InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” Yet to be a truly effective accelerator, the work must continue the momentum beyond Demo Day.

Startup 100

Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage.

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that sometimes takes months from introduction to investment.

Venture Capital 295

Venture Capital Startup Class Invest 295

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

XRC Labs, an accelerator program focused on e-commerce and retail startups, held a demo day for its latest class Thursday, featuring innovations in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies. Consumers are changing faster than the retailers,” and that is resulting in shoppers bypassing traditional stores.

Artificial Inteligence 97

Artificial Inteligence Class Commerce Design 97

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. 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.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd launched Wednesday, saying that it is looking to help users connect with others on fun activities led by experts. The new startup--funded by Bullpen Capital, Baroda Ventures, and Prism VentureWorks, and headed by Bong Koh--is one of the companies debuting today at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference in Silicon Valley.

Activity 145

Activity Services Class Conference 145

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2016

StatMuse develops natural language search software and a social interface, which helps fans push out statistics about their favorite teams; the company currently has a deal with the NBA to offer up its service to fans of the league. StatMuse was founded by Eli Dawson and Adam Elmore. READ MORE>>.

Statistics 100

Statistics Burbank Class Software 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Earlier this week, the Disney Accelerator held the demo day for its second class. We caught up with Michael Abrams , Senior Vice President, Innovation at The Walt Disney Company , to talk more about this year's class of companies and the program. What was the most interesting thing about this year's accelerator class for you?

Class 100

Class Mentor Entertainment Resource 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year. Demo’d to death.

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. Warner Bros. What''s your big goal for the program?

Startup 159

Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

We just had the demo day for our third batch of companies. That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life. It''s not a three month program, demo day, and folks move out or move on. How are things going over there at MuckerLab?

Incubator 187

Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that often takes.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

If you're looking get your startup off the ground in Los Angeles, it always helps to have help from folks with connections to the venture and angel community. You can also find help with coding, programming, someone to help check out wireframes, consulting, help with capital advisors, etc.

Startup 254

Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.

Class 98

Class Mentor Startup UCLA 98

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Our challenge is to help start, fund, improve, and grow 1000 companies in five years. Obviously, as with many other accelerators, we provide mentorship and shared resources, and help with creating a company, access to public relations, and other resources like legal help. All of our mentors are investors as well.

Orange County 192

Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.” Epic Games.

Artificial Inteligence 109

Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 109

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Tuition.io, dubbed Mint.com for student loans, has helped students from over 130 universities manage over $100 million in debt, which represents over 10,000 student loans. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. .

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding. I think the tighter knit the ecosystem is, between investors and entrepreneurs, it really helps.

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. Chewse now joins the 500 current class commencing today, November 31 with an aim to even be a better marketplace for groups to easily order great food.

Startup 68

Startup Seed Funding West Los Angeles Class 68

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. Would they build a world class team. But it seemed to work. I spent one hour with them. I had back-to-backs all week and that’s what it’s like when you squeeze in a last-minute meeting.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I wrote separately about that here – regarding “hiring people who punch above their weight class.” To aim – which means helping sales reps figure out which target customers to focus on. It’s about helping weed out the non-serious leads from the urgent ones. In Summary.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

That also allows us to help solve some of the issues which are widespread in our industry, by supporting the category leaders, and future category leaders in the space. How was experience finding companies for this first class of startups? We also wanted to make sure the companies helped address some issues in our business.

Startup 100

Startup Invest Resource Entertainment 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. Most have been involved in some capacity along the way with Startup UCLA, and all will be represented during the demo day. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

At the end of the program, companies present their businesses to potential investors at a Demo Day event. The group collectively has founded, operated, and helped scale many of the most successful Internet companies including eBay, Google, Green Dot, HauteLook, LinkedIn, Live Nation, AT&T, StubHub and TripAdvisor.

Los Angeles 58

Los Angeles Rustic Canyon Incubator Angel 58

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I was used to being allowed to fly business class and staying at nice hotels. I took business class on the Eurostar over and justified it because I could get more work done on my computer at bigger tables. I know from experience – it helps fuel the wrong culture and it is very hard to rebuild your culture once it is set.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I attended the Facebook Fund Demo day about a month ago in Palo Alto and it blew me away the pace of innovation and the focus on monetization that came out of this group. There has already been at least one high profile funding from this class, which is Thread – a product that raised $1.2 Seems an obvious fit.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

LATechDigest

AUGUST 23, 2016

WSC Technologies has developed a platform that creates personalized sports videos automatically and in real-time, helping sports leagues and broadcasters to engage fans and monetize their content. “The design of this program will make it possible to create even more value for the program companies.”

Company 40

Company Companies Design Organization 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Oh, and the cocktail party afterward also rocked! (I

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. Market Opportunity.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capital Hulu 330

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

“You could feel the energy and excitement from getting everyone together, from the opening party to the inspiring panels; the creative pitches at the hackathon, demo day, angel pitch fest, and student pitch fest; and the good-times bonding from the nightly parties to the beach volleyball court. Demo Day / Angel Pitch.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map. 7:00 – 7:45pm – check-in.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. It helps to think positive and focus on the awesome things that are indeed possible.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. The time has finally arrived! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. RSVP: AGENDA.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. He received a B.S. Dinesh earned his B.S. RSVP: AGENDA.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

Our global and diverse team of engineers, scientists, and researchers with world-class expertise in video conferencing, object recognition, object tracking, and augmented reality is committed to continuous innovation and fostering an entrepreneurial culture that will accelerate the commercialization of our revolutionary technologies.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Bill received his B.S. What: Spotlight Series Event. RSVP: AGENDA.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84