Since 1981, the Los Angeles Economic Development Council (LAEDC) has worked to attract, retain and grow businesses among LA County’s 10 million residents, via free business assistance and attraction programs, economic research and analysis, real estate advisory services, trade and investment assistance, and public policy leadership. The organization’s ultimate goal has been to create prosperity through job creation. LAEDC members and partners…
MELINDA MOORE, CEO of Moore Media Ventures, has been a pioneer at the cutting edge of trends for the past fifteen years, working as a tech entrepreneur to help turn micro movements into macro trends, and helping others along the way. In 2010, Moore and co-founder Justine Lassoff built LovingEco, a fashion and natural beauty site for conscious consumers, which Paul Mitchell…
The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) has announced that Evan Spiegel, CEO and co-founder of Snapchat, along with CBRE and California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will be the 2015 Eddy Awards® Honorees. This 20th Annual Eddy Awards® recognizes those who have played leading roles in the development of the LA County economy and in the creation of well-paying jobs for…
Multi-player mobile games network just raised $35 million in Series A funding from a pool that includes Knoll Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, The Chernin Group, Greycroft Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and Evolution Media Capital. More details at VentureBeat.
Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference. This includes the introduction of Cornerstone View, an interactive data visualization application that gives business leaders deeper intelligence about their people, as well as Cornerstone Planning, an intuitive workforce planning application that helps organizations easily create, manage and execute…
VIRGIN GALACTIC is coming to Long Beach with a massive 150,000 square foot facility. The company will also be hosting a job fair and open house on March 7. Per the press release: Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, is pleased to announce it has leased a new 150,000…
The biggest digital publishing company that you might not have heard of yet is about to get bigger in 2016 — Render Media, the brainchild of founders Eytan Elbaz and Vic Belonogoff, launched as the parent company of a roster of online content brands. Render Media (formerly Opposing Views) is the digital publishing parent company of four rapidly growing content destinations: Opposing…
Wednesday December 17, crown jewel of the IAC portfolio TINDER hooked up with FounderPanel (special thanks to organizers Aaron Abram (above) and Jad Meouchy + lead sponsor Osurv) to hold a holiday party with lightning talks and even a recruitment drive. Tinder was kind enough to host around 100 tech founders to discuss the philosophy and logistics behind the mobile dating platform’s…
