SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2016

LA Tech Summit is aimed at bringing together LA technology companies, investors, incubators and startups. Attended by 900+ members of the LA tech community since 2013, the summit is SoCal’s premier tech event. Tuesday, October 25, 2016 -- LA Tech Summit.

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SoCal Southern California Incubator Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2015

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which was launched back in 2013 as a startup incubator, has pivoted its model, and has become an online equity crowdfunding platform called StartEngine Crowdfunding. READ MORE>>.

Platform 100

Platform Santa Monica Incubator Equity 100

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. At SGN we've seen steady revenue growth and we are a profitable company. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

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JANUARY 8, 2013

DreamPlay Toys , the joint venture between NantWorks , the technology incubator and development organization run by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, and JAKKS Pacific , announced their first products at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday in Las Vegas. with international rollout in 2014.

Incubator 159

Incubator Organization Product Technology 159

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JANUARY 29, 2013

The company, which now has operations in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, said that the market is among a number of markets it plans to expand into during 2013, as it rolls out its service nationwide. to its list of cities. the startup studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. READ MORE>>.

Malibu 229

Malibu Incubator Conference Los Angeles 229

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2013

Saturday, January 26, 2013 -- Intro to the Los Angeles Startup Community. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. Sam Teller, Managing Director, Launchpad LA. After class you are welcome to network with a number of prominent folks in the ecosystem. See [link] (more)

Riot Games 124

Riot Games Startup Class Incubator 124

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement. The Imagine Impact vetting process involves both experienced readers and a natural language processing system that the talent incubator developed internally. ” Writers need to submit an idea and a writing sample from today through July 6. .

Netflix 137

Netflix Entertainment Hollywood Writing 137

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Peregrine Semiconductor, a semiconductor company I co-founded in 1990, became a publically traded company on NASDAQ on August 8th. Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired. Lots of little ones. Little ones matter.

Southern California 173

Southern California Technical Review High Tech San Diego 173

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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. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year? toward one or two major dominate players.

Southern California 259

Southern California High Tech Activity Platform 259

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Sophia Amoruso , NastyGal (LA, Downtown, fashion).

Southern California 279

Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

I was just down at Demo Day for the USC Incubator. They had some pretty high quality companies presenting. To join us, register at https://siliconbeachusc-2013.eventbrite.com/ Go to https://siliconbeachusc-2013.eventbrite.com/ I also have a discount code below for the event. eventbrite.com/ 2.

USC 159

USC Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Conference 159

Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

Katelyn O’Shaughnessy already had a solid track record, selling TripScope , a travel startup she co-founded in 2013, to Travefy two years ago. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

Help 111

Help Startup Networking Ideas 111

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012.

Startup 159

Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Data Elite launches at a time when most needed as most big data companies lack the much required funding and incubation. Limited big data funding & incubation. “There are many funds, incubators, and accelerators out there that entrepreneurs can turn to today for general business advice. No room for failure.

Netflix 82

Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. It’s not a “unicorn”—a business with a valuation of more than $1 billion—and it’s not even close.

Sales 100

Sales Software Services Startup 100

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based online event promotion service Planana , the startup founded by Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao, said Thursday that the company has been accepted to the DreamIt Ventures Winter 2013 class in Austin, Texas. The startup said that it will be demonstrating its products at SXSW at March 8th, at the conclusion of the program.

Class 178

Class Los Angeles Ideas Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies.

Competition 104

Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The company is backed by Canopy Rivers, Finistere Ventures, and Middleland Capital. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Han Chen to better understand what the company is working on, and some of the complexity of getting their technology to market. We raised our first round in 2013. What is ZeaKal working on?

Research 124

Research Technology Examples San Diego 124

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MARCH 8, 2016

Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.

Help 100

Help Startup Platform Santa Monica 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA. Tools available to food service companies include a branded mobile app, website integration with online ordering, and full menu ordering capability through Facebook. There is an exciting future ahead for this company.”

GRP Partners 73

GRP Partners Email Incubator Platform 73

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

San Diego 40

San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

Companies list jobs on Hiring Bounty and offer a total amount they would be willing to pay for hiring the successful candidate. Companies are only liable for the payment if they hire someone. We are based in South Africa, but have plans to launch globally in 2013. What are your 2013 plans? How does it work?

Startup 71

Startup Incubator Marketing Seed Funding 71

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”.

San Diego 40

San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically.

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Research shows that such insights are actually the result of hard prior work on the problem, usually followed by time to incubate in the subconscious mind as we connect threads, before the ideas pop out as new innovations. Many companies rely on a technical expert, or team of experts, to generate a stream of creative ideas. Breed myth.

Startup 94

Startup Research Ideas Incubator 94

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. For example, he explained a situation where his company could not meet payroll the next day and was about to go out of business. It was long in coming but it shows you that we can build great companies.

Startup 107

Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The company’s original service still operates as LessonPaths.com – a platform for self-learning students and curators. By working on projects with early stage employees at companies like Facebook and Google, Kris began thinking of ways to use technology and the Internet as a medium to solve what he felt was a worldwide problem.

Startup 99

Startup Competition Entrepreneur Google 99

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The transaction is considered the largest public acquisition in Bitcoin history with both companies exhibiting impressive growth numbers since their respective beginnings. What is it Like to Raise Money for Bitcoin Companies? Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. ”(Actual words: Bull S**t).

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. He doesn’t see many digital media VC firms in the space and makes it a point to invest in and work with companies who engage more deeply with content.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 24, 2014

Mehrdad gives us some context on how long this idea was incubating. CR’s Android app was launched in Sept 2013 and ushered a big influx of users. From company culture to product, they emphasize organic growth and quality, chance encounters. The internet was wired and apps weren’t a thing. Or a t-shirt for singles.

Startup 108

Startup Mobile Ideas Activity 108

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

As in, not one company (even the largest, Any.do ) holds over 1% market share in the mobile to do list space. Alex’s take: “If you look at the space, there’s a lot of companies that make productivity and task lists, but they don’t work. Many options and large scale turnovers by users. ” Huh?

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit).

Startup 109

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Today these are only legal in the USA for non-equity rewards or pre-orders, but the JOBS Act will relax the accredited investor rule by early 2013. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

Startup 91

Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

With the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the odds of success equally low, more and more entrepreneurs are starting multiple companies concurrently. In your weekly meetings, it’s as easy to cover multiple company issues as one. Products need not be tied to a given company. Optimize your advisers and investors.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Course 92