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OCTOBER 30, 2015

Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA Capital III , according to a regulatory filing from the firm. is an investor in a host of LA startups, including HelloTech, StackSocial, Vadio, Gem, and many others. The startup accelerator, as expected, has not announced any details of its fundraising efforts.

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JULY 11, 2017

Stopping by your local, Los Angeles 7-11 convenience store for a free Slurpee today? While you are there, you might notice that you can now buy Soylent , the meal replacement product created by Los Angeles-based Rosa Foods. Rosa Foods says Soylent is aimed at the "on-the-go millennial". READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the parent firm behind Snapchat , has joined up with R/GA Marketing --which helps run the Dodgers Accelerator in Los Angeles--to launched a new startup accelerator, the R/GA Marketing Tech Venture Studio with IPG. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Venice, California-based The Bouqs Company , the direct, cut-to-order flower delivery provider led by John Tabis, is announcing today that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding. The Bouqs said the funding came from Quest Venture Partners, Azure Capital Partners and KEC Ventures, along with Enspire Capital and Draper Associates.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Venice, California-based Vetted , a new startup offering up on-demand, veterinary services at your home, has raised $3.47M in seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from Foundation Capital, Amplify LA, Sterling.VC, and ReImagined Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Venice, California-based venture capital investment fund Fifth Wall Ventures , has just received a sizeable commit into its second fund, Fifth Wall Ventures II , according to a regulatory filing by the company. raised out of a $500M targeted fund size, up from an earlier $100M in raised for the fund in June of 2018.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Let’s start with the fund. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Venice, California-based Bitcoin startup Gem has raised $2M, to make Bitcoin easier to use for developers, the company said this week. Crypto Currency Partners, QED Associates, and Angel investor James Joaquin. Crypto Currency Partners, QED Associates, and Angel investor James Joaquin. Gem is led by Micah Winkelspecht.

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MAY 20, 2014

Venice, California-basd Epoxy --which was built by former executive from Team Downey--has launched a brand new set of tools aimed at helping online video creators use social media, and also disclosed a funding round. The startup is led by Juan Bruce, and was co-founded by fellow Team Downey executive Jason Ahmad. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Venice, California-based early stage, pre-seed investment fund and accelerator Amplify.LA has released its latest report on the state of the Los Angeles technology scene, saying that the city had a "landmark year". In the report, Amplify.LA For its own part, Amplify.LA billion, with so far 9 of its companies acquired.

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MARCH 9, 2018

The funding was co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Index Ventures, and also included Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, plus Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures. Bird, which is led by founder and CEO Travis VanderZanden, offers up electric scooters as part of its service. City Operations.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based Club W , the subscription wine club service out of the Amplify accelerator in Venice, disclosed today that it has raised $3.1M The round came from Crosscut Ventures, Guild Capital, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Amplify, and Brener International Group, as well as individuals Adam Goldenberg and Csaba Konkoly.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venice, California-based Crexi , a new startup which operates an online, commercial real estate marketplace, has raised $4.3M The funding came from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Freestyle Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, Founder Collective, Karlin Ventures, Leon Capital Group and angels.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Startups across the nation and around the world are looking for ways to relieve shortages of much-needed personal protective equipment and sanitizers used to halt the spread of COVID-19. ” Against this backdrop local startups and maker spaces are stepping up to do what they can to fill the gap.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J. Silicon Valley? That’s so yesterday.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

The coworking trend--which started in part in Southern California and its high tech startup ecosystem--looks to be spreading East, with news this week that NextSpace has raised $500,000 and acquired a Chicago company, to establish its first coworking site outside of California. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA AmplifyLA pointed out that the seed deals were in contrast to the bigger picture, where venture capital investments were up 15 percent nationally--but pointed out that those gains were driven by "mega-deals", rather than seed funding. percent from Q4 of 2016, and 43.8

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A new lawsuit, targeting Venice, California-based Snapchat --the hottest company to emerge out of the area''s high tech startup cluster in recent years--says that the company''s founders stole the idea for the company from him after forcing him out of the company early on in its history. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Paul Bricault is Managing Partner at Amplify LA (Www.amplify.la), a hands-on startup accelerator and co-working and community space in Venice. He's also a Venture Partner at venture capital firm Greycroft Partners, and is EVP and a member of the Board of Directors at William Morris Agency, and was Founder of the Mailroom Fund.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Andy is a leader in the Southern Californian innovation ecosystem and has started, led or invested in more than two dozen tech start-ups.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Los Angeles- and Sydney, Australia-based Clapit , a startup developing a social media crowdsourcing app, said it has raised AU$2.57M ($1.94M US), to bring its mobile app to market. The seed funding came from Australia angels Mark Moran and Paul Siderovski. The startup was founded by Paul J. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

One way might be to try out GrubTonight , a newly launhced iPhone application from Venice-based Grubwithus, which allows users to find organized dinners in a local area, reserve a seat, and meet others at meals. in seed funding from the likes of Y Combinator, Ashton Kutcher, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, and others.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Andrew Erskine has developed his legal career along with the rise of the tech startup scene in Los Angeles. On LA’s startup scene: “Andrew provides the same level of effort, expertise and professionalism when I was a pre-seed company with no capital as he did when we had raised $100 million.” Because if there are…’ ”.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Club W , the personalized wine subscription service at AmplifyLA, has doubled down with accelerators, and is part of a new class of startups announced by 500Startups earlier this week. 500Startups invests between $25,000 and $250,000 in startups selected by the group, which usually work with the accelerator to help hone their business.

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JULY 24, 2012

Venice-based startup accelerator Amplify LA has added a new startup to its portfolio, personalized wine recommendation site Club W. The two companies said that they are in a strategic partnership, which will provide Club W with the resources to keep up with stronger-than-anticipated consumer demand for its services.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Startups are team sports because you’re all working on the same shared objective of the company. The truth is that the newer the firm the easier that shared mission is.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

And while this has been the standard for years, one startup is hoping to personalize the birthday wishes even more. Initially Hagger wasn’t sure this concept would take off, but then Doppels started experiencing early success and ended up catching the eye of the 17-25 year-old demographic. During some early pop up events in L.A.,

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Are you one of the companies in Los Angeles that just doesn't have enough parking for your employees? One of the on-demand, parking services that serves Los Angeles Zirx , said this morning that it is specifically looking to solve those issues for companies, with the launch of a new service. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2014

But the tech culture of Los Angeles is shifting real estate’s center of gravity. The Los Angeles Business Journal recently reported data compiled by SoCalTech.com showing that “L.A. But it was the low-key, creative beach vibe of Venice and Santa Monica that spurred a spate of start-ups to seek offices and homes.

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MAY 21, 2012

Venice, California-based StyleSaint , the new fashion-meets-Pinterest startup headed by Crosscut Ventures' Brian Garrett, has been fairly mum about its recent funding.

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JULY 21, 2017

We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market. Snap - Venice - (www.snap.com). Wingsland - Los Angeles - (www.wingsland.com).

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APRIL 27, 2011

Venice, California-based Viddy , a new startup developing mobile video tools, said today that it has raised $1.6M the funding round came from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Qualcomm, and angel investors including Jarl Mohn and early team members from YouTube.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The Venice-based startup said today that it has raised $1.1M in a seed funding round, from Quest Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and angel investors, including Mich Mathews (former CMO of Microsoft), Dennis Phelps (Institutional Venture Partners), Andy Dunn (Bonobos), and and Brian Spaly (Trunk Club). And, it now has $1.1M

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