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Venice’s System1 Raises $270 Million

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Venice advertising technology firm System1 announced on Monday that it had completed a $270 million financing round led by New York-based Court Square Capital Partners

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Google's Venice Offices Hit By Large Covid Outbreak

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In a demonstration of the difficulties facing high tech companies in getting back to "normal" after the pandemic, Google has been hit by a large outbreak of COVID at its Venice address, according to Deadline. The outbreak--disclosed through numbers from the Los Angeles County Public Health department--apparently included a total of 159 infections at Google's fancy Frank Ghery-designed offices in Venice.

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ParkMe Expands Data In Hollywood, Venice

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Santa Monica-based parking information provider ParkMe said Tuesday that it has expanded the depth of its information in the Los Angeles area, by adding parking information in Hollywood and Venice. parkme hollywood venice angeles xerox parking data According to ParkMe, the expansion comes due to a collaboration with Xerox, through access to Xerox sensor data from the Los Angeles Department of Transportaiton''s LA Express Park program.

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Airpush Moves Into New Venice Offices, Complete With Hot Tub

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The company said it has moved into a new office in Venice, which it calls "LA''s most respectable tech neighborhood". airpush venice advertising mobile expansion jobs perks Think your startup has got the perks? Fast growing, mobile advertising startup Airpush , which has quietly grown to nearly $100M in revenues, has something probably no other startup has in the office: a hot tub.

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Google Plans Expansion In Venice

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Search engine giant Google is planning a major expansion in Venice, according to a report today in the LA Times. According to the report, Google has leased more than 100,000 square feet in the Binoculars Building in Venice, designed by Frank Gehry. google expansion venice california realestate hiring employment jobs searchThe move comes a day after Google said it is looking to hire more than 6,000 workers worldwide this year.

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Silicon Beach Report Sept. 20: Venice’s System1 Raises $270 Million

L.A. Business Journal

Venice’s System1 raises $270 million, SpaceX asks FCC to make exception for low-Earth satellites in subsidized internet program and Overwatch League announces three new teams

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LivnGiv.com Combines Dining Out, Charity In Venice Beach

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A new, Venice-based startup, LivnGiv.com said Wednesday afternoon that it has launched a brand new service, which donates money to charity when you eat out at local restaurants. The company''s list of restaurants currently includes mostly local, Venice Beach restaurants, with other restaurants in Santa Monica and Hollywood. livngiv charity dining restaurant food donation venice

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Tech Crawl Redux: Silicon Beach Tour Hits Venice

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This time, the group says it so far will be visiting accelerator Amplify, mobile messaging firm Mogreet, and 2 Billion Monkeys, and other local companies in the Venice Beach area, with more startups to come. tech crawl silicon beach venice tour beer networking startups techzuluWhat do you get when you combine beer and startups?

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Outsite Presents Nomad Stories: Venice

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, June 22, 2017 -- Join current and aspiring digital nomads at this free Outsite meetup. Listen to Nomad Stories from people who have quit their jobs to embrace the location independent lifestyle, as well as people who are working for leading remote companies. See [link] (more

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WaiveCar Launches Ad Supported Car Sharing In Santa Monica, Venice

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In an unusual twist for the car sharing market, a new, Los Angeles startup-- WaiveCar --said today that it has launched a new, mobile phone-driven car sharing program in Santa Monica and Venice, which lets drivers drive cars for free. The startup said the free car usage comes thanks to sponsors, who have plastered their advertising on the startup's automobiles.

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Silicon Beach Networking Happy Hour at Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, September 26, 2018 -- Silicon Beach Networking Happy Hour at Wurstkuche in Venice. Wednesday, September 26th Starting at 6pm! Meet new people, make business connections and most importantly, let's have fun! See [link] (more

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In Venice Beach, A Coming Out for Silicon Beach

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Set on the corner of Main street at Windward Circle, it positions itself in the heart of Venice. These days, it's not unusual for a handful of tech and startup mixers and events to be going down on the westside. Still, there was something special about the Nextspace @ Amplify Grand opening on Wednesday night. Something very, established about it. I've lived in Los Angeles for ten years now.

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer at Wurstkuche In Venice (Discounted Beers)

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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer at Wurstkuche In Venice (Discounted Beers). Wednesday, February 7th Starting at 6pm! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Make sure to bring your business cards and be ready to make awesome connections with people across all industries. See [link].

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, October 11, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Bombd Sets Up Shop In Venice, Aims At Social Networking

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Bombd , a startup which develops a social networking and messaging app revolving around sharing instant photos with others, has set up shop in Venice Beach. The startup--originally started in Australia--said its team and founders have moved to Venice Beach to scale the app in the U.S., and that it has begun hiring a team here.

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Digital LA - Venice Cocktails @ 31Ten

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Thursday, May 17, 2012 -- Digital LA - Venice Cocktails @ 31Ten. West side design, creative and VFX houses, startups and new Googlers and more welcome to network by the fire pit. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche In Venice

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche In Venice. Join Us For A Night Of Networking With Startup Professionals In Silicon Beach! Join the fastest growing tech networking and startup community in LA! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket! See [link] (more

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Snap Opens Bricks And Mortar Spectacles Shop In Venice

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has opened up its second, bricks-and-mortar store selling its Spectacles sunglasses, just down the street from its Venice headquarters. Los Angeles-based Snap, Inc. The store opened at 1pm on Thursday, closing "at Sunset", with regular hours of 11am to Sunset every day. Snap's Spectacles allow Snapchat users to record short snippets of video, and automatically post them to their account. The company has one other, bricks-and-mortar location, in New York City.

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join the fastest growing startup and tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. Register immediately for an early bird ticket. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Sunny Spot in Venice

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Sunny Spot in Venice. Support women entrepreneurs and Join the fastest growing tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community.See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice

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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Wurstkuche in Venice. Join Us For A Night Of Networking With Startup Professionals In Silicon Beach! Support women entrepreneurs and Join the fastest growing tech community in Los Angeles! Meet new people and participate in lively discussions with outstanding names in the Silicon Beach community. See [link] (more

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Findmypast.com Sets Up Shop In Venice

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Findmypast.com , a British family history website, said today that it has launched--and has set up a new office in Venice, California, to run its U.S. Findmypast.com did not say how big of a team it will be hiring in Venice. operations. Findmypast runs an online, family history and genealogy site which provides genealogical records, in particular, a rich collection of British, Irish, and Australian records dating back to 1200.

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Moviepilot Sets Up Office In Venice, Hires Two Execs

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Moviepilot , which operates an online movie discovery site, said last week that it has opened up an office on Abbot Kinney in Venice, California, as part of its expansion into Los Angeles. The firm--which has been booting up operations in LA since May --said it has hired Amy Elkins as EVP Strategy and Advertising, and Amy Smith as Director of Advertising. Elkins joins the firm from MEC, where she had run interactive media campaigns for Paramount and Dreamworks.

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Silicon Beach Start-Ups Venice

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Silicon Beach Start-Ups was formed to get together like minded people involved in tech start-ups on the West Side of Los Angeles. The founders run a start-up making and marketing mobile applications out of their offices in Santa Monica. This group is for entrepreneurial types to get together share their victories, defeats and help each other out generally

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L.A. Girl Geek Dinner #1 ? Google Venice

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Google Venice. We are proud to announce that Google is hosting the very first Los Angeles Girl Geek Dinner at their awesome Venice office. Thursday, September 20, 2012 -- L.A. Girl Geek Dinner #1 ? This reception is a celebration of women in engineering.

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Private tech companies mobilize to address shortages for medical supplies, masks and sanitizer

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“Community underscores everything we do here at Bev, and as such, we will be producing hand sanitizer and distributing it free of charge to the homeless and elderly communities here in Venice, populations who largely have insufficient access to healthcare and essential goods like sanitizer.”

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Digital LA - Venice Cocktails @ Hotel Erwin

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Monday, April 26, 2010 -- Digital LA - Venice Cocktails @ Hotel Erwin. See [link] (more

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Silicon Beach Report Feb. 28: Snap Putting More Than Half of Office Space in Venice Up for Lease

L.A. Business Journal

Snap putting more than half of office space in Venice up for lease; data visualization startup Virtualitics raises $7 million; and Overwatch League hires former WME-IMG VP of Licensing

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TZ Tech Crawl Silicon Beach Fest Edition! | Venice Beach

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We are officially kicking things off for SBF and getting Venice Tech community involved. Come take a tour of some of the hottest LA Tech companies located in Venice. Venice Beach appeared first on TechZulu. TZ Tech Crawl is back!!! And this time for a special Silicon Beach Fest (SBF) edition. Why not stop by for a quick beer, game, snack or just say hi at one of the many Silicon Beach tech companies from 6pm to 11pm?

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Universal Hydrogen Raises $21 Million for Airplane Fuel Cells

L.A. Business Journal

Venice-based startup Universal Hydrogen Co. has raised $20.5 million for its hydrogen fuel cell technology

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Fintech Startup Altruist Raises $8.5 Million

L.A. Business Journal

Venice-based startup Altruist Corp. raised an $8.5 million Series A round

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TZ Tech Crawl Venice | So Nice We Are Doing It Twice

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We had such a great response from July’s TZ Tech Crawl Silicon Beach Santa Monica edition, that we decided to get another one in before the summer was out and this time focus around the Venice area. Where: Venice, CA (Silicon Beach!). View TZ Tech Crawl Venice in a larger map. The post TZ Tech Crawl Venice | So Nice We Are Doing It Twice appeared first on TechZulu.

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Amplify Closes $10M Fund For More Startup Investments

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Venice-based Amplify recently close a third, early stage investment fund of $10M, as part of its efforts to accelerate startups in the Los Angeles area. Amplify, which operates its own startup accelerator in Venice, had previously been investing $12.6M Most of those funds have been invested in companies that have joined the company's accelerator in Venice. angel capital venture fund bricault paul venice accelerator startup amplify

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Video Interview: Tony Winders, The Winders Group

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era with the Venice Interactive Community (VIC). interactive venice community technology startup marketing interview winders tonyOur video interview today is with Tony Winders, the CEO of The Winders Group, a marketing agency in Los Angeles.

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Verified Expert Lawyer: Andrew Erskine

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Lawyers TC Verified Experts artificial intelligence author brian thomas california ceo clutter Co-founder CoinList entrepreneurship Eric Eldon lawyer Los Angeles Louisiana Navisens new york city Private Equity San Francisco sidewire Startup company veniceAndrew Erskine has developed his legal career along with the rise of the tech startup scene in Los Angeles. Today, as a partner at Orrick in its Santa Monica office, he works with companies large and small in the area and beyond.

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