socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2014

Santa Monica-based OUYA , the Android-based game console and technology developer, and San Diego-based Mad Catz Interactive said today that the two are in a deal to bring OUYA''s games to Mad Catz''s M.O.J.O. Micro-Console for Android. Mad Catz'' M.O.J.O. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Santa Monica 147

Santa Monica San Diego Content Design 147

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures , the venture investing arm of investment banking firm Siemer & Associates , reported yesterday that it saw the first exit in its portfolio recently, with the sale of company CloudTrigger. The fund also reports that it now has 39 digital media and technology startups in its portfolio.

Santa Monica 164

Santa Monica San Diego Report Invest 164

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The list of Southern California companies who have filed, have been rumored to file, or have successfully completed IPOs has gotten a little longer this morning, after Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand filed for an IPO.

Southern California 154

Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Westlake Village Woodland Hills 154

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment has rolled out a new technology for its popular EverQuest II online game, which allows users to control their avatars' faces and change their voices, as part of a deal with Santa Monica-based Image Metrics. READ MORE>>.

Entertainment 133

Entertainment Metrics Santa Monica San Diego 133

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2017

General Atomics - San Diego - (www.generalatomics.com). AirMap - Santa Monica - (www.airmap.com). Slantrange - San Diego - (www.slantrange.com). Skysafe - San Diego - (www.skysafe.com). 5D Robotics - San Diego - (www.5drobotics.com). 5D Robotics - San Diego - (www.5drobotics.com).

Southern California 113

Southern California Company Companies Palmdale 113

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

Peter Csathy , the CEO of San Diego''s Sorenson Media , and digital media veteran, has departed the company, and will head up a new legal and investment group formed by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

Media 168

Media High Tech Santa Monica Southern California 168

socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2011

Los Angeles based Savings.com was 135, with 2,077% growth; San Diego's ServiceNow was 260 at 1,240% growth; and Santa Monica's TrueCar was 480, with 721% growth in the last three years. 5000 firms by revenue were two, privately held Southern California firms -- Fountain Valley's Kingston Technology , with $6.5

Los Angeles 198

Los Angeles Search Engine Optimization Angel Thousand Oaks 198

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2011

in San Diego, and $141.4M The largest deals for Los Angeles were Coda Automotive in Santa Monica, which raised $40.375M, KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals in Calabasas, which raised $37.425M, and JustFabulous in El Segundo, which raised $33.1M. The investment was down from the $829.47M invested in the quarter in Q2.

Southern California 212

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Capital 212

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm of Richard Rosenblatt, has long been rumored to be in the process of filing for an IPO, but has not done so yet, and service providers in the community suggest there may be a few more in the works.

Southern California 178

Southern California Woodland Hills Thousand Oaks Marketing 178

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2009

A number of Southern California technology firms have nabbed top spots in the annual Inc. A number of other technology firms throughout Southern California were ranked elsewhere in the top 500. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. Vizio topped the list at number one when ranked by revenues, with $2.0

Southern California 140

Southern California Agoura Hills Woodland Hills Torrance 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2012

BetterWorks, which is applying technology and software to help small and medium sized business manage employee "perks", said that the new catering support easily handles large food orders for companies. READ MORE>>.

Doc 150

Doc Santa Monica San Diego Los Angeles 150

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet content publishing run by Richard Rosenblatt, also is widely expected to be in the process of filing for an IPO.

ReachLocal 157

ReachLocal Woodland Hills Thousand Oaks NewEgg 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a provider of local search advertising services, has topped Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500 list, an annual listing of companies ranked by their five year growth rates. Other local companies ranking highly on the list included San Diego's Entropic Communications , at number 5 (40,691 percent growth, $146.0M

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ReachLocal Woodland Hills Beverly Hills Cerritos 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 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. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Happy Holidays!

Southern California 113

Southern California SoCal Pasadena Startup 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

A number of Southern California firms are on the list for DEMO 09, the technology conference which has been one of the traditional launching ground for new products and startup firms.

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Southern California SoCal San Diego Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with a large number of the biggest VC deals all located in the area. Intellikine in La Jolla and Zogenix in San Diego both raised $51M in deals; San Diego's NextWave Wireless raised $45.5M, San Dieg's Roka BioScience $37.2M, and Borrego Solar Systems, in El Cajon, raised $30M.

Southern California 140

Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

On the automobile side, there are at least six Southern California companies also working on their own, electric or other alternative vehicles, competing against Tesla and the traditional carmakers. A number of companies providing systems and infrastructure for the industry are also here.

Southern California 176

Southern California Rustic Canyon Marketing San Diego 176

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C. Enovix, which has developed a silicon-based lithium-ion battery, has raised $45 million in new funds.

Layoffs 136

Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

socalTECH

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. These data points provide yet more evidence that SoCal has become one of the most profound technology ecosystems in the United States.

Southern California 133

Southern California SoCal Culver City Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

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. We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles?

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2009

Yahoo and Microsoft said last Wednesday that Yahoo will abandon its search engine development efforts, and instead use Microsoft's technology--including Microsoft adCenter. It's unclear if any of those employees involved in the deal would be located in Yahoo's Southern California locations, which include Burbank, San Diego, and Santa Monica.

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Yahoo Southern California Burbank Santa Monica 113

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. -The

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

The growing clean technology sector also helped numbers, with $74.0M funding round from Irvine's Fisker Automotive , $30M for Irvine's NeoMend , $30M for San Diego's Tandem Diabetes , and $25.0M for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M

Southern California 160

Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

We spoke with CEO and founder Matthias Kurwig on the idea behind the startup, and how he's applying his experience as COO of Neo@Ogilvy to his new Santa Monica startup. Matthias Kurwig: I've been in online marketing since it started, and have always been involved in a mixture of technology. How did you end up in Santa Monica?

Product 227

Product Santa Monica Startup Platform 227

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M According to the MoneyTree Report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, Los Angeles companies led the region with $385.6M Nationally, there was $7.1B in 907 deals for the third quarter, down 7 percent compared with Q2.

Southern California 113

Southern California Orange County Funding Report 113

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. This technology allows us to see what is hot. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. Business Entrepreneurship Events Silicon Beach Fest Digital LA Entertainment Entrepreneurs Hollywood Startups Technology' The post Silicon Beach Fest Approaches!

Hollywood 81

Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

You recently moved the headquarters here from Hawaii, can you talk about the decision to move to San Diego? Rob Farrow: Lots of what goes on in technology happens on the West Coast. in creation and development of new technologies, trends, fashion, style, and communications. California is the biggest part of the U.S.

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

We recently spoke with Tyler Koblasa , Founder and CEO of Mingly , a Santa Monica-based startup which is pulling together contacts from multiple sources, and adding such tools as contact reminders, to-do lists, and alerts based on those contacts. Tyler told us about his startup and what it's up to. What is Mingly all about?

Startup 145

Startup Social Network Tool Santa Monica 145

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

TOP STORIES : —Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ) released data from an ongoing non-hodgkin lymphoma trial that, while early, bolster the view that the Santa Monica, CA, company could be the first to market with a cell-based immunotherapy product known as CAR-T.

Avalon 40

Avalon Thousand Oaks Study Startup 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

. —Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ), of Santa Monica, CA, said that it could file for FDA approval of an experimental treatment known as KTE-C19 by the end of 2016 —meaning there’s a chance Kite could be the first to market with a “CAR-T” product, a form of cellular immunotherapy for cancer.

Google 40

Google Technical Review News Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. I live in the city of Santa Monica. But we do have great technology developers. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Downtown San Diego Condos. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. Prudential CT Realty.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44