Restaurant365 Receives $88M In Funding Led By ICONIQ Capital Series C funding from Silicon Valley growth equity firm allows Restaurant365 to expand its software capabilities, increase teams. IRVINE, Calif., June 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Restaurant365®, the only cloud-based restaurant accounting software boasting an all-in-one restaurant management solution, has successfully closed an $88 million minority investment led by ICONIQ Capital, a... Read more →

Welcome to Curogram, Inc., a new Supporting Member of the OC Startup Council! Curogram, Inc. is a leading provider of HIPAA compliant texting that helps optimize the front desk of medical offices with smart reminders, 2-way texting, and reputation management. Curogram also features a unique patient-centric mobile patient portal and an “all-in-one” universal messaging platform for medical offices that syncs... Read more →

Welcome to these new free listings in the OC Startup Council Startups Directory: Artificial Intelligence : BasicAI - Irvine Education : Build Teach Learn - Huntington Beach Artificial Intelligence : Compellon - Laguna Hills Visit these local startups to learn more! (And get a free listing for your company or organization in the OCSC Startups Ecosystem Directory HERE.) Read more →

Welcome to these new free listings in the OC Startup Council Startups Directory: Advertising : ADITT - Orange Business Services B2B : FreightPOP - Lake Forest Business Services B2B : OnSite Waste Technologies - Costa Mesa Visit these local startups to learn more! (And get a free listing for your company or organization in the OCSC Startups Ecosystem Directory HERE.) Read more →

Corent Tech CEO Feyzi Fatehi Honored with the 2019 CODiE Lifetime Achievement Award ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corent Technology, the global leader in SaaS and Cloud enablement technologies, is proud to announce that its CEO, Feyzi Fatehi, has been recognized with the prestigious 2019 CODiE Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates individuals who have made significant long-term contributions to... Read more →

Expertise in Building Operational Excellency to Drive Revenue Will Accelerate Company’s Growth IRVINE, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Buy It Installed today announced it has appointed Hassan Archer to Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Hassan will report directly to Todd Banhidy, Founder and President of Buy It Installed, and will lead overall company operations, and ensure automated systems and processes... Read more →

Top Mexican Sports TV Network to Purchase $5 Million of Shares of Black Ridge Acquisition Corp. Expanded Alliance Expected to Broaden Allied Esports’ Deployment into Latin America with Development of Dedicated Digital Esports Channel and Flagship Esports Venue IRVINE, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TV Azteca, a Grupo Salinas company and the top sports television network in Mexico, and Black... Read more →

OC Startup Events - there are more new startup events for techies and software companies listed every day in our OC Startup Council Events Calendar! Check out the Orange County tech startup conferences, happy hours, workshops, meetups, and seminars our members are posting here. You can meet new people, develop new relationships, learn new skills and expertise, advance your high... Read more →

Welcome to these new free listings in the OC Startup Council Startups Directory: AI Artifical Intelligence : Wing AI Technologies, Inc. - Irvine Fin Tech Startups : Bitvore - Irvine Fin Tech Startups : Zeiger Capital Management, Inc. - Irvine Visit these local startups to learn more! (And get a free listing for your company or organization in the OCSC... Read more →

Well iQ encourages patient feedback and employee engagement, can optimize reimbursements for healthcare providers. May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Mention My Biz, Inc, a Southern California software company focused on rewards and referrals, has launched Well iQ, a new digital survey tool that gives healthcare providers real-time patient feedback on staff performance. The second digital product in the Mention My... Read more →

Congratulations to CLI Studios and IntelliVision Entertainment - winners of the LaunchPad startup pitch competition at OCTANe's annual Technology Innovation Forum. Held at the Marriott Hotel & Spa in Newport Beach this week, the two day TIF conference brought together hundreds of local executives involved in our local Orange County startup ecosystem. The highlight of the event was the LaunchPad... Read more →

OCTANe's annual Technology Innovation Forum was held at the Marriott Hotel & Spa in Newport Beach this week. The two day TIF conference brought together hundreds of local executives involved in our local Orange County technology and life sciences startup ecosystems. Day Two featured local startup success story, Lori Torres, the Founder and CEO of Parcel Pending. JC Ruffalo, the... Read more →

At next week's Technology Innovation Forum (TIF), OCTANe's LaunchPad startup coaching program will be offering 8 new companies to the audience of local technology executives, investors, and partners. OCTANe determines the TIF company presentations by using a unique predictive analytics process to position companies and their underlying business models to make effective presentations to investors. Since 2011, the LaunchPad SBDC... Read more →

Two Tech Coast Angels’ Portfolio Companies Named as Finalists for Angel Capital Association’s Prestigious Luis Villalobos Award GrandPad and Aquacyl recognized as two of three finalists at ACA’s 10th Annual Awards Ceremony IRVINE, CALIF. (PRWEB) MAY 03, 2019: Tech Coast Angels (TCA) today announced that two of its portfolio companies, GrandPad and Aquacyl, were among the three finalists for the... Read more →

Pritzker Group Venture Capital Leads Round IRVINE, Calif., April 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Specright, Inc., a software company that enables customers to control critical supply chain specifications such as packaging, products, and raw materials, announced today an $8.8 million Series A round of funding. Led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital (PGVC), with participation from previous investors Okapi Venture Capital, Fika... Read more →

EY Announces Ike Kavas of Ephesoft as Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Award Semifinalist in Orange County Founder of leading enterprise content capture and data discovery provider recognized for industry leadership EY announced that Ike Kavas, founder and CEO of Irvine, Calif.-based Ephesoft, an industry leader in enterprise content capture and data discovery solutions, is a semifinalist for the Entrepreneur... Read more →

Welcome to these new listings in the OC Startup Council Startups Directory: Fin Tech Startups : Level 4 Transport - Fountain Valley Fin Tech Startups : Maxsys AI - Irvine Products : PURtec - Irvine Internet of Things IOT : T-Wireless - Irvine Analytics : Smart Fission - Trabuco Canyon Visit these local startups to learn more! (And get a... Read more →

Buy It Installed, Inc. has announced the appointment of Todd Banhidy to the position of President. Banhidy will also continue to serve as the company's Chief Product Architect over its digital properties Buy It Installed® and Craftsman Republic®. With 34 years in the global Installed-Sales industry, Banhidy's unparalleled depth in industry knowledge and experience is perfectly suited to lead the... Read more →

Welcome to InPlay Technologies - A New SILVER Member of the OC Startup Council! InPlay Technologies, LLC is a leading industrial IoT wireless SoC and solution provider based in Irvine. Our team's ground-breaking innovations start from fundamental silicon and protocol design to system level integration. The goal is to solve the most challenging issues facing today's wireless IoT industry and... Read more →

Local OC angel investors recently realized a 15x return from a 2003 investment in CaseStack thanks to its $255 million sale to Hub Group, Inc.. IRVINE, CALIF. (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 14, 2019 Tech Coast Angels (TCA) announced its sixth highest exit ever when Hub Group, Inc. recently purchased CaseStack for $255 million. This successful exit was unique in many ways: the... Read more →