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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based StyleSpot , an online fashion and social shopping site founded by Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin, has been acquired by Kaboodle , the online social shopping site owned by Hearst Corp. StyleSpot was venture backed by Idealab, and had been founded in 2009. Kaboodle announced the acquisition late Friday.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. The content comes from other places.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based Papaya, a fintech startup developing a mobile bill payment application, says it has raised $50M in a Series B funding. Papaya is led by co-founder and CEO Patrick Kann, who the company said has previously served at such companies as World Bank and IdeaLab.

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MAY 11, 2021

Los Angeles-based UberMedia--which only just recently renamed itself UM, was recently acquired by Near. The company originally was in the business of developing social apps, and was part of Idealab, having started way back in 2010. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Los Angeles-based Elementary Robotics , which is developing robotics technology for "intelligent robot assistants", said on Wednesday it has raised $3.6M As part of the funding, Fika's Eva Ho has joined the company's board, which also included Bill Gross of Idealab and Elementary co-founder and CEO Arye Barnehama.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Confused about the myriad of incubators and accelerators in the Los Angeles area? A new infographic, released this week, has summarized some of the local startup incubators and accelerators in Los Angeles, plus detailed some of the terms of their investments in companies. We''ve reprinted it below. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2014

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net said it plans to integrate Crash City Guides , the online travel discovery app for the iPhone, into its WanderWe travel site this morning. Crash City Guides had been backed by Idealab, and was founded by Erick Laubach. Oversee.net''s online travel group is headed by Raj Beri. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

We have been holding off on this announcement for quite a bit and now we can officially announce Bill Gross of Idealab as our SuperDemo presenter. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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JUNE 26, 2013

For all of the activity in Silicon Beach which seems to be crystallizing in Santa Monica, there are many other parts of Los Angeles which have a long history of involvement in the technology industry. One of those areas is Pasadena, home to Idealab, Caltech, and a large number of technology companies, big and small. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion, the unveiling was simply the latest in a string of demonstrations for new technologies commercialized by his nearly three-decade old startup company incubator. Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif.

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JULY 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media , the viral- and user-generated content company, has promoted Lee Essner to the post of Co-CEO, the company said late Thursday. Essner joined Jukin Media in 2013 after serving as an entrepreneur at Idealab. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile analytics software, said this week that it has sold its managed media business unit to Los Angeles-based Gimbal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

” In some ways, the model isn’t that different from Bill Gross’ idealab, the Pasadena, Calif.-based based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base. “Our investors are getting founders takes in all the companies that we build,” Watt says.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media , a company which says it discovers, acquires, and distributes viral videos, has tapped technology veteran Lee Essner as the company''s new President and Chief Operating Officer. He also was the COO of WeddingChannel.com, and has been an advisor to PageWoo, FanAppz and Capsule, and also was EIR at Idealab.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2014

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net has acquired Pasadena-based Crashworks , the developer of the photo-based city guides. The company was founded by Erick Laubach, and was backed by Idealab, which had invested in the company back in February of last year. oversee crashworks crash city guides photo merger acquisition idealab'

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

headquarters in Los Angeles. Glow said the funding will specifically go towards opening up a new, regional headquarters in Los Angeles, headed up by David Wamsley, who formerly founded GravityEight, campsix, and Adauction.com. offices at Idealab in Pasadena, although the firm is not an Idealab company.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

Los Angeles-based MUMO , a new music listening startup headed by former Pandora co-founder Jon Kraft, said today that it is looking to make music a shared activity again through what it calls "Music Moments". READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based HypeMarks , the developer of a service which helps users find new places to explore on the web, has raised $350,000 in a funding round, socalTECH has learned. According to Tim Sae Koo, the firm's founder, the funding came from Idealab, with Allen Morgan of Idealab joining the company's board.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based YP , which offers up online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online, has lauched a new offering, called ypWebsite Pro. According to YP, the new product will help local businesses earn top rankings in their organic search results. YP runs the yellowpages.com site.

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MARCH 26, 2013

USC revealed this morning that it has created a new, startup accelerator on campus, the Viterbi Startup Garage , which will help students and alumni start technology companies in Los Angeles. Southern California--and Los Angeles, in particular--appears to become the hub of startup accelerators lately. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based GoodLooks , a new startup focused on connecting people with "lifestyle experts", said it has launched a new online marketplace to find career and life coaches, personal trainers, fashion stylists and dietitians. According to the startup, it was created to help "successful people" look, feel, and be their best.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles-based Enplug , a company that develops digital displays which display real time, social media from Twittter, Facebook, Yelp, and elsewhere at retail locations, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

The crowd of more than 1,500 spilled out into hallways, and would-be investors were turned away from the doors, as a crush of entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, wanna-be entrepreneurs, and others looked to be part of the surge of startups emerging in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2018

That was the question at the SoCal First Look Showcase , run by the Alliance for SoCal Innovation and the Los Angeles Venture Association at UCLA on Wednesday.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The folks over at Perfect Market, one of the companies at Idealab, look to be addicted to the whole idea of Gangnam Style parody videos -- this one from Idealab's annual Halloween costume contest. Pitch video for Chewse.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Bill Gross, CEO and Founder, Idealab. We're excited to announce our new partner for our morning business series: the Gensler architectural firm in downtown Los Angeles. Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Innovation and Design for Social Change. In conversation with Lorne Buchman, President, Art Center College of Design.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of an online platform for managing fundraising and investors, said this morning that it has launched a new pitch competition. The firm said that judges for the competition come form Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus, including Idealab's Alex Maleki and Rincon's Jim Andelman.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

UberMedia is backed by Idealab. The move is not the first battle between Twitter and a Southern California Twitter-focused startup; last May, fellow Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly, based in Los Angeles, faced a similar situation with Twitter when it banned in-stream ads. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets.

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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 a big thanks to Efren Toscano of TechZulu for streaming and editing the event Sunday evening.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Los Angeles-based MediaTrust , the operator of a performance-based marketing and online advertising exchange, said this morning that it has named Keith Cohn as its new Chief Executive Officer. MediaTrust has offices in Los Angeles, Ventura, and New York. Cohn was most recently President and member of the firm's board.

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MAY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Triptrotting , the online site which helps connects travelers with other like-minded, local hosts, has boosted its funding round to $1.5M, and added angel investment group Golden Seeds.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Looking to provide a high-tech twist on retail loyalty punchcards, Pasadena-based Punchcard --the latest startup out of Idealab--has debuted a set of mobile apps which allow retailers to virtually "punch" customer loyalty cards on Android and iPhone.

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JUNE 15, 2011

The Southern California linked-investors with connection to Pandora include Peter Gotcher , founder of Los Angeles-based Topspin Media , who had around 1.6M The firm was trading around $19.00 at the time of this article.

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MAY 24, 2010

Micro-messaging service Twitter said this morning that it is banning third-party advertising in its stream, taking direct aim at Los Angeles-based Twitter advertising service Ad.ly. Tags: twitter tweet adly idealab tweetup advertising online. is backed by GRP Partners, Greycroft Ventures, and LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin.

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