TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Via gets the “deal of the week” designation not just because its post-funding valuation is now $2.25 As part of the program, up to 30-minute rides will be free for members of critical workforces through April 30 in Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, the Washington D.C.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

This Sunday BetterWorks his hosting Coloft Hackfest in Santa Monica, CA,and what better way to spend your weekend then with an amazing group of individuals from your local Southern California Tech scene. Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. Early designer of Paypal. Santa Monica, CA 90401.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. We're in Santa Monica, and sometime people think we're a venue or rental space for events, but what we are, is a 100 percent software company.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2011

South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. Potential employers, developers, investors, designers, and more in one room, eager to exchange cards and more than a few words. “Would you like a free drink ticket?”

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. Even so, ads only work if people can see them, and today’s ad formats need to be visible on any device.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Photos…the final frontier. from Carnegie Mellon University. News, Gannett, and Tribune. “We

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

This weekend, February 22-24th, will be your chance to attend UCLA Anderson School of Management’s 42 hour Developers Contest, hosted at ROC in Santa Monica. The contest theme is Travel and is open to apps on any platform, meaning you’ll be seeing new Windows, Mac, Android and iOS software being created before your eyes.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Make sure to tune in! TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Date : Thursday, October 24, 2013.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is located in Santa Monica. We also hae a designer in Chicago. I even will be up north, talking with people, and they''ll ask me to come over to lunch sometime, and I have to explain to them that we''re up North often, but not that often, because we''re in Santa Monica. What is Burstly?

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Recycled Bride is the world’s largest wedding marketplace; a peer-to-peer platform that connects buyers and sellers of designer wedding dresses, accessories, and anything else wedding-related. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. When was Recycled Bride founded and where is it based?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I think we were able to effectively transition, because our technology platform. At the time, our platform allowed us to build our games, and have one game which we could send to multiple devices. Speaking of iOS and Android, what's the future of platforms? Josh Hartwell: In the near term, it's iOS, Android, and Amazon.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. Community Sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Headquarted in Santa Monica, CA, CallFire is dedicated to providing high-availability systems, intuitive user interfaces, furious developer support, and unparalleled customer care in order to transform how companies do business. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Rapid Fire Trivia is a game owned and operated by Danger Room Gaming.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They’ve expanded their sales and operations from Santa Monica to include New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Atlanta. LA is home-base for their design, publisher development, engineering, finance, and marketing teams. Ophir considers GumGum as part technology and part media company. ” What’s next.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier. If someone loves your image of the Santa. all of that for more than a 100,000 members.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here?

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. For us, relatively large and very large multi location brands use our platform to ensure they get discovered online. Interestingly, we've seen an explosion in usage of our platform. What is MomentFeed doing p>now? We want to be number one.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

However, Santa Monica-based Dreamhammer (www.dreamhammer.com) has a different vision of the world, where entire fleets of aerial drones and robotics surface vehicles can all operate off a single, interoperable operating system--much like you get multiple smartphones running on Android today, or computers on the same OS.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform. They are not designed to help develop relationships. It's really like using three different programs.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25 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. “We million in seed funding since its founding in 2012.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. ThisNext will continue as a standalone brand, and will be slightly repositioned on design products--by which I mean products that are interesting, unique, specialized, and boutique-like in nature.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2011

A little while ago, we and our friends at ImTech were able to sit down with CEO of Robodynamics , a Santa-Monica based telepresence robotics company and get an in-depth look at their new project, LUNA. Really what that means is it’s a platform for people to create (inaudible) robots that can live and work with humans.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

Light Emotion Data) to the Santa Monica Twilight Concert Series. This platform takes our web-based technology from the computer screen to the concert experience, as L.E.D. The post Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier appeared first on TechZulu.

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