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500 Startups moves to rolling admissions instead of cohorts

TechCrunch LA

500 Startups is scrapping its cohort model for accelerating companies and moving to a rolling admissions process, the accelerator said during its latest demo day. One of the progenitors of the accelerator model in the US along with Techstars and Y Combinator , 500 has been a cornerstone of the early-stage company building platform.

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Warner Media Camp Graduates Second Class

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What do you get when you combine a technology investment demo day with a Hollywood-style story pitch session? It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. the camp is the second in the Los Angeles area.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. The 10 startups in Yellow’s third batch include: Brightly : a media platform and community that promotes ethical and sustainable brands. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. ”

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Disney Accelerator Demo Day: Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, More

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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. READ MORE>>.

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

TechCrunch LA

The Imagine Impact vetting process involves both experienced readers and a natural language processing system that the talent incubator developed internally. From the beginning, the Imagine Impact team recognized that Netflix was democratizing storytelling and creating a global platform for talent.

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Interview with Paul Bricault, Amplify

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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. It's not a lot more, juts a little more, but it's because the Los Angeles is more difficult to sustain a startup than in Cincinnati or other places.

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Meet Our Startup of the Year Competition Semifinalists: Mobile Therapy

Tech.Co

Climbing the ranks for our Los Angeles, CA region, Mobile Therapy was one of two semifinal winners. However, demonstrating that value to clinicians without a DEMO or a pilot is a challenging aspect of the market adoption. Did you do anything in particular to rally your fans and clients?