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MARCH 24, 2020

Culver City-based Feet First Events , which runs corporate team building events, says it has launched a new "virtual game" aimed at helping businesses adapt their teams to working remotely. The company said its team building activity is run virtually on a web-conferencing platform.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

In the corporate world, events are more than just an event�they are opportunity to connect with your customers and turn potential customers into buyers. How do you make those events happen? What, exactly, does Event Farm do? We provide an event and experiential marketing platform.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

San Diego-based local events site Eventful is powering a big concert award with music publication and brand Billboard. According to the two, they have launched the fifth annual Eventful Fans' Choice Award, which will allow music fans and concert goers to vote for their favorite concert tour, via Eventful's platform.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

The company has already worked with names as diverse as the Golden State Warriors, the Dallas Cowboys, and pop sensation Billy Eilish on embedding its interactive tools into various live events and promotions. Sales, Sony Music Entertainment, in a statement. . Sales, Sony Music Entertainment, in a statement. .

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APRIL 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based crowdsourced video startup CitizenGlobal has launched a new platform for law enforcement, allowing users to submit photos and videos to different police departments. citizenglobal enforcement sheriff agency photos videos collection eyewitness event disaster crime' READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 19, 2021

Triller Network, the owner of the Triller social media app and several streaming businesses, announced April 14 that it had acquired live event and pay-per-view platform Fite and had reached an agreement to purchase software developer Truverse Inc., doing business as Amplify.ai.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Newport Beach-based Indi, which operates an app and platform which helps individuals make money through direct sales to their social connections, says it has added a new "live events" feature for its app.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A pitch to offer artists a way to give geo-fenced, live events to fans around the world has brought the new Los Angeles startup Moment House $1.5 The company touts itself as the simplest way for artists to create online events for their fans. million in seed funding.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

And in any event, whatever overhead Docker incurs is uniformly applicable as all test implementations are required to be Dockered. Introduced prior to Round 16, the continuous benchmarking platform really came into a fully-realized state in the past several months. It's lost in the noise. Continuous benchmarking.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubble: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. When you think out the use case, it's all about people who love to have dinner parties at your place, who love to meet new people, and who love to create events, whether they are public or private.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubbe: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. When you think out the use case, it's all about people who love to have dinner parties at your place, who love to meet new people, and who love to create events, whether they are public or private.

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APRIL 9, 2015

San Diego-based Events.com --founded by one of the co-founders of The Active Network--is hoping to make it easier for event organizers and event goers better plan and find events, the company said this week. events.com eventscom event organizer software mobile activenetwork active network startup launch' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 31, 2018

Los Angeles-based TicketGuardian , a startup which offers up consumer insurance products for live event tickets, says it has launched two new products. TicketGuardian offers up its service in conjunction with partners, such as ticketing and registration platforms, letting them offer up insurance to their users. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

When I worked at Salesforce we had “city tours” in which a senior exec on our team would fly to a city in America (eventually globally) and host an event with customers and prospects. Building a community goes well beyond hosting events. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite. The second event was in Boulder. Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better.

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JUNE 19, 2018

Los Angeles-based venture investor Upfront Ventures is the lead investor in a startup, Bevy , which develops an online platform to help companies manage community groups and events. According to Bevy, it raised $6.4M

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JUNE 27, 2018

Santa Monica-based InvolveSoft , which develops software to help companies encourage their employees to volunteer for events and help contribute to their local communities, has raised $2.5M in a funding round, the company said this morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The sign up page for the event is here & there is limited availability. It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Here’s yours: Chicago (Nov 7) Seattle (Nov 9). **.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

We dropped in recently, and found a screening session for the Tech Coast Angels; a number of former StartEngine, MuckerLab, and LaunchpadLA startups in residence; not more than a few startup founders wandering the halls; and a long list of upcoming technology networking events on the calendar. We also hackathons and other events.

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StartUp Beat

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Tech enthusiasts from around the globe can make the last three months of the year count by tuning in to a great variety of inspiring events that take place on online platforms. The post Top virtual tech events to end 2020 on a high note appeared first on StartUp Beat.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. Alec Shankman: What eventually happened, is our events became so viral, that people ended up creating profiles to get their family and friends to vote for them, ala Youtube to get these jobs. At a high level, what does Gotcast do?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During its big VR and AR-focused event Thursday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major new title headed to its VR platform that should turn a few heads. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is on the way to the Oculus Quest 2.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

During an event in Los Angeles today, Google specifically positioned this region as ideal for the media and entertainment industry in the area. What we didn’t know for sure was when this new region would go live. That’s not what Google is focusing on today, though.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year? The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.) toward one or two major dominate players.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

In a way, the event--like the Demo Days from the other accelerators around town--seems to have focused the startup community and prospective startup community on the possibilities inherent in a new startup. Standing room only crowd at StartEngine).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). Platform Services – And I haven’t announced it before but we’ve also beefed up our platform services quite a bit. You can follow Hamet on Twitter here.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Twitter is looking to spur interest in its platform from developers, by holding an event Thursday in Los Angeles aimed at techies, part of a worldwide tour by the firm to promote development on its platform. In Twitter's case, at least for Thursday, that's Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! I’ll try to publish some video from the event when we get a chance to edit some of it.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

That's what happened to Brandon Hance , founder of GoodThreads (www.goodthreads.com), a new service which makes it easy for participants in charity walks and events to create personalized T-shirts, supporting the nonprofits running those events. That was my first exposure to fundraising via an event. So, what is GoodThreads?

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AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? Lars Helgeson: We started about ten years ago, with an email marketing platform called CoolerEmail.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2013

According to Kaleio, its service is targeted at users who are not in the "C-Suite" and don''t see LinkedIn as a place to network professionally, and has created its own platform aimed at folks like auto mechanics, nurses, construction workers, teachers, restaurant managers, and others. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

We naturally progressed into live events, their passionate fan base, and to the venues themselves, where we are helping fans to navigate game day or the event day experience. Most recently, we've been laser focused on college, the culmination of sports and events. You can navigate to your seat and find concessions.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The exact turnouts of the employee walkout and solidarity rally are unclear, but there was enough hype around the event that Preston preemptively moved it to a location with more space. But this is a watershed moment — as Netflix employees we have both the privilege and responsibility to create change on and off the platform.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2013

Four years ago, Los Angeles-based Adly (www.adly.com) launched to much fanfare as one of the first local startups to tie into the brand-new, Twitter micro messaging platform. We''re the leading social advertising platform that leverages celebrity relationships. Marketers have a hard time keeping up with all th emost recent platforms.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I had been working on the digital teams and digital marketing side of the theatrical business, and had done lots of live events. Having done lots of those, I realized that there was a really great opportunity, from the standpoint of harnessing the higher quality in streaming platforms. What's unique about NowLive?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Newport Beach-based live events software and insurance products developer TicketGuardian has raised $8M in a Series A funding, according to the company, in a round led by American Family Ventures and IA Capital Group. The company said the new funding brings its total raised to $13M. TicketGuardian says it now has 40 employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

That’s why live TV events are great for advertisers. So while some people go mad that I would publish a Snapstorm (a short lesson on startup entrepreneurship) in a platform where it disappears in 24 hours – I actually love it. Platforms need to strike a balance between ad-supported businesses and user-generated revenue.

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