For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have Three Predictions for 2023: Decentralization Now, Post-Speculation, and Surviving Irrational Markets (from Tony Greenberg) The death of decentralization-washing is key to the great...

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, sposors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Jim Eubanks Tax Managing ...

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams, co-fou...

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Aaron Fyke, Founder and Managing P...

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Carey Ransom, of Operate (www.oper...

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Today, we share the thoughts of Mike Jones, Co-fo...

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Today, we share the thoughts of Michele Ruiz, the...

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Today, we share the thoughts of Andy Wilson, Mana...

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Here's the contribution by Matt Stodder of Startu...

Welcome to Tech Scenes where we explore what makes tech founders and the cities they live in thrive. In this solo episode we meet up with Brew Johnson of Peer Street and talk about the advantage of being in Manhattan Beach, giving...

LA's technology startup industry has saw a surge in new companies and efforts from its serial entrepreneurs in the last few months. Serial entrepreneurs--those who have started and successfully sold or exited startups in the past--have be...

Interested in getting involved in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)? Who are the companies in Southern California that are part of this growing industry? We've combed through our database of companies to figure out whic...

The list of technology startups in Southern California who are "unicorns"--valued at more than $1 billion--surprisingly, might not be who you think, and in the sectors you might expect. A look at the companies who are private, backed by ven...

To the newly initiated, it might seem that Southern California is not particularly well known for its venture capital funds--however, for those insiders keeping track, Southern California is actually seeing an unprecedented upsurge in local...

Are you an entrepreneur, looking for capital here in Southern California? It's turning out to be a great time for entrepreneurs looking for funding in the region, with not only high profile exits of such companies as Snap Inc., but a bunch ...

Are you a startup looking to find funding in Southern California? It's often tough to figure exactly who the venture capital funds are who are funding startups in the area. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our...

There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in...

Who are the top 50 people to watch in Southern California? We've attempted to do that for the last three years, trying to ferret out exactly who the people--not companies--are to watch in the region's technology industry. It's a thankless...

If you're heading to our big shindig tomorrow with the Digital Family Reunion, you'll want to be sure to rub elbows with this year's socalTECH 50, our list of the 50 people in the technology industry we think you ought to know--because we b...

There's less than a week to the technology industry's biggest holiday event of the year--the Digital Family Reunion on Wednesday, December 10th at the Skirball Cultural Center. Southern California has had a banner year this year, wi...

This is our second year of creating our list of the top 50 people to watch in Southern California's technology industry, and it was NOT an easy task. As we found last year, it's a tough, unforgiving task to narrow down a list of the fo...

Los Angeles-based swipe-right, swipe-left dating app developer Tinder is looking to start turning on the revenue spigot, with plans to launch a new premium service, the company revealed Monday. According to Tinder CEO Sean Rad, in an interv...

Last year, we compiled our first list of the socalTECH 50: our attempt to pick fifty people here in Southern California's technology industry who represent some of the best of what the region has to offer, and which we though people ought...

Anyone who has been in the technology industry for awhile has heard that oft repeated myth, that most startup founders in Silicon Valley are from Stanford. There's also a similar argument, that if Southern California could only attract mo...

Valentine's day is coming up -- it's this Friday, February 14th -- and what better way to prepare for the holiday than taking a look at three local startups (and one established company) particularly appropriate for the occasion? ...

Think Southern California's tech industry is all about fashion, Hollywood, and content? If you look at the last few weeks of deals here, you might be surprised: it's almost been entirely enterprise software. Yesterday, TigerText, a develo...

Southern California's venture capital investments totaled a little more than $598.4M in the fourth quarter, according to the latest number from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, in its MoneyTree report. ...

Did you miss the Digital Family Reunion and socalTECH 50 celebration earlier this week at the Skirball? You can see some of the action from the evening in our gallery below, courtesy of photographers Chris Barnes and Jonathan Dingman, who c...

Did you miss the Digital Family Reunion and socalTECH 50 celebration earlier this week at the Skirball? You can see some of the action from the evening in our gallery below, courtesy of photographers Chris Barnes and Jonathan Dingman, who c...

In one of Southern California's biggest holiday events of the year, over 700 people joined us last night at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles to celebrate the region's rising stars, the socalTECH 50. We partnered up with the Digital Fami...