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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Earlier this week, Deloitte released its latest list of the top 500 growing technology companies, in its 2012 Technology Fast 500. 1449% Beverly Hills Michael V. 449% Woodland Hills Zorik Gordon. 381 Life Technologies Corporation 195% Carlsbad Gregory T. 191% Los Angeles Thomas A. Gregg 85 RealD Inc.

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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 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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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2016

Beverly Hills-based Influential , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M. The company says its clients include Hershey's, Coca-Cola Company, NBC Universal, Nestle, General Mills and Sony Pictures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. And sci-fi writers are but one example of the way society impacts technology. Today there’s many.

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socalTECH

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. LiveNation said that it will incorporate the technology from BigChampagne across its businesses, to power social discovery, product personalization, and other features.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Are you one of the companies in Los Angeles that just doesn't have enough parking for your employees? One of the on-demand, parking services that serves Los Angeles Zirx , said this morning that it is specifically looking to solve those issues for companies, with the launch of a new service.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

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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socalTECH

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.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

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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AUGUST 28, 2015

The Siemer Summit , the invite-only conference which has been organized by technology investment banking firm Siemer & Associates for the last four years, is returning this year, according to the firm. The firm also said that other speakers will include Thomas Gewecke of Warner Bros.

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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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socalTECH

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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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based BloomNation (www.bloomnation.com) is looking to change the model, and instead empower local florists to deliver their own, unique designs. If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses. I have such respect for other platforms and technology.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Also, the week of Silicon Beach Fest, I also was honored to be included in the inaugural 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles listing by LA Business Journal. It will be fun to see what's next over the next few years.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

Need something--anything--delivered in Los Angeles? Fetch and Schlep just raised a round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Fetch and Schlep just raised a round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. We're now the largest delivery service in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. But the tech culture of Los Angeles is shifting real estate’s center of gravity. The Los Angeles Business Journal recently reported data compiled by SoCalTech.com showing that “L.A. YouTube is joined by the SoCal outpost for Facebook.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

www.science-inc.com), a new technology studio aimed at building new businesses in Los Angeles. They were a group of really great young guys out of Beverly Hills, who understand how to build a brand, and figured out how to do it very quickly, and manufacture for a very low price. Are there enough startups to go around?

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2016

We're using technology in the same way other companies are solving hotel issues, taxi service, dating, and all of that, and using that same kind of technology to solve a big problem for the film industry. You might be familiar with Entourage, and how they are always going to the Urth Caffe in Beverly Hills.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. We're using technology to scale, and use it to be super-efficient, but we're also never going to be entirely hands-off.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. PERSON David Sacks PERSON|David Sacks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. How much of your business is technology versus service? Adam Wicks Walker: The technology is pretty significant.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. How much of your business is technology versus service? Adam Wicks Walker: The technology is pretty significant.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

After college I came back to Los Angeles to work in the advertising industry. Since out first event we’ve done large parties at high profiled locations such as, The London, SLS (in Beverly Hills), and The Viceroy (in Santa Monica). Talia, tell me a little about yourself. Entertainment. While at E!,

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