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November 22 2011

Tide Shifts on Web Start-Ups

Online-Services Firms Catering to Businesses Look Good Again to Venture Investors By BEN WORTHEN After taking a back seat in recent years to consumer Internet companies like social websites and mobile-apps makers, technology start-ups that sell to businesses are hot again with Silicon Valley investors, helped by the growing popularity of online software. In a shift [...]

January 7 2011

Freebinar Looks To Fill Webcasting Hole Left By DimDim

Huntington Beach-based Freebinar, a provider of free, web conferencing services, is looking to fill the new hole left by free web conferencing service Dimdim, with its own ad-supported service. Freebinar told socalTECH today that it is looking to help users of Dimdim, which was just acquired by Salesforce.com and stopped allowing new user signups this week. Bolstering [...]

December 10 2010

Pasadena Angels Lead $2M Series E Investment in Ondax

Pasadena, CA – December 10, 2010 – Ondax, the 10-year old leader in laser and optics solutions, has received a $2M Series E investment from The Pasadena Angels, Tech Coast Angels, and venture capital firms. The investment round will be used to expand and grow Ondax’s optics solutions. Founded in 2000 by a team from [...]

December 7 2010

Vacation Internationale Selects LeisureLink for Online Distribution and Revenue Management

Bellevue, WA – December 7, 2010 – Vacation Internationale, a pioneer and leader in timeshare resort development, has selected LeisureLink, Inc. to manage its online distribution.  In addition, Vacation Internationale will utilize LeisureLink’s Active Revenue Management product, a high performance revenue management solution that delivers “airline style” pricing to maximize rental revenues. Vacation Internationale manages 34 [...]

July 12 2010

Pasadena Angels Lead $1.5M Investment in Rockoco

Pasadena, CA – July 12, 2010 – There couldn’t be a better example of putting the unique founding principles of The Pasadena Angels into practice than the story of their investment in Rockoco. Rockoco is a Caltech start-up with technology that dramatically increases the “fire” of natural, polished diamonds far beyond previously achievable levels. This [...]