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Here’s Why it Was an Epic Month for #LATech

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In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo!

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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone

socalTECH

Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. Most of that digital media is display, and we have a platform which automates a lot of the optimization decisions, based on a strategy we''ve developed collectively as a media team. The better the platform gets, the more we are able to scale, with less labor.

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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

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This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. I'm fascinated by the creator economy on Twitch, Youtube, and new streaming platforms.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks.

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UCLA Hack-a-thon Starts Today!

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This weekend, February 22-24th, will be your chance to attend UCLA Anderson School of Management’s 42 hour Developers Contest, hosted at ROC in Santa Monica. UCLA’s ASM has partnered with Microsoft, Nokia, WIX, Yahoo! The details of this event are quite amazing.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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-Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Competitors: Gowalla.

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First Ever Biz2Beach Presented by CallFire Hits The Ground Running!

Tech Zulu Event

Video chat by Stickam.com Last Friday, about 80 business leaders assembled at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, for CallFire’s first ever “un-conference&# called Biz2Beach. At their respective discussions, they spoke about online marketing, mobile marketing, company culture, and social media ROI, among other topics.