Friday, June 23, 2017


CloudBeds Gets $9M For Hospitality Management Software
San Diego-based CloudBeds, a developer of hospitality management software, has raised $9M in a Series B funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding was led by PeakSpan Capital, and also included Nashville Capital, Cultivation Capital, ClearVision Equity and TTCER Partners.
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SURE: Bringing The Insurance Industry Into The Digital Age, With Wayne Slavin
The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin, CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily (More info...)
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Steve Poizner Boots Up New Southern California Tech Nonprofit
Steve Poizner, the former California gubernatorial candidate and former founder of SnapTrack (which he sold to San Diego's Qualcomm), says he has created a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, which will focus on further developing Southern California's entrepreneurial ecosystem. The new group says it will develop initiatives that encourage tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and top talent to locate to and stay in Southern California, complementing and extending (More info...)
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SPOTLITE Launches Singing Competition App
Los Angeles- and Beijing-based SPOTLITE says it has launched a new, mobile app, which lets music fans sing original music, cover, or karaoke songs to win money. Spotlite said its executives come from such companies as Google Music, Yahoo! Music, Microsoft, Atom Factory, and Warner/Chappell, and that its development and tech teams are in Beijing, with marketing, A&R, and business development based in Los Angeles. The company's offices in Los Angeles are listed in Walnut. The company says it will (More info...)
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Triton Digital Launches New Ad Platform
Los Angeles-based audio advertising technology developer ,a href="http://www.tritondigital.com">Triton Digital said today that it has rolled out a new, "supply side platform" (SSP) aimed at the online audio market. The company said its new platform connects to demand-side platform providers such as The Trade Desk, AppNexus, RTBiQ, AudioTrade and StrikeAd, and others and helps to simplify the management of programmatic audio advertising inventory. Triton said its new tool is already being used by (More info...)
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