socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

K5Launch , which was announced yesterday, is headed up by Amir Banafatemi, Ray Chan, David Cheng, and Kai Tao, four Southern California angel investors. Similarly, the firm is using a Y-Combinator/TechStars model to startups, and covers Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

What''s the idea behind the incubator--which gives its startups $20,000 in capital, education, mentoring, working space, and more--and how is it tied to USC? There''s a shortage of those types of people in Los Angeles. We''re giving them access to capital, mentors to build companies, and all here in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

There's a new, startup incubator in town in West Los Angeles--this time, launching out of Loyola Marymount University and its College of Business. Choi--is launching with nine student and alumni companies, and provides space, advisors and mentors, and connections to startups.

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Incubator LMU West Los Angeles Startup 258

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. Full press release with more details is here. We connected.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Southern California Tech Coast Angels 259

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When Los Angeles, CA was listed as the fastest-growing tech startup region in 2014, many guesses were raised about the root cause of its success. No, to see the strength of Los Angeles’ startup scene, you must look at the whole story. Money: In 2014, Los Angeles startups received more than $3 billion in funding.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Buzzfeed Los Angeles 113

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles. She is a coach and mentor to team members. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza and drinks! Our Panelist Include.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Bruce Huang: We are an educational, collaborative ecosystem, trying to bridge between the tech community and academics. I go to lots of events in Los Angeles, and there are many entrepreneurs who want to start companies, are bootstrapping, and everyone has a great idea and is figuring out how to launch their products and launch their startup.

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UCLA Education CIO Examples 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Alex Benzer: My partner and I met here in Los Angeles, in high school. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We have some great mentors now.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

” For startups entering program they receive investment capital, access to coworking space at Disney’s creative campus and mentor support and guidance from top Disney executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other notable business leaders from the entertainment and technology communities, and have a Demo Day at the campus.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

We saw an extraordinary opportunity, in general, and in LA in particular, to really focus in on technology in Los Angeles. There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

With the SOLD OUT Startup Weekend Los Angeles quickly approaching (February 24th-26th, 2012) it’s time to start getting in the creation mindset. This year Startup Weekend is branching out towards driving solutions to be created for the education industry with Startup Weekend EDU.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

For today's youth, it's often hard to figure out what they want to do in life--according to Deborah Ramo , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Amavitae (www.amavitae.com). There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. People fall out of their education for a number of different reasons.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 1961, after 70-years, professional baseball created its first expansion teams – the Angels and Twins. If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. Since 1961, professional baseball has grown from 18-teams to 30.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

Straight outta Austin, MakerSquare has teamed up with coding school collective, Hack Reactor , to open a new campus in LA to help fill the tech talent gap and to provide the area with the necessary talent pool to continue the Los Angeles tech expansion (as a call to action for President Obama’s TechHire initiative).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. There is a mentor program that accompanies the class. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

Test your skills: Create a mock competition environment and have experts or mentors in your field be the judges. The G-team also had another year’s worth of education and experience under their belts, so their skills and confidence were that much stronger.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

There is a plethora of tech innovation going on in Los Angeles right now, and not only in Silicon Beach — but all over from downtown to the valleys to everywhere in between. Its mission is to connect, educate and promote online innovators that are coming out of L.A.’s that has quietly soft launched this January. Built In L.A.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. We're just trying to create more companies in Los Angeles, and to be involved with them. Thanks, and good luck!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Last week, a group of four angel investors here announced their plans to create a new, accelerator program to spur the creation of an entrepreneurial community in the area around new startups. All of our mentors are investors as well. However, the main benefit is the one-on-one assistance of entrepreneurs, and access to capital.

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Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Jason Nazar

JUNE 2, 2016

Fortune Favors the Bold – My father is fond of driving me around Los Angeles pointing out all the buildings he could have owned. But for an immigrant with limited education, he did an amazing job of piecing together the smallest of savings to start buying real estate decades ago. Start with the end in mind.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. The education around new products and bringing them to the market is the same in both markets. It's really Match.com meets LinkedIn for your business.

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. He is looking to find more.

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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. All in all, the event served as a great informational resource and networking opportunity for educators, innovators, entrepreneurs, and students alike.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. OAF is a high quality private investor pitch forum for founders to meet quality Angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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