Plaid & Pin

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">We're building tools and frameworks that help us rapidly build prototypes and MVP mobile apps for startups for pitching, demoing, and early concepting purposes. Saves time/money, reduces risk, and solves the talent deficit problem while ideas still get built.</span></p>

StartupToolShop

<p>STS is the web's central location to find amazing tools to help your venture.<br><br>STS is for startups and entrepreneurs, and will always be free to use.</p>

baskt

<p>A Marketplace For Mission-Driven Communitties.&nbsp;</p>

Vybe

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Vybe is a smart bracelet that we designed to be simple and easy to use. It notifies the user through a vibration feeling on your wrist or ankle when you receive a phone call, a text message or if you get further than 50ft from your phone.</span></p>

TileItOn

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">TileItOn lets students create and subscribe to virtual boards within and across campuses. Virtual boards will contain posts by other students, staff and faculty. e.g. a student at USC can subscribe to boards at Stanford to be aware of stuff they are interested in. Also, they can post rental, sales, events, services related posts to their boards to be subscribed by others.</span></p>

AgentBridge

<p>AgentBridge, LLC operates an online platform that connects real estate agents in the United States and internationally. Its platform enables real estate agents to track client needs, network with other agents, and identify authentic matches, as well as initiate and execute referrals.</p>

Scriptation LLC

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.99993896484375px;">Scriptation is the first and only PDF annotation app designed for Film and TV professionals. More than just scripts, Scriptation handles all production documents so your next revision will always be green.</span></p>

TRAINR

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;">TRAINR is building the next generation of quantified-self fitness devices to track, evaluate, and guide resistance and sport specific training. TRAINR also provides a virtual trainer environment, permitting users to receive ongoing personal and professional feedback to reach their fitness goals.</span></p>

Callroom.co

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.99993896484375px;">The process for hosting or joining a conference call is long and frustrating. Callroom.co gives users their own dedicated, branded conference lines, with a local number of their choosing and no access codes.</span></p>

myLAB

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">myLAB Box is your personal lab in a box. Our “Safe is Sexy” pilot service, is the first-ever membership empowering users to take control of their sexual health with a comprehensive program of easy and affordable at-home screening solutions. myLAB is carving out new territory in preventive care within the $8B+ market of costs associated with diagnosing and treating STDs in the U.S.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The way we think about and test for STDs is long overdue for a change. myLAB offers unprecedented convenience and instant results on a global scale, encouraging users to screen often and minimize the chance for infection by automating the process and making it easy and fun.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">myLAB has secured strategic relationships with some of the best industry experts and manufacturers in the U.S. and is a winner of AngelHack Los Angeles. We are positioned to grow into the go-to platform for at-home screenings and a convenient alternative to in-lab testing across a multitude of diseases &amp; health conditions worldwide.</p>

Bouju

<p>As they say: necessity is the mother of invention.</p><p>Back in 2011, Bouju CEO David Razavi was Chief Technology Officer of a very successful e-commerce company providing services to various marquee brands.&nbsp;&nbsp; As CTO, David dealt with a persistent issue that was causing these companies millions of dollars: They were being targeted bythousands&nbsp;of counterfeiters at a time.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some counterfeiters were selling infringing goods while others were stealing traffic to trick customers into revealing personal or credit card information.&nbsp;&nbsp; These unauthorized actions were causing the legitimate, high profile brands David worked with to lose customers, money and brand credibility.<br><br>David reached out to a few existing companies in the market that claimed to have a software solution to the brand piracy issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, he quickly realized that none of these companies offered an efficient, affordable solution for his customers to protect their IP and shut down infringers.&nbsp;&nbsp; The power of data analytics wasn’t being tapped, and as a technology expert, David knew that is where the&nbsp;real&nbsp;solutions would lie.&nbsp;&nbsp; That was the start of Bouju.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Bouju’s comprehensive software-as-a-service draws from the expertise of a collaborative team of legal and marketing professionals and tech wizards, This cross-disciplinary team has created a product that directly meets the needs of brand warriors across departments.&nbsp;&nbsp; In short, we created the software solution we wished had existed for us.&nbsp;&nbsp; Today, Bouju is used by some of the most high profile brands in the world, and we are excited to partner with companies around the world to protect their IP – and their customers. &nbsp;</p>

PingTank

<p>Social network</p>

K5 Launch

<p><span style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: Muli, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">First Accelerator in Southern California, K5 Launch was born in early 2011 from the observation that Southern California is vibrant with talent and capital, and yet offers limited support for early stage startups. It is run by successful entrepreneurs and investors who&nbsp;have a passion for building startups. Our goal is to build a vibrant and supportive community for entrepreneurs in Southern California.</span></p>

Financial Finesse

Financial Finesse is a boutique, entrepreneurial firm located in El Segundo, CA. Since its founding in 1999, we have been the pioneering leader of the workplace financial wellness industry, which has recently reached an inflection point of growth. As an employee-owned company that operates with an entrepreneurial spirit and a philanthropic heart, we love what we do and the people we work with. We leverage the strengths of our people and proprietary technologies to work with large organizations such as Nestlé, CVS Health, Facebook, and the NFLPA to custom design and deliver full-scale, proprietary financial coaching technologies and services provided a free benefit for their employees. We’ve been around for 20 +years, and we’re honored to have been recognized by Los Angeles Business Journal as a ‘Best Place to Work’, by Entreprenuer.com as a ‘Top Company Culture’, and Best in Biz as ‘Most Innovative Small Company of the Year’.

Project Prepay

<p><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 35px; text-align: center;">Our mission is to provide people around the world, irrespective&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 35px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 35px; text-align: center;">of age, income or location, with a simple, accessible and&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 35px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 35px; text-align: center;">convenient digital payments experience.</span></p>

Forward Set

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.429em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(65, 66, 68); font-family: Asap, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 21.993999481201172px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Formerly known &amp; started in early 2011 as 904 Fixed, Forward Set is the progression that came with being a cyclist. Fixed gear cycling was our original attraction, but as time went on, interests grew with cycling as a whole. Currently we are submerging ourselves into road cycling, cyclocross, as well as our original love, track bikes.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.429em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(65, 66, 68); font-family: Asap, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 21.993999481201172px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Forward Set, above all, is a cycling culture website and a growing brand, striving to entertain the reader with original cycling content as well as cycling material found around the web. In complement, Forward Set strives to create original, well thought out, quality products that cater to cyclists. Along with having a website and products, Forward Set deeply roots itself with local cycling scenes by hosting and sponsoring events and rides.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.429em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(65, 66, 68); font-family: Asap, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 21.993999481201172px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Forward Set is broadening horizons &amp; establishing itself as a staple in cycling culture. Forever forward.</p>

Radius Pop

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">RadiusPop is a nearby friends platform for the sharing economy. The platform includes features similar to other nearby friends apps in the "SoLoMo" market, adds significant privacy safeguards, and then uses them to power a sharing economy marketplace.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Many apps can tell you where your friends are and who is nearby. Other platforms, like Airbnb, Uber, or Couchsurfing, allow strangers to share spare resources. RadiusPop incorporates the best of both types of platforms. It is designed to facilitate the sharing of spare resources among your friends, or friends of friends, and to do so wherever you happen to be, whether at home or on the road. If you've ever had a spare bike to lend, missed crossing paths with an old friend, or needed a place to crash in an unfamiliar city, we're your app.</p>

Pogoseat, Inc.

Pogoseat is an enterprise solution for sports teams and concert venues that enables their fans to upgrade seats and purchase unique experiences during events. Our mission is to provide fans with the ability to optimize their live entertainment experience and teams and venues a platform to increase fan engagement, monetize unused inventory and gather data to improve the fan experience.

Datezr, Inc

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Datezr is a mobile app to help people discover fun local activities and places to plan their leisure time. The app considers the interests and location and suggests experiences for any occasion.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The best part about Datezr is its ability to create an experience without you making a decision, like Pandora, it picks an activity for you. It can also pair off nearby complementary activities or put together a plan for a full night out or a weekend.&nbsp;<br>You can save down your experience and share it with friends or your significant other.</p>

The Confluence

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