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JANUARY 29, 2010

Venture capital firm First Round Capital , the early stage venture fund whose Managing Directors include Idealab's Howard Morgan , said last night that it has created its own startup exchange fund, a fund which allows the founders of the firm's various startups to diversify their investments and share in the success of the company's portfolio.

Capital 169

Capital Funding OpenX Startup 169

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JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica-based Gradient X , the programmatic mobile advertising startup backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Walter Kortschak (Summit Capital), and Mark Suster, said today that it has exited its beta.

GRP Partners 168

GRP Partners OpenX Santa Monica Advertising 168

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Chewse , a startup which helps companies manage their office food and meal programs--and counts Pivotal Labs, TasteMade, OpenX, Factual, and Big Frame as customers--said it has raised $5.9M in a Series A investment. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica OpenX Startup Capital 100

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JUNE 12, 2015

Advertising technology startups have been among the biggest areas of startup growth in Southern California, and in particular Silicon Beach, which is the home of such companies as Rubicon Project, OpenX, SHIFT, and many other ad tech companies. Wallet photo courtesy of Nick Klein, via Flickr.

Report 100

Report OpenX Southern California Advertising 100

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

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JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. You might argue, just get over it. I got a resounding yes.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

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JUNE 19, 2013

E&Y''s list this year included a number of finalists from the LA technology sector, including Dinesh Ravishanker of Callfire; Demian Sellfors of Media Temple; Rick Stollmeyer of MINDBODY; Tim Cadogan of OpenX; Loren Bendele of Savings.com; Walter Driver of Scopely, and Jeff Green of The Trade Desk. READ MORE>>.

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OpenX Los Angeles Entrepreneur Activity 113

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APRIL 1, 2010

We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. We're very similar to OpenX, from the standpoint of ad management tools, in that we also have built in a marketplace and also allow you to go direct to advertisers. What is Burstly?

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

Steve Reich

MARCH 2, 2013

Somehow the home of IdeaLab, OpenX, CalTech, Art Center College of Design, and JPL doesn’t have much of a reputation as a innovation hub. A number of tech companies, such as Bluebeam and Materia, are quietly building powerful businesses, and many startups are in Old Town. Pasadena may be the best tech story never told.

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Pasadena CalTech Pasadena Angels Idealab 56

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. and Overture Services.

Content 171

Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Should you have 7 people doing your seed round and why Ron Conway is the S&P 500 of Venture Capital (this discussion starts at minute 59). Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. -

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217