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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Silicon valley startup incubator program 500 Startups announced its latest batch of startups Wednesday, with a surprise: a local, Santa Monica firm among the fifth batch of companies being backed by the accelerator. Chewse was founded by Tracy Lawrence and Jeff Schenck. Schenck was formerly at Adly.

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Santa Monica Startup Incubator Ideas 196

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APRIL 9, 2013

Santa Monica-based technology incubator and studio Science has added technology veteran Jason Rapp to its team. Rapp was previously President and member of the board of Mahalo.com, the app and video content developer headed by Jason Calacanis. mahalo executive incubator accelerator science scienceinc' READ MORE>>.

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Mahalo Incubator Santa Monica Content 174

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JUNE 19, 2015

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which was launched back in 2013 as a startup incubator, has pivoted its model, and has become an online equity crowdfunding platform called StartEngine Crowdfunding. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas , a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Cal-X Stars Business Accelerator , a startup accelerator group which has been ramping up in Santa Monica, said Friday that it is planning to present its class of medtech companies in San Francisco as part of the Founder Club DEMO day.

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Class Startup Santa Monica Incubator 147

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). Well now is your chance to find out thanks to upStart.LA.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

SVB and Mastercard said it selected six startups for its Commerce.Innovated virtual accelerator, which is aimed at helping commerce, payments and fintech startups grow their businesses, including Santa Monica's Domuso , Santa Monica-based Earny , and Burbank-based Papaya.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Perhaps you have been paying developers and really need more solid legal advice to keep things running smoothly. Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp. co-founder, Dan Dato.

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APRIL 8, 2014

However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Santa Monica-based CRM software developer Nimble has been selected to join Microsoft's startup accelerator in Seattle, the company said today, in a major move which will help tie Nimble into Microsoft's ecosystem.

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Santa Monica Social Media Email Software Development 113

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). Well now is your chance to find out thanks to upStart.LA.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based entertainment studio Lionsgate reported this afternoon that it has linked with Massify, an online community for the film industry, to help develop feature film projects for the studio. Financial details of the effort--which the firms are billing the Lionsgate Incubator Project--were not disclosed.

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Content Santa Monica Entertainment Hollywood 113

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JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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Santa Monica Google Incubator Advertising 133

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. How is this different than accelerator or incubator?

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Social and instant messaging, plus mobile broadband, makes it possible to serve a global clientele from anywhere � and Santa Monica is still my favorite place overall, so I'm there almost every month for at least a few days to work with our LA team and regional clients. What's the biggest lesson you learned this year? READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Santa Monica News Press 124

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JUNE 20, 2014

We spoke with Kevin Winston, the organizer of Silicon Beach Fest (www.siliconbeachfest.com), which is currently going on in Santa Monica and runs through Saturday, about the energy here in Southern California, as well as a little bit about what''s going on with the event this year. We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin.

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Santa Monica Conference Belkin Southern California 205

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Last night we got the opportunity for the first time to hear in depth on what a few of the leaders in the LA incubator/accelerators space foresee coming down the pipe for 2012. 7: 12 PM Amanda interviews App Developers for 7 minutes each. Tonight we learn who some of those leaders may be. Tonight’s Lineup. 1) Lokast. 2) Edmunds.

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Santa Monica Edmunds Incubator Mobile 71

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. Office space will be free and is in Santa Monica, walking distance to the Third Street Promenade.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Santa Monica-based Science , the new startup creation and "technology studio" created by former Myspace CEO Mike Jones, said today that it has brought on Peter Pham as a Partner at the company. Pham was most recently Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Trinity Ventures.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Where: Santa Monica, CA (Silicon Beach!). It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop.

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Santa Monica Incubator Email Design 111

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. What was behind that decision?

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

The Cleantech Corridor is a 2,000 acre development zone on the eastern side of downtown Los Angeles, which Los Angeles officials--including Major Antonio Villaraigosa--hope to turn into a center for attracting clean technology companies.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Rahul Sonnad: Geodelic develops a system that lets you publish location-based information.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2012

We had such a great response from July’s TZ Tech Crawl Silicon Beach Santa Monica edition, that we decided to get another one in before the summer was out and this time focus around the Venice area. It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. When: August 30, 2012 6-11pm.

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Venice Mogreet Santa Monica Incubator 111

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

They have partnered with Cross Campus to bring education and offline matchmaking events to Santa Monica quarterly. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors.

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Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

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MARCH 4, 2021

I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does.

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JULY 26, 2010

Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. Tweetup.com - An auction-based advertising system from Internet incubator Idealab, which originally came up with the idea for search advertising in the 1990s when it launched GoTo.com.

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Santa Monica LAVA Advertising Idealab 71

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Which is why, perhaps, Jones has foregone the pure investor route to instead focus on Science , his new accelerator and tech studio in Santa Monica, California.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. Last year, I joined up with Mark, and we raised a small fund and opened up an office in Santa Monica, one block from the beach. They may or may not have a full time marketing person, or a mobile development person, as the case may be.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan.

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APRIL 22, 2016

We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. How did you end up in Santa Monica? Jason Reid: We have a lto of exciting developments coming out on the product and feature side, as well as on the merchandising side. What's next for you?

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

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JULY 1, 2010

-Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Competitors: Gowalla. Kontagent. -A

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APRIL 20, 2010

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. Sumant Mandal: First of all, you know our heritage is as an incubator. Clearstone itself was an incubated entity, out of Idealab, it was Idealab Capital.

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Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

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MARCH 9, 2013

Erik Hovanec also joined us to update the group about the new accelerator being developed by the Art Center College of Design. Two key conclusions emerged: 1) it was great to be with such an interesting group without driving to Santa Monica, and 2) we’ll be doing it again, and in a bigger venue.

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Pasadena Pasadena Angels Santa Monica Design 49

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JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica.

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