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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Karlin Ventures , one of the newest venture capital funds to emerge in the Los Angeles area, said today that it has launched a new "community hour" with Santa Monica's ROC, where the venture capital investment will help provide feedback on startup ideas and chat with companies. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 3, 2013

Santa Monica-based Engrade announced this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series B funding round, for the company''s district-level education platform. The funding was led by Javelin Venture Partners, and also included Rethink Education, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Kapor Capital, Expansion Capital and Ed-Mentor.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

Santa Monica-based startup accelerator LaunchpadLA has just opened up its spring 2013 class applications, and bumped the amount it invests in startups. The accelerator--run by Sam Teller--is one of a crop of startup accelerators which have been the driving force behind the Silicon Beach startup community over the last year.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- StartEngine is pleased to present our latest class of startups at our Demo Day on Wednesday, January 30th at CrossCampus in Santa Monica. This event is for VCs, early stage funds, angel investors, mentors as well as a number of esteemed guests. tech entrepreneurs. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Connect with Los Angeles hottest startups on Thursday, October 25th at the WOKCANO in Santa Monica. Whether you are looking for investors, a mentor, advice or just simply connecting for opportunities - this event is for you. Come mix and mingle up close and personal with some of the hottest startups in LA. Check out what they?re

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

” We offer each accepted company $25k – $100k, free office space in the heart of Santa Monica (one block from the beach) for four months, a ton of perks and discounts, and most importantly, access to a massive network of mentors, advisors, and investors.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Cal-X Stars Business Accelerator , a startup accelerator group which has been ramping up in Santa Monica, said Friday that it is planning to present its class of medtech companies in San Francisco as part of the Founder Club DEMO day.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Apart from funding, Cornerstone will give startups a dedicated creative work at its Santa Monica HQ’s space, allow them to have direct access to its resident entreprenuer mentors or simply allow them to build their apps on the Cornerstone API. Applications to the fund are now open and available online here. .

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SystemWare was advised by Santa Monica-based Mentor Capital in the deal. Both SystemWare and CACI serve the Department of Defense, intelligence, and other federal agencies. CACI said that SystemWare had revenues of $16M for calendar year 2009.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA started two years ago as mostly a mentoring effort to help support promising companies in Los Angeles, or who were interested in moving into the area; however, the program, unlike programs from Y-Combinator and TechStars, hadn't included any funding or office space. The acceleration progrma has set up space in Santa Monica.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. Just write me).

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. Just write me).

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. Just write me).

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. Just write me).

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Those mentors are not just Bruce and I, although we are full time on this.

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Previously we had to bring companies from all around the world to our 8 week accelerator program in Santa Monica and we were restricted by having to use local investors, trainers and mentors to keep our startups occupied. The pandemic has been a blessing for us from a process perspective.

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Southern California Technical Review Santa Monica Invest 113

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Today marks another great day for the LA startup community as one of the city’s prominent mentoring programs , Launchpad LA, received VC funding – for each startup.

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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. Most companies are referred by other VC’s, founders or mentors.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

This Sunday BetterWorks his hosting Coloft Hackfest in Santa Monica, CA,and what better way to spend your weekend then with an amazing group of individuals from your local Southern California Tech scene. There will be technical and product mentors there to help. Coloft –> 920 Santa Monica Blvd.,

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MAY 10, 2018

We have a number of locations, including one in Santa Monica, one in Pasadena, one in Downtown, and one in El Segundo and the South Bay Area. In Silicon Beach, and in Santa Monica, we've adapted to that community as far as staffing and circumstance. Cross Campus is really a community oriented around coworking.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Today marks another great day for the LA startup community as one of the city’s prominent mentoring programs , Launchpad LA, received VC funding – for each startup.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Funding Idealab 65

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2013

On May 2 from 7-10pm, join experienced CEOs and mentors for the premiere Business Rockstars Academy at the ROC Center in Santa Monica. If you’ve new to the startup world and have never launched a company, this event is for you.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 6, 2016

General Assembly, Santa Monica. Real Office Centers, Santa Monica. Santa Monica Public Library. JJ Abrams Drops by AMPLIFY for a Mentor Talk ( link ). THIS WEEK’S EVENTS: see full calendar. 06/07/2016. 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Hack for LA. LACI, Los Angeles. 06/07/2016. 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Also joining the team will be Yohei Nakajima , former academy program director at CoLoft, a popular co-working space for tech entrepreneurs in Santa Monica, California.

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Entertainment Santa Monica Ideas Mentor 102

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

To that end, last week, Los Angeles-based MuckerLab (www.muckerlab.com) announced its plans--and a big lineup of local CEO mentors--to start up a new, YCombinator- and TechStars-type program in Los Angeles, headed by former Silicon Valley venture capitalist Erik Rannala , and affiliated with the TechStars Network.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

Surf Air (www.surfair.com), launching out of the Muckerlab startup accelerator in Santa Monica, is looking to create a new way of flying, taking aviation and combining it with the subscription model. Those mentors and others have given us really tangible advice. It has just been an incredible learning experience.

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Startup Mentor Technical Review Santa Barbara 240

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). Rebrand with a name that would authentically lay out our values. He’s even challenged some of our sacred cows on investment philosophy. I sat on panels.

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Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Awareness Years ago Upfront Ventures rented out a movie theater of 350 people in Santa Monica to screen the movie, “ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap ,” an important movie by Robin Hauser and we invited senior members of many local tech firms to attend. Inclusion begets understanding, which in turn begets more comprehensive decisions.

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Fireside Chat to kick things off is tomorrow night, Wednesday, in Santa Monica at ROC , which is located in the old Google building. He is both a friend and mentor. You’ll learn the exclusive tactics, tips and techniques they use to maintain their upstanding moral code and efficiently grow their organizations.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

GumGum HQ, is tucked away on 4 th Street in Santa Monica in a hipster building (that holds other notable startups), and like its young founder, Ophir Tanz , feels warm and inviting. Though Tanz has accomplished much at a young age, he is humble and embedded in the local tech community as a mentor to other startups.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

We started out with our first event at South Bar (in Santa Monica) with about 30 people in attendance. Since out first event we’ve done large parties at high profiled locations such as, The London, SLS (in Beverly Hills), and The Viceroy (in Santa Monica). So it grew really fast. We are indeed. What’s next?

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