IdeaMensch: Los Angeles

IdeaMensch is a community of entrepreneurs who share their stories. We feature entrepreneurs from all walks of life via our interviews and events, with the mission of helping you bring your ideas to life. Whether your idea is an app, a nonprofit, a book, a website or an invention – what matters is that and…

Wicked+: Los Angeles

We build brands. Design their websites. Execute campaigns for them. We promote causes important to us. We share what inspires and influences us. We also sell products that inspire and influence us. All who we are. All Wicked+.

LA MakerSpace

The Los Angeles Makerspace is a non-profit community space for makers of all ages to work on projects and take classes in software, hardware, electronics, robotics, art, filmmaking, bio-tech, eco-tech, wearable-tech and more! The non-profit space is for members to develop and prototype ideas, work on projects, program events and classes and be the home…

NationBuilder: Los Angeles

NationBuilder is the world’s first Community Organizing System: an accessible, affordable, complete software platform that helps leaders grow and organize communities to achieve great things. NationBuilder’s vision is to unlock the potential of a connected humanity. Their mission is to make everyone a leader. To organize people online, leaders need both a website and a…

THRDPLACE: Los Angeles

ThrdPlace started simply as a discussion – a beer-with-breakfast gathering of friends. As it so happens we are a mixed-bag of professional urbanists and armchair urbanophiles. But as friends do, we shared our (mis)adventures here in Los Angeles. It was through our discussions that we identified a simple, shared problem: an inability for community members…

Neon Roots: Los Angeles

NeonRoots is a full service interactive agency specializing in custom web development and mobile technology. Based in Los Angeles, their creativity is constantly fed by collaborations and partnerships with entertainment and media clients. Besides creating groundbreaking digital products based on cutting edge form and function, they are also one of the few creative agencies working…

InVenture: Los Angeles

InVenture unleashes the potential of developing entrepreneurs to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty by leveraging mobile technology to create credit scores for unbanked individuals around the world. We started InVenture because we wanted to facilitate financial inclusion for businesses all over the world — businesses that can become engines for economic growth…

Apolis: Los Angeles

Apolis co-creates products with manufacturers and directly allows the market to determine the future of each item we produce. It is a hands-on model to provide people access to opportunity. We call it “advocacy through industry.” In 2004, brothers Raan & Shea Parton, founded Apolis with a simple idea that people can live better lives…