TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. Wabisabi Design, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) It is what Seriously was designed to do.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million in seed funding. The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto. For its first foray into live entertainment, Moment House is going to host a geo-fenced, location-specific tour for the musician Yungblud.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. As the line blurs between tech and entertainment, and as Silicon Valley seeks synergy with L.A.’s One after another, tech and entertainment companies – and hybrids of the two – have taken root here. commercial real estate market.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Stellar is a so-called "blank check acquisition company" specifically designed to for reverse mergers. As a result of the merger, Stellar is renaming itself as Phunware, Inc., and will start trading under the new stock symbols PHUN and PHUNw. The two said the acquisition values Phunware at an enterprise value of $301M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2017

Los Angeles-based Two Bit Circus , the entertainment startup founded by Brent Bushnell, and non-profit T4G.org announced this morning that they have launched the Two Bit Circus Foundation. Two Bit Circus has been active in promoting STEAM learning, with many of its educational entertainment-themed activities centered on STEAM principles.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2019

The company’s new round was led by Cain International and was designed to take AllBright into three U.S. The club’s current members include actors, members of the House of Lords and other fancy pants, high-falutin folks from the worlds of politics, business and entertainment. million to expand into the U.S.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm DFJ Frontier is bolstering its ranks, and has snagged an entertainment and media veteran as a new Venture Partner at the company. He''s also served at Encore Video/Encore Visual Effects, Heroes Title Design, Next Element, CBS Music, Iconix Imaging, Bancom Financial Corporation, and New Antics.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

“We have members from all walks of life – from nurses to lawyers, software developers, police officers, makeup artists, fashion designers, dog walkers, interior designers and more.”. “We’re helping their products get discovered. Then those members go to the brand partners and can continue on those relationships.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Juan Bruce: My background is in design engineering. I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, working for BMW''s technology office, and design firm Ideo. I then went back to Stanford for business school, and ended up coming down here to Southern California to run a design studio for an Ideo competitor, Continuum.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

March Capital Partners , the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has raised $300 million for its latest fund. Montgomery believes there’s no business that won’t require information technology services, and he and his partners are building a portfolio that he thinks is designed to provide them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2022

Investors like me look for these in the people they fund, and you should be looking for them in yourself: Forever curious. This is the capacity to entertain contradictory or incomplete information without discomfort and anxiety. It’s the province of game designers and creators of new social media platforms. Embrace ambiguity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

If you need investors, it’s important that you understand their filters, and even if you are funding your own efforts, you need to recognize the red flags. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. If you have deep pockets, these ultimately can be very lucrative.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 7, 2014

That’s right folks TechZulu is heading to NAB with our old pals NMX to report and entertain live from the New Media Lounge. Brad Wyman Get Funded. Brad Wyman Get Funded. Brad Wyman Get Funded. Brad Wyman Get Funded. Business Entertainment Entrepreneurship Events NAB NMX Hive Lighting' 9am – 11am.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2009

El Segundo-based BridgeCo , a developer of semiconductors for the home entertainment market, announced Friday that it has raised $7.5M in a new round of funding. BridgeCo said the equity funding will go to accelerate technology development, as well as to expands its partner program. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

If you need investors, it’s important that you understand their filters, and even if you are funding your own efforts, you need to recognize the red flags. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. If you have deep pockets, these ultimately can be very lucrative.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

A new, interactive application, Braindex --designed for the iPad and iPad mini--lets consumers do just that directly on their tablet. TouchFrame has teamed with 51 Minds Entertainment, part of Endemol, to develop what it says is a TV-quality play along game show. Are you smarter than Mike Tyson? How about Andy Milonakis?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. Ellis describes himself as a lifelong product guy, and lover of design and photography. I am drawn to it.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

17, entrepreneurs, investors, civic leaders and other key players in the tech industry will gather at the historic Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. startups attracting over $847 million in investment funds in 2012 alone, the city’s diverse resources are often too separated. 3 startup ecosystem in the world, with L.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Speakers: Kate Drane – Design Tech & Hardware Lead at Indiegogo. She is responsible for all aspects of business growth for the platform’s design and technology categories and has led many companies, including Misfit Wearables, Scanadu and Canonical, to secure funding on Indiegogo. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? Krisztina Holly: We are an early stage fund, known for our ability to discovery and cultivate very complex science and technology deals. We just launched a third, $100M fund focused on seed to Series A investments in transformative science and technology companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Investors like me look for these in the people they fund, and you should be looking for them in yourself: Forever curious. This is the capacity to entertain contradictory or incomplete information without discomfort and anxiety. It’s the province of game designers and creators of new social media platforms. Embrace ambiguity.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you are a startup seeking funding, convey your company's origins, your current status and your ideal exit. More Is Less - I recently had lunch with a friend who is a highly successful entertainment industry executive. Entertaining slides are effective, as long as they do not distract from your story. What's Your Story?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. So Nolan is behind the design of the games? How is the firm funded? This is my third company.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Our sources put the company’s funding somewhere around $6 million in its recent funding round. It’s less well-known that the company is backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital investment — firms like Sequoia Capital. It worked. . “[Manufacturing] social influence.” Ephemeral, but infinite.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

No matter how much it bothers you, people do like to entertain themselves with a “lean back” experience. And we like to be entertained. It requires writers, actors, film crews, lighting, costume & set designs, make-up artists, post production, sound, editors and so on. As humans we like story telling.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. Beyond entertainment, ad tech is huge with Rubicon''s IPO and the TrueX $200M acquisition by Fox. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? I like events.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. million under management across three funds.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The company, along with its partners at PreistmanGoode also released the design for its passenger Hyperloop capsule at the London Design Festival. million in Series A financing from Sherpa Capital along with three other funds. Former SpaceX rocket designer Brogan BamBrogan was one of the initial cofounders of Hyperloop One.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. In 2012 over $3.2

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. Deborah Ramo: It's interesting, but my background is actually in the entertainment world. Eventually, the idea was that the entertainment industry's workforce would reflect our audience.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The intuitive design makes finding, keeping, and removing all the channels the user focuses on very simple and clean. No clutter design and no complicated motions to scroll through the various channels and videos available. How hard was it to fund Pheebo? We really wanted to focus on the design of Pheebo.

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