L.A. Business Journal

JULY 20, 2020

is adapting to the pandemic by repurposing its mapping technology to build a tool that helps business communities stay on top of ever-changing regulations. Santa Monica-based Spot Parking (US) Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

We’re equipping them with the tools and resources so that they can operate more efficiently and empower themselves economically.”. Winters explained that the driver for the new funding was technology and product development on the marketplace, marketing and stylist acquisition. To date, Upgrade has raised $3 million.

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APRIL 22, 2021

San Diego-based Seqster PDM, a developer of healthcare data tools, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding round. Seqster develops tools that integrate various electronic health record (EHR), pharmacy lab, lab data, genomic data/DNA, fitness wearables data, and other information into a single place.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

. “We invested in First Resonance because the founders Karan and Neal are uniquely qualified to build this company thanks to their experience at SpaceX and Uptake Technologies,” said Mikal Khoso, Associate, Wavemaker Partners, in a statement. ”

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MAY 25, 2021

Monrovia, California-based SiLC Technologies, a developer of machine vision tools, says it has raised $17M in a Series A funding round. The company says it has now raised $30M in total, including an earlier, $12M seed funding last year.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Los Angeles-based HONK Technologies, which provides a virtual roadside assistance service, has launched a new, business management tool specifically for tow truck business owners.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The Walt Disney Studios , in Burbank, and technology giant Microsoft Corp. According to the companies, they are in a five year "innovation partnership" to develop 'scene-to-screen' content workflows, which will include a technology hub called The Walt Disney Studios StudioLAB. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Los Angeles-based fintech startup Vesica Technologies, a developer of a product which provides information on financial markets, including daily market movements, volatility, and major trades, has raised $2.1M The company's technology competes against tools like the Bloomberg Terminal and Refinitiv Eikon. in a seed funding.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Keeping the focus squarely on tools for artists and designers the company talked up its tools like Zync Render, which Google acquired back in 2014 , and Anvato, a video streaming and monetization platform it acquired in 2016. in Los Angeles. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Yet, with so many tools vying for the attention of business owners, navigating the over-saturated market can be overwhelming. While Hide.me

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JULY 13, 2021

Carlsbad-based Smart Earth Technologies (SET), a developer of LTE and 5G products for the water utility market, has been acquired by San Francisco-based CrescoNet. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

LA has a serious technology scene. Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! And I’m proud of that, too. Maker Studios.

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AllTopStartups

AUGUST 1, 2024

Advanced warehouse management technology dramatically enhances business operations by streamlining various processes. These technologies improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, and boost productivity. Enhancing Efficiency and Profitability appeared first on AllTopStartups.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based DASH Systems , a developer of technology that allows for precision airdrop of deliveries from cargo aircraft, has raised $8M in a seed funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by 8VC, and also included Tusk Venture Partners, Loup Ventures, Trust Ventures, Perot Jain, and MiLA Capital. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2020

The company said its CTO and chief scientist is Dr. Igor Mezic, who the company says has been developing artificial intelligence technology projects for DARPA, the Air Force, Army, CDC, and many others. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

Here are some recognizable entrepreneurial examples I like, just from the technology space: Driven by an epic ambition. Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. Persuasive and empowering.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC and the Israel Aerospace Industries company, Techstars and Starburst Aerospace are launching an accelerator focused on the space industry in Los Angeles. With the help of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, the U.S. billion over the last year.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Redland-based GIS software giant Esri announced on Friday morning that it has acquired ClearTerra , a developer of data extraction technology, from ClearShark, LLC. ClearTerra's technology helps extract unstructured data from emails, briefings, and reports, and automatically extracts geographic coordinates from that information.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Santa Monica-based Catasys announced this morning that it is expanding its artificial intelligence and technology-enabled healthcare products with a "leading national health plan" into Colorado, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Louisiana. Name of that national health plan and financial impact was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Unlike the other big companies that have taken billions of dollars in the gaming market — chiefly Epic Games and Unity — Scopely isn’t making tools for gaming. The focus at the Los Angeles-based company is squarely on the games themselves and the players who spend billions of dollars on them. ” .

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MARCH 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based email software developer SaneBox , which develops artificial intelligence software that helps people prioritize and sort their emails, is now available on the cloud marketplace run by technology distributor Ingram Micro. The company says its tools work with any email provider, client, or device. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

Watt says that the new studio will focus on what he calls “human performance” The businesses will use a blend of technology and human interaction to create services targeting fitness, nutrition, and mental health, according to Watt. “We have aggregated tools into a company building stack,” says Watt.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Together with Signal Sciences, we will give developers modern security tools designed for the way they work.”.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion dollar acquisition ) think that its time to take technology where it’s never gone before — into targeted, direct mail campaigns using the best ad-targeting that money can buy.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. Hardware makers have invested billions to improve the technology, and they’d like that money to not go to waste.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

San Diego-based Radicle Growth, which focuses on incubating early stage agriculture and food technology, and agriculture giant UPL said today that the two are in a new partnership, which will invest $1.25M in two startups that can "positively impact and reduce the carbon footprint and improve soil health of the food value chain."

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

WiseBanyon provides personal finance and investment management tools and its own technology platform, and was based in Las Vegas. WiseBanyan was founded in 2013, an is known as a "robo advisor"--providing financial and investment management services for its clients using software tools.

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DECEMBER 30, 2017

With more people to target, and more tools at their disposal, hackers have reshaped the cyber security landscape in the past decade. As a result, organisations’ cyber security defences need to be more complex and broad than ever, taking into account not only technological vulnerabilities, but also the people who use that technology.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company's products now include a tool to track information relevant to municipal bond investors; high yield bonds, investment grade bonds; direct lending and syndicated debt, private placements, and more. The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 19, 2021

Vana Technologies Inc. founder and Chief Executive Sheldon Owen saw that companies selling cannabis products would need technological tools to advertise in compliance with regulations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

But we’re a technology company that produces great video not the other way around. Provide tools for creators that help them build viewership (the average Maker video producer is getting several 100% increases in viewership in the first year of working with us). It’s what the industry has never understood about us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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MAY 25, 2018

Greycroft Ventures , which has a big presence in Los Angeles, has backed Silicon Valley-based BlueCart , a developer of machine learning software and other tools for the hospitality industry, to the tune of $5M. BlueCart said this week that it raised $5M in its Series B-1 funding, bringing its total raised to $22M. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement.

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