Tuesday, October 20, 2015socalTECH 50 Open Now! Nominate 2015's Up-And-Comers!
Who do you think are the top 50 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California's technology industry this year? For the third year in a row, we are looking to identify the individuals here in the technology industry, across all sectors, who are most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit or to influence the industry in a significant way. If you'd like to nominate an individual (not company) for this award, we've just started collecting your nominations online. Nominat (More info...)
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cielo24 Gets $5M For Video Search, Captioning APISanta Barbara-based Cielo24, a developer of technology to which helps caption and make online video searchable, has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by ff Venture Capital, and also included North Base Media, Pereg Ventures, Indicator Ventures, Wavemaker Partners and others. cielo24 is led by Brian Plackis-Cheng. cielo24 develops technology to provide captions, transcripts, indexes and other data via an API.
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Decisive: Decoding The Emotions Behind Social Sharing
What is is that makes you want to share one piece of content with your friends, but not another? Is one color better than another for sharing photos? Exactly what is the magic behind if a piece of content goes viral or not? We recently ran into a Disney Accelerator startup in Burbank, Decisive (https://decisive.is/), which has created software which is able to apply predictive analytics and software to do exactly those things, and more. We caught up with CEO and co-founder David Dundas to lear (More info...)
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Science 37 Raises $6.5MLos Angeles-based Science 37, a provider of technology-enabled, clinical research services, has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding round. The funding was co-led by Lux Capital and dRx Capital. Science37, which is led by CEO Noah Craft, says it is using telemedicine and mobile workforces to help overcome inefficiency in conducting clinical trials, and specifically to help clinical trials run distributed clinical trials, using national mobile nursing companies, pharmacy chains, patient advocacy gr (More info...)
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Guidance Names New Marketing VPMarina Del Rey-based Guidance, which helps brands and retailers build online websites and apps, said Monday that it has named Jeff Hererra as its new Vice President of Marketing and Channel Development. Hererra was previously Head of Partner Marketing at Magento. He also has served at Visa. Guidance says it has helped such brands as Foot Locker, Johnny Was, Relax the Back, TOMS Shoes to create their websites and apps.
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Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Buys Compounded Sinus Medication ProviderSan Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has acquired what it says is the largest provider of compounded, sinus medication in the U.S. Imprimis said it acquired the Topical Apothecary Group, LLC (d/b/a TAG Pharmacy), Aerosol Science Laboratories, Inc. (d/b/a ASL Pharmacy), SinuTopic, Inc. (d/b/a Sinus Dynamics Pharmacy) and Mycotoxins, LLC., all of which were part of Thousand Oaks Holding Company. Imprimis said TAG, ASL, and Sinus Dynamics were the largest provide (More info...)
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