TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2019

locations — Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC. The club’s current members include actors, members of the House of Lords and other fancy pants, high-falutin folks from the worlds of politics, business and entertainment. million to expand into the U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2015

Los Angeles has a new, startup accelerator in town, thankss to talent manager Troy Carter , who announced on Thursday that he has launched SMASHD LABS , to help accelerate companies in the area of entertainment & culture.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The latest to enter the scene is Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (www.startengine.com), which was created by Howard Marks and Paul Kessler. We're following the model you've seen in other cities, up to $20,000 in each startup.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

What's the latest craze in startups in Southern Califonia? It looks to be startup accelerators. In just the last few weeks, at least five different incubation/acceleration efforts have booted up in the region. The group is a member of the TechStars Network, and boasts a who's who of successful local CEOs and investors.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Other Disney startups such as Atom Ticket , a new movie ticketing app, partnered with the next Star Wars movie and will continue to work with Walt Disney Studios on major film releases. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

Techstars (www.techstars.org) has a long history and record of success as a startup accelerator, with programs across the country and world--and recently opened up its third, Los Angeles program, Techstars LA. I started as a corporate lawyer in New York, and worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

As we came in, and started looking at opportunities the Dodgers had in front of them, they saw many great, smart, innovative young companies approaching us. It ended up being a pretty interesting opportunity, where we could create value not just for us, but industry-wide. How did the idea to launch your own accelerator come about?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Dan Dato: The quickest way to describe it is it's a Techstars-like, YCombinator-like startup accelerator.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2015

The LA Dodgers has opened the doors on its first, startup accelerator program class this morning, unveiling the 10 companies included in the first LA Dodgers Sports & Entertainment Accelerator. At least three of the companies are originally from Los Angeles, including FieldLevel, Appetize, and Focus in Motion.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. If that’s news to you, here are eleven of Los Angles’ best and brightest. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. The startups--which had previously been announced in May--are all working on areas of technology which are strategic to Turner/Warner Bros., Studios in Burbank on Monday evening.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. What role do the mentors play? The mentors at the L.A.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). What is TAU Ventures?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. Accelerators and coworking spaces will continue to be the foundation for our growing startup scene.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

However, the newest venture capital fund in the area TenOneTen Ventures (tenoneten.net), headed up by David Waxman and Gil Elbaz, is hoping to change that, by focusing its efforts on technology-focused startups here. The majority of them are in Los Angeles, but not excusively. How did the new fund come about?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The LA-based accelerator is powered by Techstars and is looking for “technology-based companies focused on transformative media and entertainment experiences.” Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas.

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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? We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Once we decided to do this, we started looking for a Dan.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

For today's youth, it's often hard to figure out what they want to do in life--according to Deborah Ramo , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Amavitae (www.amavitae.com). How did this start? Deborah Ramo: The group of us who started the company are all very interested in solving problems.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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. GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Time sure flies when you’re having fun, or building a startup. The intersection of entertainment and technology has been a long time coming. This one-day conference has been created and produced by David Beebe Projects led by Emmy winning Digital Entertainment Executive and Producer, David Beebe himself.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

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).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Mike Jones is an Internet executive, investor and advisor located in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Or maybe a goldmine.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As one of the organizers, Jay Tucker explained, “The Silicon Beach movement is the future of the Los Angeles tech area – tech, mobility, digital content, entrepreneurship, etc. Startup Pitch Competition. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The winners, Techno Unibot Freaks, with In a Flash received a prize courtesy of EA entertainment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. And on and on.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

TechZulu caught up with the founder Mike Tringe and this is what he told us. CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. What’s keeping you up at night?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

And luckily I was able to catch up with Talia Goldstein the Head Matchmaker and Co-Founder of Three Day Rule for some Q & A. I grew up in Orange County and then headed east to Tulane University. I grew up in Orange County and then headed east to Tulane University. Entertainment. We started definitely for women only.

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