SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 22, 2019

At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Exhibitor passes include: - 3 tickets - Table top to display product / service - 4-minute speaking slot at the end of the normal 60- second pitches.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Venture Capital Angel Conference 100

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2014

Five startups have been named winners at the Siemer Summit , the tech confab which has been being held in Santa Monica for the past couple of days by local investment banking company and investor Siemer Ventures, highlighting some of the top startups in the region. TrueCar''s Scott Painter was also honored as part of the awards.

Startup 173

Startup Truecar Santa Monica Conference 173

socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2015

The Siemer Summit , the invite-only conference which has been organized by technology investment banking firm Siemer & Associates for the last four years, is returning this year, according to the firm. The firm also said that other speakers will include Thomas Gewecke of Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

Draper 100

Draper Beverly Hills Conference Santa Monica 100

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MARCH 8, 2018

The Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), which kicked off on Wednesday, and continues today in Santa Monica, is one of the biggest gathering places for venture capital, private equity investors, and technology executives from around the globe. What's going on this year at the conference? It's nice to be here in LA.

Southern California 113

Southern California Santa Monica Artificial Inteligence Conference 113

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

No, Jason Calacanis , the Santa Monica angel investor, and CEO and founder of Mahalo , isn''t bootstrapping a new company and reverting to the hungry''s entrepreneur diet. The size of the investment round was not announced. ramen software crowdfunding finance project development jason calacanis mahalo launch conference'

Mahalo 140

Mahalo Sites Santa Monica Conference 140

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Editor's note, TuesdayNights is running its Impact Conference in Santa Monica on Friday, where we are a Media Partner) Photo: Left, Melinda Moore and Right, Justine Lassoff. She, as well as several other, wonderful female investors, will be at our upcoming conference. What is TuesdayNights? You have to grow your network.

Help 224

Help Entrepreneur Capital Startup 224

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APRIL 15, 2013

the investment banking firm which got its start in Los Angeles focusing on high tech companies--and as a onetime venture capital investor--has exited the investment banking and advisory business, the firm said today. s roots as an investment firm. montgomery monty angeles investment banking' Montgomery & Co. ,

Signal Hill 113

Signal Hill Southern California Santa Monica High Tech 113

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd: Cross Campus is one of the companies I invested in, as the first, lead investor, about seven years ago. We have a number of locations, including one in Santa Monica, one in Pasadena, one in Downtown, and one in El Segundo and the South Bay Area. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

El Segundo 100

El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

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JUNE 27, 2013

The 17-year old firm, which also said it will open up a brand new home at the center of Silicon Beach, signing a 10-year lease for a space on 7th Street in Santa Monica. GRP has been quite active in the local technology industry, having founded accelerator LaunchpadLA. READ MORE>>.

GRP Partners 164

GRP Partners Funding CitySearch Venture Capital 164

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Social and instant messaging, plus mobile broadband, makes it possible to serve a global clientele from anywhere � and Santa Monica is still my favorite place overall, so I'm there almost every month for at least a few days to work with our LA team and regional clients. What's the biggest lesson you learned this year? READ MORE>>.

Southern California 124

Southern California Santa Monica News Press 124

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com and co-producer of the TechCrunch50 conference--not known for pulling his punches--publicly targeted angel group The Keiretsu Forum today for their presentation fees. Tags: jason calacanis keiretsu forum angel investment venture capital techcrunch50.

Keiretsu 157

Keiretsu Santa Monica Venture Capital Blogging 157

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JUNE 11, 2012

How do you cut out all of the effort required to discover, find, and book venues for your event, wedding, or conference? That's what Santa Monica-based EventUp (www.eventup.com), one of the first companies to emerge out of Santa Monica-based Science Inc. , is trying to figure out. It's very exciting.

Santa Monica 211

Santa Monica Seed Funding Startup Conference 211

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

Whether you were a startup, an investor, a blogger, a fashionista, or someone just curious about what is happening in Santa Monica aka “Silicon Beach,” the recent Silicon Beach Fest had something for everyone which included panels, parties and more. 4 P’s of Success.

Cornerstone OnDemand 93

Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Not that I’ll take credit for what I’m about to announce, but I knew that if somebody could commit to building out LA and making the investments required to kick ass in this market it would be Cooley. Invest they have.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica. Key Events include: June 14-16: Hackathon presented by AT&T will gather a few hundred developers, coaches, and business professionals who will create startup pitches at ROC Santa Monica. Thursday Night Fashion Party at Santa Monica Place.

GRP Partners 88

GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

LATechDigest

JUNE 13, 2016

STREAM Conference Came to Santa Monica. crosscutvc and a few other VCs talk investment opportunity and challenges in the video space #stream16 pic.twitter.com/L92fjfDEjk. Daqri, Snapchat, SpaceX Make CNBC ‘s Disruptor 50 ( link ). GOOGLE Moving into Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose Hangar ( link ).

Snapchat 40

Snapchat SpaceX Santa Monica Journal 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. The first investment I ever made as a VC was in a company now called Invoca. It’s funny but recently I was at the CornerstoneOnDemand conference in Santa Monica.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. Venue Sponsor. Want to Sponsor?

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. Twiistup 6 featured 12 showoff companies as the opening act of a 2-day conference. ExpenseBay Wins Showoff. Twiistup 6 has come to an end.

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

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JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is located in Santa Monica. People at the Apple conference were completely in awe. Evan wanted to invest, and we were talking with Mark Suster about joining our advisory board. Burstly is headed by Evan Rifkin, and backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective.

Startup 262

Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica. Since 2008, Harrison Metal has invested in over 40 companies, including Aardvark (GOOG), DocVerse (GOOG), Heroku (CRM), Manymoon (CRM), MixerLab (Twitter) and ZipZapPlay (ERTS). TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan.

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs. She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. There’s Santa Monica, Westside, Hollywood, Downtown LA, the Valley, and Pasadena. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

As we learned from our investment in Overture and the subsequent success of Google, “intent-based&# advertising is enormously powerful. But then I went to the Parnassus Group’s Twitter 140 conference run by Steve Broback and Brett Schulte. But 70% of my investment decision in early-stage companies is the team.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. We have offices in San Francisco, and we are on video conferences five or six hours a day bridging the gap between the Bay Area technology and Los Angeles media.

Media 100

Media Yahoo Startup Tool 100

Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! For us, being near Santa Monica was key. Around the Santa Monica area, it happens to be a landlords market with less than 6% availability.

Startup 40

Startup Technical Review Software Review Advertising 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. MSN Money Investing. Investment Land For Sale. Investing Tools. Conferences.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44