socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Jason Calacanis , the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in a mobile social networking service, Gowalla , the company said today. Tags: jason calacanis angel investment venture capital social networking gowalla. Series B funding for the firm.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google in 2003, for pre-IPO stock, reaping first round investors more than a 100x return on their investment. which he sold to AOL.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product. I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. Basically, it rocks!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

We caught up with Jason and Kurt to hear more about the company. What's the story behind the company and how it started? savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media.

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