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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles. Rahmat was CEO of Tom's Hardware, which he sold to BestofMedia in 2007.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

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At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We had an advanced application development and innovation team. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI?

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

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To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs.