Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Los Angeles Venture Association‘s annual Venture Awards! LAVA–which tapped the resources and venture database at socalTECH to help come up with their list–gave out seven awards last night at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The group also awarded a special “LAVA Hall of Fame” award to [...]
Here’s the full list of the 2011 Technology Fast 500 Winners, the fastest growing companies in the Los Angeles area identified by Deloitte in their annual ranking: Los Angeles Technology Rising Stars Campus Explorer, Santa Monica, 1,497% EdgeCast Networks, Santa Monica, 521% Hulu, Los Angeles, 907% Technology Fast 500 Winners National Rank, Name, City, [...]
Every year, Deloitte (one of our sponsors) highlights rapidly growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 rankings. This year, their Los Angeles program is also looking to find “rising stars” within that group, who have the highest growth rates between 2008 to 2010. Interested companies can get the details below: Deloitte’s Technology Fast [...]
Deloitte has announced its Deloitte Technology Fast 500, its annual ranking of the fastest growing firms in the nation in the technology industry. The list is based on the five year growth rates for firms (based this year on 2005 to 2009). There were 17 companies from Southern California this year. We covered the awards [...]
Last week, AlwaysOn published a list of their top 25 women in Tech — their list of the top 25 women currently driving technology companies. For some reason, women tend to get short shrift in the often male-dominated technology business, and it’s good to see some recognition from AlwaysOn. (though, having come from an engineering [...]
Last night, the Los Angeles area Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards were given at the Beverly Hilton, with two technology entrepreneurs are among the winners. Jeff Tinsley, who is CEO of MyLife.com, and Deepak Chopra, of OSI Systems in Hawthorne, were among the winners of the prize, which is one of several [...]
The Technology Council of Southern California, one of the nonprofit groups here in the area helping to support the high tech industry, has just opened its application process for its annual awards event, the Technology Industry Awards. More info from them below. (We’re helping to sponsor the event): Call for Candidates Annual Technology Industry Awards Deadline [...]
It’s often difficult to get a sense of how the companies we cover are “really” doing — particularly in the financial area. One of the more useful programs out there which is useful as a financial benchmark, is Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 and Fast 50 awards. Unlike a lot of awards, Deloitte actually ranks companies [...]
Tony Perkins (who founded Red Herring Magazine and now heads AlwaysOn) gave a great keynote at the Technology Council’s annual Technology Awards in Los Angeles last night, talking about how he got the idea for his first magazine (Upside) — from the late William F. Buckley, in the back of a limousine, while working for [...]
The Los Angeles Business Journal’s Booyeon Lee writes on the newspaper’s “Who’s Who of Banking” in their latest issue, with a focus on the “movers and shakers” who are helping to shape the Los Angeles high tech industry. Good quotes from, and profiles of Randy Churchill at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greg Martin at Redpoint Ventures, Jim Armstrong [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
