Silicon Beach Launch List: Jan. 29

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A weekly roundup of L.A. tech company and product launches.

Rubicon Project: Playa Vista’s Rubicon Project Inc. signed a television advertising deal with RevShare of Temecula. Rubicon will integrate Revshare’s AdMore technology with its own to sell television ads to brands and agencies.

City of Los Angeles: The city has launched a GeoHub site, which allows residents to visualize city data on maps of Los Angeles. The maps are powered by technology developed by Esri of Redlands, which depicts various location-based data collected by the city including, police, school and city planning data.

Hulu: Santa Monica video streaming site Hulu has signed a distribution deal with IFC for all future documentary releases from IFC, Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight. The multi-year first-window partnership will start this fall.

Aecom: Century City’s Aecom has landed a contract to build a hyperloop test track for Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The test track will be built around the Hawthorne rocket company’s headquarters, but will be used as an academic proof-of-concept platform and is not part of a commercial venture, according to SpaceX.

OpenX: Advertising exchange OpenX of Pasadena has launched real-time guaranteed ad buys. The feature allows brands and agencies to have priority access to premium online advertising inventory.

PeeqSee: Photo-sharing app PeeqSee of Pasadena has launched. The app allows users to add interactive elements to photos, prompting users to click on “stickers,” which give peeks of additional content.

Caremob: Caremob of Marina Del Rey launched its news and response-organizing app. The app shares major news items and then connects users around possible responses, such as protests, celebrations or memorial gatherings.

Technology reporter Garrett Reim can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @garrettreim for the latest in L.A. tech news.

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