Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Social Gaming Network ( SGN ) and Fox Digital Entertainment teamed up for the recent release of a new game called The Book of Life: Sugar Smash. The game is based on Fox Digital Entertainment’s new computer animated film, The Book of Life , and launched for the iOS with an Android and Facebook version in the works.

Entertainment 87

Entertainment Mobile Platform Startup 87

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

The startups included SideVision , an ecommerce software platform; Portal Entertainment a content development company; Bubbl , a developer of mobile and web-based video editing tools; Wisemetrics , social content publishing; Incoming Media , push notification for video; and Toggle , a developer of HDMI dongles for streaming UltraViolet content.

Media 124

Media Class Hollywood Incubator 124

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The following online platforms are making it easy to give personal, memorable presents from anywhere in the world. If you’re not sure what gift to buy your friend or family, Snappy will help you. The post Giving with a twist: 3 online platforms that are changing the way we gift appeared first on TechZulu. SendItLater.

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Platform Activity Startup Commerce 70

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. Additionally, they are syndicated widely across the web.

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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses. This is the wave of the future.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. The folks over at Blip.tv To date, Blip.tv

Web 65

Web Netflix Social Media Product 65

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Clinicians must be convinced that this positively disruptive technology will indeed help them provide better treatment. Habra: Mobile Therapy spent the majority of the time leading up to the initial pitch competition perfecting our platform and ensuring that both the application and the Web dashboard is 100 percent rooted in real science.

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Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 123

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. The second thing, is instead of being just a platform, we also have content partners pre-integrated.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We wanted to use the Internet to make things easy and help create initial connections. I had helped launched music products at Nokia, and they put us together. It's trying to help people solve a problem they are passionate about. It's trying to help people solve a problem they are passionate about.

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San Diego Hollywood Mobile eHarmony 264

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content.

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd. But the list is increasing as we are supporting more and more social media platforms. It helps you understand who your fans are and what they do.

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Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ think Apple.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon. It can literally deliver thousands and thousands of messages, tens of thousands per minute, to every form of platform. We go to the web, we go to feature phones, we go to smart phones, we go to land lines, iPads, Droids, and so on.

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. He's gone through this a couple of times now, so we have a robust platform which can predict the content users will like, and do so in an elegant and efficient manner. By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias.

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Ranker helps Internet users find the most appropriate answers to questions that benefit from the wisdom of crowds. “The

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Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

One of the folks in media who has been helping to define that shift is Cenk Uygur , the head of Culver City-based The Young Turks (www.tytnetwork.com), and online news and politics show. Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. Just do it.

Media 196

Media News Startup Technical Review 196

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." Once WalMart has helped you establish your brand, it will then be possible to sell premium products via other channels, such as boutique shops or even directly to consumers. Never heard of VidCon? Think "Consumer Electronics Show meets E!

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Course Advertising Social Media Content 190

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Raph Koster: Metaplace is creating an end user platform, which allows people to build their own virtual worlds, and put it on any website on the Internet. Basically, it's an open platform, really aimed at end users. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has.

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Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The intent of our Spotlight events is always simple: to provide a live platform to showcase the very companies that our driving our tech/start up industry, to show our hometown investors a handful of worthwhile companies, and to give other founders some inspiration and innovation for their own companies.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We saw people were exchanging sound bites, sending them around to friends, and using the platform as we had envisioned, which was not just for long form audio, but for actual sound bites.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

We sat down and spoke with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried , co-founders of the firm, about what the firm is up to now, their view on how to mesh entertainment and the Internet, and how to go beyond creating a viral hit. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things. That was a big factor.

Hollywood 113

Hollywood Content Paramount Entertainment 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

They provide a platform that helps users find heal discounts and deals provided by health professionals in their area. BTW, if there was an award for most entertaining pitch, Addroid would win it hands down! Divshot is a tool for web application developers. TradeYa Inc. transactions does not involve any money.

Startup 85

Startup Miramar Venture Capital Santa Monica 85

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

He believes if they can help build up good companies; they can also help the local economy, noting that the first class has created 100 new local jobs. Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100