socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. Earbits is in Venice, and is headed by Joey Flores. Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at. Music Mastermind.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

StoryBots , the developer of entertaining, fun, and educational application and content, has launched a trio of new applications, the firm said Thursday. The StoryBots are brightly colored, on-screen creatures created by the brothers to help entertain and educate kids. StoryBots debuted its first set of applications back in September.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Venice-based WemoLab --which has been developing entertainment products around an oceanic theme--announced today that it has launched its first, mobile product, a new interactive tablet app. The firm said its app, SuperFugu, let kids take a "field trip" around the world''s ocean. The app is free, and runs on the iPad. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 27, 2019

Venice-based Seriously Digital Entertainment announced Aug. 26 it was acquired by Israeli mobile game developer Playtika Ltd.

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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. Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups. The appetite for space has just been voracious.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Venice, California-based StoryBots--which develops fun learning apps for kids--said that the new app lets users upload up to five photos, turning people into dancing vampires, ghosts, werewolves, mummies, and Frankenstein. storybot halloween dancing entertainment kids children iphone ipad tablet greeting cards' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat, and Time Warner announced on Monday that the two are in a $100M deal, where the two will collaborate on both content and advertising. According to the companies, Time Warner will develop and produce shows for Snapchat, from its wide range of networks and entertainment companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Venice-based JibJab , the online entertainment site known for its humorous animated videos, has expanded into the children's book market, saying this week that it has launched a new brand which will create interactive children's books. JibJab said its new brand, JibJab Jr.,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Venice Beach-based Amplify , a new startup accelerator headed by Paul Bricault and Richard Wolpert, has uncloaked itself this morning, the latest in a string of startup accelerators in Southern California. Amplify said it will invest in companies at the intersection of technology and entertainment.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2012

We'll celebrate digital innovators in tech, entertainment and startups in movies, music, TV, games, fashion, and more, June 21-23 with panels, workshops, mixers, keynotes and cocktails at more than 10 hubs focused in Santa Monica to Venice. We've never had a home-grown startup-entertainment tech fest in LA, so let's make it happen!

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I also lead our media and entertainment vertical practice. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2009

Venice, California-based JibJab, the online comedy site known for their politically-oriented, musical animations, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M The round came from Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment, along with existing investor Polaris Venture Partners. in a Series C funding round.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. As a studio, we are building entertainment titles that capture that spirit. But, we knew there was something there.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 17, 2012

We'll celebrate digital innovators in tech, entertainment and startups in movies, music, TV, games, fashion, and more, June 21-23 with panels, workshops, mixers, keynotes and cocktails at more than 10 hubs focused in Santa Monica to Venice. We've never had a home-grown startup-entertainment tech fest in LA, so let's make it happen!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 15, 2012

We'll celebrate digital innovators in tech, entertainment and startups in movies, music, TV, games, fashion, and more, June 21-23 with panels, workshops, mixers, keynotes and cocktails at more than 10 hubs focused in Santa Monica to Venice. We've never had a home-grown startup-entertainment tech fest in LA, so let's make it happen!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat will be rolling out a new, 3D interactive lens for the service, as part of a tie in to the upcoming film Underworld: Blood Wars. Screen Gems is part of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The lens uses Snapchat's augemented reality features to place users into a 3D augmented world based on Underworld's vampire theme.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Venice Beach-based Mogreet, a provider of mobile video greeting cards, said today that it has inked a deal with Fox Mobile Entertainment to provide greetings based on Fox Searchlight movies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 19, 2012

LA City Council Member Eric Garcetti will give the opening keynote for the inaugural Silicon Beach Fest , a celebration of digital innovators in startups and entertainment happening June 21 – 23. The moniker Silicon Beach refers to the technology scene in Los Angeles concentrated around the areas of Santa Monica and Venice.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Venice, California-based anonymous messaging app developer Whisper said Tuesday that it has named Shelby Huston Haro as the company's Vice President of Sales. Haro is from the entertainment industry, and has served at Maverik Digital, GetGlu, Penske Media Corp, along with Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. In LA we have entertainment, finance, textiles, aerospace, transportation, fashion and so forth.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Parking for employees at Los Angeles area companies is at a premium, particularly in areas like Venice, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica--all neighborhoods where the density of technology companies have far exceeded the allotted parking of properties, many of which were built for much lower density corporate, creative, and entertainment businesses.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2019

The company--which has offices in both LA and San Diego--said it is launching in Venice, Hollywood, Brentwood, West LA, Westwood, Miracle Mile, Mid City and other local LA markets. The startup is led by Wag co-founders and brothers Jonathan and Josh Viner.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). For our ABC video series alone, we had people in Argentina, Italy, the UK, and here in house in Venice, and other places around the world, producing those videos.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that. The third thing, is it''s not just Santa Monica and Venice. We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin. But, we also have this other stuff too.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat has reported acquired Voisey , the developer of an app which lets users overlay their voice on top of existing music tracks.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2013

Steve Ellis: We''re building an entertainment magazine create by entertainers themselves, on their smartphone. Steve Ellis: Yes, we have an office in Venice. Steve Ellis: We did not want to be exclusive to one agency, so we were independently financed. We raised money from Amazon, Comcast Ventures, and Greylock.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While much of the focus in using VR has been on gaming and entertainment, “virtual reality has the potential to reinvent the consumer experience—with an experience we call contextual commerce,” according to a Store No 8 blog post Monday by Katie Finnegan, Walmart’s vice president of incubation and principal and founder of Store No 8.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. I'm going to move to LA, and we're pretty close to the Movieclips guys, and we think we'll have some support from them and start in Venice somewhere.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Venice-based Snapchat is planning to launch a new feature in February, which will feature users' Bitmoji avatars as the main characters in a custom cartoon. The new feature--called Bitmoji TV , is expected to include users' Bitmoji avatars included in "secret agent missions", piloting a spaceship, and much more.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

However, TechZulu will be doing an official pre-event on Tuesday June 17th with our #TZTechCrawl in Venice. Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. The post Silicon Beach Fest Approaches!

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Marketing: SteelHouse. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J. Atom Factory is a pioneer in the artist management field.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger. “We want to help local business introduce themselves through our tools and create a connection. On your birthday you could receive an offer on Doppels and in minutes you could be walking into a local business. Giving Back.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. My interests are eclectic and range from SpaceX and innovations in aerospace, transportation, robotics, autonomous vehicles, to esports, the future of work, and the future of entertainment. We've always known how important it is as VCs to invest in founders.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Speakers From Startups/Entertainment/Tech Include: Howard Marks, StartEngine Co-Founder, formerly Activision Founder. Concurrent panels at several different hubs from Santa Monica to Venice and Hollywood including: Meet the Accelerators Panel, 10-12p @ Viceroy. Join us for 3 days of Panels, Hackathons, BBQ, and beach fun.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). For our ABC video series alone, we had people in Argentina, Italy, the UK, and here in house in Venice, and other places around the world, producing those videos.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

And LA shifted to Santa Monica and Venice. But we do have great working spaces for our portfolio companies to entertain clients or hold board meetings or executive retreats. So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco. Waltham shifted to Cambridge. Thames Valley shifted to East London.

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