Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal filed for an IPO this morning, saying that it is looking to raise up to $100M. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, citi, Piper Jaffray, Needham & Company, and Broadpoint.Gleacher. Accoriding to ReachLocal, it had net income of $11.6M The firm's IPO is being underwritten by J.P. on revenues of $143M for the nine month ended September 30th.

500 listing was that Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a venture backed provider of local online marketing services, hit $147M in revenues in 2008, up significantly from $4.4M The listing also revealed that the firm was up to 707 employees as of 2008; a spokesperson for the firm says that the company now actually is well over 800 employees today. magazine ranked the firm as the 39th fastest-growing One of the revelations in yesterday's Inc. in revenues of 2005.

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a provider of local search advertising services, has topped Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500 list, an annual listing of companies ranked by their five year growth rates. According to the list, ReachLocal topped the list with a five-year, fiscal growth rate of 146,050 percent. Other local companies ranking highly on the The firm said it had 2008 revenues of $146.69M. revenues); Carlsbad-based Genoptix , at number 15 (15,814 percent growth and $116.1M

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small businesses buy search engine advertising, has inked a strategic alliance with Google in the United Kingdom, the firm announced today. ReachLocal said that it has become an "Authorised Reseller" of Google's AdWords in the UK, through its UK site, ReachLocal UK . ReachLocal opened up its UK office in London in November, as it looks The company already provides similar services in the United States, and also recently opened an office in Canada. ReachLocal is venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho

500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. San Diego-based MedVantx ranked at number 13 on the list; Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal was 39; San Diego-based BridgePoint Education was 50; Santa Monica-based International Checkout ranked at 61; Torrance-based Flipswap at 81; and Irvine-based ClinAssure was at 85. Beyond the first 100 companies, medical imaging firm Dicom Solutions in Irvine was at 109; Agoura Hills-based SEO provider National Positions at 112; Blackline Systems in A number of Southern California technology firms have nabbed top spots in the annual Inc.

Magazine’s “Inc 500″ list is it helps to identify all of those big, private companies — who, in another world, might have been public. Is there a tendency for So Cal companies to stay private longer (or, forever) instead of going IPO like their Northern California brethren? Company One of the interesting things about Inc. It’s interesting to note the large number of Southern California firms with very big revenue numbers who are private — in fact, if you sort the Inc.

Facebook was tops, but local companies highlighted in the list: ReachLocal ($450M) – Woodland Hills 55. Interestingly enough, two companies on the list (NewEgg and Demand Media) were ranked well above media darling Twitter (at #15, just above Oversee.net). The Silicon Alley Insider has weighed in on its list of “ 50+ most valuable startups “, and suprisingly, they didn’t neglect Southern California. 4.

There’s a lot of folks gambling on the IPO market this week, with a bunch of IPO news — both from local VCs as well as one local company. This morning, ReachLocal filed for an IPO ,  in what has been a long-anticipated move for the firm. ReachLocal started releasing financial information as a private company earlier this year, saying in August it hit $147M in revenues; and has been rumored  among local tech execs Among the investors who will benefit for an IPO there are VantagePoint Venture Partners, Galleon Group (yes, that Galleon), and Rho Ventures.

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures . Funk

Perusing the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for this year — the ranking of the fastest growing companies in North America , based on the last five years of revenue–it’s quite surprising to note the sheer number of Southern California firms listed. Deloitte, which ranks these every year (disclaimer: Deloitte recently became a sponsor of socalTECH, though that has no influence in our coverage), uses the five year revenue numbers of companies to create their listing. This morning, we’ve been bombarded by companies bragging about their improvements (i.e. “We’re