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JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. Phoebe Scott: I started Laudville, because I consume a lot of entertainment of all kinds. What is Laudville?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Entertainment has changed. A new startup is seizing on an opportunity to help up-and-coming online entertainers take a leaf out of that book and grow their relationships with fans. The startup has raised around $145,000 to date, and it is targeting a total pre-seed round of $500,000.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

With unrivaled weather, a host of high-profile universities and unlimited array of daytime and nightlife entertainment, Los Angeles seems like a dreamland for young tech professionals and the companies hoping to employ their talents. And for good reason. At SBF, a number of good ideas were floated to do just that.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Los Angeles- and Vancouver-based Ground Control , a new startup led by LA technology veteran Mike Macadaan, said on Wednesday that it has launched with the backing of the Creative Artists Agency. According to the company, it is aimed at creating technology and experiences which help consumers find "new experiences".

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

It’s no secret that Los Angeles is home to a bevy of celebrities. startups wanting to get recognized, Tech.Co’s Startup Showcase in Los Angeles on July 26th is the perfect opportunity. Several startups have been selected to demo their products for other founders and entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HelloOffice , a San Francisco-based real estate startup, is opening up an office in Los Angeles, after raising $6.5M The company said it raised funds from Initialized Capital, Founders Fund, Founder Collective, Peak State Ventures, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, SaaStr, and The House Fund. in a funding round.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Walt Disney Company said Wednesday that it is launching a new, Los Angeles based startup accelerator, focused on. startups looking to develop consumer entertainment experiences, called the Disney Accelerator. Disney is tapping the startup accelerator expertise of TechStars to operate the program.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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MAY 21, 2014

Los Angeles-based Epoxy (www.epoxy.tv) launched yesterday to help content creators do just that. Right now, what that means is a set of apps for distributing video out to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and some tools to help engage and build audiences on the back end. That was my first, deep dive into entertainment.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Digital avatar startup Genies , known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.”

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. We’re thrilled to help lead the way for the broader tech community in Los Angeles.”

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 17, 2015

A fun, entertaining and informative look at what’s happening in LA and the role young adults can play in shaping the future of technology and digital media. We’ll cover Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Start Up Life, and Digital Media. Digital and Beyond in LA.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. What keeps you up at night? Or they need to be going into a scaling up mode.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. What's your background? Jacobo Lumbreras: The journey is pretty simple.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2012

Van Nuys-based Audiolife , the startup which provided product fulfillment for the music industry and artists, has been acquired by Florida firm Alliance Entertainment. Alliance Entertainment said that the acquisition will be an ideal complement to its business, and help it expand the services and products it offers to customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 5, 2019

including Seattle, where the company is based, as well as Los Angeles, Austin and San Francisco, since last summer. Lee Yang, a producer, is concurrently building another startup called Epitome.io. . ‘ Socially Inept ,’ a new traveling comedy cohort, is making a business out of it.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. So with Lee’s help, he set out to build one. “It had been ten years since I had left audit.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Over their longtime personal and professional relationship, the two Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneurs have invested in each other’s companies and investment firms, but never worked together until now. We’re seeing a lot more companies that are starting up now as a result of a [the pandemic],” said Norton.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

When Upfront Ventures partner Kara Nortman first met Natalie Portman a few years ago to talk about ways their non-profit organizations All Raise and Time’s Up could collaborate, she never realized they’d eventually be partners on a sports franchise. For Nortman, the story of Angel City begins with a lifetime love of sports.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When Los Angeles, CA was listed as the fastest-growing tech startup region in 2014, many guesses were raised about the root cause of its success. No, to see the strength of Los Angeles’ startup scene, you must look at the whole story. s Startup Future. Could it be the large number of new companies?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Los Angeles-based Laudville , a startup developing an online platform to help users share entertainment like movies, books, TV, and music with friends, has added Gene Chuang to its board of advisors, according to the firm. The company also said its advisors include angel investor David Levine of Artivest.co.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Baboo is looking to help brands and marketers in the entertainment space reach consumers, and recently launched an alpha of its services. Co-founder Sutton-Shearer previously co-founded Movie Song Vault and The Gift App, and is a former entertainment industry executive.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator backed by Disney and being run by TechStars in Los Angeles, announced its inagural class today, naming eleven companies--including three Los Angeles companies--to participate in the three month program. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

A new, Los Angeles startup, Latin21 , said this morning that it has launched a new, online community dedicated to "celebrating and sharing the Latinx experience". The new startup is led by founder and Ceo DInah Perez. The new startup is led by founder and Ceo DInah Perez. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. ” . .

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based startup StageIt , which operates an online web platform which lets musicians interact with their fans through live broadcasts from their laptop, has raised a round of funding. The funding was announced by DEV as part of its launch.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Other Disney startups such as Atom Ticket , a new movie ticketing app, partnered with the next Star Wars movie and will continue to work with Walt Disney Studios on major film releases. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

For today's youth, it's often hard to figure out what they want to do in life--according to Deborah Ramo , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Amavitae (www.amavitae.com). How did this start? Deborah Ramo: The group of us who started the company are all very interested in solving problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

While current technologies are not quite advanced enough to make Westworld a reality, startups are attempting to replicate the sort of human-robot interaction it presents in virtual space. I think in this age and time, that’s not what we want to get into,” Xinjie Ma, who heads up marketing for rct, told TechCrunch.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In what looks like the first, large scale deployment of voice-driven, personal assistants across a healthcare setting, Los Angeles-based healthcare provider Cedars-Sinai said on Monday that it has deployed Amazon's Alexa voice assistant across more than 100 patient rooms at the hospital. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. They have broken events down by two hubs: Social Tech , and Entertainment. Monday: Los Angeles – The Social City. HOW CAN I ATTEND? Tues 9/25.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Forging a Connected South LA A fun, entertaining and informative look at what’s happening in LA and the role young adults can play in shaping the future of technology and digital media. We’ll cover Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Start Up Life, and Digital Media. See https://digitalandbeyondbacktoschoolte.splashthat.com/?preview.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Forging a Connected South LA A fun, entertaining and informative look at what’s happening in LA and the role young adults can play in shaping the future of technology and digital media. We’ll cover Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Start Up Life, and Digital Media. See https://digitalandbeyondbacktoschoolte.splashthat.com/?preview.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Los Angeles-based startup Canoo has finally unveiled its first model, the eponymously named canoo. Canoo has beta cars on site at its Los Angeles headquarters where prospective partners and customers can test out the vehicles, which were made by an undisclosed contract manufacturer based in Michigan.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 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. This year I got back to the basics of helping founders build strong, high functioning teams.

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