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Staff Ranker: Helping Hospitality Businesses Better Manage Workers

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We spoke with George Collado , CEO and founder of the company, to hear about how his own battles trying to manage a number of restaurants was the genesis of the company''s product. George Collado: It''s employee management software. I just didn''t have any idea, and it was too cumbersome to do all these reviews.

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X1 Discovery Takes On Social Media Discovery

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Sharpening its focus on the electronic discovery market, Pasadena-based X1 , the enterprise search tools provider backed by Idealab, has split out a new company called X1 Discovery , headed by John Patzakis, the former President of eDiscovery at X1.

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Central Desktop Switches To Zoho For Spreadsheet Support

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Pasadena-based Central Desktop , which offers a software-as-a-service, team project management application, is being forced to swap out its spreadsheet support, telling its users today that it is switching from using EditGrid to Zoho's Sheet product. Tags: central desktop software saas project management editgrid zoho.

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Central Desktop Targets Marketers

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Pasadena-based Central Desktop , the online provider of project management and collaboration tools, announced today that it has launched a new product targeted at marketing agencies. The firm said the new offering starts at $899 per month. Central Desktop is venture backed by OpenView Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

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Speaking onstage at the Upfront Summit, an event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. “This could also be due to changes in the competitive landscape … and there may be changes with First Round Capital itself,” says one investor. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman.

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M. billion invested in Q2.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. RightScale.