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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2013

In a big extension for personal cloud storage service Younity , the Santa Monica-based startup announced today that it has connected its service into Facebook, letting users access any file from Facebook, and also share those with friends on the popular social networking service. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Brighter.com , the online, upfront dental pricing and referral service based in Santa Monica, and headed by longtime Silicon Beach entrepreneur Jake Winebaum, has relaunched, swizzling its model away from a monthly membership program and towards direct, upfront pricing and referrals to local dentists. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

In more proof that local techies can get enough of hanging out with the multitude of startups cropping up on "Silicon Beach" -- mostly Santa Monica and the westside of Los Angeles -- local event organizer TechZulu said today that it is launching a second edition of its Tech Crawl event on August 30th.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Santa Monica based ParkMe has partnered with INRIX , a leading international provider of traffic information and driver services to help drivers outsmart parking. According to their partnership, INRIX will source data from ParkMe’s database of more than 18,000 parking facilities in North America both for in-car and mobile use.

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MARCH 22, 2018

Santa Monica-based Ordermark (www.getordermark.com) is looking to tame that chaos with a system which takes all of those online orders, and feeds them into a single printer at a restaurant. We started asking our network of restaurant owners how they were handling this. Where's the company now, and what's next for you?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

Whether you were a startup, an investor, a blogger, a fashionista, or someone just curious about what is happening in Santa Monica aka “Silicon Beach,” the recent Silicon Beach Fest had something for everyone which included panels, parties and more. Now the most quirky and out-there speaker on the panel was Howard Marks.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Social and instant messaging, plus mobile broadband, makes it possible to serve a global clientele from anywhere � and Santa Monica is still my favorite place overall, so I'm there almost every month for at least a few days to work with our LA team and regional clients.

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JULY 25, 2013

Did you know that Los Angeles was ranked as the second best startup city in the U.S. Case in point: Silicon Beach Fest, founded by networking organization Digital LA, recently tractor-beamed thousands of attendees to Santa Monica for four days of panels, startup showcases and networking parties.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, Santa Monica-based Parking In Motion , a developer of parking information apps for mobile devices, announced a new round of funding, from IDG Ventures and Fontinalis Partners, the venture arm of William Clay Ford, Jr., We also have our own, branded mobile phone alls. Does your service work there?

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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.

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JUNE 19, 2013

TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. We spoke with Ben about how Burstly is now creating a company to help mobile developers create, develop, distribute, and monetize their apps. Burstly is located in Santa Monica.

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica.

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APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. Jason Reid: Giftagram is a mobile first company, that really redefines the way people gift. What is unique about our mobile app, is you can send a physical gift without actually having a physical address to send it to. How did you end up in Santa Monica?

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APRIL 17, 2010

The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. It's a powerful opportunity to connect people offline with the mobile, online experience. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. We've combined online therapy with phone calls with licensed professionals, and also added an online social networking aspect and mood checkup. What's iExhale all about?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Los Angeles area has seen a surge in the last month in companies and organizations looking to bolster entrepreneurial activity and startups in Southern California. We're really focused on those three things, and doing it here in Los Angeles, here in Santa Monica on Second Street.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

We invite you to the Second Annual Digital Family Reunion on Wednesday, December 2nd at Wokcano Restaurant in Santa Monica from 6-11pm. Toyota, Pizza Hut, NBA, Fandango, and More Share Their Success Stories with Mobile and Social Apps. Please join us at digiday:APPS on December 10th, in Los Angeles. REGISTER TODAY!

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Fandango CarsDirect Case Study Santa Monica 124

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2011

South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. Being their second time in Los Angeles I was really excited for the event organizers for getting their room as packed as it was.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Video chat by Stickam.com Last Friday, about 80 business leaders assembled at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, for CallFire’s first ever “un-conference&# called Biz2Beach. At their respective discussions, they spoke about online marketing, mobile marketing, company culture, and social media ROI, among other topics.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets. What kind of information are you able to assess using just a mobile phone? How did you end up starting Tala?

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MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. We work with Google to help monetize our traffic, and we''re also working with a variety of other networks. That also particularly fits well on mobile. Is this all online ads?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. Creating very natural and appealing social engagement opportunity, as well as video without the television network costs. Mobile accounts for 25% of their traffic. Photos…the final frontier. Their analytics drill down the CTR and other actions.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Hyperloop One has has announced agreements with: Russia, Helsinki-Tallinn, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland, Los Angeles, USA, Dubai-Abu Dhabi, and United Arab Emirates. Hardt Global Mobility. Marketed as space travel on earth, Oster sees ET3 as a having the potential to create a planetary network.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. NAME David Sacks.

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MARCH 26, 2012

The Los Angeles startup is looking to help connect travelers with local guides and hosts. It's great for networking, and for developing friendships. We were then invited to join LaunchpadLA with Mark Suster, the accelerator in Santa Monica, and we also just raised funding in the last two months.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. Leveraging mobile application and online platform. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. 9:00 – 10:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Event Details.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp. Event Details.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

Each company will have 5min in the hot seat with Amanda Coolong as she gives you the opportunity to tell thousands of viewers in the TechZulu network about your company live. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5 th Street, Santa Monica, CA. Each startup will also gain access to the TechZulu Startup Corner during the event. to 11:00 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Gold Sponsor. .

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Howard is now CEO of Gamzee, a new social game company building games for the new Facebook mobile platform.

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JUNE 17, 2011

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform.

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