Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. Many “tech companies” now have green screens. And make-up artists.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

Venice, California-based Rally Networks , a startup which uses free charging stations in public locations to help spread the word about mobile apps, has been selected for the new Virgin Media Accelerator that is launching in London.

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Media Networking Venice Mentor 100

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

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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. Incubator: Amplify LA. Social Media: Snapchat. Marketing: SteelHouse.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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Startup Entrepreneur Funding Incubator 100

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. Plus, they''ve invested in Los Angeles.

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Hollywood Help Media Content 159

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. One of our teachers was teaching new media and it was really inspiring. TechZulu: So where did WESAWIT originate from?

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