This month, Built In Los Angeles will be featuring some “hot” startups across the various neighborhoods that, although may feel like different worlds at times, make up LA’s budding digital ecosystem. To recommend a startup or district of LA that deserves some love, email [email protected].
Downtown: DealFlicks
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After realizing that movie theatres were “a huge market with a big problem” of too many empty seats, co-founder Sean Wycliffe launched Dealflicks with his team in July 2012 to become the “Priceline for movie tickets.” That fall, Dealflicks went through 500 Startups and started fundraising.
But the LA side of the story really began when Lin Miao, managing partner at Be Great Partners, invested.
Hollywood: Powerhouse Creative
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Hollywood-based Powerhouse Creative is an independent digital interactive agency that works on projects such as mobile apps, web apps and video streaming: “What we offer, everybody needs,” cofounder Isaac Swiderski said. They have worked with everyone from startups to large publically-traded companies, which Swiderski declined to name because he said “most of our juicy work falls under confidentiality agreements.”
Venice: Epoxy
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When Epoxy CEO Juan Bruce was searching for analytical tools to help with web series development while President of Digital at Team Downey, he found nothing. So with the encouragement of Mark Suster, Bruce turned his Team Downey gig into Venice-based video management company Epoxy because “it made more sense to build this for everybody not just as an internal tool.”
