socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2020

Los Angeles-based AcceleratXR said this week that it has launched a new, open source project called Composer.js , a new framework and toolset for building back-end API services using NodeJS.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Los Angeles-based advertising exchange operator Rubicon Project said this morning that it has acquired RTK.io , a developer of open source, header bidding solutions for publishers. Rubicon says that RTK's solutions are build on the same, open source framework as its own, Demand Manager product portfolio, Prebid. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 11, 2021

As the vaccination campaign to counter COVID-19 gets underway (albeit with a rocky start), a number of companies are attempting to support its rollout in a variety of ways. “Just us doing this in the greater Los Angeles area for less than two months, 12,000+ people have been notified that they’ve been exposed,” Bastani said.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2017

AT&T --which has been ramping its operations and presence in the tech world in Los Angeles--said today that it is unveiling a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Acumos. The new, open-source platform is aimed at enabling programmers and researchers to more easily develop machine learning and AI software.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2013

Divshot , one of the startups out of Los Angeles startup accelerator Launchpad LA , said today that it has raised $1.1M The firm, headed by Michael Bleigh, currently offers up it web-based application builder under a free, open beta; the company said it plans to launch as a paid service later this year.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. What else are we hearing?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. Amos Schwartzfarb: I have been in and a part of early stage startup companies since the mid 90's, in San Francisco. Donnelly in 2007.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

They were making some significant choices that were going to have lasting impact on their company. In Los Angeles, I have easy access to a bunch of potential strategic technical advisors through the LA CTO Forum. I was very worried for several startup in the room. Why do this without the right technical advisor?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When should you start a company? What company should you start? When should you join a company? Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should a VC invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? What are the Types of Collaborative Consumption Companies?

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. Paige Craig: It was a couple of things.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

the rising tech movement sweeping through the burgeoning Los Angeles startup scene ­— he wants to put L.A. A vision of the future of the Los Angeles tech community he hopes will rival ­­— if not surpass Silicon Valley in 10 years as a the leader of groundbreaking innovation. The framework in L.A. Creating L.A.’s

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If so, Los Angeles-based Overnight (www.joinovernight.com) is for you. We caught up with Asher Hunt , CEO of the company, to learn more about how the startup wants to make finding a room while traveling more like Uber and less like traditional hotel booking. It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. The size of his initial build was roughly 3 person months and it wasn't particular complex.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based Science37 (www.science37.com) The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. The size of his initial build was roughly 3 person months and it wasn't particular complex.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Smith , the founder of Croquet (www.croquet.io), a new Los Angeles startup which actually has its roots at the very beginning of the modern computing era. I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work. Tell us a little bit about this new startup? I was at MP3.com,

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work. Tell us a little bit about this new startup? I was at MP3.com,

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We caught up with founder and CEO Bryan Biniak to hear more about the company and what Connected Travel is doing. Tell me about Connected Travel? That's the hard part.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Enplug is a fast-growing, ubiquitous Silicon Beach company. You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. “We’ve built an app framework.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Synhergy Marketing originally was a company setup to be a full service marketing company for the entertainment industry – the record label, the webzine, everything you would need as an artist. The company based out of the Los Angeles area is very heavily focus towards showing support towards women.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

The concept seems simple, but the regulatory framework facing the industry is daunting, making it difficult for companies such as SideCar and Lyft to maneuver. Paul, SideCar’s CEO, leads the charge against the likelihood of such misconceptions being applied to his company. It may sound like semantics, but it’s not.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Enplug is a fast-growing, ubiquitous Silicon Beach company. You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. “We’ve built an app framework.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Both companies were in Los Angeles. I don’t know the company or the details first hand. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. Not bad, hey? And so they never got consumer adoption.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? It specifically answers the first questions about role and how it changes as the company matures. How will I know when the need has arisen? Accounting?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. Smart companies will figure this out early.

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