TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, and a lot has changed for the payments and software startup. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise.

Technical Review 296

Technical Review Software Review Invest Acquisition 296

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. Marten began his story by explaining that MySQL was originally founded as a research project and how it was a nascent startup for nearly a decade before he joined the team. I was ready to give up.

Oracle 229

Oracle Startup News Press 229

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator backed by Disney and being run by TechStars in Los Angeles, announced its inagural class today, naming eleven companies--including three Los Angeles companies--to participate in the three month program. READ MORE>>.

Class 173

Class Entertainment Venture Capital Mentor 173

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2014

A string of big acquisitions, public offerings, and a pipeline of growing young startup companies has venture investors saying “I love L.A.”

Truecar 100

Truecar Entertainment Venture Capital Acquisition 100

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The company said its tools are used by such brands as Caesars Entertainment and Casio to collect and analyze data from their customers, in real time. Osurv was backed by StartEngine, and was part of StartEngine back when it was a startup accelerator. READ MORE>>.

Equity 124

Equity Entertainment Acquisition Mobile 124

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. Meanwhile, games are quickly becoming the go-to revenue driver for the entertainment industry.

Mobile 251

Mobile Capital Los Angeles Acquisition 251

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company.

Startup 220

Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The company--led by longtime cloud and hosting services veteran Simon Anderson--offers up managed services and consulting for cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. According to the newly formed company, it completed all three of those mergers earlier in 2018, and now has a customer base of 175 enterprises.

Services 133

Services SaaS Los Angeles Education 133

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup. Andy Steuer: This is the eighth startup I've been a part of. What is Punchcard?

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based P.S. XO , the e-commerce and crafts startup founded by Soleil Moon Frye and Kara Nortman, said this morning that it has merged with craft and toy brand Seedling , and raised $7M in a funding round. crafts brewster soleil moon puky frye ecommerce brand acquisition merger capital venture psxo seedling' READ MORE>>.

Commerce 124

Commerce Entertainment Acquisition Los Angeles 124

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

How did the company start? There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. Scott Grimes: I previously started a company, Uproxx Media, which I sold to Time Warner Music. That's why I started Stackin.

Content 124

Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Media 100

Media Entertainment Google Acquisition 100

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. Taylor then set up shop in San Francisco to further his mission.

Startup 70

Startup Web Development Design Education 70

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur. Use flexibility to match your lifestyle.

Statistics 124

Statistics Equity Satisfaction Entrepreneur 124

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2013

With the E3 Expo wrapping up, SGN announced early this morning the acquisition of Mob Science further expanding its game portfolio and development team. Mob Science will join in the ranks of prior acquisitions including Hallpass Media and Mindjolt all under the strong and successful SGN umbrella.

Develop 76

Develop Development Technical Review Southern California 76

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. The themes expanded to include both hot new startups, as well as companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, Belkin, and Telesign which have been part of LA tech for more than a decade.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

Is there an opportunity to rise above the crowd, and become a leading player in the industry for a startup? One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. Brian Nickerson: I started out at Yahoo, in their search group.

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. Head to the beach on the first weekend of summer to celebrate LA’s digital innovators in tech, startups, entertainment, fashion, marketing, and more!

Hollywood 81

Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2013

Ross Levinsohn , the former head of Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media, has just been appointed CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media , the parent firm of The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, and other entertainment focused properties. READ MORE>>.

Hollywood 173

Hollywood Report Yahoo Entertainment 173

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

You cannot afford to speed, gun the engine, take detours, or spend your precious cash on a killer stereo to entertain you during your trek. If there happens to be a gas station along the way where you can fill up for a reasonable price, great. However, do not count on it. Enter Liquidator Larry.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We caught up with co-founder Clark Landry to chat about his new startup, which he co-founded with Michael Ritter.

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. That is starting to show itself in the B2B space. Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2017

The list of technology startups in Southern California who are "unicorns"--valued at more than $1 billion--surprisingly, might not be who you think, and in the sectors you might expect. and no, there aren't any entertainment-technology companies anywhere in sight). SpaceX (www.spacex.com). The space rocket maker is run by Elon Musk.

Southern California 133

Southern California Orange County SpaceX Santa Barbara 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 14, 2010

Ron Vaisbort has 20 years of diverse entrepreneurial and Fortune 50 experience leading technology business strategy, media and entertainment programming and advertising, IP acquisition and licensing.Ron will share a few licensing basics as well as how America's top companies - from Fortune 50 to garage-based startups - are, more than ever before, leveraging (..)

IP 100

IP Competition Technology Company 100

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While much of the focus in using VR has been on gaming and entertainment, “virtual reality has the potential to reinvent the consumer experience—with an experience we call contextual commerce,” according to a Store No 8 blog post Monday by Katie Finnegan, Walmart’s vice president of incubation and principal and founder of Store No 8.

Venice 64

Venice Incubator Blogging Commerce 64

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Check out the entertaining video here.) We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots. Local startup DAQRI started shipping their Smart Glasses this fall, finally making AR in the workplace seem ready for prime time. in August. .

USC 113

USC Startup News Entrepreneur 113

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. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. Make sure to tune in! TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. So now is the time to step up and embrace what is truly the next iteration in gaming.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2016 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, February 11 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from Crosscut Ventures, Machine Shop Ventures, Techstars, and more to be announced soon who will share their insights and forecast for startups in 2016. Powered by Bizzabo.

Startup 40

Startup Santa Monica Venture Capital SaaS 40

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. If you could share one startup lesson with a young entrepreneur, what would it be? Greathouse : Yes, it always seems to get harder to launch a startup when a market begins maturing.

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

We thought it would be interesting to talk to the firm, so we connected with Nick Higgins who is the EVP heading up Joost and running its Santa Monica operations, to hear more about the spinout and Adconion's aggressive hiring plans in the area. Your firm started in UK, but has big expansion plans in Los Angeles.

Santa Monica 149

Santa Monica Content Platform Networking 149

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We caught up with co-founder Dave Terry , who co-founded Chrome River with Alan Rich, to learn more about how the company has build one of the fastest growing enterprise software makers in the area, why the company raised such a big round, and why the company is seeing a big opportunity in its market.

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

As we recall, this year has kicked off with some fierce acquisitions in the connected home and internet of things (IOT) space, namely with Google’s high profile $3.2 Billion acquisition of smart home device company, Nest. In the mid 80′s, Cisco started working with smarthubs to unify all the connection protocols.

Belkin 87

Belkin Startup Acquisition Entertainment 87

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

500 Startups officially announced their Batch 15. We were stoked when we partnered with 500 startup for REACH NeXT and now are over the moon that they selected one of our winners. Also, 500 startups officially open their applications for Batch 16 on AngelList. Learn to code by cloning real-life startups. Code4Startup.

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40