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JUNE 22, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , Zenly is the developer of a social, location sharing app which lets you track where your friends are at any time. Snapchat just rolled out a new, location sharing feature for Snapchat based on Zenly's technology, but will continue to operate Zenly as an independent service. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A Los Angeles startup has launched itself into the streaming music fray today on iOS, saying it has debuted an iOS version of Radical.FM , a new music streaming service offering up a catalog of 25 million songs--and including such artists as The Beatles, AC/DC, and Bob Seger. The new app is available from iTunes. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2017

Kryptos Logic provides services around managed security, penetration, security consulting, incident response, and other areas. The company is one of a number of cybersecurity companies based in the Los Angeles area, including such companies as Crowdstrike--the company investigating Russian hacking into the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat has shut down its original content efforts, and laid off around 15 people who were working on the Snap Channel, according to Deadline. Snapchat had launched its original content efforts in January, to develop its own original content and music for the service. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Lyft , the developer of a service and mobile app which lets users find, and offer, rides across town, said it is launching today in the Los Angeles area. The service has been only available previously in San Francisco, but said it will now start serving trips in Santa Monica, Venice and West L.A.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Venice, California-based instant messaging app developer Snapchat --in light of the massive breach of compromising photos leaked from the service via an unauthorized, third party service reiterated Tuesday that third party apps are a threat to the community.

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JULY 31, 2012

Yesterday Viddy, the social video sharing site announced the launch of their public API for developers to build around the platform and come up with new ways of sharing video. In the process of doing so they are doing a service to the Silicon Beach community. Get on it devs!

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

What do you get when you take the creative minds behind JibJab.com , the Venice-based online humor content developers--known for its hilarious videos of everything from politics to everyday life--and apply that to kids entertainment? READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Venice Beach-based Bitium , a new startup out of LA''s Amplify accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M Bitium said it is developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) operating system, offering up everything from authentication and authorization of cloud-based software to features like consolidated messaging for apps.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Venice-based instant messaging app developer Snapchat is at the center of a murder investigation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, after a teen allegedly stabbed and killed his girlfriend over a message sent via the service. The issue of crime linked to new Internet and mobile services is not a new one for local companies.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Venice, California-based Snapchat is planning a big expansion in New York City, and plans to grow to around 400 people in the city, after the Empire State Development Corp offered up as much as $5M in tax break to the company. According to the New York Post, Snapchat currently has around 100 employees in New York City. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Venice, California-based ZEFR , the content monetization and protection provider, said this morning that it has named Tom Furukawa as its new Head of Product. ZEFR said that Furukawa had most recently founded his own mobile ad company, and has 15 years of experience in the product management and technology development area.

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JUNE 27, 2012

Venice-based Mogreet , the developer of mobile messaging and marketing related products and services, said today that its moShare web-to-mobile sharing services has partnered with ShareThis. The firm said the deal will enable users across 1.4 million websites to share web content to mobile devices via a text message.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the case of Tapiture , you create a Pinterest-inspired, visual, social discovery service which surfaces photos of men's fashion, food, motorcycles, funny videos, and more, and inspires those men to learn more about those products. Tapiture is led by John Ellis, and was founded by John and Leo Resig of Resignation Media.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

Venice, California-based SaneBox , the developer of email tools to help users better manage the flood of emails in their inbox, has rolled out a new product it says can help better figure out who in your company can make a warm intro to potential customers and partners. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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MARCH 19, 2010

Reza Bundy , the founder of Venice-based Mota Motors , looks to be a major beneficiary of an IPO -- not of his current firm, but of his prior company, Iron Planet. Mota Motors is developing a service to help consumers buy and sell used automobiles; the firm has previously scored funding from Prism VentureWorks. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2010

Mingle, eat and drink, just blocks from the beach in beautiful Venice beach. Our purpose is to bring together people from all parts of the music ecosystem - labels, agencies, artists, technology companies, service providers, promoters and more - and create a networking environment with real business development potential.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform. Mobile-XL develops mobile browser software and information services.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Venice, California-based Mota , a venture backed startup developing a web site to help users buy and sell used cars, announced this morning that it has hired two automotive industry executives. Fleet Services as its CEO. The firm said that Charlie Vogelheim has been named Chief Trust and Transparency Officer, and Steven J.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. In Venice, California they opened a “Parachute Hotel” that let consumers experience the product for a night in a world-class location.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Why do you need a service like this, rather than the traditional process of asking around for recommendations? If you want to buy a house at between $800,00 and $1 million in Venice, there is a guy who has represented more buyers and has more success than anybody else. How do agents react to your service? READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2014

For example, we had a keynote from Patrick Soon-Shiong, who talked about his new health incubator, and Frank Addante, at Rubicon Project, talking his ad-tech services. The third thing, is it''s not just Santa Monica and Venice. We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin. But, we also have this other stuff too.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

apps, and more, it continues to be a major force in automotive information and services. big requirements for development, release, and QA engineers. RightScale's software is used by developers to manage the deployment of their applications into the cloud, handling configuration, monitoring, management, and more. LiveNation.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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JUNE 12, 2014

However, TechZulu will be doing an official pre-event on Tuesday June 17th with our #TZTechCrawl in Venice. Startup Tables: Available in / near the panel venues to promote your product or service, do demos or giveaways to SBF attendees including startups, VCs, investors, Hollywood studio execs. Its that time of the year again!

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JUNE 25, 2015

We raised $5M in august of 2008, on the belief and conviction that this ecosystem was going to develop. That's where we're at, and we include software-as-a-service, e-commerce, ad-tech, mobile marketplaces, and gaming as our companies. Brian Garrett: Well, I guess we are proud we got to this point, but it was by no means an easy path.

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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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APRIL 12, 2017

They think I live in Hollywood, but there's Santa Monica, Venice, Echo Park, Silverlake, there's a scene downtown, I can go for a walk in the hills, I can go take a walk on the beach, there is just so much going on. Chris Hollod: One piece of advice, from a cultural perspective, is we're developing an aversion to idleness.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Developing products for kids has been in the back of their minds for over a decade, long before they had their own children. The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. It’s all about execution.

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MAY 23, 2012

So it's going to be a sales team, a business development team, and helping our relationships with YouTube and Facebook. I'm going to move to LA, and we're pretty close to the Movieclips guys, and we think we'll have some support from them and start in Venice somewhere. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Developing products for kids has been in the back of their minds for over a decade, long before they had their own children. The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. It’s all about execution.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there.

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JULY 13, 2013

I want to build a great company, and I want to get you on my board for my new ridesharing service. ” And just – you develop a pattern over time that no matter how many times I try to say no to you, I can’t. I’ve got the foundation for my ridesharing service which is going to change the world. 100 billion idea.

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