SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 196

SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

Los Angeles 188

Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 188

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M in 29 venture capital deals for Q1. The energy and clean technology sector actually helped boost investments in Los Angeles, as well, with big deals for Torrance-based Amonix , which raised $64.4M received in the region in Q1 of 2009. across 31 days.

Southern California 208

Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

The world of search technology is constantly evolving, with new features like autosuggestion, "instant search", autocorrect, mobile support, and more constantly showing up in such services like Google. According to SRCH2''s CEO, Dev Bhatia, to implement those kinds of instant search features with current technology is slow, and imprecise.

Southern California 164

Southern California Funding Google Redpoint 164

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

First off, talk about your involvement in some of the companies here, and also explain your view of where Los Angeles is going in the technology world? We also put together the Series B with Redpoint for Machinima. Los Angeles is the creative capital of the world, and we're where the next opportunity is--the connected consumer.

Riot Games 199

Riot Games Technology Los Angeles Entrepreneur 199

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. The growing clean technology sector also helped numbers, with $74.0M in deals tracked by our database.

Southern California 160

Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. Those devices worked great, but unfortunately, they''re juts not up to speed on the newer innovations in big data and the technology world. Who are the customers for your technology?

Technology 216

Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

Investments by venture capitalists in Southern California were up, both in terms of deals and dollars in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The increasing venture activity seems to indicate a recovery in the outlook for startups here.

Southern California 174

Southern California Orange County Rustic Canyon SoCal 174

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

in a Series B financing round for its personalization technology. The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Santa Monica startup, Gravity --headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M READ MORE>>.

GRP Partners 178

GRP Partners Redpoint Santa Monica Web 178

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2012

The round was led by Google, along with prior investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital. Machinima said the new funding will go towards content and global sales operations, international expansion, distribution strategies, and product and technology initiatives.

Redpoint 150

Redpoint Google Entertainment Content 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

in the round at that time, led by Redpoint Ventures. BetterWorks is a provider of technology driven, employee perks and benefits programs. According to the filing, BetterWorks is now looking to raise a total of $9.14M in the firm's Series A round, which had been announced in August. BetterWorks had said it had raised $8.0M

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Santa Monica Invest Funding 154

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). Venture Capital for Technology Innovators.

Rustic Canyon 100

Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

Orange County 113

Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures.

Southern California 29

Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies. What is Aggregage? at that time.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists.

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

While we often lack the technology and product depth of our counterparts in the Bay, I would argue that entrepreneurs in LA would thrive if you dropped them into any industry. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Voice and chat are both very powerful computing metaphors but only if the underlying technologies and interactions become as seamless as mobile integrations have become in the consumer worlds. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. This is why we believe that AI will be a critical part of the future of enterprise computing.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105