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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Tim Cadogan , OpenX (Pasadena, advertising). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software). Matthew Goldman , Wallaby Financial (Pasadena, financial). Ryan Hudson , Honey (Pasadena, apps). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising).

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Southern California Linked IPOs Grow

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The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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Smarter Digital Marketing With Smartify's Carla Bourque

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Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market. Carla Bourque: Smartify has been based in Pasadena for the past three and a half years. What is Smartify?

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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Demand Media hosted a welcoming opening party at the Vicerory, and Media Temple organized an amazing closing party at Cross Campus with aerialists, DJ, interactive displays - and people are still talking about the delicious food. At the end of 2013, we were excited when there was an investment round of $20M to $30M.

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

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This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding. We know what people are looking for.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab.

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The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens

TechCrunch LA

These venture capitalists think the same forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail and logistics will also work their way through prepared food businesses. ” Collins’ company just raised $10 million in a funding round led by GV , the investment arm of Google parent company, Alphabet.

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