socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Los Angeles- and London-based MakieLab , one of the companies out of Disney's recent Disney Accelerator class, started shipping its Disney-themed, custom 3D printed dolls on Friday, with clothing and designs from Disney properties. READ MORE>>.

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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. Walt Disney is a big company�has innovation been an issue for you?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 15, 2017

SpaceX settles overtime pay class action for $4 million, Snap launches new camera lens ads, and hackers may have stolen unreleased Disney movie, Chief Executive Bob Iger tells staff.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2015

Sphero , the Disney Accelerator company known for developing smartphone connected, robotic balls, has scored a big funding round--in part thanks to its involvement with the accelerator. Sphero's technology is behind the new, star wars robot, BB-8. Sphero is based in Boulder, Colorado. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator run by The Walt Disney Program, concluded its third run of its program on Thursday, concluding with the presentation of its class of nine companies at its Demo Day in Burbank yesterday.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2015

In one of the first concrete examples of the benefit of participating in the local Disney Accelerator , one of the first companies to participate in the TechStars driven program in Los Angeles-- Sphero --is apparently behind the cool, rolling robot, BB-8 , which is heavily featured in the upcoming Star Wars movie. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2016

StatMuse , one of the companies to emerge out of the Disney Accelerator in Burbank last fall, said this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Techstars, The Walt Disney Company, Allen & Co., Greycroft Partners, Promus Ventures, Haas Portman, Deep Fork Capital, and Bee Partners.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. Courtesy of Sphero & Disney. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio. Epic Games.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. The participants will receive up to $120,000 in investment from Disney to develop their ideas, along with mentoring from executives. Techstars Disney Accelerator Class of 2015 appeared first on TechZulu. 2 3D-Printing Companies.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 11, 2017

shares tumble after underwriter downgrades stock, UberMedia acquires Cintric for an undisclosed amount, and Disney starts new accelerator class.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 12, 2016

Hyperloop One and its chairman sued by co-founder, Virgin Galactic to restart spaceship testing, Disney Accelerator names 2016 class, and more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

The funding was led by Third Wave Digital and Allen DeBevoise and also included Disney and Luminari Capital. Naritiv was part of the 2014 Disney Accelerator class, and says it has been working with such brands as Freeform, Coca Cola, Fox, Marriott, Sphero, and Redken/L'OREAL on Snapchat campaigns.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The accelerator is the second, startup accelerator being run by Techstars in Los Angeles: the first was the Disney Accelerator, in Burbank, which was run in conjunction with the Walt Disney Company, and which recently had its second class and demo day. READ MORE>>.

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LATechDigest

MAY 23, 2016

DISNEY Puts All Its VR in a Single App ( link ). WorthyWomen " class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> " class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> pic.twitter.com/v0Z3Qvy5AP. EXPERT DOJO Investor Festival Brings Together Startups, VCs ( link ). PATIENTPOP Adds $10M to Its Series A ( link ).

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2016

It's also part of the current Disney Accelerator class. Atom Tickets said that, as part of its launch into those new markets, it will offer up users their first movie ticket for free. Atom Tickets is backed by $50M from Lionsgate, and raised a funding round in February. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

All about startup Chewse, one of the Los Angeles startups to join the Fall 2012 class of 500Startups, and its group food ordering service. Walt Disney Co. Laffster's Mock The Vote Demo. Video demo of Laffster's Mock The Vote political news app. Darth Vader Goes To Disneyland. just bought LucasFilm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. Disney Acquires Maker Studios f0r $500 million and with earn-out potentially up to $950 million. 5 years ago. AOL Acquires Gravity for $90 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

They had a new company in mind and they posed a question to me “If Walt Disney were to try and build a movie studio from scratch today — how would he do it?” They hire world-class animators and sweat every detail of the drawings. I took the bait. It has been amazing watching Andrew, Petri and team.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Wolpert has been responsible for many firsts throughout his career including: conceiving of and teaching the first Macintosh Programming Class at Stanford University (CS 193C), the first multi-user address book for the Macintosh (TouchBase), the first kids internet subscription service (Disneys Daily Blast), the first Tivo-like product for the Internet (..)

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Recent alliances in both the emergency responder and warehouse space will allow us to deliver a best-in-class solution to help manage teams, workflow, and efficiency through our wide-screen, large battery, full OS, wearable. Started Disney Interactive Labs. Co-founded DigiSynd, which was acquired by Disney in 2008.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Dell. Growing up a lower-middle class, mixed-race child Mariah Carey, knows how discouraging such antagonistic voices can be, telling her fans, “…don't ever give up! Image source: americanistadechiapas.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But I’m also sending this to a couple of class-action lawyers. See this article talking about previous class action lawsuits. He’s ex Skadden Arps (one of the top law firms in New York) and ex Walt Disney legal dept. I hope you’re OK with that. I was pleased when Michael Arrington wrote his Scamville series.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2011

He directly attributed influence a calligraphy class for the typeface and spacing of his Apple products. In 2006, he sold Pixar to Disney for $7.6B and became Disney’s biggest shareholder. More than $76 billion in cash; 2 billion MORE than the US Treasury. Apple made the first mass-market color digital camera in 1994.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business. That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. The focus is on helping the startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to running OrganicStartup, Sangster was responsible for strategic planning and corporate development at the Walt Disney Internet Group. Sangster identified new media growth opportunities, developed strategy, and managed the evaluation and execution of acquisitions that helped Disney meet its strategic objectives. Want to Sponsor?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2010

We are trying to make the set of companies that we focus on the ones very likely to either go public, or have a successful exit, such as Playdom, which was recently bought by Walt Disney. We have over 22,000 members who have joined SharesPost in just a year, and we've found people who are interested in getting exposure to this asset class.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. My big clients were Disney, Nestle, Toyota, all the big Southern California companies. We've modeled our program after TechStars.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

link] Their vision was “if Disney were going to build a media company today they wouldn’t start by creating films, they would build compelling characters in a mobile game and then create media products and physical goods in support of the game. I imagined what it would feel like if we worked in this location. It felt pretty, pretty good.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators. And Jamie hers. And Adam his.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

It is what he set out to build and he had huge initial success in landing big clients like Disney, Zynga, Gilt and TopSpin. We knew we had a valuable product that an acquiring company would gain greatly from and a world-class engineering and product team that would be valued by a buyer. I funded Jonathan’s first $500,000.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

MediaScience has mainly worked for companies such as Disney and ESPN, but this year it’s been inviting its panelists to watch videos of Clinton and Trump, the Austin American-Statesman reported. 2 so the students can talk about them in class or with their parents. Voting opens for the school kids on Oct. 17 and closes Nov.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

We have amazing large companies that are an important part of the future of the Internet such as Disney, Warner, Fox, Universal, etc. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies. Get VCs to agree to join. Figure out a way to finance it. Get some seasoned entrepreneurs to come.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

What All the Buzz is About: A Conversation with the Disney / ABC Television Group. Here you can find local and online/local hybrid classes for topics like UX Design & Programming or Social Media Law among other classes. Friday: Television and Movies. 11:45-12:30pm. TV Goes Social. 12:30-1:15pm. Social TV Revolution.

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Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. Most importantly, he is a rockstar game designer, and had been at Disney for 13 years, working on things like Toontown Online, Pirates of the Carribean Online, and Pixie Hollow, among others.

Software 100

Software Template Startup Study 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses around the world with reliable, professional-class services to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich Internet content. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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