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Southern California Companies Have Healthy Showing In Deloitte Fast 500
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
Among the highest ranked in the annual program was OpenX Software , based in Pasadena, which had a 44,075% five year growth rate, which was ranked at number 5 in the nation, based on its fiscal revenue growth rate from 2008 to 2012. READ MORE>>. rankings awards companies technology growth fast deloitte california southern'
Activision Brings Back Crash Bandicoot
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JUNE 30, 2017
Santa Monica-based videogame publisher Activision has brought back Crash Bandicoot , its popular videogame character, in a new remake of the original three games for the PS4 and PS4 Pro. All three games had originally been released starting around 1994. READ MORE>>.
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March Capital Backs Nifty Games In $3M Funding
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NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital is one of the lead investors in a new, video game publishing startup called Nifty Games , in a $3M funding round, announced on Tuesday by Nifty Games. He also was founder of Massive In-Game Advertising (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), among other firms.
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TaskUs Takes $15M In Funding
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2015
Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the startup led by Bryce Maddock which is the secret weapon behind the rising tide of on-demand and Internet startups, has raised $15M in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Phillipnes-based private equity investor Navegar. READ MORE>>.
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Siemer & Associates Acquired By Chinese Investment Bank
socalTECH
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Santa Monica-based investment banking firm Siemer & Associates , which has focused on the technology and media sector, has been acquired by Chinese investor CEC Capital Group. Siemer & Assocaites was founded by David Siemer in 2008. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.
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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2013
We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million. We have long wanted to move but wanted to wait for the perfect space.
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Cornerstone OnDemand Trumpets Growth
socalTECH
MARCH 4, 2010
Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand reported strong 2009 performance, saying Thursday afternoon that the firm had a 64 percent growth in its client base in 2009, and an 83 percent increase in users from December 2008. The firm also said it had a strong Q4, with client booking up 66 percent from Q4 of 2008.
Rafat Ali's Skift Launches, Targets Travel Pros
socalTECH
JULY 30, 2012
Rafat Ali , who founded and eventually sold Santa Monica-based online paidContent to Guardian News & Media, has returned from several years of travel on the road, and launched his latest startup, Skift. Ali had departed ContentNext and Los Angeles, back in 2010, to embark on what he called a "head-clearing trip of a lifetime."
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JasonNation Becomes The LAUNCH Newsletter
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DECEMBER 10, 2010
Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com, told his personal email newsletter readers Friday that he has renamed the newsletter from JasonNation, to the LAUNCH Newsletter. Calacanis said in November that his LAUNCH conference will afford startup with the ability to reach investors and launch products to the world.
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150 SolarReserve Ups Funds To $110M
socalTECH
JULY 21, 2010
Santa Monica-based SolarReserve has now pulled in $110M of a committed, $140M Series B funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today.
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LA Group Launches Effort To Promote Technology Corridor In Los Angeles
socalTECH
DECEMBER 12, 2012
The group said it found that since 2008, 54% of UCLA's engineering graduates have chosen to relocate from the area, which the group called a "brain drain" to the region. The group also said it plans to launch a new program called the Edge.LA READ MORE>>.
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ContentNext Up For Sale
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
ContentNext--which had been founded by Rafat Ali in Santa Monica, and eventually sold in July of 2008 to Guardian News and Media--publishes paidContent, mocoNews.net, paidContent:UK, and contentSutra.com. Names of potential buyers were not discussed. million pageviews; the network has 808,000 uniques, and 1.67
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ShopNation Raises $800K, Launches Fashion Discovery Site
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NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The firm, co-founded by Travis Schneider and Luke Kervin, said it aggregates and normalizes product data from fashion retailers, and allows users to find fashion products from their favorite stores.
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Livestrong.com Reports Growth For Team RadioShack Site
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FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media for Lance Armstrong, reported today that its new site for Team RadioShack, the professional cycling team of Armstrong, has grown to one million visitors in just seven days. Demand Media and Armstrong launched Livestrong.com in June of 2008.
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FlipGloss Acquired By Forbes
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NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Santa Monica-based FlipGloss , which develops online photo publishing software for the magazine industry, has been acquired by Forbes. FlipGloss was backed by Forbes, which invested in the firm in March of 2008. Forbes Media announced the deal Thursday afternoon, but did not disclose any financial terms of the deal. READ MORE>>.
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Bestcovery.com Rolls Out Web Widget
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OCTOBER 15, 2009
Santa Monica-based Bestcovery.com , an online expert review and ranking site headed by former Pricegrabber.com co-founder and CEO, Kamran Pourzanjani, said today that it has rolled out a new widget which will allow web publishers to display its content. Bestcovery was started in 2008, and has 8 employees. READ MORE>>.
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140 Docstoc Halloween Open House
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 30, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008 -- Docstoc Halloween Open House. In honor of Halloween and our One Year Anniversary, we're putting on an open house at the Docstoc Office in Santa Monica, California. See [link] (more).
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Interview with Michael Arrington – Startups Uncensored #23
Jason Nazar
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Michael is an incredible serial entrepreneur who, in 2008, was listed as one of Time Magazine ‘s most influential people. The event will be happening on December 1, 2011 at The Milken Institute in Santa Monica. Tickets are going fast for this special event – it WILL sell out, so get your tickets soon!
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99 Cornerstone OnDemand Trumpets Customer Bookings
socalTECH
JUNE 10, 2009
Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops software-as-a-service for managing employee learning and other human resources functions, announced today that it had its best, first quarter results in the firm's history. million users using its services in March, which it said was a 250 percent jump from 2008.
ReachLocal Tops Fast 500 List
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OCTOBER 20, 2009
The firm said it had 2008 revenues of $146.69M. Other local companies in the top 100 were Cerritos-based IGNIFY at 71, San Diego's Amylin Pharmaceuticals at 76; The Search Agency , based in Santa Monica, at 83; and Beverly Hills-based Hydra at 87. revenues); Carlsbad-based Genoptix , at number 15 (15,814 percent growth and $116.1M
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Interview with Todd Jerry, Marmol Radziner
socalTECH
APRIL 7, 2011
Todd is now Chief Operating Officer of Marmol Radziner (www.marmol-radziner.com), an architecture and construction company, which recently installed a eco-friendly mobile home park project in Santa Monica which was focused on applying clean and eco-friendly technologies to the pre-fab building market. For me, it was a couple of things.
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Cornerstone OnDemand Claims Gains
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MARCH 3, 2009
Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , a privately held firm developing software for human resources and talent management, said today that it had a "record" fourth quarter and fiscal 2008 year.
Cornerstone OnDemand Raises $12.7M
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MARCH 12, 2009
Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , a developer of talent management and human resources management software, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $12.7M in a new round of financing. The round was led by Meritech Capital, and also included prior investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Bay Partners. READ MORE>>.
Geodelic Ships Application With T-Mobile
socalTECH
JUNE 22, 2009
Santa Monica-based Geodelic announced today that the firm is shipping a new application for local discovery, along with T-Mobile USA. The firm was founded in 2008, and according to regulatory filings that funding came in January. Geodelic is headed by Rahul Sonnad, and is backed by $3.5M
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TZ Presents: ‘Nice Guys’ DO Finish First In Business | Fireside Chat With Greg Cargill
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
That work laid the foundation for Greg’s contribution in founding bigMETHOD in 2008, a social media agency that joined BLITZ in 2011. The 44,260-square-foot ROC–Santa Monica location, last occupied by Google, will have more than 200 socially conscious, shared-workspace environments with space for as many as 150 small companies.
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DailyFill Takes On Celebrity News
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill. The firm said the site has been in beta since late November 2008. READ MORE>>.
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100 Three Southern California Firms Building Blog Empires
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Since its acquisition in July of 2008 by The Guardian, and departure of founder Rafat Ali, ContentNext has continued to operate out of Santa Monica, and runs paidContent.org, mocoNews, contentSutra, and paidContent:UK. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. ContentNext. www.contentnext.com).
Southern California Companies Raise $751M In Funding in Q3, Says Report
socalTECH
OCTOBER 20, 2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M
Interview with Michael Schneider, Mobile Roadie
socalTECH
APRIL 5, 2012
Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Mobile Roadie, headed by Michael Schneider , develops tools that make easy for non-programmers to create their own mobile apps.
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239 How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom
socalTECH
AUGUST 7, 2014
We''d gone to high school together in Santa Monica, and we were both very entrepreneurial in high school. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. We went from just five people three years ago, to over 1100 full time staff in the Philippines and twenty people here in Santa Monica.
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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures
socalTECH
JUNE 27, 2013
Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. The new fund also comes with a move to some new space in Santa Monica? What''s enabled the firm to raise this fund, at the same size of your last fund? Mark Suster: One thing: track record. Our 2000 fund is the single best, performing fund in the country.
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Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 24, 2012
When I couldn’t talk David into doing early-stage deals back in 2008/09, I hooked up with the guy who seemed to be working with the largest number of high-quality LA startups I had encountered – Dave Young – and started working with him and Nicholas Hobbs of DLA Piper. There’s more!
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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones
socalTECH
DECEMBER 2, 2013
However, Santa Monica-based Dreamhammer (www.dreamhammer.com) has a different vision of the world, where entire fleets of aerial drones and robotics surface vehicles can all operate off a single, interoperable operating system--much like you get multiple smartphones running on Android today, or computers on the same OS.
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183 This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Current round: $4. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch.
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248 Los Angeles Speaking Series #3: “Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business”
Jason Nazar
DECEMBER 29, 2008
Thursday, January 15, 2008 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium) 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401. Here were the past two events ( talk #1 , talk #2 ). Cost: FREE. This event is capped at 140 attendees. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE.
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46 Digital Family Reunion | Make New Friends, But Keep The Old
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 13, 2012
It was 2008. That’s what comes to mind when I think of the annual Digital Family Reunion event held at Wokcano in Santa Monica. Holiday event brings together LA’s top digital executives, honors Jim Jonassen. Two worlds, two times, but one community. Five years ago Nye from the so-called “1.0
TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 17, 2012
24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica. Since 2008, Harrison Metal has invested in over 40 companies, including Aardvark (GOOG), DocVerse (GOOG), Heroku (CRM), Manymoon (CRM), MixerLab (Twitter) and ZipZapPlay (ERTS). TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan.
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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. Matt Kumin: I've been working in digital and Internet in LA since 1995, and have been doing this for a number of years.
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237 This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Competitors: OneRiot , Topsy , Crowdeye , Twitter Summize.
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225 TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2013
28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. As an investor, managed personal investment fund, Chance Technologies (1995 to Present), served as an advisor to Accel Partners (2006 to Present), served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies (1998 to 2000), and served as the Managing Director or the Mail Room Fund (2008 to 2010).
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Peering Into The Mobile Games Future With Josh Hartwell of Mobile Deluxe
socalTECH
DECEMBER 13, 2012
really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. When iTunes started selling games in 2008, it coincided with one of the biggest market corrections, one of the biggest global economic corrections in our history and in my lifetime. Can you talk about how you managed that?
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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 24, 2013
Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Make sure to tune in! TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Date : Thursday, October 24, 2013.
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