Spotlight: LA Tech Was A Smashing Success!
We here at TechZulu could have not asked for a better night. Amazing Spotlight companies, a fantastic audience, and great conversation sparked by the mixing and mingling of the academic and business worlds. We accomplished exactly what we were striving for with Spotlight, by providing a gallery of great entrepreneurship and raising a glass to those who build and innovate. To those that made it out and also those at home who watched the live broadcast we thank you and all the support you have given TechZulu. We have been part of this amazing community for quite some time now and have watched it grow behind the lens of a camera for over 2 years. Always being the champion for startups and entrepreneurs, especially here in beautiful Southern California, we want to do our part and help this community thrive!
Huge thanks goes out to Dustin Goot and the Entrepreneurship Association at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management for being such a great host and partner on helping put this all together.
For those who missed out last night the rebroadcast is up and highlights of each Spotlight company will be up soon.
The Lineup:
Zugara is a Los Angeles based Augmented Reality Software developer that’s been in business since 2001. They develop proprietary software that works in real time to “augment” the world around you with digital data, hence the term “Augmented Reality”. One example of such a solution would be our proprietary E-Commerce Augmented Reality Software, “The Webcam Social Shopper”.
Social Annex creates “Social software” that plugs into eCommerce sites and helps monetize Social Media as an online marketing channel for them.
TekTrak is a smartphone security company that developed software which allows users to accurately track their lost or misplaced phone, and remotely secure any private or sensitive data stored on the device.
At CallFire.com, they try to make using VoIP, simple. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. They are a unique group of intellectuals with aspirations to truly change how companies do business.
CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! We’re just an hour from the snow and steps from the beach. We work harder than we play, and we play harder than most!
Geni is solving the problem of genealogy by inviting the world to build the definitive online family tree. Using the basic free service, users add and invite their relatives to join their family tree, which Geni compares to other trees. Matching trees are then merged into the single world family tree, which currently contains nearly 40 million ancestors and living users. Pay services include enhanced research tools as well as keepsake products created from family tree data. Geni welcomes casual genealogists and experts who wish to discover new relatives and stay in touch with family. Geni is privately held and based in Los Angeles, California.
Distribber.com isa new-model flat-fee distribution service that places independent films on digital sales platforms such as iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Cable VOD while allowing filmmakers to keep 100% of their revenue.
Spotlight: LA Tech will have a special SuperDemo presented by Dan Gould of Namesake. Namesake aims to create a better way to match and route opportunities that come across your desk every day. Create a network on the platform by importing your Twitter and Facebook contacts. You can then post jobs, recommend people for opportunities, connect people with each other and more.
Thanks To Our Sponsors!
Once again we want to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors. Because of your support, we are able to make this all happen help do our part in helping our community grow.
At CallFire.com, they try to make using VoIP, simple. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. They are a unique group of intellectuals with aspirations to truly change how companies do business.
CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! We’re just an hour from the snow and steps from the beach. We work harder than we play, and we play harder than most!
(mt) Media Temple, Inc. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses around the world with reliable, professional-class services to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich Internet content.
They are giving out discount codes for (gs), (dv), or (ve) servers and a few extra goodies to all who signup for the event!
The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general. Because putting all of us together results in amazing things –together we are even more brilliant than we are alone.
