socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. We had been talking with another of their companies, the GoBig network, which is a membership organization of investors and entrepreneurs. Tell us about your project?

Startup 252

Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. The Entrepreneur Association is the largest student association at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. Signs will direct you to Korn Hall.

UCLA 97

UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].”

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. Gyroscope is in double-dog secret stealth mode right now so I’ll focus more on the entrepreneur.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies! Community Sponsors.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. Upfront’s Base As you probably know we are based in Santa Monica and as my partner Greg Bettinelli coined, we’re #LongLA. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion. We take this responsibility seriously.

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Funding Venture Capital Santa Monica Invest 287

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. He has many of the attributes I look for in an entrepreneur and importantly he has deep domain experience in ad management. I’ll explain in detail below.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Many “tech companies” now have green screens. One of the major trends I’ve outlined is this movement of entrepreneurs (and as a lagging indicator venture funds) to more urban environments. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313