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GRP Partners Leads Investment In Awe.sm

socalTECH

Awe.sm's tools are used by application developers to monitor and measure social media and sharing activity through their apps. has raised $4M in a round which was led by Foundry Group and GRP Partners, and which also included Neu Venture Capital and kps+p Ventures. did not announce who at GRP led the investment. READ MORE>>.

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ntro Makes Major Update To Social Discovery App

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Los Angeles-based ntro , the mobile social networking and discovery application developer founded by former Pandemic Studios founder Josh Resnick, has updated the firm's app, as the company looks to make a big splash at SXSW. ntro allows users to find others with similar interests, and interact with them in conversations and messages.

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Twidroyd, UberSocial Back online

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Two of the applications developed by Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Twitter client applications firm headed by Idealab's Bill Gross, are back online, according to Twitter. On Friday, Twitter had declared war on UberMedia and suspended a number of UberMedia's applications for unspecified, violations of its terms of service.

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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. According to ELC Technologies, Rahmat takes the helm of ELC.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

TechEmpower

26 languages, 431 frameworks, 1774 benchmarks; and the knock on benefits to the the users of any framework that actively participates are enormous - you are truly doing great work! Take a look at the results and marvel in the magnitude of the numbers. — Ben Adams (@ben_a_adams) May 24, 2018.

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Los Angeles Startup Events

SoCal CTO

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events.

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

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Confirming the partnership, Jacob Mullins, founder of Exitround said it provide SGL companies access to its active marketplace to find great business and corporate development opportunities. These companies are active on Exitround and are looking to connect with startups who are disrupting markets and changing the world.”

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