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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The firm, which did not disclose financial details of the investment, said the digital media fund established by Best Buy and Fuse Capital are backing its launch of a product information, pricing, and shopping mobile application. Fuse said that Tecca was incubated from within the firm. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Lawrence Ng: Our biggest news was growing our global incubator, OnRamp. Setting up the device is very easy and you can start your cooking from their app on your mobile.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. The program graduated six companies out of its internal incubator program Monday, showing them off at a Demo Day. at the intersection of technology and media.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

How about a mobile app which taps the power of its users to find cool and unique spots in their city? Idealab says it is incubating Crash. What's the best way to find local tourist locations? Newly funded and launched startup Crash --backed by Idealab--said today that it has launched its iOS-based attraction discovery app and website.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? toward one or two major dominate players.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The funding was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included Spider Capital, Mucker Capital, and Dream Incubator. Santa Monica-based Workast , a developer of applications that run on the popular Slack chat platform, has raised $1.85M in a seed funding, the company disclosed this week. Workast is led by CEO Guillermo Gette. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses. I think we will see the rise of a newer and larger mobile-focused media companies and the continued evolution in traditional television entertainment.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Sense360 said its software allows apps to tap into such sensors as ambient light readers, accelerometers, and GPS, in a much easier way. Portnoy is the founder of Thinknear, which was acquired by Telenav in what was one of the biggest exits out of the TechStars startup incubator--and went from accelerator class to exit in 14 months.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Sense360 said its software allows apps to tap into such sensors as ambient light readers, accelerometers, and GPS, in a much easier way. Portnoy is the founder of Thinknear, which was acquired by Telenav in what was one of the biggest exits out of the TechStars startup incubator--and went from accelerator class to exit in 14 months.

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JULY 11, 2016

The Walt Disney Company said that this year's class includes Ader , an e-sports and gaming influencer marketplace; Atom Tickets , a mobile movie ticketing app; Hanson Robotics , a developer of human-like rbots; Jaunt , a developer of cinematic virtual reality software; littleBits , a developer of electronic, robotic toys; Nom , an online streaming (..)

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Most of the new companies now have some kind of collaboration deal with Disney on some aspect of their technology, although none have yet reached the level of partnership that Disney managed with one of its first companies in the program, Sphero, and the company's robotic toy version of the Star Wars BB-8 robot.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The new app is the first application launching out of TouchFrame , a new startup out of the MuckerLab incubator in Los Angeles. The software also includes a way to challenge Facebook friends in contests. A new, interactive application, Braindex --designed for the iPad and iPad mini--lets consumers do just that directly on their tablet.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Once I had that, it was clear to me that putting some software linking that with the Internet would be very powerful.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Then, Bruce and I met about four years ago, at a company called Evryx Technology/SnapNow, which was a mobile marketing/mobile search firm using visual recognition. I've also been involved in ValueLogic software. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Demo Day for the accelerator class is June 23rd.

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MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. How did you start the company?

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

We have refind our thesis around why mobile is so special, and how it ties into location, and have spent two years working on precise, location targeted ads in the industry. Using the incubator to figure out what we were doing made sense, and it gave us a platform to launch and have some unfair advantage in building out our business.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

The accelerator begins today, and runs through a Demo Day in November at Dodger Stadium.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Are there specific kinds of companies you're hoping to see in the incubator? Amir Banifatemi: Initially, we will try to focus on mobile infrastructure and services, but we're also looking at companies that have a component which is social and local. What kinds of things are you doing to work on that issue?

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The deal with imperson applies cutting edge, artificial intelligence software to help power a new, about-to-be-launched service which will literally bring the Muppets' Miss Piggy to life, letting users converse via social messaging with Miss Piggy, in a one-on-one, intelligent, back and forth conversation.

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JUNE 28, 2012

A few days ago, Wallaby ([link] the latest startup out of Los Angeles technology incubator MuckerLab unveiled itself, to solve just that problem. Mobile payments are very cool, but they have lots of requirements. We spoke with founder Matthew Goldman about the startup. What is Wallaby?

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JULY 22, 2019

I have worked as an entrepreneur in mobile gaming and an executive in the entertainment industry, and worked at Yahoo and also as a management consulting. What I love about Los Angeles, is the breadth of industries here, and you can really see how technology and software are eating the world, here in our backyard.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Our original name when we launched the firm was Digital Coast Partners, and we focused on being a consulting firm, investment bank, and incubator. During that time, I co-headed both our Software Group and Media Group. In the early years at Montgomery, I was essentially the in-house M&A expert.

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MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile.

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