What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? My parents are New Yorkers who raised me in Charlotte, NC. After going to UNC Chapel Hill I was ready to check out big city life. I grew up visiting family in NYC, so it seemed like a good place to start! After two years in…
Urgency Network: Los Angeles
The Urgency Network is an online platform that connects nonprofits, musicians, celebrities, fans and brands in a single online community to create positive impact on a global scale. Urgency participants can win larger than life experiences by completing social actions like watching awareness videos, donating, or opting-in to mass tweets. With each campaign, the more…
Betterment: New York City
Betterment is a goal-based online investment company delivering smart, personalized financial advice paired with low fees and a superb customer experience. Launched in 2010, Betterment’s automated platform eliminates the typical complexities and time of the traditional investment account, freeing up time for other important things in life.
Bobby Weinberger: New York City
What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, Sherman Oaks specifically. I also went to college in LA. After graduating I moved to New York. My first three years in New York I went to law school in Manhattan. I would have moved here sooner, but…
Chromatik: Los Angeles
Chromatik is a music technology company redefining how people collaboratively practice, perform, and teach music. Chromatik users already include American Idol, Juilliard, UCLA, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and hundreds of other music organizations across the U.S. If you’re a trained musician or music lover, (or were as frustrated as us learning music when…
Launch.it: New York City
Launch.it is a free self-publishing news platform for PR professionals, agencies and brands to launch and socialize everything new. Launch.it’s goal is to be the most comprehensive direct-to-customer source for the timeliest news of all new products, services and ideas to make sure that they can be found, discovered and shared. Launch.it also has an…
Shmuli Pinson: Los Angeles
What’s your historical connection to Los Angeles and New York? I was born and raised in Brooklyn. I lived there for 20 years. After high school, I started Rabbinical school in Israel and traveled from New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and back to Brooklyn to finish school. The schooling gets pretty boring, so I took the…
GonnaBe: Los Angeles
GonnaBe helps you see all of your options in one place – from specials, to events, to your friends’ plans. And it learns what you like, so now you’ve got a concierge for your social life. See into the future with temporal mapping. It’s like a crystal ball for what’s going on later.
Makeably: New York City
Founded in 2012 by 2 ex-Googlers and based in Brooklyn, NY, Makeably brings together people with ideas with makers, designers, and artists who can bring these ideas to life. A marketplace for the maker generation, Makeably is solving the problem of makers’ unused creative capacity by allowing buyers to easily remix every product they see…
Josh Miller: New York City
What’s your historical connection to Los Angeles and New York? I was born and raised in Santa Monica, CA — proud alum of Samohi! — and spent two summers as an intern in New York City, before starting Branch there. Describe your experience in NYC. What to say! Surprisingly, I HATED New York as a…
Preact.io: Los Angeles
Preact is a data-driven customer success platform that presents actionable user behavior insights directly within leading CRMs, help desks, live chat, and even internal IT tools to ensure that critical information is available during every customer interaction. Incoming support request? The Preact sidebar pops up, you see a timeline of a user’s recent activities and…
Startup Institute: New York City
Startup Institute New York works with professionals, career changers, and dynamic individuals to equip them with the skills needed to have an immediate impact on the startup company they want to work for and join. Originally created in Boston and now just launching in NYC, SI’s primary objective is to align passion with profession, and…
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