Demand Media Extends Pluck To Mobile
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APRIL 6, 2011
Santa Monica-based Demand Media has extended its Pluck social media platform to mobile devices, the company said today.
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Mobcrush Gets $20M More For Videogame Streaming
socalTECH
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Santa Monica-based Mobcrush , which operates a live streaming platform and community focused on mobile games, has raised $20M more, in a Series B funding round. Mobcrush said the funding goes towards growing its community and platform, and in particular, to hiring more engineers. READ MORE>>.
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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media
socalTECH
AUGUST 6, 2012
Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays?
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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone
socalTECH
AUGUST 22, 2014
For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. I''ve now been in Santa Monica as an entrepreneur for thirteen years, at this point.
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Jetpack Gives a Boost to Mobile and Rich Media Advertising
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 25, 2015
Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.
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Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 28, 2015
Light Emotion Data) to the Santa Monica Twilight Concert Series. Utilizing technological innovations spun out of the renowned MIT Media Labs and visual artistry by GMUNK , TrueCar is melding the company’s data analysis and visualization abilities with new, entertainment technology. The TrueCar L.E.D. now to September 10.
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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2016
In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. One example is Santa Monica-based hardware company, Ring, who transitioned to a hybrid business model that now includes recurring revenue. In the interest of full disclosure, Headspace is a client of SVB Santa Monica.
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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 18, 2019
They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow.
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Siemer Summit: Connecting Global Digital Media & Technology Leaders
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 31, 2014
This month, Siemer and Associates hosted its 4th Annual invitation-only Silicon Beach Summit at Casa Del Mar and Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. Hitesh Chawla, CEO.
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84 Fan Appz Launches Personal Marketing Platform To Help Brands Convert Fans Into Loyal Customers
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.
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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures
socalTECH
DECEMBER 27, 2018
This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. I'm fascinated by the creator economy on Twitch, Youtube, and new streaming platforms.
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133 How Ordermark Is Taming The Chaos Of Online Restaurant Orders, With Alex Canter
socalTECH
MARCH 22, 2018
Santa Monica-based Ordermark (www.getordermark.com) is looking to tame that chaos with a system which takes all of those online orders, and feeds them into a single printer at a restaurant. We kept sharing content, and posting pictures on LinkedIn, which we believe is a very strong and powerful social media too.
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It’s A Launch! It’s A Tech Crawl! It’s Silicon Beach! | PromoJam 2.0 Launch at ROC
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 10, 2013
Beta Invite, take the TechZulu Tech Crawl Tour of ROC Santa Monica to meet the hottest start-ups on the westside, and more. Beta Invite, take the TechZulu Tech Crawl Tour of ROC Santa Monica to meet the hottest start-ups on the westside, and more. On a mobile phone? CLICK HERE FOR MOBILE RSVP. PromoJam 2.0
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82 Interview with Mickie Rosen, Tecca
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. Second, we're going to launch it cross-platform.
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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside
socalTECH
MAY 2, 2014
To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.
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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch
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APRIL 17, 2010
They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks. We’re excited to work with them.
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Attention Startups! Startup Demo Hits Social Media Week
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 19, 2010
TechZulu and Schmoozd have joined forces to bring you Startup Demo during Social Media Week. We are excited to be part of Social Media Week and helping awesome startups receive their much deserved exposure. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5 th Street, Santa Monica, CA. About Social Media Week. to 11:00 p.m. Price: FREE.
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A Cocktail of LA Tech | Tech Cocktail Winter Mixer
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 10, 2011
South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. Dather – A social media marketing tool that packages videos, photos, tweets, and posts into one place. “Would you like a free drink ticket?”
First Ever Biz2Beach Presented by CallFire Hits The Ground Running!
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 25, 2011
Video chat by Stickam.com Last Friday, about 80 business leaders assembled at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, for CallFire’s first ever “un-conference&# called Biz2Beach. At their respective discussions, they spoke about online marketing, mobile marketing, company culture, and social media ROI, among other topics.
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71 Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. What does this look like to brands and publishers?
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Solaborate: Professional Connections | Founder Interview Labinot Bytyqi
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 22, 2013
Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.
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Accelerators & Incubators: An Entrepreneur’s Point of View
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).
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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 30, 2011
24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Former CEO of Myspace.
TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2013
28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures.
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111 REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 24, 2013
Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV.
This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1.
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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. The old media companies were resistant to change. Photos…the final frontier.
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Accelerators & Incubators: An Entrepreneur’s Point of View
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).
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40 TechZulu Live from StartupDemo
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD.,
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71 Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 17, 2011
a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.
Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 28, 2011
Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.
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77 Congrats To The Presenting StartupDemo Companies!
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. SimplyEvents is a social media website that enables a community of members to shout out location based events and stay connected by tracking fellow friends, family, public figures, organizers, bands, artists etc. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA.
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106 This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. -DST invested $180mm last fall.
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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform.
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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 15, 2015
Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25 If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. I am drawn to it.
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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
I live in the city of Santa Monica. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. I don’t see this changing much like I don’t see you building blockbuster movies outside LA or shift the media buying center of gravity out of NY. Let me use LA as an example.
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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.
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290 Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. mt) Media Temple, Inc.
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Ophir Tanz | GumGum, Images, Ads and More
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 23, 2013
Buying GumGum is similar to the way traditional media is bought but with a different execution. Ophir considers GumGum as part technology and part media company. They’ve expanded their sales and operations from Santa Monica to include New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Atlanta. Let’s talk mobile.
Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful Internet company in college and since then, has founded, built and sold numerous online and mobile businesses. He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media.
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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.
Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 28, 2011
Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.
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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 8, 2011
IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. mt) Media Temple, Inc. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!
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100 Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 20, 2012
VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Still Time to Submit Your Company!
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