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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Mobile taxi summoning app developer Flywheel is expanding its coverage area in Los Angeles today, saying that it will now provide coverage in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Culver City as well as the Westside and the South Bay. flywheel uber lyft sidecar smartphone taxi ride rideshare mobile launch losangeles angeles'

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

which has substantial operations in Westlake Village, Beverly Hills-based RealD , Monrovia-based Green Dot , and Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal. In fact, a recent study released by Ernst & Young found that there were eight companies in Southern California, out of 22 total in California, who were lined up for an IPO in Q4.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The two spent months pounding the pavement in Los Angeles pretending to be college students doing research on the industry. They spoke with salon owners in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and other trendy neighborhoods trying to get a sense of where software and services were falling short.

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JULY 22, 2010

The IPO is the second successful, Southern California IPO in as many weeks, with Beverly Hills-based RealD also getting a similarly robust reception last Friday at its own IPO. Based on shareholder filing, a number of Tech Coast Angels are reaping multi-million dollar stakes in the firm as a result of the IPO. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Los Angeles-based Maker Studios said Monday that its deal to be acquired by Disney has been approved by Maker''s board of directors and majority of shareholders, and is expected to close next week. The announcement came on reports that Beverly Hills-based Relativity Media was seeking to buy Maker Studios for nearly $1.1

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Live Nation Entertainment said today that it has acquired a provider of media metrics and analytics, BigChampagne Media Measurement. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. BigChampagne provides media metrics about entertainment and online audiences.

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JULY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles technology industry appears to have landed as the first stop of Prince William and new bride Catherine in Los Angeles today, as the two are scheduled to present at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Beverly Hills.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Beverly Hills-based Launch House, which hosts month-long, live-in startup programs in Los Angeles and elsewhere, is looking to raised $10M in a new venture capital fund, according to a regulatory filing from the company. The filing said the company is raising $10M to invests in startups.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

which has most of its employees in Westlake Village; Los Angeles-based Gamefly ; City of Industry-based NewEgg ; San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies ; and Thousand Oaks-basd Nexsan. Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based Cloud9 , an e-sports organization which participates in the League of Legends, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Hearthstone, and many other e-sports leagues, said Monday that it has raised $25M in a series A funding. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Snowball Factory , the startup behind awe.sm , the url shortener and analytics service, tweetpo.st , which updates Facebook from Twitter, and other tools, has raised $500,000 more, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace Music announced this morning that it has hired Dmitry Shapiro , who founded Veoh, as its new Chief Technology Officer. Shapiro will be based in Beverly Hills, and report to MySpace Music President Courtney Holt. Shapiro was founder and CEo of Veoh Networks until its bankruptcy filing in February.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Join GABBCON at our third annual Los Angeles Audience Based Buying Summit and second annual ABBI Awards, November 1-2, 2017 at the new Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills. At this year’s Los Angeles Summit, we will discuss the future of Video and audience based buying and how to turn chaos into progress and momentum.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Join GABBCON at our third annual Los Angeles Audience Based Buying Summit and second annual ABBI Awards, November 1-2, 2017 at the new Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills. At this year’s Los Angeles Summit, we will discuss the future of Video and audience based buying and how to turn chaos into progress and momentum.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

New York-based MediaMorph , a developer of technology used to track media rights for film, television, games and other publishers, said today that it has inked a strategic deal with Beverly Hills-based United Talent Agency , and also scored $2M in funding. Details on those investors were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One Kings Lane , the online, home furnishings flash sales site which splits its operations between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, said today that it has snagged former Zappos.com CTO Arun Rajan as its new Chief Technology Officer. Rajan will be at the company''s San Francisco offices. The firm just announced $112M in funding.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

1449% Beverly Hills Michael V. 1193% Santa Monica Scott Painter 116 Network Solutions Provider 1001% Long Beach Phillip Walker 119 BlackLine Systems Software 973% Los Angeles Therese Tucker 131 Kotura, Inc. 449% Woodland Hills Zorik Gordon. 191% Los Angeles Thomas A. 129% Los Angeles David Hagan.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Beverly Hills-based Hasbro Studios , the content division of toy maker Hasbro, and streaming media provider Netflix said Thursday that the two are in an expanded, multi-year programming agreement. That move also has made those same streaming media providers one of the big new sources of original production efforts in Los Angeles.

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JULY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles technology industry appears to have landed as the first stop of Prince William and new bride Catherine in Los Angeles today, as the two are scheduled to present at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Beverly Hills. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Voomerang , a new daily local deals site, has entered into the crowded group and local deals market today, saying it has officially launched its daily deals service.

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MAY 1, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Mobile Roadie , the developer of tools which make it easy for artists and brands to create their own mobile apps, said today that it has launched a new native iPad app platform, along with a self-service mobile website product. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

One Kings Lane , an online, flash home furnishing retailer which has offices and one of its founders (Susan Feldman) in Los Angeles, disclosed that it has raised $112M in a Series E funding round. The company''s LA offices are in Beverly Hills, next to the Beverly Wilshire.

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JULY 13, 2016

Spencer Rascoff , the CEO of real estate site Zillow , is heading to Los Angeles, after buying a $20M mansion in Brentwood. According to a note sent to employees in May, Rascoff will split his time between Seattle and Los Angeles. Rascoff has talked about growing up in Beverly Hills. hours in traffic for Rascoff via car.

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JULY 19, 2010

Green Dot would follow the debut last week of Beverly Hills-based RealD , which saw an impressive run up in its first day of trading Friday.Green Dot has said it expects to price between $32.00 Green Dot is backed by Sequoia Capital, TTP Fund, and the Tech Coast Angels. and $35.00 per share, and will list on the NYSE at GDOT.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Starting in Los Angeles — and building on yesterday’s test run pop-up shop with the Los Angeles Rams — Postmates users will be able to shop local merchants listed in the company’s new retail tab in the Postmates app called, appropriately, “shop” LA Rams, Fanatics and Postmates coordinate on an on-demand pop-up.

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JULY 22, 2010

Southern California appears to be on a IPO roll this month, with the pricing of Monrovia-based Green Dot 's IPO last night and expected trading today, following the successful IPO of Beverly Hills-based RealD last Friday.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

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JUNE 23, 2010

Navigating and searching online entertainment information has been a perpetual theme of Southern California startups, with the latest firms focused on the area being Los Angeles-based Clicker.com , with its online video programming guides, Los Angeles-based Hulu with its television streaming, Beverly Hills-based OvGuide , the online video guide site (..)

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 14, 2010

Look for us on Private Chefs of Beverly Hills (coming soon.) and the Executive Producer of two radio shows: Tech News, powered by Make It Work on CBS’s KNX 1070 in Los Angeles and Make It Work with Jeremy Anticouni currently on Citadel’s KSFO 560 in San Francisco and soon to be in markets nationwide.

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JULY 5, 2017

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Venture Partners , a venture capital investment firm that specifically focuses on commercialization of scientific discoveries, has raised $74.6M as part of an ongoing fundraising effort for its second fund, Kairos Venture Partners II, LP. The funding was disclosed via a regulatory filing. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 18, 2011

Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States. They also have a growing tech culture in Los Angeles and its adjacent cites like Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills as companies like Demand Media, MySpace and more recently Hulu, Mahalo, Callfire, DocStoc and BetterWorks have staked claim to the area.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

The company--which is currently headquartered at Amplify LA--currently only offers up its services in Los Angeles. Vetted says it is currently offering its services in Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Culver City, Inglewood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, Venice, and Westwood.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Hydra LLC , an Internet advertising company which has been seeing major growth in the last couple of years, has apparently hit a major snag, as the company has become embroiled in lawsuits associated with the departure of three of the four founding partners at the firm. which controls the company's board.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Beverly Hills-based Sesh , a startup which is developing artificial intelligence software, said on Wednesday that it has raised $1.6M The "pre-seed" funding came from angel investors, including Behzad Kianmahd, co-founder of TAU Ventures and Kyle Schlotman, Connetic Ventures and Radest Ventures. in a funding round.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Beverly Hills-based Aviron Capital , a consortium of financiers with primary backing from by private equity investor BlackRock, said this morning that it has acquired a "substantial equity stake" in Kino Industries , the developer of an interactive movie technology called CtrlMovie. Kino's co-CEOs are Chady Eli Mattar and Tobias Weber.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

It’s oh so quiet on the early morning streets of Beverly Hills. The event was created a little over two years ago after Williams realized that Los Angeles was lacking a social media breakfast club, despite the fact this type of event is found in most major cities. Come eat, network and learn — all before the work day starts.

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