socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

A new, Los Angeles startup, HashAtIt.com has launched this morning, offering up a search engine specifically for searching for hashtag content. The company said it was founded by Laurie Paolone, who was formerly the CIO of MagnaFlow.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch, Klarna CEO and founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski said the company has seen explosive growth in the U.S. While the company was profitable for its first 14 years of life, it has not been profitable the last two, according to Siemiatkowski, and that’s been by design.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. People either love it our hate it.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based Fliptu , the developer of social aggregation tools for music and entertainment brands, has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round, the company said Friday. The company said it will use the funds to bolster its product team and expand into new verticals. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2012

Online advertising network Adconion is tapping a Los Angeles technology vet as its Global Chief Technology Officer, the company said Monday. Adconion said that it has appointed Scott Sullivan to the CTO position, recruiting him away from Everbridge Communications, where he was also CTO.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2016

Fouad ElNaggar , a former venture capitalist who had been responsible for the Los Angeles office of Redpoint Ventures, has scored funding for a new startup, Sapho. ElNaggar was most recently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at CBS Interactive; he co-founded Sapho with fellow CBS Interactive alum Peter Yared, who was CBSi's CTO and CIO.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based Everbridge , which develops incident notification and mass calling systems, said Thursday that it has named Scott Sullivan as the firm's Chief Technology Officer. Sullivan was most recently Chief Technology Officer, Interactive, for the Tribune Company and the Los Angeles Times. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2011

Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , the developer of Internet security software, said Thursday afternoon that it has named co-founder Igor Barash as its Chief Operating Officer. Barash was most recently CIO for the firm. In addition, the company said it has eliminated the position of Chief Revenue Officer.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

CIO Impacts Forum. While the burden of software installation, update or maintenance is removed from the hands of the enterprise user, the burden of creating, managing and securing the infrastructure, devices, user accounts, and, networks, falls in the hands of the CIO.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. Alex Kazerani.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based Leads360, a developer of lead management software, has tapped Dan Morefield as the firm's new President and CEO, the firm announced this morning. Morefield is the former COO of Experian Consumer Direct, as well as CIO at Overture Services. Morefield has also served at PayMyBills and at Home Savings of America.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Companies are always complaining about how hard it is to find the right employees, and how technical talent is hard to find. Yet, you have many students, graduating with technical skills, who just don't know how to make it into a company. At the same time, companies are saying that in cybersecurity and data science, there are 1.5

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). After we sold it to that public company, I founded HashtagOne. It's all about leverage.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Unitas Global (www.unitasglobal.com) recently raised a round of funding from MK Capital and Azure Capital for its vision of helping enterprises make that transition to cloud technology. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. Explain to us what Unitas Global does?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

in funding, from Dallas Capital, Upfront Ventures, and Tribeca Angels. We spoke with Kyle Kamrooz , co-founder and COO of the company, about what the startup is doing. I started young, buildilng on my father's lending company. I have built large fulfillment companies and lenders. So where are you now with the company?

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 1, 2008

“California is the birthplace of the information technology revolution and the home of the companies that are creating the future course of our information rich society. Great California companies like Google, Hewlett Packard, Apple, Sun Microsystems and hundreds more like them are transforming the way people live, work and communicate.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. That's the case with every other company we know of and who we have talked to. Most companies use Microsoft Project, and although there are a bunch of other projects, Microsoft has the most market share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Ideally, they will have links to distributors you need, or even be investors in your company as well. Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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