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JANUARY 16, 2013

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 -- Los Angeles Lean Startup Circle. How to do Lean Startup in Enterprise and Big Companies. What does Lean Startup look like in BIG organizations? There are all sorts of challenges that intrapreneurs and corporate entrepreneurs face that startup founders simply don't encounter.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Thursday, January 17, 2013 -- Los Angeles Tech-Security Conference. See [link].

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. Los Angeles has a diverse area of startups.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Los Angeles-based CheckAlt , the check and payments technology company headed by Shai Stern, said late last night that it processed over $4 billion dollars in transactions in 2013. The company did not say how that translates into revenues for the company.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Sunday, January 20, 2013 -- Lean Startup Machine Los Angeles (1/18 - 1/20). Who's this event for? Any startup team that does not have Product/Market Fit, or any aspiring founder, innovator, or early startup employee that wants to learn Lean Startup methodologies from the ground up. Got an idea of your own?

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JANUARY 12, 2013

Friday, January 18, 2013 -- Lean Startup Machine Los Angeles (1/18 - 1/20). Who's this event for? Any startup team that does not have Product/Market Fit, or any aspiring founder, innovator, or early startup employee that wants to learn Lean Startup methodologies from the ground up. Got an idea of your own?

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JANUARY 26, 2020

The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., Bryant launched his venture career with partner and serial entrepreneur Jeff Stibel back in 2013, according to Crunchbase.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Saturday, January 19, 2013 -- Lean Startup Machine Los Angeles (1/18 - 1/20). Who's this event for? Any startup team that does not have Product/Market Fit, or any aspiring founder, innovator, or early startup employee that wants to learn Lean Startup methodologies from the ground up. Got an idea of your own?

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JULY 16, 2013

Launchpad LA , one of the more high profile startup accelerators in Los Angeles, has opened up applications for its next class. The accelerator is one of the earliest in Los Angeles, having originally started as a mentoring group headed by blogger and venture investor Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures (formerly GRP Partners).

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- LAPHP January Talk: Zend Framework 2.0. For our January LAPHP talk we have pretty exciting guest -- we invited Ralph Schindler from Zend to talk about Zend Framework 2.0 (aka Zend Framework 2 achieved its stable release this autumn, ushering in a new era of the framework.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 26, 2016

It has grown from 250+ in 2013 to 550+ in 2014 and 950+ last year. The biggest free big data conference in Southern California organized by several volunteers spearheaded by Subash D’Souza working to make this conference free and useful as in past years. Come witness the fourth year of this conference.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2013. The post TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast appeared first on TechZulu. 24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica.

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MAY 17, 2013

Melon, a Los Angeles startup out of LaunchpadLA, wants to help people improve their focus with a brain monitoring headband. BLANKSPACES Downtown Los Angeles pitch. Pitch for BLANKSPACES Los Angeles downtown location. What is the STEAM Carnival?

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APRIL 12, 2021

Los Angeles-based >A href="[link] which develops contextual advertising technology focused on video, has raised $18M in a Series B investment round. The round was led by Intel Capital, and also WISE Ventures, Quest Venture Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment, plus angels Mike Baker (Dataxu) and Mike Shehan (SpotX).

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original and largest startup tech entertainment festival, celebrating the burgeoning tech scene in Los Angeles. Silicon Beach uniquely features startup and Hollywood entertainment speakers at panels, parties, hackathon, demo day, startup showcase, and more events, June 19-22, 2013 in Los Angeles.

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JULY 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based electric vehicle maker Fisker Inc. Allego was founded in 2013. says it will be making a $10M investment in a European electric vehicle charging network operator, Allego B.V., as part of a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger between Allego and Spartan Acquisition Corp.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has swapped its CEO, saying Tuesday morning that Mike Hopkins has stepped down, and Randy Freer has been named as CEO. Hopkins had been CEO of Hulu since 2013. The two said Freer will be based in Los Angeles. Hopkins is leaving for Sony Pictures Television.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

Los Angeles-based Hulu said the Hulu AdZone is sponsored by Toyota, and will let users watch, share and vote for their favorite Super Bowl ads during the game. This year, Hulu has added mobile support to the AdZone site, with support for iOS and Android mobile devices, plus ability to vote for and share those ads via mobile.

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JULY 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media , the viral- and user-generated content company, has promoted Lee Essner to the post of Co-CEO, the company said late Thursday. Essner--who has been President and Chief Operating Officer at the company since 2013, will share the CEO post with Jukin Media founder Jonathan Skogmo.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

On November 22, 2013 the awesome people at Coloft are hosting Startup Weekend LA. The post Startup Weekend Los Angeles | Stop Dreaming, Start Doing! Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Jaunt , a developer of virtual reality technology, software, and apps--which previously had its virtual reality content development efforts based here in Los Angeles--has been acquired by Verizon , the companies said today. Jaunt was founded in 2013. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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DECEMBER 24, 2012

Serena Ehrlich , Director of Marketing of Los Angeles-based Mogreet --and who is also well known in Los Angeles for her work with the Los Angeles chapter of the Social Media club--has been recognized by Mobile Marketer as one of its Mobile Women to Watch 2013.

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MAY 28, 2021

Los Angeles-based FIGS, which makes medical scrubs and other apparel, has surged in its IPO debut, pricing on Wednesday night at $22 a share, and ending Thursday up 36% in its debut to 30.02. FIGS was started in 2013, raising a seed funding worth only $2M from Crocs, Mohr Davidow Ventures, 500 Startups, Karlin Ventures, and others.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based Output , a startup developing music creation software aimed at professional artists, has raised $45M in a Series A investment. Output was founded in 2013. The funding came from Summit Partners. The company's founder is CEO Gregg Lehrman. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Los Angeles-based Deluxe, which provides digital services to the motion picture, television, and digital media industry, said yesterday that it has acquired Sundog Media Toolkit, Ltd., a UK-based provider of a cloud platform for the industry. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Los Angeles-based Freeletics , a startup focused on digital fitness, has raised $45M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. Freeletics said its investor group is affiliated with several professional sports franchises, including the San Francisco 49ers, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Dodgers.

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APRIL 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management has sold its interest in security software developer Checkmarx , in a deal worth $1.15 billion, the company said on Monday. The company said it sold its interest in Checkmarx to Hellman & Friedman LLC , which was also joined by TPG in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

It's a new year, and another batch of accelerator startups, as Demo Day season in Los Angeles kicks off this week. The first Demo Day of 2013 in Los Angeles is tomorrow, as MuckerLab launches its latest class of startups; fellow Los Angeles accelerator StartEngine has its first 2013 demo day scheduled for January 30th.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. As one of the organizers, Jay Tucker explained, “The Silicon Beach movement is the future of the Los Angeles tech area – tech, mobility, digital content, entrepreneurship, etc. Filled with innovation.

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JULY 2, 2013

Having never lived in Silicon Valley and unaware of what it is like to start a business in the heart of technology, it was interesting to hear that one of the benefits of living in Los Angeles during our time of tech growth is the fact entrepreneurs aren’t caught up in the daily routine due to the smaller pond aspect.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

Los Angeles led the region with $309.79M in total investments for Q4 of 2013, with San Diego ($145.0M) and Orange County ($143.6M) with nearly the same venture investment toal. southern california venture capital investment moneytree quarterly q42013 2013' Nationally, the report found that there was $29.4 For Q4, $8.4

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Online movie streaming service Netflix has stolen back an executive from Los Angeles-based Scopely, to head up its human resources and talent management efforts. Neal had been Chief People Officer at Scopely in Los Angeles until earlier this year. She had joined Scopely in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based advertising technology developer The Trade Desk says its Chief Operating Officer, Rob Perdue, is stepping down. According to the firm, Perdue--who has been at the firm since 2013, before its IPO--will step down after a transition period in the first half of 2019.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Most recently, the company launched partnerships in various cities to bring its real-time parking solution to including in Los Angeles,Santa Monica,Austin and Washington D.C. The post ParkMe & INRIX Partner During The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show To Help Drivers Outsmart Parking appeared first on TechZulu.

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MAY 16, 2019

Los Angeles-based Connect Homes , a developer of prefab housing technology, has raised $10.8M The startup was founded in 2013 by Jared Levy and Gordon Stott. in its Series A funding round, according to the company. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Los Angeles led the region in investments, with $348.6M The amount of venture capital investment was up 12 percent in terms of dollars, and 5 percent in number of deals compared to the second quarter of 2013. 2013 q32013 moneytree quarterly investment capital venture california southern' was raised in venture capital.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Cloud9 , an e-sports firm which operates an e-sports league, has raised $50M in a Series B funding round, and set up its permanent headquarters in Los Angeles. Cloud9 was founded in 2013 by Jack and Paullie Etienne, and is behind such teams as the London Spitfire, the British Hurricane, and others.

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