Remove Design Remove Entrepreneur Remove Google Remove Idealab
article thumbnail

Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles’ growing robotics hub

TechCrunch LA

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. Barnehama was tight-lipped about the specifics of the technology that Elementary is using for its robotic stack. ”

article thumbnail

Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. downtown LA].

Startup 304
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

socalTECH

One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. One of the biggest issues, is that consumers typically find coupons through a Google search query. The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding. READ MORE>>.

article thumbnail

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Bill Gross – Idealab.

article thumbnail

March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

socalTECH

At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. It's all about the entrepreneur. One, is this fund is really designed to pile onto its winners.

article thumbnail

Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups.

article thumbnail

Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company.