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

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So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Tim Cadogan , OpenX (Pasadena, advertising).

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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San Diego was not far behind, with $222.4M The energy and clean technology sector actually helped boost investments in Los Angeles, as well, with big deals for Torrance-based Amonix , which raised $64.4M in investments, IT services--which includes many online advertising firms--was at $35.15M in investments.