socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Levine Leichtman announced this morning that one of its portfolio companies, BigHand Ltd, has acquired legal software developer Iridium Technology from private equity investor Polaris Growth Fund. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Developing skills-based online courses and credentials is the easy part. The hard part is getting employers to pay attention.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based CitySourced , which develops mobile apps to help cities communicate with their constituents, has merged with Rock Solid Technologies , a provider of software to the government. Financial terms of the merger were not announced. Rock Solid is owned by private equity investor Strattam Capital.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 5, 2021

a developer of management software for home services contractors, has acquired St. Louis-based Aspire Software, a technology provider for commercial landscaping businesses. Glendale-based ServiceTitan Inc.,

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TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2020

This is an exploration of a new use-case for this project that is unrelated to the original goal of improving software performance. We've selected and flagged frameworks that represent the project's diversity of technology platforms. Because a hardware performance measurement shouldn't take 4.6

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

Looking to boost your skills and get a job in the technology industry?

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 31, 2022

New digital technologies and advancements in business software have in recent years helped to expand the range of commonly offered employee benefits, making it easier for employers to include things like telehealth services and pet insurance in a company’s benefits package.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. Why Invest? The reason is simple.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it is acquiring Confluence Technologies, a developer of software which is used by the investment industry to automate business processes at asset managers and service providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Elon Musk , the technology mogul and visionary who has brought us such technology innovations widespread electronic payments via PayPal, electric cars via Tesla Motors , and commercial rocket service via SpaceX , warns that artificial intelligence has the threat of becoming mankind''s "biggest existential threat" last week.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2019

Los Angeles-based Red 6 Aerospace , a startup developing Augmented Reality software aimed at used in what it says are "high-speed, dynamic environments", has raised $2.35M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Irongate Capital Advisors, as well as angel investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

Although I’m not an aficionado of checklists in general, I really appreciate one he has included for keeping up with some of the latest technological trends that are reshaping business strategies, which should be the driver for startups to fill in the gaps. Are you driving the technology, or is it driving you? Gamification.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Is there a way to use software to ensure your employees are properly washing their hands? A Los Angeles-based technology company, Vitalacy, says it has created a product which provides automated hand hygiene monitoring.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Los Angeles-based Signal Automotive , a startup which develops software for managing buying, selling, and inventory allocation for automobile dealers, has raised $20M in a funding round. Jillings is the former CEO of Telesign, and has a long history in Southern California's technology industry; he previously also was CEO of Vantage Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It seems Los Angeles is becoming an enterprise software hotspot. For chief executive Artyom Poghosyan and chief technology officer Alex Gudanis, Britive is simply the latest initiative in a decades-long effort to reshape security technology. LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

--the latest incarnation of Fisker--says it has opened up a new "technology center" in San Francisco, which it says will help support design and engineering of software systems for the Fisker Ocean SUV and future products.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2021

San Diego-based private equity investor HCAP Partners announced today that it has provided a follow-on investment in TCS Healthcare Technologies, a provider of managed care softare, as part of an acquisition effort by TCS. Financial details of the acquisition and investment were not announced by HCAP Partners.

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socalTECH

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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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Playa Vista-based point-of-sale software developer Appetize Technologies Inc. has been acquired by SpotOn Transact Inc. for $415 million.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, and a lot has changed for the payments and software startup. Since its 2017 inception, SpotOn has been focused on providing software and payments technology to SMBs with an emphasis on restaurants and retail businesses.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2023

Santa Barbara-based Live Data Technologies said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The company says it is developing software to verify B2B contact data for people, tracking people as they move jobs. Source of the funding was not announced.

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socalTECH

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 funding was led by Alter Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital and also included Fluxunit -- OSRAM Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Epson, UMC Capital, Yamato Holdings and Global Brain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Consumers buying through smart phones, travelers using the new, shared economy and businesses replacing old software with modern cloud-based solutions. I do believe that we are in structural change where technology will increasingly play a bigger role in all facets of life so the long run up for tech is promising through all of these cycles.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Advertising technology software firm SRAX Inc. announced Tuesday it will bring its product offerings to Europe, an expansion made possible by the closing of an Aug. 12 equity worth $5.5

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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. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Innovative yet pragmatic. Consistently produce results.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor. And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Ideally they have experience with your full technology stack, but in some cases, having them learn about best practices will be necessary. I quite often get a call where a founder raised $150K of initial money and has spend $120K on in-house or outsourced development and the software is 90% done. Compensation.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

After operating in stealth mode for about two years, First Resonance , a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, is finally showing the world their software toolkit designed to let manufacturers make things using the processes employed by their former boss.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2019

In a bid to show that it’s getting ready for the electrification of American roads, Royal Dutch Shell is buying Greenlots , a Los Angeles-based developer of electric vehicle charging and energy management technologies. For Shell, the deal adds to a portfolio of electric charging assets including the Dutch-based company, NewMotion.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Los Angeles-based TS2 Holdings , a strategic business development firm focused on the technology industry, said on Friday morning that it has acquired three companies, including Neohire South , RockIT Recruiting , and Hero.jobs.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation? Are you ready?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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socalTECH

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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? The "Questions" post is probably the most important. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2021

Vince Steckler, the former CEO of cybersecurity software developer Avast, has unexpectedly died in a car accident in Irvine, according to the software developer. According to Avast, Steckler passed away in a tragic car accident in Irvine, California, on June 15, 2021, at the age of 62. Steckler had both a B.S. in Mathematics from UCI.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime.

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