socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform for "serious startups". The site allow early stage startups to gain capital from anyone, using the new JOBS Act to raise money from anyone interested in a startup, and not just professional investors and banks.

Startup 224

Startup Santa Monica Incubator Sites 224

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

Southern California 259

Southern California High Tech Activity Platform 259

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

In an age where topics like Russian hacking, CIA hacking tools and the stability of the power grid and industrial networks has suddenly become important, there are only a few companies tackling industrial network security directly. Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S.

Networking 124

Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Tech Coast Venture Network is rounding up the finest entrepreneurs to compete for $25,000 in cash prize in their Survivor 7 Pitch Competition this Thursday, November 15th. Most entrepreneurs in a startup struggle to get that initial capital needed to execute development of their great idea.

Competition 65

Competition Networking TCVN Southern California 65

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses.

Dollar Shave Club 140

Dollar Shave Club Tsavo Userplane Southern California 140

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

Startup 108

Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 108

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. What''s the idea behind FieldLevel?

Coach 252

Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund. Social network for investors. How its online incubation works. Social capital rewarded.

El Segundo 76

El Segundo Social Network Startup Patents 76

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. I thought it would be interesting to raise a tranche of money, to have a platform where we could incubate our own concepts, work with the best entrepreneurs around, and build new businesses.

Incubator 196

Incubator Startup Commerce Los Angeles 196

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

Entrepreneur 137

Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. It's equalized finance, and it's equalized an elite, walled-off section of finance, venture capital.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

Funding 174

Funding Startup Equity Examples 174

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator? Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right. What is Postie?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

.” All events are going to be quality one-day conferences with amazing speakers, parties and opportunities to network with new friends and see old friends which is why I’m returning to attend. That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. Sure, there are some fun things you can create quickly on platforms like Facebook that may get viral uptake. What used to cost $1M now takes $100K. I don't really agree that $100K is the new $1M.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Incubator Examples 150

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital. As the President of Start Co.,

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners--so we thought it would be great to catch up with co-founders Rich Raddon and Zach James to hear more about what the company is working on now. It felt to us, once we got on the platform, that it was a crowded space. Thanks for the time today.

Hollywood 159

Hollywood Help Media Content 159

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. We built a lot of products to stabilize the company, such as full-serve and self-serve ad networks. We also license our ad serving technology to publishers, advertisers, and other ad networks. How much did Engage:BDR grow?

Marketing 96

Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. 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. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

I had met Richard at a MaiTai tech networking trip of kiteboarders in Maui and ended up traveling again with her later that year with a fragment of the group to explore the tech scene in Australia. I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene. Same space, different spin.

Startup 109

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. Not only is it a software-a-service to help organizations run their businesses more efficiently and effectively, but it also allows partners, such as third party developers, tap into the platform to give the best of breed software to nonprofit organizations. READ MORE>>.

Help 100

Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Funding 96

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.). “I billion under management.

San Diego 40

San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

What we realized, is that using a platform like the Dodgers to validate those products, and at the same time, solve some of our own problems, made a lot of sense. With the background of our ownership group, and their interest in putting capital to use and our resources to work, we saw the opportunity to create strategic partnerships.

Startup 100

Startup Invest Resource Entertainment 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

Startup 51

Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 51

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Wi-Fi hotspots aren’t new by any means (duh) but this was the first time I’d heard of Karma and their always maintaining open wifi networks, no contracts, and pay it forward mantra which rewards both hub owners and would be wifi users with free data incentives. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator.

Outsource Development 108

Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

First, we’d like to thank our exhibitors, sponsors, and venue (Dave and Buster’s Westchester) for supporting the all-encompasing day of industry insights and networking. Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups.

UCLA 99

UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99