The Gathering Spot

The Gathering Spot is an invite-only private membership club established to connect a network of creators, disruptors, entrepreneurs.

Tongal

Tongal has organized a new wave of talent for a new wave of channels. Powered by a global creative community and a proprietary tech platform, we connect networks, studios, and brands to creators around the world to develop video content and program every digital platform—from YouTube to SVOD.

August Venture Talent

August Venture Talent partners with startup founders and other entrepreneurial leaders to build winning teams -- the teams that dare. Our highly responsive client-centric recruiting services result in exceptional hires. Clients include: Heal, Inc., DogVacay, Soothe, UberMedia, TigerText, The Bouqs, and others

textPlus

<p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font color="#444444"><span style="line-height: 24px;">textPlus is a mobile first, Wi-Fi telecom service that offers unparalleled choice, savings and reliability to consumers worldwide.&nbsp; We’ve re-invented the telecommunications stack, creating a&nbsp;“cloud phone,” allowing for&nbsp;</span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px;">free, unlimited texting as well as animated text and GIF stickers that users can send to friends.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font color="#444444"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Our open network connects millions of people worldwide through an app available on iOS, Android smartphones and devices including iPod touch, tablets and Kindle Fire.&nbsp; Our customers are pleased to&nbsp;have an&nbsp;</span></font></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(87, 74, 66); font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">affordable alternative to a standard carrier plan. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">textPlus is headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, and backed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Matrix Partners, Upfront Ventures and The Raine Group.</span></p>

Idealab

<p>Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.<br><br>Many of these companies were among the first to introduce new business ideas to the market.<a href="http://www.idealab.com/our_companies/show/all/citysearch" rel="nofollow">CitySearch</a>, now a part of IAC, established the category of local online community directories.<a href="http://www.idealab.com/our_companies/show/all/etoys" rel="nofollow">eToys</a>&nbsp;demonstrated the tremendous potential for online consumer retail and became one of the most recognized brands during the early days of e-commerce.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.idealab.com/our_companies/show/all/overture" rel="nofollow">Overture&nbsp;Services</a>, which began life as GoTo.com, was the first company to introduce the concept of paid search — the business model that powers the multibillion-dollar online search market.<br><br>Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. New models for improving the search experience are at the core of several companies currently growing inside of Idealab. Moving beyond the Internet, we have spawned companies with breakthrough technologies in mobile technologies, robotics, and renewable energy among others. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.&nbsp;<br><br>In addition to capital, Idealab provides a full range of resources to infuse start-ups with the support they need to rapidly introduce innovative products and services. Resources include office space and the accompanying office services, development and technology, product and graphic design, marketing, financial advice, human resources, competitive research, legal, accounting and business development support and services. In addition, Idealab provides advice on strategy, branding and corporate structure.</p>

Bixel Exchange

Bixel Exchange helps technology entrepreneurs and talent thrive. We do this by combining the power of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and L.A.'s dynamic tech community with the advice, resources, and education they need. Bixel Exchange offers programs and services that mentor, educate, and connect.

Voter

Answer a few simple questions and find out which politicians truly have your best interests at heart, and have a track record to back it up.

Station Digital Media

<p class="about_long_para1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 8.5px 0px; font-size: 1.3em; font-family: BreuerText-Rg; color: rgb(77, 77, 79); line-height: 1.8;">Station Digital Media is a consumer experience consultancy specializing in custom mobile, web, and embedded system applications. Our teams represent a diverse set of people and backgrounds, from industrial design and digital application development to fashion and haptic device modeling. We pair these talents with traditional business consulting teams to ensure an integrated delivery model that operates within large, global corporations.</p><p class="about_long_para2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 8.5px 0px 34.046875px; font-size: 1.3em; font-family: BreuerText-Rg; color: rgb(77, 77, 79); line-height: 1.8;">Our goal is to provide our clients with best-in-class consumer experiences that build brand equity and generate transactions throughout their brand ecosystems. From single, unified profiles that seamlessly connect consumers, to applications that accumulate the business intelligence data needed for the next decade, we develop the assets that deliver for today's "Mobile First" consumer lifestyle.</p>

Contur

We are created a virtual assistant for email. Contur will sort and organize all incoming emails for you, saving you hours every week.

Fitosis

<p>Fitosis is a fitness website which provides a platform to connect personal trainers with existing and potential clients by offering tools to fitness experts, such as, but not limited to: marketing profiles, workout plans, and diet plan schedulers. Fitosis also looks to facilitate client acquisition for personal trainers and client education through tools to achieve fitness goals.</p>

Curl

Curl for iPhone is an easy to use exercise log that keeps track of your gym progress. Our goal is to make getting fit simple and we are focusing primarily on fitness exercises performed in the gym. There are great apps that track cardio and diet, but none that deal with fitness exercises performed in the gym. Curl provides a visually appealing UI and an easy to use logging model that makes entering workout data quick and effortless.

Captivate.me

<p>Captivate lets anyone add Apps to YouTube and Vimeo videos, without the hassle of overlay. Try it today, it's free, and pretty fun.</p>

Yokal Sports

Crowd-sourcing video production of high school and college sports while offering businesses a hyper local school sponsorship platform. Enabling companies to be local, social and positive by sponsoring their customer

Plan A Drink

<p>Plan A Drink is a group-dating platform that connects two groups of up to 6 close friends. We believe there is a huge untapped opportunity in the "Generation Y" market, the market we are primarily going after. This group is still averse to online dating for a variety of reasons. Plan A Drink solves these issues through the use of our concept, and emulating real life behavior of our target users.</p>

ONEHOPE Wine

<p>With so many causes and so little time in today’s society, ONEHOPE gives you the ability to help others by simply enjoying a glass of award-winning wine. ONEHOPE seeks to turn “giving back” into a lifestyle of hope and change; thus enabling it’s customers to enjoy the product while being a part of ONEHOPE’s vision, and to feel something now.</p>

VLink

<p>VLink is Buy Definition Video. See something you like on the screen? Click it to learn more about it, share it with your friends or buy it! VLink technology lays on top of any existing media player online and allows for companies, brands and content providers to create demand and a new revenue stream from the one thing viewers care about, the content itself. What Google is to images and text, we will be to video. A dynamic database of retail items, people and objects that appeared on screen.</p>

Skilloop

Skilloop is an online marketplace where you can find & book lessons on almost anything - offered by trusted providers nearby or online. We're solving the major pain points people face in managing and marketing their lesson business, and lowering the barrier to entry to become a lesson provider. At the same time, we're creating a community of people focused on learning & experiencing new skills.

SKINMETRO SKINEXPERT

Similar to dermatology or esthetic consultation, SKINMETRO diagnostic SKINEXPERT is a collaboration between Consumer & Skincare Brand-subscriber Sales Associate @ Dept. Store retail counter. SKINEXPERT asks multiple choice & "yes" or "no" questions, quantifies the response data against 40+ ys of Harvard Dermatology Skin Analysis science to deliver @ each of 7 levels a medically accurate Skin Analysis & Brand-subscriber Purchase Prescription. Consumer controls in-store experience.

Freshdesk

<p>Freshdesk is a web based customer support platform that enables companies to support their customers in a way that they never could before. With email to ticket conversion, self-service portal, knowledge base, multi product support, SLAs and a host of other impressive features, any support team will love Freshdesk.&nbsp;<br><br>Freshdesk is a combination of the three things that companies most desire in a helpdesk solution.&nbsp;<br><br>1. Ease of Use&nbsp;<br>2. Full Feature Set&nbsp;<br>3. Affordable Pricing&nbsp;<br><br>Repeatedly praised by customers for having the most intuitive, easy to grasp UI with the complete feature set, Freshdesk also includes Facebook and Twitter integration. For big businesses with more products, added advantage is the multi product support feature.&nbsp;<br><br>The pricing, at $9 per agent per month makes it easy for small businesses to use Freshdesk's world class software to keep their customers happy.&nbsp;<br><br>Your search for the best helpdesk solution for your company is over. It's time to refresh your helpdesk. It's time for Freshdesk.</p>

FastSoft

<p>FastSoft is the leading provider of Origin Content Acceleration (OCA) software that speeds page downloads by up to 150%. Even after optimizing the website's content, transport latency remains a key problem, especially when the content is served from origin. FastSoft's patented software-based solutions are used by some of the largest companies on the Web to provide a significant reduction in overall page load time, resulting in increased online revenue through improved customer satisfaction.</p>