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JUNE 26, 2013

Metacloud , a provider of managed, Openstack-based private cloud services, announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Storm Ventures and AME Cloud. The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

in a funding round, to bring its social analytics engine for gaming companies to market. in funding came from the Harvard Business School Angels and Tech Coast Angels. The company''s research came out of joint work of the Universities of Southern California, Minnesota, Northwestern and Illinois. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We very quietly went live with our second fund, Okapi Ventures II, LP, back in March and have already made 4 investments. I think "enterprise 2.0" READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. 3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups. Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5

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JANUARY 2, 2015

We''ve been featuring a few reflections on the last year from a number of movers and shakers in Southern California''s technology industry over the last couple of weeks, during the holidays. We enjoyed tremendous support from our existing institutional investors and welcomed a few great new endowments/universities to the fund.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009 -- Investor Outlook 2010: Startup Funding Forecast from Angels and VCs. Despite the fears and outcries from some, startup funding didnt quite freeze into the nuclear winter many thought it would. To many founders relief, startups were still getting funded. Dealmaker LA. Green tech?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. If you’d like to see some of the best technologies and meet some of the brightest minds in beautiful Southern California, SIGN UP NOW. Event Details.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

“As voice API, voice broadcast and text messaging technology advances and cloud computing becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and more business – across all core market sectors — are discovering why cloud telephony is the future,” said Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO and co-founder, CallFire.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

With my background as CTO of Buy.com, if I wanted to hire a Java or.NET developer, I could do a search on those titles with a keyword, and create a list, constrained to Southern Orange County or Southern California. I can then see who are the top rated people for that position. Then, I can contact them through the site.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. This marks the fourth installment of TechZulu Spotlight: LA Tech and the one year anniversary of the series. Diamond Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. This marks the fourth installment of TechZulu Spotlight: LA Tech and the one year anniversary of the series. Diamond Sponsor.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Large number of Players in Cloud Computing. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud Pretty much lines up with where I'm at.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. There are others as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. I wanted to look at what they actually did so in looking at their website I saw this positioning. I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing. I’m spotting another trend.

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