Tech.Co

MAY 18, 2017

Coolhaus is an architecturally-themed, gourmet dessert company operating a fleet of 10 mobile ice cream trucks and carts around the country. Factual is a location platform that enables personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences by enriching mobile location signals. Direct Relief. HATCHBEAUTY Products, LLC.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Outsource Development 220

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. And build great business they have.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the company is launching a true crime podcast, to tap into another potentially high-growth market, on the iHeartMedia and Apple platforms. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. But it was far from the only studio to see money in mobile-first entertainment.

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Social Media Media Startup Mobile 131

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.

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Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. imperson provides an artificial intelligence platform enabling fans to have conversations with their favorite movie and TV characters. StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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Southern California News Platform Class 100

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. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Artificial Inteligence Class Burbank Software Review 100

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. Jason Reid: Giftagram is a mobile first company, that really redefines the way people gift. We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. How does Giftagram work?

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

CallFire today extended its position as a leading provider of text message and voice apps that help organizations grow, with the launch of a definitive next-generation platform capable of scaling to meet the exploding global demand for advanced cloud telephony features, services and capacity. Opt-in voice broadcast.

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SaaS Platform CTO Hire Class 68

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.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 109

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. But, do they really help? We have refind our thesis around why mobile is so special, and how it ties into location, and have spent two years working on precise, location targeted ads in the industry.

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Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Increasing the awareness and support of entrepreneurial development helps connect startups, builds confidence among entrepreneurs, and portrays our community as a great place to build a business. For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform.

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Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2012

We caught up with Michelle Crames, CEO and Founder of SkuLoop, to hear the story about how the firm pivoted form its former focus on mobile gifting (as Giiv.com) and caught the wave of the flash sales and daily deals industry. Michelle Crames: We started as Giiv.com, and were primarily focused on mobile gifting.

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Startup Customer Custom Commerce 208

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. What does this look like to brands and publishers?

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

With the iPhone, Apple finally broke the hegemony that the telecom carriers had over mobile applications and that has stifled innovation for too many years. Mobile will likely spawn a whole new wave of innovation because it’s pervasive, location aware and always with you. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.” Approachable.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2014

. “At American, we’re extremely sensitive to our customer’s evolving needs, and wearable technology is a quickly-growing market,” said Phillip Easter, Director Mobile Apps at American Airlines. Mobile Startups American Airlines hackathon Travel travel apps Wearable World Wearables'

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Technology Mobile Incubator Screening 93

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.

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Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Includes content mobile guides, ie.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them.

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Content News Startup Research 230

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. There are 80 million Americans in this emerging class, who are unbanked and underbanked. We want to give them better financial tools, help them save more money of that not much money they do have, and become upwardly mobile.

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Capital Startup Los Angeles Invest 183

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.

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Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. To start, why don't you describe how your mobile ads work?

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Startup Mobile Culver City Los Angeles 177

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) I'll list three, not necessarily in order. (1)

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Shadrach: We participate in local networking events and help promote the city as a business friendly ecosystem for technology-focused startups. I was also recently named to the University of Washington IT Advisory Board to help promote the computer science and technology degree programs.

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Startup Class Resource Examples 70

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

According to Kaleio founder & CEO, Jim Riley, “This partnership marks a significant step in us becoming an invaluable resource for college students and working-class professionals to not only find and apply for job openings or internships, but to also leverage the power of their network and others within their targeted industry.”.

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Yahoo Platform Social Network Tool 100

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2015

If you are a mother, and you need some help with something--say, finding a tutor, or a referral to a service provider--the age-old way to do that is to ask your friends for referrals. However, that process really hasn''t taken advantage of today''s mobile, always-connected, socially networked world. What''s the idea behind Momstamp?

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Networking Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Social Network 100

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. I can set up teams, help them, and nurture them. he's been spinning out of his incubator.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

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. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5 ” It’s like having an online studio helping independent filmmakers and YouTubers get seen. ” She is redefining how business is taught and using her personal online platform apart from a designated channel platform to do so.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. Follow Ups help you remember what you need to do later without taking you away from what you are working on now. Venture Funding. Developers API.

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Social Network Marketing Networking Social Media 65

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. Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Month by month, the hospitality business is sorting out how mobile plays a role in increasing revenue and driving loyalty. Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. .

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Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

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. Community Sponsors. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77