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APRIL 29, 2020

Google Cloud today announced the official opening of its Las Vegas data center region. With this, Google Cloud now operates four regions in the western U.S., with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; The Dalles, Ore. and its recently opened Salt Lake City, Utah region.

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Google CIO Outsource Development Demand 155

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Black was previously CIO of Kratos Defense and Security, and also had served at Cymer and Mindspeed Technologies. CrowdStrike is venture backed by Google Capital, Rackspace, Accel, and Warburg Pincus, among others, and is led by George Kurtz, the founder of Foundstone and former CTO of McAfee.

CIO 100

CIO Google Software Development Platform 100

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm's founder and CEO is Douglas Merrill , the former CIO and VP of Engineering of Google. Hollywood-based ZestCash , a startup offering up short-term, consumer loans online, has scored $19M in funding today, including $11M in a Series A equity round plus $8M in venture debt. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners CIO Startup Hollywood 133

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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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. You don’t.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2015

ZestFinance was founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google; the company is venture backed by Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners, Kensington Capital Holdings, and Eastward Capital Partners. READ MORE>>.

CIO 100

CIO Google Los Angeles Capital 100

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APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304