Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 3, 2011
USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Site Unseen. Site Unseen is a mobile app that serves as a personal tour guide for exploring a city. 70+ students. Neighborly.
socalTECH
APRIL 4, 2013
We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.
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socalTECH
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Image Metrics said it would merge Big Stag's avatar creation platform into its existing, real-time video animation technology. Big Stage--which was a spinout of technology developed at USC--allowed users to upload several photographs of themselves into software, which then automatically converted those photographs into a realistic avatar.
socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2010
Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. Here, if you look at a school like USC, it''s just a long way from Santa Monica.
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 30, 2014
In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2012
One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. So we've partnered and worked with technology partners, and built a technology company to develop applications for ourselves and third party platforms.
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