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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. Our Infinite Corridor Fund makes pre-seed to seed investments in transformative science startups, primarily MIT-related.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, MomStamp , recently said it has launched, to help mother connect with their extended network and better get referrals from "friends of friends" to local service providers. The startup says it hopes to make it easier for parents to search for everything from plumbers, to dentists, to math tutors.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, myRight , is hoping to help users with some basic legal questions, through a new service geared around asking users questions-and-answers about their legal questions. Have a legal question?

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Good Money , a new Los Angeles digital banking startup founded by Gunnar Lovelace, the co-founder of Thrive Market , announced on Monday that it has raised $30M in a Series A funding round. According to the startup, it is creating the "first digital banking platform to be owned by its customers."

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The National Venture Capital Association , the industry group which represents the venture capital industry, is taking aim at sexual harassment issues in the industry with a new set of reference documents for startups and venture firms.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Soylent VP of Marketing, Andrew Thomas , to hear how the company finally decided to embrace the nameand the frequent trolling on social mediato instead emphasize the sustainable aspects of its products, as well as the new product line, with Plants, Not People. We ended up developing that for our launch in September.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based technology incubator and studio Science --headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones--has launched a new startup in the Internet marketplace area, called HomeHero this morning. The Santa Monica-based startup is initially targeting the Los Angeles region with its services. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Cabin , the startup which has been running overnight trips on luxury buses between Los Angeles and San Francisco--aiming at digitally connected, tech-savvy consumers looking to move between the technology hubs--has re-launched its service, saying that it has "completely re-engineered" its buses and services.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

DeveloperAuction , a Bay Area startup which is looking to let employers bid for engineers on an auction basis, has expanded into Los Angeles, beyond an initial launch in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Boston. The startup is looking to take advantage of the demand for developers by getting startups to "bid" on engineering talent.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Sales tax compliance is not a typical sexy startup area. So, it was a surprise when a number of smart, insider angels -- including Roy Rubin (founder of Magento, which he sold to eBay), and Dan Rose (VP of Partnerships at Facebook)--put their money behind TaxJar (www.taxjar.com), a San Diego startup developing sales tax compliance software.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Are you a fan of the NFL or NBA--and wish you had an easy reference to the players and picks in the draft for those two sports leagues? A new, Santa Monica-based startup has created a new iTunes application, Draftpedia , aimed at providing a comprehensive source for NBA and NFL Draft history, player stats, and team rosters.

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MAY 4, 2011

One of the stealthiest Los Angeles startups to emerge in the last few months has been Namesake (www.namesake.com), headed by Brian Norgard and co-founded by Dan Gould. Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

For our interview today, we talked with CEO and co-founder Jon Grishpul about the startup, which offers up its services for free to homeowners in the Los Angeles area. How did you start the company? Jon Grishpul: My co-founder, Paul, had been flipping houses for ten years before starting GreatBuildz. What is GreatBuildz?

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MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. We spoke with CEO and founder--and longtime startup veteran-- Richard Wolpert about the company. Why in home technical support?

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

We sat down with Kelly ahead of the announcement to chat about the new fund, why they think military veterans are particularly well suited as startup entrepreneurs, why the two went from organizing individual deals for funding to a formal fund, and more. Tell us about this new announcement? Talk more about the ability to lead investments?

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JULY 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the stealth-mode startup which announced a funding round this week, has a unique pitch to potential employees: the firm is offering up $11,000 wrapped in Bacon, an oil painting of the new employee, Cuban cigars, a year's supply of beer, and more prizes to new employees or people who refer friends to work at the startup.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

The startup, founded by Kasey Edwards and Becka Klauber Richter, said that its new, on-demand childcare apps helps connect parents with rigorously vetted babysitters in as little as three hours.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Los Anngeles-based RadPad , the online job marketplace led by Jonathan Eppers, said Wednesday that it is offering up a $10,000 referral reward to anyone who helps land the company an engineer. RadPad also said that it would pay a $10,000 bonus to any engineers who are hired as a result of referring themselves to the company.

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MAY 2, 2017

He was just trying to collect more data for his startup on what was happening on real estate deals that the company had been referring to brokers. However, starting in 2015, we found that creating this was really hard. So, what I did was pick up the phone, and start talking to those agents.

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MAY 16, 2013

It''s not infrequently that we''re pitched by a startup saying they are the ''eHarmony for X'', referring to the Santa Monica-based online dating and relationship site''s reputation. However, is the next ''eHarmony for Jobs'' actually eHarmony itself?

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. We caught up with Erik to hear more about MuckerLab, and its efforts to grow the Los Angeles technology ecosystem. Erik, thanks for the time.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

How did you start working on this? Gabe Gottlieb: My cofounder and I worked at Microsoft for awhile, and were looking at different areas to start a business. Gabe Gottlieb: Pathmatics is in the name, and that refers to how we understand how ads are delivered across channels. We also work with publishers and ad-tech companies.

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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 What were some of the things you thought about before deciding to set up your headquarters in LA?

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

But, the real value is from the consumer side, because we allow individuals to talk to and refer businesses to their friends, and just to their circle of friends. How did you start the business? All of our friends also were having kids, and so we started calling friends about their recommendations.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Dreamhammer is one of a number of robotics and drone-related startups here in Southern California. Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. What''s the story behind the company, and how did it start?

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JUNE 7, 2011

BeachMint, the startup headed by former MySpace co-founder Josh Berman, is launching StyleMint with celebrities Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen. The launch date was included in the small print as part of a T-shirt giveaway promotion to refer friends to the site.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. How was it you ended up in San Diego?

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MAY 10, 2017

We caught up with CEO Joe Nigro , the former VP of Growth at HomeHero and General Manager of Handy, and talk about why he started Work Today and how the service works. I started by rolling up my sleeves a year ago, and passing out business cards in both English and Spanish, saying �text me for jobs�.

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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. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? Sam Teller: Great question.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

If you head up marketing for an Internet company, you're undoubtedly used to having to work--or fight--with your IT department to help maintain your web site and manage all of the changes you need done. Ali Benham: We started as a consultancy. We starting seeing this problem as a consultancy, through some of our consulting engagements.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Once we decided to do this, we started looking for a Dan.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

San Diego-based Rippol , a new startup looking to help people discovery and find online videos, is launching today at the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. Tags: newtorking social startup movie search content discovery video rippol. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We caught up Stewart to see how the company has significantly pivoted its vision for the company, the recent deal with Honda to offer up certified pre-owned vehicles to its users, and more. Let's start out at the top, for those who haven't been following what's been going with Fair, what is your business now?

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MARCH 29, 2013

Over the past several years there have been a plethora of incubators and accelerators springing up all over southern California and particularly on the west side of Los Angeles. How you get referred into these shops is a subject for another post. Directory Listing. Represent LA .

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MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Dr. Paul Jacobs leading Qualcomm to be the most valuable (by market cap) chip company in the world and their reference designs and chip sets being a key contributor rolling out true wireless broadband throughout most of the US. Startups will lead and the whales will follow. READ MORE>>.

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