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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?

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JANUARY 17, 2013

TouchFrame has teamed with 51 Minds Entertainment, part of Endemol, to develop what it says is a TV-quality play along game show. TouchFrame is one of the nine companies which launched themselves at MuckerLab's big Demo Day yesterday, the second class of startups to launch out of the accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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Class Los Angeles Incubator Venture Capital 176

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JULY 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based SPACES (www.spaces.com), led by CEO Shiraz Akmal and a team of entertainment veterans from Dreamworks Animation, is hoping to do that with a series of physical attractions, powered by VR technology. We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format.

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Entertainment Santa Monica IP Startup 180

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

chapter of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance (METal) and the voice of KenRadio's World Technology Roundup on CBS Radio, Rutkowski has recruited a roster of mentors to coach entrepreneurs who enroll in the institute's programs in LA. of your stock, which means everyone in your class has a vested interest in your success.

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Mentor Class Entertainment Technical Review 185

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MARCH 27, 2009

Today's interview is with Peter Csathy, President and CEO of Sorenson Media (www.sorensonmedia.com), which recently relocated its executive offices to San Diego. What is Sorenson Media about? Peter Csathy: Sorenson Media has been around for several years. It's really aggressive growth. We are drop-dead, ease of use.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. Voice tech is rapidly becoming an end to end interface, not just a way to make a shopping list or check the weather.

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Startup Press Commerce Southern California 124

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. When is your first class? Howard Marks: Our first class starts in January, and we're already accepting applications.

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CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194

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JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: StarGreetz is a digital media content company, that allows brands to stand out in a very cluttered marketplace. You've been in more traditional entertainment firms--as an executive in a big studio--why jump to a startup? Did those prior entertainment relationships help to get those celebrities to work with you?

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

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MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. That's actually borne fruit in our first class. We sat down with Paul to learn a bit more about the program at Amplfify.

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Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. So carriers are a major customer of yours?

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

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MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. 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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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025. Some really excellent areas of domain expertise in Southern California includes life sciences, genomics, wireless, material science, digital media, entertainment, and medical technology.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

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AUGUST 10, 2009

I took a cake decorating class, and I loved it. We have the usual suspects like Kitchenaid, Sara Lee, McCormick, Reynolds but we really focus on entertainment properties like Sony, ABC, Fox Searchlight. There are lots of big media companies -- and they own the newspapers -- it's difficult to compete with them.

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Social Network Startup Sites Networking 174

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. the entertainment industry. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. than in other parts of the city.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44