socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the move comes to help the company get ready for the "platforms of tomorrow." The company had been founded in 2012. Oculus VR is led and was co-founded by Brendan Iribe, and had raised around $91M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, Matrix Partners, and Spark Capital.

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Acquisition Platform Capital Funding 225

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Analytics and optimization startup, FlxOne , aims to deliver insights and actions for real-time advertising by use of cloud-based infrastructure and data crunching to deliver insights and actions, making it the first platform to optimize performance automatically. billion in Q2 2012. Take action. billion, up from $8.7

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Advertising Platform Report Technology 86

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has acquired Society6 , an online e-commerce marketplace centered around artists, the company announced Monday afternoon, as part of an effort to expand its content and media platform. According to Demand Media, it paid $94M for Society6, including $75M in cash and approximately $19M in its common stock.

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Demand Commerce Media Santa Monica 171

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Platform Help Customer Custom 82

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

One company sent multiple emails, one of which that had a twinge of bitterness for not hearing back. This same company sought us out as we were leaving, after being told we didn’t have time to talk, followed us out as he pushed the iPad in our faces. That being said, I met some great people and companies at TCDisrupt.

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Press Email Tips Conference 103

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -- OpenStack LA. He has generously donated his time to talk about his company?s SUSE Cloud is an enterprise-class platform that is integrated with Crowbar, the open source framework that manages and configures the OpenStack deployment. s OpenStack distro, SUSE Cloud.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The firm, which develops software-as-a-service used by companies to automate warranty and maintenance contract management, reported another win this morning, with Panasonic. The firm hasn't given any actual financials, but did say it generated more than $2.3 billion in service contracts for its customers last year.

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Outsource Development Software Report Sales 164

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2012

According to the two, they have launched the fifth annual Eventful Fans' Choice Award, which will allow music fans and concert goers to vote for their favorite concert tour, via Eventful's platform.

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San Diego Demand Sites Platform 133

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, has launched an offering for the mobile advertising market, the company said this morning. Rubicon said the new product comes from its May 2012 acquisition of Mobsmith.

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Mobile Advertising Los Angeles Platform 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubble: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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Platform Mobile UCLA Sites 250

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubbe: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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Platform Mobile UCLA Sites 247

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.

Activision 191

Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 191

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012.

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Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2012

But if you’re a company looking to motivate your employees or engage with customers where do you start? There’s plenty of sites that will explain the theory behind gamification, but few that provide that platform like BunchBall. The platform is currently serving up to 70 million unique users and 2.3

Platform 93

Platform Mobile Startup Software 93

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Nanxi Liu about the company''s software. What''s the story behind the company? Nanxi Liu: We started the company in the summer of 2012, with five totally random people. Explain how five strangers all ended up starting a company together, exactly? Our software is an open platform.

Social Media 178

Social Media Media Startup Culver City 178

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. The idea immediately resonated.

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Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.

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Help Startup Platform Santa Monica 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. The firm’s latest launch places management of the platform into the hands of publishers.

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Metrics Platform Content Web 79

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company. What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. funding led by Level Equity.

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.

Activision 100

Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Ambitious and motivated graduate-level and undergraduate (junior and senior) students are encouraged to apply for our internship positions: Business Development Intern (Summer 2012): Have the opportunity to work with and learn from TechZulu leadership while focusing on research, analytics, relationship management and collateral development.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Software Review Writing News 71

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned.

Venture Capital 108

Venture Capital Angel Satisfaction Equity 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network.

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Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

Invest more heavily in platform services. Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I tried to be at every event.

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Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2012. I just don’t see it happening any time soon.

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Invest Angel Funding Startup 111

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Founded in Del Mar, CA in 2012, PacketSled has developed cloud-based technology that continuously monitors its customers’ computer networks, and provides automated intrusion detection, response, and forensics capabilities. The company also has an office in Seattle. The company raised $3 million in a 2013 seed round.

San Diego 40

San Diego Conference Funding Networking 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

and their user-curated music sharing platform. With their $1.25M funding round led by Javelin Venture Partners, the Los Angeles based company will be seeking to expand their team, further develop their product, launch new services and improve community support. was founded in February 2012 by a team of three passionate music fans.

Startup 101

Startup Platform Entertainment Sites 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? The “Tyranny of the OR” is a concept from the business best-seller “ Built to Last ,” by James C.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 79

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 12, 2012

The Facebook job board will aggregate job postings to users according to their preferences from job-posting companies using the Facebook’s platform. BranchOut, Jobvite, and Work4 Labs use the social network’s platform and are said to be in the partnership which is reportedly to be ready by August. billion revenue.

Social Network 67

Social Network Report Platform Networking 67

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Who are its founders?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? More strategic.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389