socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Venice, California-based Topspin , the online music marketing software firm headed by Ian Rogers, said today that it is prepping an update to the firm's iPhone application for ticketing. The software is used by Topspin's customers to scan tickets sold through Topspin's software.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

Our most recent Demo Day in November 2018 (at Google/Venice on the main stage) was the most well-attended Demo Day in the history of Startup Boost. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? For many founders, this type of mature leadership doesnt come naturally.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap is set to see a punishing day on Wall Street, after reporting poorer than expected third quarter results last night, including poor user growth and sales. SNAP was already down around 12 percent in pre-market trading on Wednesday, falling from a close of $15.12 on Tuesday to around $13.33

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Venice-based Topspin , the music marketing and software firm headed by Ian Rogers, said today that it has inked a deal with Technicolor to distribute its music catalog in a new, high definition, MP3 format. Tags: topspin mp3hd high definition content music retail software technicolor fraunhofer. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint Venice Yahoo Metrics 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Venice, California- and Helsinki, Finland-based mobile game developer Seriously , the developer behind the title Best Fiends , has raised $18M in a venture funding round, the company said this morning. The new funding specifically goes to building out the company's production teams and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Venice-based Mogreet officially announced its new application programming interface (API) services this morning, saying it will provide APIs will let developers deliver MMS, SMS, video, in-app messaging, as well as access mobile user lookup services. per MMS message sent. READ MORE>>.

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Mogreet Mobile Services Venice 178

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. Mobile-XL develops mobile browser software and information services. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2017

We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market. Snap - Venice - (www.snap.com). Our list below: 1.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Deploying software in the cloud? The company recently reported record.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. In LA companies used to be concentrated near Pasadena or in the San Fernando Valley.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Can software algorithms help drive more user engagement and video views for publishers? We have our product in the market, and launched our beta in January. According to Los Angeles-based FEM (fem-inc.com), video recommendations can make a significant difference in how long a user spends on a website or app.

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Google Content Startup Venice 233

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. And then the world changed.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 venture capital market leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A lot of money went into software, mostly because of some big, expansion-stage deals.”. billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. Venice, CA.

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Marina Del Rey Invest Venture Capital San Diego 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

However, Los Angeles-based Agent Ace (www.agentace.com) thinks is has a much better way to find the best real estate agent for you: software algorithms. If you want to buy a house at between $800,00 and $1 million in Venice, there is a guy who has represented more buyers and has more success than anybody else. That''s not an easy task.

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Help Startup Sales Custom 258

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

There are some very cool new features being released all the time as part of the software that powers this system. The bottom line is that Los Angeles Tech is trying to help find and navigate that content. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago. That's the most important thing.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

the Viddy crew headed to the Arbor Collective showroom on the Venice boardwalk for an exclusive party. At Digital LA’s Silicon Beach Fest Action Sports marketing panel Nick Gaulin talked about how he empowers his staff at Skate Fishbone to use Viddy on a daily basis to help integrate their brand into the action sports community.

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Santa Monica Venice Screening Google 83

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2015

However, the thesis we had was correct, and it's really been a perfect storm of good returns, and good momentum in the market. That's where we're at, and we include software-as-a-service, e-commerce, ad-tech, mobile marketplaces, and gaming as our companies. As a VC, that leads to a very interesting, diversified portfolio.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market. We're working with a company in Venice Beach which is trying to solve that problem. On Demand enterprise, and consumer software-as-a-service is also very interesting to us.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.

Technology 40

Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

Incentive , the Venice-based socially powered mid-market and enterprise collaboration platform has created a secure solution that takes the pain out of collaboration by centralizing all content into one place. The enterprise collaboration market is forecasted to grow from $47 billion in 2014 to $71 billion in 2019.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. We live in Venice, and our back house is sort of our operations center.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world. is giving our readers early access to download and play with the FREE version of this amazing software. Coincident.TV

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We thought, if we could tap into this market, my God, this business opportunity is a 100 times bigger than our eCard business,” said Gregg Spiridellis. If you can find a market that you believe in, craft your product around that market. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”. “We Gregg Spiridellis pondered. “We

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We thought, if we could tap into this market, my God, this business opportunity is a 100 times bigger than our eCard business,” said Gregg Spiridellis. If you can find a market that you believe in, craft your product around that market. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”. “We Gregg Spiridellis pondered. “We

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

We decided to launch nationally shortly thereafter, but that would require a huge marketing budget. I mean, Venice Beach is starting to be called “Silicon Beach”. Apps Apps & Software Entertainment Startups App Events Facebook App Mobile Pictures Social Media venues Videos website wesawit' What does WESAWIT do?

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Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. Because everyone who said, “I’m going to use Mark’s software…” They made that decision. ” Right?

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