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MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events. Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig is part of a new round of funding for Internet web influence tracker Klout. Craig, in addition to being an active angel investor, is starting up his own, stealthy B2B startup in Santa Monica. Klout said today that it had raised $8.5M Klout is based in San Francisco.

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MARCH 6, 2013

SharesPost , the private company marketplace headed by Greg Brogger, which had been incubated and started in Santa Monica via Brighthouse, the startup incubator run by Brogger and Scott Painter, is in a joint venture with NASDA OMX , the two said this morning. SharesPost is now up in San Bruno. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

General Assembly , the provider of technical skills training, which has an active campus in Santa Monica, says it is will be opening up a new location in Irvine. The expansion is part of a global expansion for General Assembly, which is expanding to a total of 25 campuses, up from its current 12 locations. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2012

A New York-based provider of mobile consulting and development said Tuesday that it has opened up a new Los Angeles office, specifically to become part of the "Silicon Beach" startup scene in the area. Applico , which develops Android, iPhone, and mobile web software, said it specifically decided to open an L.A. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. She started her business from a personal need.

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JUNE 12, 2013

A new, Santa Monica startup, CampaignEQ , is hoping to help marketers better attribute increases in mobile customers and traffic to their marketing campaigns, with a new product. campaigneq startup affiliate tracking mobile advertising marketing beachmint' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2012

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. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. This is the list I would start with.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

SpyCloud , a startup which develops cybersecurity products used to prevent account takeovers and which is backed by Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , has raised $21M more in a Series B funding round, the company announced this morning. March Capital Partners co-led the Series A funding round for SpyCloud in 2018.

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MAY 1, 2013

A Santa Monica startup, Famous Birthdays , looks to have carved out quite a niche in the area, with its online list of (you guessed it), famous birthdays. ResourceWebs was notable in that Britton avoided the usual hype and over-funding of startups to instead focus on creating a profitable online business. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Santa Monica-based DealBird.com , a new startup focused on group buying, has launched this week, among the slew of startups clamoring for attention at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Santa Monica-based TradeYa said Wednesday that it has raised $1.1M The startup is led by Jared Krause. TradeYa''s platform focuses on letting users trade electronics, gift cards, sporting equipment, vacation homes, as well as services like cooking, web design, medical care, and more. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Santa Monica startup, Gravity --headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M Gravity develops real-time, personalized web pages based on what consumers are most interested in, serving up personalized content on everything from iPad apps to web pages.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Santa Monica-based data startup Factual now boasts more than 1.2 Factual maintains a giant "database in the sky" with real time, geolocated information, which is being heavily used by mobile application and web app providers. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2013

We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. What is Innovate Pasadena? Why Innovate Pasadena--why not just piggyback on the Silicon Beach brand?

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , a stealth mode startup headed by well known angel investor Paige Craig, has raised around $1.5M BetterWorks looks to be scaling up dramatically; the firm currently has eight open positions listed on its web site for everything from engineers to marketing director. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- StartEngine is pleased to present our latest class of startups at our Demo Day on Wednesday, January 30th at CrossCampus in Santa Monica. This is your chance to hear their stories and support a new batch of L.A. tech entrepreneurs.

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APRIL 3, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, contact management software which is headed by Goldmine founder Jon Ferrara, has extended the distribution of it service this morning with a new Google Chrome web application.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm founded by Frank Addante, is on track to do $100M in revenues this year and will reach profitability in Q4, according to a blog post by Addante Tuesday afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Outsourcing Web Development & Businesses”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the best practices and methodologies for building your web-based company through outsourcing. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE. Santa Monica, CA 90401.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Is Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis, just about to reveal a new pivot and new corporate name? Inside.com currently only includes a simple web signup form which adds you to an email list from Calacnisd. According to a story from TechCrunch this morning, yes. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the Amplify startup which is developing app management, single sign-on, and other cloud-based app tools, said Tuesday that it has linked up with two companies in partnerships. Financial details of the deals were not annoucned.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks said today that it has expanded its services into San Francisco and the Bay Area, and is planning on opening up in New York and Boston soon. The firm--headed by Paige Craig--helps provide employee benefits and perks using web-based software and technology. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Today, we have Brian Mac Mahon of startup accelerator ExpertDojo (www.expertdojo.com). I believe that most of our success came from startups resonating with our message to build big, fast. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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JUNE 10, 2010

Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online professional document sharing and marketplace startup headed by Jason Nazar, is one of the web services features on HP's new line of web-enabled printers.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan. 24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2013. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

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Jason Nazar

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “Online Subscription Businesses”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation with some of the most successful founders and operators of web based subscription business talking about the keys to success to building & growing online businesses that are driven by subscription sales.

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APRIL 30, 2012

Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital?

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APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. They’ve already signed up headliners like The Improv. Watch this space. with the clips.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Movieclips.com , an online site which allows users to search for scenes from major movies, and embed them on Facebook, MySpace, and other web sites, said today that it has opened up its service to users worldwide.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners is announcing later today that it has added Ed Fu as an Associate at the firm. According to Rustic Canyon, Fu will support the firm's investments in Internet and Clean Technology. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Online dating site eHarmony is reporting that it's seeing an increasing number of users using its mobile apps to access its dating service, and also said that conversions of those users is up nearly 40 percent year to year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The company--one of the companies in the LaunchpadLA effort--is the second startup for Schneider and Kervin, who founded StarBrand Media, a celebrity shopping startup acquired by Sugar Inc. READ MORE>>.

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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 caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. What was behind that decision?

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MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the new car pricing data startup headed by Scott Painter, said Monday that it has inked a deal with automotive publisher High Gear Media , where High Gear will include TrueCar's data on its network of web sites. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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