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Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program

TechCrunch LA

In an attempt to boost diversity and inclusion efforts and civic engagement between the growing technology industry in Los Angeles and the community that surrounds it, over 80 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs joined the city’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, and the non-profit Annenberg Foundation to announce PledgeLA.

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Interview with Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, K5Launch

socalTECH

Amir Banifatemi: K5Launch supports our larger vision, the K5 initiative, which was promoted last year to provide a more stable and vibrant community of entrepreneurship in Southern California, but mostly Orange County. We are in Orange County, but we're also focused more largely on Southern California.

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Interview With HopSkipDrive's Joanna McFarland

socalTECH

If you are in Los Angeles, Orange County, or the Bay Area, Los Angeles-based HopSkipDriv e runs a service which uses certified caregivers to offload the shuttling of kids between those activities. The company recently raised a new funding round from Student Transportation Inc. Let's talk about the new funding round.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon. We're excited about launching and getting funding, and trying to get traction in Los Angeles.

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How to Know if You Have ADD and What to Do About It

Both Sides of the Table

I believe many entrepreneurs have ADD. I think online education is going to crush it for people with ADD. But overall I believe this leads to better entrepreneurship and why I believe so many entrepreneurs have ADD. And I went to the Amen Clinic in Orange County, which is where I got my diagnosis. Embrace it.

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