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APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, We’re excited to work with them.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Clinton Foy , General Partner and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc). Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform.

Riot Games 133

Riot Games Southern California Startup Santa Monica 133

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APRIL 19, 2011

The funding comes from Morado Venture Partners, a seed stage fund run by ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez. HipGeo develops a location-aware platform which includes smartphone apps which enable users to continuously record and organize their lives around geography.

eHarmony 164

eHarmony Yahoo San Diego Los Angeles 164

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! You guys did a lot of self-funding before you approached the venture capital community. The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!,

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Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! And of course we have dozens of other data sources making us a much broader platform than Twitter data. and Microsoft had become.

CTO Hire 309

CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

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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. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. That said, we still need investors here. READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. We’re the underlying platform that enables the calls to be tracked like clicks while weeding out fraud. The longer term is even more promising.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

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APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com) What is SRCH2?

Technology 216

Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

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MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. We don't have any outside investors, venture capital, or private equity. What is Scour?

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

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MARCH 26, 2009

Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel. We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. Our platform allows that.

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Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Entrepreneurism / Monetization Pitch Session, Startups / Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital (VC) / Angels / Investors. . Building a Social Ecommerce Platform in Mexico. Funding / VC. Rachel Chalmers, The 451 Group.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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APRIL 28, 2010

I have been involved with a number of companies that had raised a large amount of money, and one of the things I really wanted to do, was do something that didn't require a large amount of venture capital--something that we could do with a small, lean team. So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. We spoke with Ross about the investment, as well as about his experience as VC and his outlook on the market. Thanks for the interview.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Venture Capital.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Venture capital. Publisher Platform (P3). VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Newsletters.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

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JUNE 13, 2011

You just have to deal with some insufferable VCs and journalists for a while. It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? And AOL stopped Yahoo! You’ll be dead.”. Or Box.net.

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Google Press Marketing Content 325

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. They know everything about startups and know every VC contact in the world. You even got Yahoo! This is where Assignmint comes in.

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And what happened in L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302