SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 7, 2016

Come join GDG Los Angeles as we gratefully welcome Malte Ubl to speak to us about AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages. He previously spent 5 years at Google making JavaScript based apps go fast and in his free time, he is one of the co-organizers of JSConf EU. education/learn-about-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages/los-angeles/26436.

Mobile 100

Mobile JavaScript Los Angeles Education 100

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Meet GIGXR , the new owner of all of the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a subsidiary of the education and media publishing giant, Pearson. Based in Los Angeles, GIGXR now owns flagship products including HoloPatient and HoloHuman, mixed reality training programs for medical schools that operate on the new Hololens 2 headset.

Training 100

Training Education Media Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

MakerSquare , which operates coding camps and classes to help students get software jobs, is setting up a new location in Los Angeles, according to the Hack Reactor collective. angeles camp code software education school hackreactor reactor hack makersquare' READ MORE>>.

Dollar Shave Club 100

Dollar Shave Club Southern California Hulu Class 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Los Angeles-based Telesign , which provides phone verification and two-factor authentication services to major online service providers, said it is helping to back the White House's Lock Down Your Login initiative. The initiative aims to encourage Americans to better protect their online accounts, by moving them beyond passwords.

Education 100

Education Google Examples Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of music education software, said Friday that it has raised a $600,000 round of seed financing. The round came from Google Ventures, Keith Rabois, Laura Ziskin, and other un-named seed investors. Miso Media provides technology to help users learn the guitar and ukelele.

Media 150

Media Education Google Los Angeles 150

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

That might be Google picking up a bunch of new employees from the University of California, Los Angeles --at least, according to a new analysis from the Business Insider. UCLA ranks with Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon as the top source of Google employees, according to the report.

UCLA 178

UCLA Report Google Los Angeles 178

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2010

Los Angeles-based Factual , the open data startup headed by former Google engineering director Gil Elbaz, said this weekend it has partnered with Newsweek on a "America's Best Public High School" initiative. Applied Semantics was acquired for pre-IPO Google stock in April of 2003. READ MORE>>.

Rustic Canyon 150

Rustic Canyon Miramar Google Santa Monica 150

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. The firm is backed by Google Ventures, as well as a number of well known angels. You're backed by Google, isn't that right?

Media 267

Media Education Google Startup 267

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

Los Angeles-based GoGuardian , a developer of educaitonal software, says it is targeting the problem of suicide and self-harm in K-12 schools, with a new product called Beacon. According to GoGuardian, its new tool uses mahcine learning to identify and alert school staff about at-risk students, so they can get assistance they need.

Software 100

Software Social Media Equity Tool 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. years there has been an initiative in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. For the past 2.5

Venture Capital 287

Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Groups like The Los Angeles Urban Rangers have been offering public Malibu beach safari tours for free to the public every summer in an effort to keep the Malibu beach public access more public. Apps & Software Culture Development Android App Apple Beaches Google iPad iPhone Malibu Public' You can help her do it!

Malibu 96

Malibu Los Angeles Pricing Google 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. It's a hands-on kind of education.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I'm actually an industrial engineer by education. I'm part of a technology group called Digerati, and myself and other folks have found that we've had problems hiring technology folks in Los Angeles. One, is we're educating students on the value of entrepreneurship, and letting them know that cool startups exist in Los Angeles.

Startup 206

Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. - how does your company stay on top of all of that?

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

Straight outta Austin, MakerSquare has teamed up with coding school collective, Hack Reactor , to open a new campus in LA to help fill the tech talent gap and to provide the area with the necessary talent pool to continue the Los Angeles tech expansion (as a call to action for President Obama’s TechHire initiative).

Dollar Shave Club 40

Dollar Shave Club Southern California Software Engineering Develop 40

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). We saw an extraordinary opportunity, in general, and in LA in particular, to really focus in on technology in Los Angeles.

Invest 159

Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. Prior to joining Google, Sam worked at CNET, The Wall Street Journal Interactive and Ziff Davis and has over 15 years of experience selling media. He was raised and educated in London.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

Transparency, fraud, and a lot of other problems--all of which can be fixed, says Ken Brook , the CEO of Los Angeles-based MetaX (www.metaxchain.com), which is using Blockchain--the protocol behind Bitcoin--and applying it to the ad industry. Ken Brook: Part of our job at MetaX is educating the industry. What is MetaX?

Startup 100

Startup Advertising Google Training 100

Tech.Co

JULY 27, 2016

Is coding education not the foolproof model we once thought? This is what will create the next generation of remarkable companies like Google, Amazon and Uber.” The key to creating software engineers that are capable and effective in their roles is to teach more than coding.

Software Engineering 70

Software Engineering Study Startup Tool 70

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

Innovation comes from those who are often less well educated (study the history of Hollywood, founded by “uneducated” Jews) or foreign born founding members (Google, Sun, Intel, PayPal) let alone reversed scientists like Einstein. My kids are growing up in Los Angeles in 2013.

Startup 391

Startup Hollywood Class Study 391

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon.

Startup 270

Startup Incubator Doc Mentor 270

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Panels: Developer, Arts/Education; Green, Good and Government.

GRP Partners 88

GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Friedman said, [we have] “immigration policies that have our colleges educating the world’s best scientists and engineers and then, when these foreigners graduate, instead of stapling green cards to their diplomas, we order them to go home and start companies to compete against ours.&#. Crazy, huh?

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Of course not.

Tech Coast Angels 182

Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 182

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. “We’re trying to figure out how to best get a deal with Google. Have topics. Assign away.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. Los Angeles has seen its own startup scene develop with Silicon Beach, which stretches between Santa Monica and Playa Vista.

Social Network 111

Social Network Social Media Press Technical Review 111

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Daniel Scalisi is the CEO of Los Angeles-based MobileCause (www.mobilecause.com), a startup focused on the mobile, nonprofit fundraising area. What we've done, we've made this as simple as Google. We spoke to Daniel last week to learn more about his firm. What's your startup all about? How does your service work?

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web.

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets. When I was there, I was transferred toa project called Healthnet here in Los Angeles.

Startup 100

Startup Santa Monica Customer Custom 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup. You can make educated guesses. Who should I meet here in Los Angeles professionally that will be an interesting conversation and a potentially valuable contact? It comes up all the time.

eHarmony 196

eHarmony Startup Research Ideas 196

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Here are the Stars of #140conf: Los Angeles: Aaron Ray (@redbaron1200s) - Partner & Head of Digital, The Collective. Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable. Lisa Dabbs (@teachingwthsoul) - former California school administrator, education consultant.

Social Media 40

Social Media Journal Media Education 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What's the idea behind Sometrics?

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. File sharing?

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What's the idea behind Sometrics?

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100