socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has quietly acquired a 3D gaming engine developer based in the UK, according to a report. According to the report, Snap acquired PlayCanvas, a developer of 3D game design software, last May. No details on the acquisition have been announced by either of the companies.

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Snapchat Venice Startup Report 138

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. Demand Media.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap said on Thurday that it has rolled out a new tool, which lets designers create and build augmented reality lenses for Snapchat. The company said the tool is not just built for developers, but also creatives, students, and brands.

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Snapchat Venice Tool Design 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Newport Beach-based PogoTec said today that it has launched its first product, the PogoCam , a miniature camera designed to attach to any pair of glasses. The new device appears to be directly competitive to Venice-based Snap's own camera sunglasses. The new device costs $149.00.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Venice, California-based Signal Sciences , a developer of security tools aimed at the DevOps market, said this morning that it has raised $9.7M The company said its Series A was raised in 2015, and came from Index Ventures. in a Series A round, and launched its products. Signal Sciences is led by CEO Andrew Peterson.

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Tool Venice Web Design 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2015

According to the startup, its new Ostetso platform is designed to help developers add their own, photo sharing social network with only a few lines of code. The platform handles everything from the photo gallery within the app to all the back-end database and image storage. READ MORE>>.

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Hermosa Beach Social Network Venice Mobile 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , has filed for its much anticipated IPO, saying in a filing late Thursday that it is looking to raise up to $3.0 Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Allen & Company LLC. Snap's major backers are Benchmark Capital (12.7

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. And in our last fund our two biggest exits came from companies run by women, neither of whom fit the 20-something entrepreneur stereotype. We chose a location that fit our style.

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Funding Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 343

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

tech companies have raised more than $620 million in roughly 50 deals thus far this year,” a 78 percent increase over last year and a record for Silicon Beach. The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica.

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Entertainment Santa Monica Journal Belkin 108

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

The second thing we have going on, is we''re expanding beyond the cool, hot social apps, which we still have lots of, but to other companies in other areas. The third thing, is it''s not just Santa Monica and Venice. But, we also have this other stuff too. I view that my goal in the community is all about connecting people.

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Santa Monica Conference Belkin Southern California 205

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Star-Match feature is designed to be a friendly connection builder. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger. The Star-Match. The algorithm will match users with other Doppels members based on their interests, birthdays and location.

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Startup Venice Social Network Tool 126

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Andrew Peterson , who told us how his team's experience at Etsy resulted in the founding of the company. What is Signal Sciences?

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Web Startup Southern California Software 138

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. We started traveling to Sundance and SXSW and these shows with awesome companies, but no one was writing about it,” Taylor said. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5 Taylor said.

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Startup Web Development Design Education 70

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: A team from OKCupid works out of the space, as well as a few of the best civic-focused tech companies in LA. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Rancho Palos Verdes Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

However, TechZulu will be doing an official pre-event on Tuesday June 17th with our #TZTechCrawl in Venice. In the third summer fest, we will be celebrating the amazing success of LA tech companies in the past year. Its that time of the year again! Silicon Beach Fest will kicks off next week from June 18 – 21.

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2015

Created by Jonathan Wegener and his Co-Founder Benny Wong, the company has over 16M+ users. To dig deeper, I reached out to the company’s CEO, Jonathan Wegener. John Greathouse : You’ve just raised $10 million in funding, basically tripled your company headcount in a matter of months and you decide to kick everyone out of the office.

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Tool Product Design Venice 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

First, to catch up our readers on JibJab, can you quickly talk about where the company is nowadays and the whole greeting card business? They are designed so that parents will love them too. We caught up with Gregg Spiridellis, one of the founders of JibJab, to hear about Storybots. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now?

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Content Startup Screening Education 224

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

First, to catch up our readers on JibJab, can you quickly talk about where the company is nowadays and the whole greeting card business? They are designed so that parents will love them too. We caught up with Gregg Spiradellis, one of the founders of JibJab, to hear about Storybots. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now?

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world. With the rapid trajectory of tablet devices purchased in the past few years, media and mobile companies are scrambling to create new apps for them.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. To be clear we will continue to see great infrastructure companies built and these will mostly come from Silicon Valley. All great communication companies.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Some of my friends who were forced to go into startup companies ended up working for these biotech firms that became huge, and they made a lot of money by not being able to get a job. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. I had this path to choose.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337