socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The programs--which does not charge fees or take equity from companies in its program--says it is seeking nine early stage startups to take part in its eight-week program, designed to help early stage startups. Startup Boost Los Angeles says its program includes six weekly workshop sessions and one demo night hosted by Google, in Venice.

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Los Angeles Class Angel Startup 154

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has quietly acquired a 3D gaming engine developer based in the UK, according to a report. According to the report, Snap acquired PlayCanvas, a developer of 3D game design software, last May. No details on the acquisition have been announced by either of the companies.

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Snapchat Venice Startup Report 138

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We chose a location that fit our style.

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Funding Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 343

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Venice-based Snap announced the third class of its Yellow startup accelerator class on Wednesday, naming ten companies to participate in its annual 14-week program in Los Angeles. Snap says that those 10 companies were receive $150,000 in equity investments, mentorship from Snap and others, space in Los Angeles, as well as other support.

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Class Venice Los Angeles Equity 127

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap said on Thurday that it has rolled out a new tool, which lets designers create and build augmented reality lenses for Snapchat. The new tool, Lens Studio , allows users to build and launch immersive Lenses--such as your own dancing hot dog, or rainbow barfing unicorn--and publish them to Snapchat.

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Snapchat Venice Tool Design 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap is about to get a big new challenger to its flagship "Spectacles" line, from none other than Google , as Google rolled out a new product called Google Clips over the weekend. READ MORE>>.

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Google Artificial Inteligence Venice Design 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

"Bringing the Electric Car Experience to You" Join the leading electric car makers, charging providers and local utilities for the latest innovations and trends in the eCar Marketplace at the Electric Lodge in Venice. The eCarFest is an informative display of electric vehicle innovations and lifestyles.

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Venice Design Technology 113

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2021

Venice, California-based Pledge, which provides a fundraising platform which links businesses, nonprofits, and individuals to help raise money for nonprofits, has raised $3M in additional seed funding, the company said this week.

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Help Seed Funding Venice Venture Capital 113

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

. “Community underscores everything we do here at Bev, and as such, we will be producing hand sanitizer and distributing it free of charge to the homeless and elderly communities here in Venice, populations who largely have insufficient access to healthcare and essential goods like sanitizer.”

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Company Companies Mobile Organization 281

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Newport Beach-based PogoTec said today that it has launched its first product, the PogoCam , a miniature camera designed to attach to any pair of glasses. The new device appears to be directly competitive to Venice-based Snap's own camera sunglasses. The new device costs $149.00.

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Venice Competition Design Product 113

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

The third thing, is it''s not just Santa Monica and Venice. I get excited when people connect, and I really get excited when someone gets a job referral, or someone finds a designer. In fact, this conference connects people who might not have met, it might connect a designer with a bizdev person with a developer.

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Santa Monica Conference Belkin Southern California 205

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Venice, California-based Signal Sciences , a developer of security tools aimed at the DevOps market, said this morning that it has raised $9.7M Signal Sciences says it has developed a web application firewall (WAF), specifically designed for agile development and DevOps teams. in a Series A round, and launched its products.

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Tool Venice Web Design 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2015

According to the startup, its new Ostetso platform is designed to help developers add their own, photo sharing social network with only a few lines of code. The platform handles everything from the photo gallery within the app to all the back-end database and image storage.

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Hermosa Beach Social Network Venice Mobile 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Google might not be a purely Southern California company, but the company now has thousands of employees spread across the region, including a location in the iconic Binoculars building in Venice, designed by Frank Gehry.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. I wish every city could have an 1871.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Venice, California-based The Bouqs Company , the direct, cut-to-order flower delivery provider led by John Tabis, is announcing today that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding. The startup recently started working with local florists, offering up not just flowers but also custom-designed floral arrangements. according to CEO Tabis.

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Company Companies Draper Venice 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo!

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Marketing Yahoo Venice Media 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , percent of Class B, and 50% each of Class C stock, in a structure designed to provide Spiegel and Murphy full control of the company even after the IPO. the parent company of Snapchat , has filed for its much anticipated IPO, saying in a filing late Thursday that it is looking to raise up to $3.0

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Class Southern California Snapchat Venice 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. But it was the low-key, creative beach vibe of Venice and Santa Monica that spurred a spate of start-ups to seek offices and homes. Here, prices can climb higher.

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Entertainment Santa Monica Journal Belkin 108

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

They are designed so that parents will love them too. For our ABC video series alone, we had people in Argentina, Italy, the UK, and here in house in Venice, and other places around the world, producing those videos. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Gregg Spiridellis: We've got four products in the market right now.

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Content Startup Screening Education 224

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Developed by four Stanford University students, Snapchat , now located in Venice, is a new way to share moments with friends and family. Marketing: SteelHouse.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Star-Match feature is designed to be a friendly connection builder. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger. The Star-Match. The algorithm will match users with other Doppels members based on their interests, birthdays and location.

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Startup Venice Social Network Tool 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

On Friday, September 28th Team Viddy will pick their favorite API partner, and fly you (or your team of up to 4 people) to Venice Beach for an interview at Viddy. You only have til September to have a finished product and submitted to the Viddy team.

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Development Develop Venice Southern California 82

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. There are a whole lot of companies outside the realm of Silicon Valley who you need to build and design for as well.

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Web Startup Software Southern California 138

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. In fact, 1 in 7 or nearly 15% of Angelinos are employed in a creative field.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

And LA shifted to Santa Monica and Venice. ” It was an Art Deco style building and we were able to design an office that kept the concrete and the wood. The photo is Dana on the first day with Jordan Hudson who has also helped tremendously with design, furniture and layout. Waltham shifted to Cambridge.

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Rancho Palos Verdes Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

However, TechZulu will be doing an official pre-event on Tuesday June 17th with our #TZTechCrawl in Venice. Its that time of the year again! Silicon Beach Fest will kicks off next week from June 18 – 21. For those who may be wondering with Silicon Beach Fest is (and you should know by know!).

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

They are designed so that parents will love them too. For our ABC video series alone, we had people in Argentina, Italy, the UK, and here in house in Venice, and other places around the world, producing those videos. Can you talk about what StoryBots looks like now? Gregg Spiradellis: We've got four products in the market right now.

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. San Francisco was designed to be a hub for all things VR and AR to legitimize the industry and give it a home,” he said. The Bay Area space is designed to be a collaborative environment for now over 45 VR/AR companies to work and grow their business.

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Startup Web Development Design Education 70

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2015

Folks went to Orlando, Dallas, Denmark, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and someone even got a small studio in Venice Beach with views of the Pacific Ocean (and yes, I admit, that was me). Dropbox for design assets. Simple things like talking over a design sketch are much harder to do without a whiteboard.

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Tool Product Venice Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

LATechDigest

MAY 23, 2016

Philosophy & Design. And if you ever needed a reason to live in LA… #FollowTheSun down the streets of Venice—the perfect end to another day in LA. Biz E-Sports Summit (-5/24). Tuesday May 24. FastCo Counter-Conf (-5/25). Space Tech Expo (-5/26). Now Next Why. Animation Workshop. Hack for LA. LA Catalyst. Wednesday May 25.

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Snapchat Class Santa Monica Venice 45

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. Sometimes in the startup technology world, success is truly dependent on perfect timing. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 88