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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US

TechCrunch LA

Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a staggering post-money valuation of $45.6 To put that into context; Affirm’s financial report in May projected it would process $8.04 in markets such as New York and Los Angeles.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

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Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. He lives in Los Angeles. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

socalTECH

One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. What does ZestFinance do?

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. Los Angeles. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley. Let me use LA as an example.