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DECEMBER 27, 2017

Today, we have a contribution from Anna Barber , the Managing Director of Techstars LA (www.techstars.org), one of three startup accelerators run by Techstars in the Los Angeles area. In 2018 I hope we will see some maturing of what we refer to as a whole as "blockchain" but really meaning three separate things.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Eleven-year-old TiMi currently has a team working out of Los Angeles on global business and plans to grow it into a full development studio that “helps us understand Western players and gives us a stronger global perspective,” said the studio’s international business director Vincent Gao.

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DECEMBER 7, 2015

That’s right, I’m referring to high school students. Specifically, two high school seniors in LA, Dillon Rosenblatt and Tyler Makhani, recently built out an app called Tutors , a platform for on demand tutoring. However, the two founders think these platforms are lacking in one crucial field: flexibility.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

“We had originally planned to spend more time with in person care and then actually launch our digital platform — telehealth — in 2021. They say they’ve treated “thousands” of women in Los Angeles and have more than 250 referring providers, such as OB-GYNs, at this stage.).

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MARCH 12, 2013

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital. I made some reference calls.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Others like Guesty, which are building platforms for others to list and manage their apartments on platforms like Airbnb, recently raised $35 million with a valuation likely in the range of $180 million to $200 million. He referred to Homewood as “a soulless hotel chain.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

To shortcut what has been an antiquated way of connecting consumers with attorneys, Los Angeles startup LawKick (www.lawkick.com) has created an online, easy way to match up clients with lawyers, through a set of simple questions and answers about different kinds of legal problems. Lawyers on the platform love the experience.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

So when they spoke about character development, repeatable gaming experiences, bringing games to multiple platforms (in the industry we call this “ Transmedia “) and physical products my ears naturally perked up. We met in August (so much for VCs taking the Summer off!) and had several phone conversations after that. The results?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them). Are there particular technologies or platforms involved? References.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

What we are doing, is providing full transparency, and demonstrating that we can drive value to businesses who use our platform. What kind of jobs are coming through your platform? Joe Nigro: Right now, we're focused on the Greater Los Angeles area, and we'll be adding Orange County and San Diego over the next few months.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Our interview this morning is with Brad Stewart , the new CEO of Los Angeles-based Fair (www.fair.com), backed by Softbank, which has been in the midst of reinventing the company after some setbacks in its initial efforts to create a subscription-based model for automobiles. The punchline is, I'm pretty excited about this story.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation. Why is LA key to that?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A good example of that is Skyhawk Therapeutics, which has built a small molecule platform that enables rational design of small molecules that target specific binding pocket regions of RNA. I find that a lot of people are referring people to me, hearing when someone is moving to LA, to talk to Z.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2015

Los Angeles-based SpringRole (www.springrole.com)--which is backed by Science, Inc.-- We wanted to go beyond the walls, beyond those employees, and build a network of people who want to refer others. We''ve seen some strong growth over the last three months, and we''re getting more clients on the platform. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? It was the same issue.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. Becka is also co-founder of Female Founders Los Angeles (FFLA). Parenting has always required a village of support, and we consider our platform to be that village.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The platform enhances the process of turning ideas into entrepreneurial ventures and growing startups through social collaboration. What does that refer to exactly? Miigle is a platform where innovators from around the world can meet, discover, and collaborate on cool ideas and startups. This can be done through Miigle.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). He became our third co-founder, and the company came together.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Troy represents what I believe the best magic of Los Angeles is – the merging together of creative talent with technical talent and he brings the lessons learned from these two fields into investments nationally. ” Lady Gaga played 4-5 clubs a night in Los Angeles and New York when she was a relatively undiscovered talent.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). There are various models of this but amongst the most successful I’ve seen executed is FabFitFun , based in Los Angeles. from Charter’s subscribers. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition).

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

To address that worry, Los Angeles-based DogVacay (www.dogvacay.com) lauched last week -- just in time for SXSW -- to help connect dog owners with individual dog lovers to help watch their dogs at their homes. We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. We believe we've come up with a solution.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

To address that worry, Los Angeles-based DogVacay (www.dogvacay.com) lauched last week -- just in time for SXSW -- to help connect dog owners with individual dog lovers to help watch their dogs at their homes. We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. We believe we've come up with a solution.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? What are your next goals?

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

The firm is backed by a notable list of angel investors, and based in Los Angeles. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles music scene is very important for us because of connections. Right now we’re being incorporated here in San Francisco and the next step might be Los Angeles, but that’s still to be discussed. Thanks for joining us Roland.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. One of the firm's co-founders, Adam Lieber , is now the founder and CEO of Webtide (www.webtide.com), which is also based here. Australia, and Italy.

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JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. The Importance of Twitter. That is what I Tweeted when I saw DataSift present as a finalist at TC Disrupt last year.

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JULY 19, 2011

Companies such as Starbucks, McDonalds, IBM, Motorola & SAP are using their platform that is now generating more than 1 million job leads per month according to the company. With an open link that refers you there. no, I’m not an investor in the company). This election will be about jobs. On the open web. See you then.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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