StartEngine: Santa Monica’s StartEngine has launched its first Title III crowdfunding campaigns that allows companies to raise under $1 million from unaccredited investors. Early crowdfunding efforts on the platform included financing rounds for video games, software, as well as condom manufacturing.

Rubicon: Playa Vista advertising marketplace Rubicon launched a new platform for mobile video advertisements. According to the company its platform reaches more than a billion mobile devices globally.

OpenX: Pasadena’s advertising marketplace OpenX launched its School of Programmatic. The program is a series of free learning sessions to teach advertising professionals how to better use the company’s programmatic platform tools.

Esri: Digital-map maker Esri of Redlands is supplying its software to the Pacific Disaster Center as part of a Zika mapping effort. The organization is using the software to track Zika across the globe, collecting reported and suspected cases of the disease.