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ProspectWise is a venture-funded startup based in Santa Monica. Our mission is to modernize and empower local small businesses by connecting them to the best technology solution providers in the world.

3TEN8 develops a cloud SaaS-based platform that helps mobile operators to understand and optimize their wireless networks and subscriber's experience. They creating cognitive operations technology (AIOps) for closed-loop, self-healing, and self-operating networks in 4G, 5G, and beyond. Its software provides insights and analytics for mobile carriers. The company 's self-learning artificial intelligence technology predicts outages and network degradations and delivers self-healing actionable insights focused on preventing customer impact. Amr Salem, Naresh Guntupalli, and Elica Rahdar founded 3TEN8 on August 15, 2014. It has its headquarters in Santa Clara in California.

Zeitview is an aerial data analytics platform that provides aerial drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors. Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, the company analyzes visual data to provide actionable insights, enhancing asset performance and longevity. Zeitview serves industries such as solar, wind, property management, telecommunications, and utilities. Their platform delivers fast, accurate inspections, aiming to lower costs and improve operational efficiency.

AssetAvenue is a financial services company that offers an online lender for real estate investment properties. Its online platform and proprietary data models enable the company to deliver new benchmarks for transparency and flexibility. The company provides borrowers and brokers with faster and more flexible funding solutions than traditional banks. AssetAvenue was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The Noun Project is a platform where the world’s visual language can be shared.

Jukin Media has spent more than 10 years making it easy for amateur video creators to monetize their content. The company markets their videos to media companies and advertisers looking for authentic content with a proven ability to engage audiences. Jukin Media’s library of more than 50,000 pieces of carefully curated, user-generated content (UGC) is available for rates starting at just $49. Media outlets ranging from Wired to The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal have noted Jukin Media’s rise to lead the viral video licensing industry. The company already works with more than 1,000 of the largest corporate media and advertising brands— including Disney, Paramount, CBS, and many others—eager to leverage the inspiration, entertainment, and humor in its highly clickable, shareable UGC. Collectively, the videos in Jukin's library have amassed more than 110 billion lifetime views. Jukin Media adds new content on trending topics daily, ensuring an always-fresh supply of content to help its partners keep up with breaking news and popular demand. The company believes that the future of storytelling is both global and viral, and rests in the hands of everyday users creating an inexhaustible stream of content. One of the value-added propositions the company brings to any partnership is its ability to identify, source, and efficiently package and deliver the best of this content. The Jukin Media team brings a depth of experience and industry understanding to their work. This experience helps the company save its corporate partners time, money, and frustration through its ability to quickly establish copyright ownership and handle licensing and payment requirements to creators. Jukin Media’s popular brands include The Pet Collective, FailArmy, This Is Happening, People Are Awesome, and more. Together, they have garnered more than 200 million fans. The company also produces and sells its own long-form content based on its wide-ranging UGC library. Jukin content has been featured on FOX, MTV Networks, Facebook Watch, Viacom International Media Networks, and several other TV and streaming networks.

Parachute Home engages in the production of modern bedding and bath essentials for a more comfortable home. Its products are designed in Venice Beach and responsibly manufactured by the world’s best artisans.

KLUTCH eliminates the typically painful back-and-forth scheduling process and transforms it into a sleek, elegant, mobile decision-making platform. KLUTCH was designed to get people together in the real world. As a decision-making platform, KLUTCH has reinvented consensus scheduling for mobile devices.

Listn is the iTunes home sharing network for the world. Stay connected with your friends and their music, navigate their iPods, explore their musical preferences, add a song or delete a song - #Listn keeps you updated!

Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to collect, manage, analyze, and share information. Mark43 offers advanced analytics tools that allow agencies to gain insights from their data, improving decision-making and resource allocation. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology and data-driven insights to public safety.

Panna is the smart cook’s go-to video resource for learning to cook like a chef. And we don’t feature just any chef. Ours are among the world’s best, in fact, most have a Michelin star or a James Beard Foundation nomination. We know that sometimes a written recipe just isn’t enough, and that you want to see how a chef creates their most famous dishes via video. Panna has built an award-winning video content distribution platform for web and mobile that elegantly marries text and video of accomplished, award-winning chefs cooking their most beloved recipes from scratch. Each video is step-by-step so you can cook alongside the world's best chefs.

Preact (formerly Less Neglect) is a cloud-based customer success service that helps subscription software companies maximize customer lifetime value by reducing churn, acquiring new paid customers, and increasing user revenues. Preact provides health metrics tailored to each user and account by tracking detailed session-level usage of web and mobile applications and server APIs. Preact predicts and informs which customers are likely to churn, renew, or upgrade by modeling usage and behavior patterns using big data analytics, behavioral science, and machine learning. In addition, Preact provides deep, real-time visibility into product usage to dramatically improve customer support and product quality. Preact integrates with Gmail, Salesforce, Stripe, Zendesk, Desk.com, Helpscout, Mixpanel, and Marketo, and other leading cloud-based apps.

Tuition.io provides an employee benefit that enables employers to contribute directly to employees’ student loan debt. In addition, Tuition.io provides a web platform that helps employees manage and optimize their student debt through objective Financial Wellness education.

Pathmatics is a marketing platform that gives visibility to the digital ad performance of brands, their competitors, and entire industries. It turns the world’s marketing data into actionable insights as consumption rapidly shifts to digital, media decisions have become too complex and opaque. It brings together display, social, video, mobile, and native advertising data, helping users to optimize media and marketing decisions. Brands and agencies get access to the creative used by all advertisers, spend and impression data, and path from publisher to viewer. This empowers them to minimize waste from their budgets, better position their marketing, and predict the next moves of their competitors. Pathmatics data powers Nielsen’s digital ad intelligence offering, Kantar Media’s Facebook intelligence, and is used by agencies like Mindshare, Mediacom, and Possible. Pathmatics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and is backed by Upfront Ventures, BDMI, and Baroda Ventures.

KLUTCH eliminates the typically painful back-and-forth scheduling process and transforms it into a sleek, elegant, mobile decision-making platform. KLUTCH was designed to get people together in the real world. As a decision-making platform, KLUTCH has reinvented consensus scheduling for mobile devices.

Atlas is a time management and collaboration platform for mobile that centralizes all your calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes making collaboration on mobile shockingly simple - no email required. Currently, Atlas is focusing on the $150B Direct Selling Industry that has more than 92 million independent salespeople worldwide. Founders have deep domain experience and relationships. Atlas is a LaunchpadLA company. Learn more at: http://angel.co/atlas.

Chromatik connects the world's musicians. Their applications enable millions of musicians to play, learn, and share their favorite music through sheet music, guitar tabs, lyrics, and more. Chromatik was acquired by TakeLessons (https://TakeLessons.com) in April 2017.

Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace, providing a platform for buying and selling fashion. Brands available on the site include Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chloe, and more. Sellers get a free shipping kit when their item sells. They can print a prepaid label and ship using their own materials. Tradesy receives support from iconic investors such as Richard Branson and John Doerr, and it has been covered by Good Morning America, The Today Show, The New York Times, TIME, USA Today, and more. Tradesy was launched by Tracy DiNunzio, Sash Catanzarite, and John Hall on October 24, 2012. The company's headquarters are in Santa Monica, California.

Lettuce is a simple order management system with a mobile sales app enabling your business to capture, track, and process orders anywhere in real time. We primarily focus on small and medium sized businesses.

ChowNow is an ordering platform dedicated to helping local restaurants grow and compete in a sustainable way. ChowNow helps local restaurants thrive. By helping diners discover the restaurants' delicious creations and helping restaurants connect with customers. ChowNow powers branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants via the restaurants’ own websites, on Facebook and Google pages, through ChowNow-created apps, and via ChowNow’s website, while also providing the restaurant partners key customer insights and marketing support. The company does its services for a reasonable monthly fee, without the predatory third-party commissions charged by competitors. It also enables diners to connect with independent restaurants in communities to order takeout and in some cases delivery, in a way that’s sustainable and fair to restaurants. ChowNow was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Playa Vista, California.

Connectifier is changing the way recruiting is done today. Our engineering team from Google, Microsoft Research, Berkeley National Lab, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford is building large scale data analysis software that processes professional profiles from all around the web. By analyzing code repos, blogs, and social profiles we're helping recruiters and hiring managers connect more efficiently with the candidates best for their openings. Our product is deployed at 25% of the Fortune-100 and thousands of other companies.

Big Frame is a collection of online resources. Learn about various subjects, get inspired and improve your life and your business. We write about social media, business, marketing, design, tutorials, finance, technology and more.

JobSync is a talent acquisition automation platform that enhances applicant tracking systems (ATS) by integrating them with popular job application tools such as Indeed Apply and Facebook Jobs. This integration allows companies to push completed applications directly into their ATS, significantly increasing the number of qualified applications. JobSync offers an intuitive interface that improves usability for recruiters and hiring managers, making the hiring process more efficient. The platform also features customized automation, filters, and advanced rules, enabling hiring professionals to streamline their workflows and find suitable candidates more quickly. By facilitating seamless connections between job sites and ATSs, JobSync aims to improve the overall quality of candidates received by organizations.

Triptrotting is a venture backed travel company that matches travelers and locals based on similar interests. It is an online community and its application “Wist” helps its users feel like locals anywhere they go, whether in an unknown neighborhood in their own city or far away land. This new application of Triptrotting uses a combination of contextual, personalized, and social data to create unique and most relevant recommendations for every user. Triptrotting is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A. with additional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago. It was founded in 2011.

Zefr is a video advertising company that creates targeted video ad placements with it's unique and proprietary technology. With our custom packages, we leverage both technology and human review to selected individual videos, ensuring brands can safely and effectively scale their video ad campaigns. Why the name Zefr? Before Venice became “Silicon Beach” it was the grimy paradise of the 1970's Zephyr skate team. The Z-boys were a group of broken-home-punks that pioneered today’s skate culture. They did more than just push the physical boundaries of the sport—they created the culture that defines Venice today. At Zefr, we embrace the Z-boy’s drive for innovation, performance, and pushing boundaries. Our motto? Go Big. Go Fast.