SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 -- Linkedin and IBM Watson presentation. Joined by guest speakers: Neil Sahota of IBM to discuss cognitive computing solutions (e.g. Join local Inside Sales leaders: Scott Tretsky, Ken McAnall and Joshua Pittman on Wednesday, October 19th. The meeting will be held at Oracle's Santa Monica office.

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MAY 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based NantBiosciences , one of the group of companies created by billionaire entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, has raised $100M in San Diego-based Tealium , the developer of enterprise "tag" management software led by Jeff Lunsford, said today that it has connected its software into IBM Commerce.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

a company that is developing smart glass technology, said this morning that it has acquired 10 patents from IBM Corporation. Los Angeles-based Crown Electrokinetics Corp., Financial details of the patent acquisition were not announced.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

Irvine-based storage giant Western Digital and IBM said this morning that the two companies are in a patent acquisition and licensing deal, where WD will acquire more than 100 patent assets from IBM, and where the two will cross-license a number of patents. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

IBM and XPRIZE , the Culver City organization which runs major challenges to advance technology and help apply innovation to solving some of the world's biggest challenges, have announced a new IBM Watson AI PRIZE.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ampsy , the social content sharing and aggregation software developer led by Jeremy Gocke, has linked into IBM's Watson technology, saying it is using the machine learning technology as part of a new analytics offering. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Riordan, Lewis & Haden Equity Partners (RLH Equity), has sold one of its portfolio companies, BlueWolf Group , to IBM. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

and also served at IBM and other companies. The firm's software runs across such social services as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram. Jon Siegal was previously a VP of Sales at Siebel Sytsems., READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days of Microsoft from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the startup of the IBM PC. We in IBM didn’t get it at all, and we insisted on calling the IBM PC a “workstation” which in retrospect sounds like “work” for a bunch of robots at their “stations.”

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Damarillo is behind a number of successful firms based on open source, the most notable of which was Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. MaestroDev lists venture capitalist Leo Spiegel, of Mission Ventures, as a board member; Damarillo serves as Chairman. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Media Temple''s customers include Sony, Nordstrom, The Wall Street Journal, Starbucks, IBM, Volkswagen, and many others. According to GoDaddy, the two companies will continue to operate independently. The company had 225 people in its Los Angeles office.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

IBM , and the Los Angeles Times. The effort is applying language analysis and language software from IBM to try to distinguish positive and negative tweets about films, actors, and actresses, to predict the possible winners of an Oscar.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM). Bitvore said one of its first products, Bitvore for Munis, helps investment banks and hedge funds looking for an information advantage in municipal bond markets. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

The new effort will be chaired by AOl's Steve Case, with funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Case Foundation, Intel Capital, and IBM. companies as part fo the partnership, and IBM said it will invest $150M in 2011 to fund programs promoting entrepreneurship and new business opportunities in the United States.

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Technology Council

MARCH 20, 2012

By Greg Sikes If you have watched TV in the last two years, or walked through an airport, you have likely seen an IBM Smarter Planet advertisement. At the core of this message is the idea that the world is becoming more Instrumented, Interconnected, and Intelligent. Just take a look around your house, or at [.].

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Morphlabs is the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, who was the founder of GlueCode, which he sold to IBM. In addition to the release, the firm also said it has partnered with Zend Technologies, to integrate the software as part of mCloud Enterprise. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

and also served at IBM and other companies. The firm's software runs across such social services as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram. Jon Siegal was previously a VP of Sales at Siebel Sytsems., READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

A new effort by San Diego-based Scripps Research Institute and IBM is seeking to tap into the collective power of crowdsoruced PCs and Android mobile devices, to help find a cure for Ebola. READ MORE>>. ebola research cure computing softlayer crowdsource processing supercomputer disease lifescience'

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Nirvanix said it is providing "the resources we can" to assist its customers to return their data, or move their data to such services as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. in funding.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

CitySourced said the win came via a referral from IBM; the company said it how has nearly 50 cities worldwide in 7 countries using its technology. The app runs on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. CitySourced is run by Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Kojima was previously COO at ForceBrain.com, having also served at Kaltura, hiSoft Technology, IBM, and SugarCRM; and Moynihan was previously at FuseSource, having also served at IONA Technologies and IBM. Duncan joins the company from Joyent, where he was recently CTO, Worldwide Sales. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The company said it has tapped Giri Fox, who has formerly served for companies such as Cisco, Apple and IBM, to head up its efforts in Australia. RightScale is a provider of software used to manage the configuration, monitoring, and other aspects of both private and public cloud computing. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

San Diego-based Pathway Genomics has scored an investment from Google , the two said Wednesday, as part of an investment out of IBM''s Watson Group. IBM said the investment comes out of its $100 million fund for Watson-related startups. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Miller has previously served at such companies as IBM, Platform Computing, Cray Inc., The new company is headed by Ian Miller, and is backed by startup incubator Elevator Labs. The company said it already has a number of customers, including Cricket Wireless's Muve Music streaming service. PolyServe and Hewlett-Packard. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Series C funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), IBM--via its new "Watson Fund"--and Qualcomm Ventures, along with existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, InterWest Partners, Miramar Venture Partners and Okapi Venture Capital. According to Welltok, it raised its new $22.1M

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Tech firms like IBM have been pitching the advantages of cloud computing for Hollywood since 2010, but it’s only recently that companies have begun courting the entertainment industry in earnest.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

She also has served at Websense and IBM. San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , the developer of technology for tracking the driving performance in corporate fleets, said today that it has namd Choo Kim-Isgitt as its new VP of Marketing. Kim-Isgitt joins the firm from M86 Security, where she was responsible for corporate marketing.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

IBM’s planned $34 billion deal to acquire open-source software maker Red Hat is a hefty price to pay to give its cloud computing business a shot in the arm. In some ways, the biggest software acquisition of all time could be a yawner.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

He also has served at Microsoft, IBM, and Yahoo, and has more than 20 years of sales and business development experience in the digital media area. FastPay said that Wehner joins from The Rubicon Project, where he was Senior Vice President of Agency & Brand Sales. FastPay says that Wehner will be based in New York City. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. They are looking for very large engagements, and there is a huge investment in infrastructure for the products that companies like HP and IBM deliver.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

According to USC, the new lab--backed by IBM, Verizon, the Levi's brand and Mattel--will focus on the areas of geolocation, social networking, digital entertainment, gaming behavior and transmedia.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The other members of foundation include Platinu,m members AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE; the Gold Members include CCAT, Cisco, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing, Yahoo!, Intel, NEC and VMware.

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MARCH 3, 2014

Semtech is tapping IBM''s 32nm SOI technology for the cores. The company said it has shipped a 64GSPS ADC and DAC preliminary cores, which can be used for optical communications, radar and electronic warfare applications. Those designs can be integrated into systems-on-a-chip (SoC) designs by designers. Pricing on the cores was not announced.

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APRIL 16, 2012

Ramakrishnan was most recently at Promise Technology, and also has served at Cisco and IBM. Torrance-based Active Storage , the developer of RAID storage systems aimed at the Apple and creative industry, said this morning that it has named Venkat Ramakrishnan as its new Vice President of Engineering.

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