socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

All 8 of the companies from our inaugural class of MuckerLab went on to raise follow-on funding -- many from some of the best venture firms like Founders Fund, First Round Capital, NEA, Lightbank, Greylock Partners, Mohr Davidow and others. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? toward one or two major dominate players.

Southern California 259

Southern California High Tech Activity Platform 259

TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. Snap investment Hardworkers. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup.

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Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

Content 245

Content Netflix Platform Mobile 245

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

Companies 276

Companies Company Startup Southern California 276

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

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

The startups included SideVision , an ecommerce software platform; Portal Entertainment a content development company; Bubbl , a developer of mobile and web-based video editing tools; Wisemetrics , social content publishing; Incoming Media , push notification for video; and Toggle , a developer of HDMI dongles for streaming UltraViolet content.

Media 124

Media Class Hollywood Incubator 124

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. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

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

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Appetize said that Live nation will be rolling out the Appetize point-of-sale (POS) payment platform across 32 of the company's U.S. Appetize provides a way for people to pay for concessions using their mobile phone. The startup is also part of the first class of the LA Dodgers Accelerator.

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Mobile Entertainment Class Sales 100

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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.

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Class Burbank Software Review 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Venice-based Snap announced the third class of its Yellow startup accelerator class on Wednesday, naming ten companies to participate in its annual 14-week program in Los Angeles.

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Class Venice Los Angeles Equity 127

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

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Startup 153

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

The startup--founded by Dan Altmann and Eric Posen--says it is enabling the creation of mobile-first content for Snapchat and other social network platforms. The funding was led by Third Wave Digital and Allen DeBevoise and also included Disney and Luminari Capital.

Snapchat 140

Snapchat Content Social Network Class 140

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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Class Artificial Inteligence AMA Platform 82

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.

Zag 249

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 249

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. It was an investment management class. We’ll re-compare notes then.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2015

Culver City-based Sense360 , the new, smartphone sensor platform developer led by startup veteran Eli Portnoy, has just launched its program, saying that it is looking to make it easier for app developers to leverage sensor data from smartphones. That data can be used for a more personalized app experience. READ MORE>>.

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Culver City Develop Development Incubator 187

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

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. It wasn't just a keyword for BMW or Mercedes, it was finding content specific to the BMW 3 Series, or Mercedes C Class. What does this look like to brands and publishers?

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

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. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

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. Using the incubator to figure out what we were doing made sense, and it gave us a platform to launch and have some unfair advantage in building out our business.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

We have a top 10 engineering school, a top computer science department, and research going on in everything from big data, mobile platforms, artificial intelligence, B2B, B2C. The companies we''re potentially looking for in the incubator are doing very interesting, hard core science, not just working on the next mobile app.

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Incubator USC Startup Artificial Inteligence 233

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2015

Culver City-based Sense360 , the new, smartphone sensor platform developer led by startup veteran Eli Portnoy, has just launched its program, saying that it is looking to make it easier for app developers to leverage sensor data from smartphones. That data can be used for a more personalized app experience. READ MORE>>.

Culver City 162

Culver City Develop Development Incubator 162

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.

Startup 208

Startup Customer Custom Commerce 208

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile credit startup Float , which is developing an iOS app to provide credit to consumers, has been selected as part of the commerce-focused startup accelerator Commerce.Innovated. Commerce.Innovated said this is its fourth class for the accelerator. READ MORE>>.

Commerce 100

Commerce Class Mobile Los Angeles 100

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. Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab. So we've partnered and worked with technology partners, and built a technology company to develop applications for ourselves and third party platforms.

Content 230

Content News Startup Research 230

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. The first thing we learned is that people never sync their mobile devices. Erik Caso: Yes, it's available. They don't remember to.

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Screening Resource Services Mobile 230

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

It''s pretty hard to imagine instant search in other context, and on other devices, particularly when it comes to mobile. There are unique problems with mobile, including memory issues, network latency, and typing issues. Dev Bhatia: You can think of them as lots of different platforms and devices. They''re Stanford Ph.D''s,

Technology 216

Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

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JULY 26, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile movie ticketing provider Atom Tickets , which is led by Ameesh Paleja, said on Monday that it has expanded its mobile movie ticketing platform to Dallas, Houston, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Kansas City, Charlotte and Raleigh. It's also part of the current Disney Accelerator class. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 100

Southern California Class Los Angeles Mobile 100

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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?

Mobile 124

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 124

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.

Social Media 131

Social Media Media Startup Mobile 131

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.

SaaS 68

SaaS Platform CTO Hire Class 68

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch.

Google 303

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 303

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

That's actually borne fruit in our first class. We're also looking at mobile, because of the presence of Qualcomm and a huge body of talent around mobile, and social commerce, because of our success in social commerce, most recently with BeachMint, ShoeDazzle, and others. LA is geographically diverse, and distributed.

Startup 254

Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

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.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

San Diego 76

San Diego Class Mobile Platform 76

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)

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160