which is developing software to provide analytics on such things as check-ins and customer interaction at retail locations, said this week that it has partnered with digital marketing firm Location3 Media. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Santa Monica-based car ownership service Fair , the new auto startup led by longtime auto veteran Scott Painter, has inked a strategic alliance with auto financing giant Ally Financial. According to the two, Fair will use Ally's SmartAuction when vehicles are returned to Fair, as a remarketing solution for those vehicles.

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MAY 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the startup run by Paige Craig, which is developing a service to help companies manage and offer employee benefits and perks, has upgraded its product features. BetterWorks has developed a system which makes it easy for employers to manage fringe benefits for its employees.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Walter Grieves: Our goal is to bring together universities, startups, and investors in one place. It's up to the community.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Online dating site eHarmony is reporting that it's seeing an increasing number of users using its mobile apps to access its dating service, and also said that conversions of those users is up nearly 40 percent year to year. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. He teamed up with Jordanna Joaquina, a genetic counselor, to create an online version of what she was already doing in the physical world. Oh, and the cocktail party afterward also rocked! (I

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. We will have an amazing treat for you all.

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JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. We spoke with founder and CEO Aaron Robin to learn more about the app and how it started, and how the company is hoping to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health support.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

Santa Monica-based Gigmor (www.gigmor.com) is an online marketplace for musicians, and recently expanded beyond connecting musicians with each other, to connecting musicians with venues, club organizers, and others. How did you start the company? We did not start from scratch on that side, either. What is Gigmor?

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MAY 10, 2017

Santa Monica-based WorkToday (www.worktoday.com) has created a text-based marketplace to help connect workers with employers. We caught up with CEO Joe Nigro , the former VP of Growth at HomeHero and General Manager of Handy, and talk about why he started Work Today and how the service works.

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MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business. So, with the last funds out of my fund, I started Miso Robotics.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2016

WeWork is a platform for creators. They provide the space, community, and services you need to create your life’s work. Wherever you need to be in Los Angeles—Downtown, Hollywood, or Santa Monica, to name a few hot spots—you’ll find the right office space in one of WeWork’s 12 locations.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

I've been telling people to buy bitcoin when it was $200, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 (and continuing to take it for our services) and it's kept growing in value. I'm looking forward to opening up new markets, including the expansion of family offices and other traditional investors to the amazing asset class that cryptocurrency has become.

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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. The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. Matt Kumin: When I was at Edmunds.com, we were looking at aggregation services.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. For the startup CEO, it can be their most important job. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

We make it really easy for you to add tags before you post something to your own social platform, and before you send a quick reply to your friends on what you've bought. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. That's where I first started getting the idea to create what is now Indi.

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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. We spoke with CEO Laura Wagner about the startup. What do you provide to those platforms?

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. Factual is the latest startup of Gil Elbaz, who co-founded Applied Semantics, the firm which developed Google's AdSense product. READ MORE>>.

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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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JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is located in Santa Monica. You get an email, tap on a link, a notification pops up, and the app installs on your phone. It''s currently in closed beta, and will be a free service, and provides a unique insight into what your app is doing right now, collecting information in real time. What is Burstly?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. at the Dethrone Base Camp in Santa Monica. Our line-up of panelists include many of Southern California’s top VCs, Angels and Startup Accelerators. Silicon Valley Bank.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. The firm is venture and angel backed, and was co-founded by Wil Schroter, who is involved with a number of other startups here, including Affordit. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The startup aims to take advantage of the increasing use of digital, peer-to-peer currencies that let users buy or sell online instantly. TechZulu caught up with Travis Skweres – Cofounder CoinMKT and he gave us some details of what the startup is up to. What inspired you to start CoinMKT? What is CoinMKT?

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Last week, Adconion (www.adconion.com) announced that it had spun out Joost (www.joost.com), its online video service, into a separate company, which is going to be based out of Santa Monica. We started internationally, and built out our international platform first, and rolled it back into the U.S.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million.

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MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier. If someone loves your image of the Santa. all of that for more than a 100,000 members.

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