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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 funding came from angel investors, including Chris Hameetman (Tech Coast Angels) and Joe Addiego (Alsop Louie Partners). The startup is led by Jared Krause.

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MAY 15, 2013

The Santa Monica-based company said that it has launched a next generation site, which it had codenamed "Malibu", to drive new growth and new members for the service. Warren recently returned to head up eHarmony as CEO, and the company has been making a concerted push to grow its services.

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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. Right now, we're working on integrating more data from around the web, and our goal is to really aggregate and curate the information out there. What was behind that decision?

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MARCH 6, 2013

SharesPost , the private company marketplace headed by Greg Brogger, which had been incubated and started in Santa Monica via Brighthouse, the startup incubator run by Brogger and Scott Painter, is in a joint venture with NASDA OMX , the two said this morning. Financial details of the joint venture were not disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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APRIL 30, 2012

Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? In a recent blog post, Calacanis said that the firm has now seen more than 950,000 downloads of its apps and 200M videos on YouTube, in the last six months.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Linux System Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Tech Lead Adserving Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Senior Web Developer , Malibu Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Senior Web Developer , Malibu Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Software Engineer , West LA, Shopzilla.

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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 provides an online data platform and API which allows developers to access, modify, and collaborate on datasets. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Santa Monica-based company, which offers up iPhone, iPad, Android, and mobile web versions of its service, said that its success in getting users to convert to subscriptions on mobile is contrary to recent reports of challenges in getting users to convert on mobile. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Santa Monica-based Userplan has extended the firm's chat applications, saying Tuesday that the firm will connect users of its chat application across different web sites, regardless of where they are on the web. Userplane is a subsidiary of AOL.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Santa Monica- and Irvine-based Onica , a provider of IT services focused on cloud-based platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), has raised $20M in a funding round, the company announced this week. The company--formerly known as CorpInfo--said the funding came from Sunstone Partners. Onica is led by CEO Stephen Garden.

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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. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Santa Monica-based Social Project--which was once known as Tagworld--has been acquired by MTV Networks, MTV said Monday. According to MTV Networks, which is a division of Viacom, the acquisition will allow the firm to accelerate its introduction of its Flux social media platform across its portfolio.

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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. Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based Famous Birthdays , which operates an online website which lets people look up the birthdays and other information on celebrities and other famous people, says it has just passed 25 million monthly unique users. READ MORE>>.

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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. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com).

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 6, 2016

Join us in Santa Monica for a sneak peek of AirMap’s brand new platform, APIs, and SDK for drones, apps for iOS and Android, and Web. Friday, August 12, 2016 -- AirMap Developer Conference and Launch Party. The sky’s the limit when it comes to the potential for unmanned aircraft. Space is limited. RSVP to attend.

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MAY 12, 2015

Santa Monica-based talent management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand has launched two new products this morning, including a new predictive analytics dashboard and a cloud platform aimed at developers. Cornerstone OnDemand is led by Adam Miller. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? You need a CDN to improve the performance of your content, especially as the web is getting heavier, more complicated, and there's more rich media.

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JULY 1, 2010

A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Total Raised: $21.4mm.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based Universal Sports , which operates an online sports television channel, has tapped video streaming provider Ooyala for its online video distribution efforts.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. How does that work?

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. They have a great brand name, are very discoverable, and are looked upon favorably.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA. to 11:00 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

Light Emotion Data) to the Santa Monica Twilight Concert Series. This platform takes our web-based technology from the computer screen to the concert experience, as L.E.D. The post Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier appeared first on TechZulu.

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MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. as a social identity platform, which you think of as a social hub, rather than a filter or aggregator.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). What is CHNL?

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. ZipRecruiter, based in Santa Monica, closed a $156 million Series B round that valued the company at $1.5B.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This runs on a number of platforms? Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office. So, if you are a business like a hotel or theme park, or want to create a campus-based experience, we have a toolset that lets you create that. You're funded, correct?

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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. Now TakeLessons has completed another acquisition, buying Chromatik, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of digital sheet music.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. And despite what I keep hearing from others – these are not content “hit businesses&# they are “content production platforms&# that are producing scale like I’ve never seen and at a cost structure that is astounding.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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