The folks at VentureNet are looking for stand out SoCal start-ups, stat! If you aren’t familiar, VentureNet is the Technology Council’s annual venture capital conference, where promising startups pitch VCs (both here in SoCal as well as folks from Sand Hill). The event itself is September 12th in Costa Mesa. Deadline to submit for consideration…continue reading.

On one of his trips to Los Angeles, I asked Robert Scoble to interview some of our local startups for his site, FastCompany.tv. When he was done, I turned the cameras on him and asked him some questions for TechZulu.   As you listen to the interview, you’ll see that Robert likes what’s happening here…continue reading.

LA-based company calls for more local investment for start-ups in LA/SD corridor July 31, 2008 – Pasadena, Calif. – Momentum Venture Management (www.mvmpartners.com), a Los Angeles company that helps entrepreneurs transform their technologies into viable, well-funded businesses, today called the lack of local funding for Southern California companies an obstacle to innovation in the region…continue reading.

This is a guest post from Andrew Warner, Founder of Mixergy To help startups navigate through the funding process, Mixergy recently invited two speakers to talk about how to get investment for a new business. William Quigley, Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners, spoke from the point of view of an investor. Rahul Sonnad gave the…continue reading.

Welcome to the ‘new & improved’ TechZulu! Since our inception, we have been hard at work to bring you the best that the Southern California tech and media community has to offer – and now its time to go further.  We are expanding our scope to include more than event coverage and interviews as we…continue reading.

Efren Toscano – TechZulu CEO/Co-Founder Efren Toscano Co-Founded TechZulu in the heart of Southern California: Orange County. Focused on providing a platform to showcase all that is happening here in Southern California in the tech and media space, TechZulu is rapidly growing to be the hub for Southern California technology companies news source.  The site’s…continue reading.

  Last month, Mixergy held a forum where the topic was “How to get your startup funded”. The panelists included William Quigley, Mark Suster and Daniel Gould. The event brought in about 100 people in a private theater listening and learning about the process and what are the secrets to getting your company funded. One…continue reading.

    July’s Drinks 2.0 event at the very popular tech hub for tech events, Blankspaces. This event was sponsored by the Originate Labs was yet another great event for Southern California’s tech scene. Who is Originate Labs? They are a venture resource and software development firm that works with existing companies and/or entrepreneurs to…continue reading.

The first official NET.Working event was held June 23rd at the fire and water themed J6Bar atop the Hotel Solamar in downtown San Diego.  This event was put on by StartupSD, a new online sounding board that is connecting the growing Web community in San Diego by acting as a platform for web news, events…continue reading.

OCTANe’s LaunchPad helps start start-ups.  Entrepreneurs are led through a program that can identify and connect great people, capital and technology to their startups.   The idea LaunchPad has is to help startups get funded.  They provide entrepreneurs with support from the business stand point to prep them for capital introductions.  Once they help with…continue reading.