socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Venice, California-based GIGXR , a new startup, has acquired the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a unit of publishing firm Pearson, and raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. GIGXR is led by CEO David King Lassman, who previously founded Vyclone.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Miso Media is located in Venice, and was founded by Aviv Grill ; the firm's investors include Aria Ventures , Detroit Ventures Partners , Google Ventures , Mind Fund , and Keith Rabois , among others. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

Apparently, the Incubator School has been approved by the Los Angeles school board, and is now looking for a new campus somewhere in the area; the school was hoping to locate at Venice High School, but apparently has run into issues.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. We do none of our own events, none of our own education, and none of our own acceleration.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). 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.

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LATechDigest

MAY 30, 2016

Students & Educators — Win $25k in THE MAYOR’S CUP ( link ). Tour RYOT ‘s Venice HQ ( link ). AMPLIFY Publishes Its State of LA Tech ( link ). Mark Suster Launches SNAPSTORMS ( link ). BELKIN Launches PHYN to Apply Water Conservation to IoT ( link ). TASKUS Makes Inc’s 30 Under 30 ( link ).

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. Education became a large facet within the space and focus for Taylor. At his first event, 70 people ended showing up bringing headsets for people to try out – that was a turning point for Taylor. “I

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Jason Calacanis coined the SoCal scene the “Digital Coast,” and Brad Nye brought everyone together at his notorious VIC events (Venice Interactive Community). Today LA tech is stronger than ever, touting numerous accelerator programs, angel investors, coworking spaces and educational opportunities.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). 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.

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Content Screening Startup Education 138

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

And LA shifted to Santa Monica and Venice. We wanted to be able to have regular educational meetings, breakfast gatherings, seminars or even just cocktail parties. So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco. Waltham shifted to Cambridge. Thames Valley shifted to East London. We took it anyways.

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Rancho Palos Verdes Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. I mean, Venice Beach is starting to be called “Silicon Beach”. Morgan Rostagnat: It first started as a news-oriented app. Whether there was a natural disaster or a protest somewhere in the world, we would try to update all that into WESAWIT.

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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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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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