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DECEMBER 6, 2012

In Santa Monica, Hackathon first-timers and veterans all gathered at CrossCampus to hack almost 30 products within 24 hours. On Sunday, fighting frayed nerves and sleep deprivation, the courageous developers, designers and business folk prepped for their demos.

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Tech.Co

MAY 13, 2016

Looking for a job at a startup? TECHSPO LA is a four day technology expo taking place June 13 – 16, 2016 at the luxurious Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Santa Monica, California in the heart of Silicon Beach. Covering the Los Angeles tech scene for a publication? Looking to invest in the next Facebook?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Tech Crawl is back and in full swing heading to Santa Monica Silicon Beach area! A tour of some of the hottest Silicon Beach tech companies Santa Monica Edition. Where: Santa Monica, CA (Silicon Beach!). It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Terrkan , a new, Los Angeles startup, said on Thursday that it has launched a new online service aimed at providing real estate data to real estate developers. The company said that its service, which currently only covers Los Angeles, hows the development value of any residential or commercial property in the city of Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2013

For those unfamiliar, Held the last Friday of every month, TechZulu Final Fridays (#TZFF) are a creative blend between mentorship, networking event, startup showcase, and community celebration. Startups Apply Here. Santa Monica, CA 90401. Santa Monica Parking Powered by ParkMe. That’s right. Looking to hire?

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MAY 15, 2012

A New York-based provider of mobile consulting and development said Tuesday that it has opened up a new Los Angeles office, specifically to become part of the "Silicon Beach" startup scene in the area. Applico , which develops Android, iPhone, and mobile web software, said it specifically decided to open an L.A.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Timothy Sehn , the former Senior VP of Engineering for Venice-based Snap , has launched a new, Santa Monica-based startup called Liquidata. The new startup says it is developing a "data as a service" offering. Sehn left Snap a year ago.

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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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APRIL 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based GumGum , which develops artificial intelligence and vision recognition software being applied to advertising analytics, said on Thursday that it is spinning out a new company, which will develop AI technologies for the dental industry. The name of the new dental startup was not announced.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee fringe benefits startup headed by Paige Craig, looks to be ramping its employee recruitment effort, and is sponsoring a developer "hack-fest" this weekend at Coloft. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Based in Santa Monica, California and founded by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel, ParkMe , a leading provider of parking information to navigation companies and smartphones to simplify parking using dynamic and real-time parking data has partnered with Los Angeles and Santa Monica cities to help motorists find available parking quickly.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 24, 2016

Saturday, July 30, 2016 -- Domain Startup Summit. Domain Startup Summit was established to unite the startup, domain branding and investment industries. This unified event platform will provide up-to-date industry information and partnerships that allow entrepreneurs to brand, develop and launch successful businesses.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at. We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California. It specifically does NOT play Top 50 music, instead, helping the audience explore and find up and coming music.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Santa Monica-based Piestro, a startup which is taking aim at automating the process of making pizzas, using robot technology, said this week that it has partnered with PopID, a developer of facial recognition payments technology. Piestro has developed a robot that makes pizza, which it is in the midst of developing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Let’s start with the fund. Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. What’s up with that?

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MAY 18, 2016

Santa Monica-based SPACES , a new virtual reality startup, said today that it has raised $3M in a funding round from Comcast Ventures, Boost VC, Canyon Creek Capital, Colopl VR Fund, GREE Inc., Kai Huang, The Venture Reality Fund, the Sinovation Fund, Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM VC. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 11, 2021

Santa Monica-based subscription vehicle startup NXCR has named a new Chief Technology Officer this morning, saying it has added Martin Prescher to oversee its engineering and data teams. NXCR is the latest automotive startup led by automotive veteran Scott Painter, who most recently was at Fair.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

According to a job listing from Lime seeking a “Retail Store Manager,” the startup plans to open a “lifestyle brand store in Santa Monica” that “will place heavy importance on brand experience and customer engagement.” There will be demos, tutorials, and presentations on how to be safe.”

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 21, 2019

Santa Monica-based financial technology startup Tala completed a $110 million Series D raise to expand its market reach in India and continue developing its mobile micro-lending platform.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events. Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A new, Santa Monica-based startup, Future Acres, is announcing this morning that it is targeting the agriculture industry with a new robot. The startup--which is crowdfunding its efforts--claims it is developing an agricultural robot which will "optimize workforce efficiency and safety".

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A new, Santa Monica-based startup, Bobacino--which is backed by Wavemaker Partners, Wavemaker Labs, and Embark Ventures--said this morning that it is partnering with PopID, a developer of facial recognition payment technology, to offer up no-touch ways to pay for their boba.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Hoopo , a startup developing low power, Internet-of-Things (IoT) tracking technology, which has its U.S. offices in Santa Monica and headquarters in Ra'anana, Israel, has raised $1.5M The funding came from Israeli investor Zohar Gilon and Ben Marcus, the CEO of Santa Monica-based AirMap. in a funding round.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Foothill Ranch-based TAE Life Sciences , which is developing boron-based radiation therapy drugs for the treatment of cancer, has raised $30M in what it says is an initial, Series B funding round. The company said the new funding will allow it to further accelerate development of its products. The startup is led by CEO Bruce Bauer.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

For our Insights and Opinions section this morning, we have a contribution from Ron McElroy , the CEO and founder of Real Office Centers , which has rapidly become of the gathering places for the growing Silicon Beach startup community. Silicon Beach, as the white-hot start up market in Santa Monica is referred to, is exploding with activity.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Looking for a job at some of the hottest Southern California high tech startups? Dollar Shave Club  the largest razor subscription service  continues to grow, and we are looking for a smart, passionate, and dedicated individual to join the Dollar Shave Club Development Team. startup technology employment jobs' TigerText Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Santa Monica-based agricultural robotics startup Future Acres says it has signed a collaboration agreement with global plant variety breeder and genetics licensor Sun World International to further develop its proprietary technology, the company said this morning. Financial details of the collaboration were not announced.

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JULY 1, 2020

Santa Monica-based startup studio Science Inc. has backed a new company, looking to incubate startups from the music industry. According to Heavy Sound Labs , it is a music technology company looking for "today's next emerging stars" and helps them to develop themselves into creative entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Santa Monica-based Red 6 , a startup which is developing augmented reality training systems for the aerospace and defense market, said it has received a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures. Size of the funding was not announced.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Not satisfied with creating just another mobile application for the iPhone platform, Santa Monica-based startup, IPPLEX , this week introduced an application to help the visually impaired or blind. IPPLEX also develops mobile video conferencing and other applications. The new app sells for $1.99 READ MORE>>

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JULY 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based Mobalytics , a startup developing tools that help videogame players improve their hardcore gaming on such titles as League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra, has raised $11.25M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

NASA and a clutch of startup and established companies are moving forward with plans to transform mobility in urban environments through the Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge. The Grand Challenge series brings together companies developing new transportation or airspace management technologies, the Agency said. AirMap, Inc.,

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Santa Monica-based Arrive, a developer of a technology and reverse logistics services, says it has added resales to its enterprise rental platform. The company's product is focused on what the company says is roughly 25% of e-commerce orders are returned which cannot be resold full--price.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

There's been a lot of press about the name "Silicon Beach"--the name the local community has taken up to describe the high tech renaissance happening in Santa Monica and surrounding cities in Los Angeles. However, until now, there hasn't been a mobile app to go with the name. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 25, 2018

One of Southern California's promising startup entrepreneurs, Jason G. Crilly --the co-founder of RYSE UP and co-founder of NearWoo--has passed away, according to friends and families. Mental health of startup founders--once a taboo subject--has been boosted by efforts by such startup community mentors as Brad Feld of Techstars.

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