socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Greystripe said the funding round was led by Incubic Venture Capital, and also included Monitor Ventures, in addition to Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Steamboat Ventures Invest Burbank Advertising 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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. Ross Levinsohn of Fuse Capital also is involved in incubating Tecca. We felt that mobile was such a big opportunity, and that it is really an opportunity to bridge the physical with the digital.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? Much of the focus is on absorbing that energy, the enthusiasm of the startup community here has created over the last few years. It's unclear.

Startup 256

Startup Commerce Santa Monica Mentor 256

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. How do you discover the right people to follow?

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The accelerator recently graduated its fourth class, which includes such firms as Connectifier (connecting recruits to job candidates), YieldMetrics (online advertising); Milk & Honey (shoes), Atlas Powered (mobile calendar and task management); Tuition.io (student loan management); Divshot (web design tool); Less Neglect (customer analytics); (..)

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Class Startup Web Design Mentor 168

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 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. Pelv-Ice is a pelvic support device for post-partum mothers and a recent winner of the Accelerating Innovating Mentoring (AIM) 2013 incubator and pitch competition.

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USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. We also license our ad serving technology to publishers, advertisers, and other ad networks. In addition to that, we are advertisers as well and we own about ten consumer brands to leverage our reach to monetize our inventory better.

Marketing 96

Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We have refind our thesis around why mobile is so special, and how it ties into location, and have spent two years working on precise, location targeted ads in the industry. We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. What did TeleNav see in ThinkNear ? It was really great.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Includes 70,000 apps for all major mobile OS platforms, including Apple’s. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Total raised: $6.0mm.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

As opposed to a startup incubator, which typically deals with startups barely hatched, an accelerator focuses on a later stage startup, with an existing product and proven business model, looking for rapid growth. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Social mobile web. Startup accelerator.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What was also interesting to learn is that there really aren’t any channels devoted to adult females since it’s mostly young males 18-34, a prized demographic within advertising, who view online videos. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon. ” Collaboration was also key.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Peter Csathy takes the lead on this one.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Our original name when we launched the firm was Digital Coast Partners, and we focused on being a consulting firm, investment bank, and incubator. In the early years at Montgomery, I was essentially the in-house M&A expert. When the tech bubble burst, we focused on technology M&A investment banking, which was my personal expertise.

Southern California 100

Southern California Invest Media Content 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cloud, freelance, mobile. . Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Easy as 1 + 2-->3.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. PuddleWorks – PuddleWorks is developing interactive mobile games and leveraging these products and capabilities to develop a powerful franchise. Thanks to our advertisers. the startup scene really is booming in la!

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Mobility really changes everything. Today we’re online 3.1

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. Advertise Locally.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44