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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more)

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more)

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Venice Networking Los Angeles Startup 100

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more)

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Venice Networking Los Angeles Startup 100

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket.

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Venice Networking Los Angeles Startup 100

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket.

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Venice Networking Los Angeles Startup 100

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Wednesday, August 30, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more)

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Venice Networking Los Angeles Startup 100

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JULY 25, 2017

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more)

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Venice Networking Los Angeles Startup 100

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MAY 11, 2017

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more)

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Venice Networking Los Angeles Startup 100

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MAY 11, 2017

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Sunny Spot in Venice. Support women entrepreneurs and Join the fastest growing tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community.See [link] (more)

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APRIL 5, 2016

Bombd , a startup which develops a social networking and messaging app revolving around sharing instant photos with others, has set up shop in Venice Beach. The startup--originally started in Australia--said its team and founders have moved to Venice Beach to scale the app in the U.S., and that it has begun hiring a team here.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Venice, California-based Viddy , a new startup developing mobile video tools, said today that it has raised $1.6M the funding round came from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Qualcomm, and angel investors including Jarl Mohn and early team members from YouTube. The firm was founded by JJ Aguhob and Brett O'Brien. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

One way might be to try out GrubTonight , a newly launhced iPhone application from Venice-based Grubwithus, which allows users to find organized dinners in a local area, reserve a seat, and meet others at meals.

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Services GRP Partners Seed Funding Venice 210

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A new lawsuit, targeting Venice, California-based Snapchat --the hottest company to emerge out of the area''s high tech startup cluster in recent years--says that the company''s founders stole the idea for the company from him after forcing him out of the company early on in its history. snapchat legal lawsuit social networking mobile'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. Society is at its most dense in rich urban environments where society and technology can inspire each other on a daily basis.”. Our lease runs out in 2013.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Today, we just had a screening for the Tech Coast Angels, they're screening companies and having lunch here.

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Google Tech Coast Angels Screening Santa Monica 253

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APRIL 23, 2012

Venice-based Viddy , the developer of a mobile app used to share videos over social networks, has added a number of celebrities to its list of investors.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

According to Los Angeles-based FEM (fem-inc.com), video recommendations can make a significant difference in how long a user spends on a website or app. How did you end up in Los Angeles? Rachel Payne: I''m originally from Los Angeles. Can software algorithms help drive more user engagement and video views for publishers?

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MAY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based Kryptos Logic has emerged from the shadows this week, after one of its researchers halted the massive WannaCry virus. The company is one of a number of cybersecurity companies based in the Los Angeles area, including such companies as Crowdstrike--the company investigating Russian hacking into the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Santa Monica-based Bird , which operates a network of "last mile" electric vehicles for connecting users with public transportation like buses and subways, has raised $100M in a Series B funding, the company said on Friday. As part of the funding, Bird said it has named angel and venture investment veteran Paige Craig as its new Head of U.S.

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MAY 20, 2019

Los Angeles-based EVgo , which operates a large, nationwide network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers, announced this morning that it is working with Chevron to place its EV charging stations on select Chevron-owned gas stations. The first five EV chargers are being installed in Aliso Viejo, Manhattan Beach, Menlo Park, and Venice.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Los Angeles- and Sydney, Australia-based Clapit , a startup developing a social media crowdsourcing app, said it has raised AU$2.57M ($1.94M US), to bring its mobile app to market. The seed funding came from Australia angels Mark Moran and Paul Siderovski. Clapit, which says it is based in Sydney and has its U.S. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The Snapbot--there's only one, so far--was most recently in Venice, not far from Snapchat's headquarters--but now appears to be en route to another location. The timer on Snapchat's "Find a bot" link shows around 20 hours before the Snapbot shows up somewhere else. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The Snapbot--there's only one, so far--was most recently in Venice, not far from Snapchat's headquarters--but now appears to be en route to another location. The timer on Snapchat's "Find a bot" link shows around 20 hours before the Snapbot shows up somewhere else. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Venice, California-based The Bouqs Company , the direct, cut-to-order flower delivery provider led by John Tabis, is announcing today that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding. The new funding will go towards its supply chain, expanding its farm and florist networks, to grow its team, and to launch a new, native app.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. We're working with a company in Venice Beach which is trying to solve that problem.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J. Make sure to check out Both Sides of the Table ! Social Enterprise: Hub LA. Marketing: SteelHouse.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This month (in lieu of our normally scheduled Startups Uncensored Series, which will resume in Jan ‘10) we are hosting a very a mixer for Job Seekers and Los Angeles Tech Companies. Come meet a group of cool new start ups and talented job seekers at this informal networking happy hour where you can find startup jobs. Cost: FREE!

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Each day Doppels will let you know whose birthday it is within your social network or local area and offer you a wish, gift or text option. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger. How great is that?! Doppels also caught the interest of celebrities. “We

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Silicon Beach as we know it didn’t exist, coworking was unheard of, and an angel was mainly thought of as a heavenly creature, not the likes of Paige Craig. Digital LA had just begun throwing monthly networking events, Rubicon Project was in its infancy, and the Roosevelt in Hollywood was the local hangout. It was 2008.

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JULY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based goFlow is hoping to make that inforamtion as easy as checking out an app, tapping into a crowdsourced network of outdoor sports enthusiasts. With that idea in mind, I started this in Israel, and came here to Los Angeles and Southern California to talk to people in the surfing industry. What is goFlow all about?

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MARCH 21, 2011

I've been doing that, and building the tools and networks for those brands for a long time, but I wanted to try my hand at an actual, physical product. Gordon Gould: We have some angels. We live in Venice, and our back house is sort of our operations center. We're a good pair in that regard.

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