socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2020

TRASH , a startup that was part of Venice-based Snap 's Yellow accelerator program, has rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) video creation platform. According to TRASH, its new AI software makes it easy to create and share videos from your phone, using the AI to automatically edit those videos.

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Artificial Inteligence Tool Seed Funding Venice 113

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2017

Venice, California-based Signal Sciences announced this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding round and launches its web protection platform. Signal Sciences says it has launched the Signal Sciences Web Protection Platform (WPP), threat protection software whcih protects web applications, microservices, and APIs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hermosa Beach-based Precipice Labs , a new startup developing mobile apps, has announced a new platform and SDK which helps mobile app developers add photo sharing to any mobile app. According to the startup, its new Ostetso platform is designed to help developers add their own, photo sharing social network with only a few lines of code.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. Last year at this time Bird was just planning its multi-city rollout having had tremendous success in Santa Monica & Venice. They’re invisible. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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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. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform. Mobile-XL develops mobile browser software and information services.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2020

Venice-based Snapchat says it is expanding the outreach efforts it has been running as part of its Yellow Accelerator. Snapchat said it is expanding Yellow to introduce a new program to support Snapchat integration, in addition to its annual programs. Snap just started taking applications for Yellow Collabs. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The acquisition of Venice, California-based Signal Sciences --worth $775M--by Fastly , has officially completed, Fastly said on Thursday. According to Fastly, is will combine its edge cloud platform and existing security offerings with Signal Sciences' web application and API security solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 billion dollars of regional GDP.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. I'm fascinated by the creator economy on Twitch, Youtube, and new streaming platforms.

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Riot Games Southern California Startup Santa Monica 133

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. military's operations.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. Andrew Peterson: We have what we call a web protection platform, that provides other companies with protection against attackers who are attacking their web applications.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Yesterday Viddy, the social video sharing site announced the launch of their public API for developers to build around the platform and come up with new ways of sharing video. On Friday, September 28th Team Viddy will pick their favorite API partner, and fly you (or your team of up to 4 people) to Venice Beach for an interview at Viddy.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore. Coincident.TV

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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. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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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. This is why collaboration platforms need to look at single-tenant deployments, rather than multi-tenant.”

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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. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely !

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

He has spent time at Unithrive, a micro lending platform, and helped to lead the Harvard launch of the Kairos Society, an organization aimed at uniting young pioneers to better the world through innovation and entrepreneurship. Allen DeBevoise – Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Machinima, Inc. Want to Sponsor?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. line featuring fun new characters called “ StoryBots.”. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

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. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube. That''s what we call our rights ID or rights management software stack.

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Hollywood Help Media Content 159

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd. But the list is increasing as we are supporting more and more social media platforms. I mean, Venice Beach is starting to be called “Silicon Beach”.

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