SalonConnect

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">SalonConnect.com is the online community that connects salon owners with professionals looking to rent space by the hour, week, or month.</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: 20px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">By 2015 nearly 50% of U.S. Salons will offer some form of booth rental and there is not currently a single location for bringing salon owners &amp; professionals together.</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: 20px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Our initial focus group with owners &amp; stylists has show there is a strong need for this product with salon owners willing to pay a monthly fee to have their locations listed.</p>

BodyElix

<p><a href="http://www.bodyelix.com">BodyElix</a> is the quickest, easiest way to book an in-home massage. &nbsp;Our hand-picked, experienced massage therapists can be in your home same day. &nbsp;Specializing in sports massage, injuries and stress &amp; tension relief for athletes, runners, yogis and weekend warriors.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.bodyelix.com">BodyElix</a> Massage team has over 25 years of experience working with athletes, dancers, runners and non-athletes. &nbsp;Stiff neck, sore shoulders, hamstring strains, lower back pain, injuries and general stress &amp; tension relief are some of the symptoms we treat most frequently.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Zippy

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Zippy, is a task management app for the iOS that provides the user with a beautiful and intuitive user interface to quickly and easily add tasks and reminders. A first for any task management app is having a nifty infographic that provides your with insights on how and when you create and complete tasks which helps you get better at managing and completing them.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Zippy’s infographic of insights encourages you to act on those tasks and helps you see how you can get better with managing them. Insights such as your completion rate and breakdowns by 'completed early' or 'how late'. It also shows you what time of day and day of the week you tend to create tasks, when you tend to be most efficient in completing them, how far ahead you plan out your tasks, and how close to the due time you complete a task. You can filter the info graphic to track your task management and see how you’re doing this week, how you did last week, last month, etc</span></p>

Innoppl Inc

<p>Innoppl Inc is a leading mobile application development firm in US. Innoppl Inc has been developing and distributing mobile apps which are specifically designed to cater to Los Angeles-based clients. The company covers mobile applications for native iOS iPhone, Android, and mobile-web HTML5. Innoppl Inc builds mobile apps for some of the most vital industries including healthcare, automobile manufacturing, retail, startups, universities &amp; much more.</p>

blinkbop

<p><a href="http://www.blinkbop.com">blinkbop</a> is a privately held ecommerce company based in los angeles. founded by a group of fashion writers, beauty experts and entrepreneurs, we believe that <a href="http://www.blinkbop.com/collections/false-eyelashes">gorgeous false eyelashes</a> and <a href="http://www.blinkbop.com/collections/accessories">accessories</a> can make even the simplest look go 'pop'! our curated selection of products are available exclusively on our website (<a href="http://www.blinkbop.com">www.blinkbop.com</a>). visit <a href="http://blog.blinkbop.com/">blink 101</a> for tips, tricks, and lash beauty secrets or follow us at <a href="http://www.instagram.com/blinkbop">@blinkbop</a> to peek into our colorful world.</p>

Envoy

<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);">Our customers can have piping-hot food delivered to their door in 30 minutes from any restuarant, even the ones that don't deliver-all through a service for USC students, by USC students.</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);">Our goal is to one day have a full-fledged iPhone and Andriod application to streamline the entire Envoy process. We imagine a time where a student can order exactly what they want from any restaurant on campus with a few simple taps, be able to track their food being prepared and delivered to them, and not have to ever deal with cash or even credit cards during the entire process.</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);">We believe that we are not only revolutionizing the food delivery options available to a given USC student, but we are also changing the way students can think about having a part-time job. Envoy aims to offer students a way to easily earn money with incomparably flexible hours by doing something as simple as cruising around campus.</p>

Jangel

<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);">Jangel lets you find events on a map which occur right now or in some time, find people by interests depending on their emotional state, events they participate in and things they like.</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);">Filter your live map with a click - fill your life with events, people &amp; opportunities around you.</p>

Revee

<p>Do you know the monetary value of every piece of content on your site in real time? Revee does.&nbsp;<br><br>Revee helps you gain intelligence on page yield, engagement and behavioral trends. With this data, Revee allows publishers to capture more revenue.&nbsp;<br><br>We are an enterprise content analytics platform for publishers with tools for Ops, Sales, Marketing and Editorial.&nbsp;<br><br>Access Media Corp. owned</p>

Intelligent Healthcare

<p>For over 20 years, Intelligent Healthcare has delivered data insights to physicians and administrators for provider organizations to meet the needs of Accountable Care:&nbsp;<br><br>• Commercial ACOs&nbsp;<br>• Clinical Integration / Data Aggregation&nbsp;<br>• Pay for Performance&nbsp;<br>• PQRS reporting&nbsp;<br>• Medicare STAR reporting&nbsp;<br>• Medicare’s Shared Savings Program,&nbsp;<br>• Medicare Advantage HCC and other risk coding conventions tracking and management.&nbsp;<br><br>Providers with over 40 hospitals, 11,000 physicians manage more than 5 million patients with Intelligent Healthcare’s Software-as-a-Service platform to support their clinical integration, Medicare Shared Savings, commercial ACOs, and other quality and efficiency improvement initiatives</p>

Zymandias

<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;">&nbsp;We make software for enterprises.</span></p>

Hillcrest Venture Partners

<p>Hillcrest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that takes a methodical approach to investing. Leveraging our experience with venture capital investing, operating startup companies, strategy development, product management, and investment banking in a structured manner, we help promising entrepreneurs create tomorrow's leading technology companies.</p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Industries of Interest</b><br>Hillcrest Venture Partners invests in companies developing technologies in the following industries:</font></p><ul><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Communications Infrastucture</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Enterprise Applications</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Financial Technology</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Information Technology Infrastructure</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Life Science Research Tools</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Semiconductor</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Wireless</font></li></ul><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Company Stage</b></font><br><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Hillcrest Venture Partners invests exclusively in companies that are in the seed to growth (i.e., less than $15 Million in revenue) stage of development. We prefer to invest in companies that have at least completed a working prototype of their product.</font></p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Geography</b></font><br><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">While Hillcrest Venture Partners will consider investing in a company irrespective of the company's location, we prefer to invest in companies that are proximate to one of our offices. </font></p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Disciplined Investing</b><br>We invest according to a thorough methodology that yields an objective assessment of each company. Some of the factors we consider are:</font></p><ul><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Problem Addressed.</u> The company's product or service must address a meaningful problem faced by customers. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Value Proposition.</u> The product or service must have clear and material advantages (e.g., cheaper, faster, more convenient) over existing solutions. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Market Size.</u> The total addressable market for the product or solution must exceed $500 Million per year. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Barriers to Entry.</u> There must be substantial barriers which prevent others from duplicating the product or entering the market. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Management Team.</u> The company's management team must have a track record of success or have demonstrated potential for success.</font></li></ul><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Hillcrest Venture Partners will make an initial investment between $25,000 to $100,000 in a company and will make a maximum investment of $150,000 over the life of a company.</font></p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Focused Assistance</b><br>With its diversely skilled management team, Hillcrest Venture Partners assists its portfolio companies with numerous aspects of business. From strategy formulation to recruiting personnel to business development, we provide far more than capital to our companies. Furthermore, Hillcrest Venture Partners assigns its managing directors to its companies according to the specific needs of a portfolio company and the particular skills of the managing directors. By doing so, we insure that a portfolio company receives the optimal value from our team. As our companies grow, we provide connections to larger sources of capital, strategic partnerships, potential acquirers or investment bankers.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

oNoise

<p>The World's Audio Marketplace&nbsp;<br><br>Revolutionizing the way audio professionals work&nbsp;<br><br>Now available at oNoise.com, a marketplace for audio engineers, musicians, vocal-artists, recording businesses and more. Choose your own rate, work from anywhere, and get paid to do what you love.<br><br>Audio professionals everywhere now have the ability to set their rates based on their reputation and skills. Clients select artists based on a combination of experience, efficiency, and cost that fits their particular business needs.&nbsp;<br><br>Recording artists and studios can buy and/or sell services, digital content, and products - no matter the location. oNoise makes it easy to connect directly with customers and talented audio professionals worldwide.</p>

Crunch Report

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-fca095a9-dc4b-55bf-bf66-89853d33c2f7"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crunch Report’s mission is to provide a platform that serves as a one stop shop for breaking news and events in a user’s immediate area, state and country.</span></span></p>

Worksteady.io

<p>Medical staff on demand.</p>

Goldhirsh Foundation

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 17px;">We connect the dots between the best emerging innovations and the financial, social, and human capital to make them thrive. We exist for social innovators and are run by social innovators. We find smart people doing creative things, and we give them the tools to do them better. We identify gaps then support those on the first line of response. If holes remain, we incubate solutions.&nbsp;</span></p>

DSTLD

<p>DSTLD is a premium denim label with a streamlined, fully boutiqueless stance. Removing retail impurities and other non-essentials from the equation, the brand offers clientele the finest, most fundamental essence of top-grade premium denim from a mere $65, as well as a convenient, customizable, and free ten-day home “audition.” All feats are accomplished from the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles, premium denim capital of the world, and made possible via a topnotch e-commerce experience.</p><p>DSTLD represents progressive modern style, evolved artistry, and industry-leading class &amp; quality in premium denim – attainable for approximately a third of today’s standard price tag.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Tizewell

<p>We are a group of Agile Ruby on Rails developers, iOS designers, &nbsp;project managers, and product manager based out of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Colombia. We have over 6 years of experience with Ruby on Rails and other web development technologies.<br><br>We work to deeply understand your business and its purpose, and how to contribute to the success of your business. Whether its receiving more funding, acquiring users, driving up revenue, saving costs, or streamlining business processes, your best interests are taken to heart.<br><br>We have the ability to understand business and technical requirements to build a beautiful and functional product. Tizewell can assist with specifics of your project from zero to MVP, ongoing development, refactoring, code maintenance, linking API's, staff augmentation or a supplemental developmer.</p>

Vlogma

<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;">Vlogma is an online social network and microvlogging service designed specifically for vloggers. The Vlogma mobile app allows users to record a 60s video of themselves, attach photos or a link and then post to a public or private channel or send as a private message. See more at&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.vlogma.com/" rel="nofollow" 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; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(48, 120, 202);" target="_blank">www.vlogma.com</a></p>

theAudience

<p><strong>THE COMPANY: theAudience </strong>(<a href="http://www.theaudience.com/">www.theaudience.com</a>)</p><p>theAudience is an entertainment content publishing network built upon the social media connections between fans and popular culture. Operating in partnership with leading entertainers and global entertainment brands, theAudience’s robust publishing network curates and produces content natively on social media platforms to create large, highly engaged fan bases. The company and its partners then build sustainable, organic transactional and sponsorship businesses around these flourishing social media ecosystems. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Currently managing more than 300 top-tier clients, and connected to nearly 800 million fans across social media platforms, theAudience creates enormous value through cross-platform programming and the popularization of entertainers, brands, content and social utilities. Through leveraging the power of theAudience network, and unparalleled expertise in social media, the company turns clients’ online presence across all the major social media platforms into thriving media properties, which can then be monetized in multiple ways. The company is comprised of storytellers, curators, producers, business innovators and entrepreneurs.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>HIGHLIGHTS AND PRESS:</em></strong></p><ul><li>Founded by serial entrepreneurs, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parker">Sean Parker</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/oliver-luckett">Oliver Luckett</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Emanuel">Ari Emanuel</a>.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/sean-parker-ari-emanuel-and-oliver-lucketts-theaudience-raises-20m-to-help-celebs-navigate-social-media/">theAudience Raises $20M in Series A</a></li><li><a href="http://musically.com/2012/07/19/theaudience-sean-parker-ari-emanuels-stealthy-social-media-startup/">TheAudience: Sean Parker and Ari Emanuel’s stealthy social media startup</a></li><li><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-oliver-luckett-20140504-story.html#page=1">Tech mogul Oliver Luckett connects with emerging artists in a big way</a></li><li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/magazine/turning-microcelebrity-into-a-big-business.html?_r=0">Turning Microcelebrity Into a Big Business</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGooAFMGZLg">Oliver Luckett on “How Movie Studios are Marketing”</a></li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><div><p><strong>WHY THEAUDIENCE?</strong></p></div><p><strong>An excellent COMPANY: </strong>theAudience is a new kind of direct-to-consumer publishing company that exists within the very fabric of social networks. We build meaningful connections between leading entertainers, global brands, and highly engaged fans, through compelling, sharable content that binds their lives together. We publish over 6,000 unique items of content per month, reaching up to a billion people, and delivering 5-10 billion separate impressions. Using our suite of proprietary analytics tools, and by leveraging the power of our network, we then monetize the opportunities that emerge from these flourishing social media ecosystems.</p><p>That sounds great, but what else?</p><ul><li><strong>A path for growth</strong>: We’re a successful company built by a team of seasoned thought leaders and founded by serial entrepreneurs</li><li><strong>Compensation</strong>: Competitive base salary with a rewards &amp; recognition system and an Employee Referral program</li><li><strong>Health &amp; Benefits: </strong>Multiple comprehensive medical benefits packages to choose from, along with Pet Insurance and 401K programs available</li><li><strong>Rest &amp; Relaxation</strong>: PTO, Paid Holidays and so much more</li><li><strong>Culture</strong>: We’re a collective of passionate marketing thought leaders, we work hard and play hard, we have a casual dress code, we enjoy office lunches, office dinners, office happy hours; the whole nine yards</li></ul>

Begift

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-321c7b51-b99b-078c-7309-a92177d1d39b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Begift</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a Los Angeles based tech/e-commerce startup reinventing the baby shower registry by connecting moms to the best experts, services, experiences and products. For the first time moms can discover, buy and register for all the services and experiences that make their lives easier and more memorable. &nbsp;Moms shop Begift for everything from diaper delivery to doulas &amp; birthing classes to baby photography. &nbsp;Begift (ww.begift.com) just launched in Toronto and &nbsp;Los Angeles is coming (very) soon. &nbsp;Scaling across North America in 2015. &nbsp;</span></span></p><div>&nbsp;</div>