Here’s what’s in store for Thursday, October 17th at LA Tech Week 2024! Check out the events by location below to find sessions that align with your interests and goals for an inspiring day in LA’s tech scene.

BEL AIR

5:00 PM

• Founder Dinner at Lumos House (Day 3) : See Details Here

Andrew Yeung, Blindspot

8:00 PM

• Tech Party at Lumos House (Day 3) : See Details Here

Andrew Yeung, Blindspot

BEVERLY HILLS

8:00 AM

• Scrappy Hour : See Details Here

Scrappy

2:00 PM

• WE Global Founderverse Summit & Launch Party : See Details Here

WE Global Studios

6:00 PM

• Breaking Barriers: Women Leading the Future of Tech Innovation : See Details Here

Her Workplace

BRENTWOOD

4:00 PM

• AI Horizons X LATechWeek : See Details Here

Slyngshot, Singleton Foundation, East West Projects

6:00 PM

• Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs of SoCal Cocktail Party : See Details Here

Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs of Southern California

CULVER CITY

9:00 AM

• Intersections LA - Coworking at LA Tech Week Day 4 : See Details Here

Intersections LA

9:30 AM

• The Firehouse Salon LIVE : See Details Here

Tediophobes

5:30 PM

• Mobility & Delivery Tech Happy Hour : See Details Here

Curbivore

DOWNTOWN

10:00 AM

• Collegiate Cowork : See Details Here

USC Marshall Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

5:00 PM

• AI-nimation: Reshaping the Animation Industry : See Details Here

Toonstar, Loyola Marymount University

EL SEGUNDO

3:00 PM

• I2A Expo Day : See Details Here

DTI

5:00 PM

• Thank God for El Segundo Happy Hour : See Details Here

Sift

5:30 PM

• National Security Tech Thursday Hosted by Shield Capital : See Details Here

Shield Capital

6:00 PM

• Women in Data Panel & Happy Hour : See Details Here

Sigma Computing, Prodege

• Hardtech Hoedown : See Details Here

HiveWatch

HAWTHORNE

6:30 PM

• Moonshot : See Details Here

Astrolab

INGLEWOOD

11:00 AM

• Investor Ready Pitch Practice Sessions : See Details Here

Sonder Impact, Sip & Sonder

6:00 PM

• Founders Connect : See Details Here

Sonder Impact, Sip & Sonder, ACT House

LONG BEACH

6:30 PM

• BYOR (bring your own robot mixer) : See Details Here

Skuttlebot, Maintenance Bay 54

MALIBU

6:30 PM

• Private GP + LP Dinner in Malibu : See Details Here

Reitler, Carta

MARINA DEL REY

3:00 PM

• Panel - AI Pioneers : See Details Here

USC, Information Sciences Institute

5:00 PM

• Silicon Beach Mixer : See Details Here

USC, ISI

PALMS

6:00 PM

• Tips, Tricks and Tools to Build Resiliency : See Details Here

The Law Firm of Shivani Honwad, Women in LAVA

PLAYA DEL REY

8:00 AM

• Cerebral Beach Morning Start : See Details Here

AI LA

PLAYA VISTA

5:00 PM

• Planet Play Presents: Gaming LA at Google HQ : See Details Here

Stash, Google

6:00 PM

• Create & Pitch a Business Plan : See Details Here

AI copilot

• Tech Me Out Third Thursdays : See Details Here

Tech Me Out, Global Objects, Verizon Innovation Lab

SANTA MONICA

8:00 AM

• Rise Together: Yoga, Connection, Dance : See Details Here

Human To Human, Superbloom Collective

8:30 AM

• The Future of Hard Tech : See Details Here

Upfront Ventures, Fenwick

• AI-Native Vertical SaaS Breakfast + Panel : See Details Here

olive, Bonfire, Headline, Fika, TipTop Ventures

9:30 AM

• Founders & Investors - Barry’s Bootcamp with SVB (Invite Only)

Silicon Valley Bank

• Fintech Meetup - Coffee & Juices : See Details Here

Clocktower Ventures, Intuit Ventures

• Founders Running Social : See Details Here

Founders Wellth Club

10:00 AM

• Founder Headshots Day : See Details Here

Pilot

• ZK House (Invite Only)

Aleo

10:30 AM

• Founder & Investor Pickleball Event : See Details Here

Red Beard Ventures

12:00 PM

• Inner Circle Lunch : See Details Here

Inner Circle HQ

• Tech & The Built Environment Series: Advancing Clean Energy Projects Regionally : See Details Here

Blended Impact, LAEDC

• Female Founders & Funders : See Details Here

Brydge Club, Lendtech, Two to Twenty

1:00 PM

• Invite-only: Demo Day & Drinks : See Details Here

Olympian Motors

2:00 PM

• YouTube Creator Collective Pickleball Tournament (Invite Only)

YouTube, @iJustine, @LaurDIY, @StevenHe

3:00 PM

• Sustainable Life in Beauty, Fashion and Fintech : See Details Here

Beaute in Tech

• Taking your Game from Zero to One Million : See Details Here

AppsFlyer, Mavan

• Globalize VC Fund Launch & Startup Showcase (Invite Only)

Globalize

• AI and Future of Creative Agencies : See Details Here

yess.io

3:30 PM

• Founders & Funders Poker Soirée : See Details Here

How Women Invest, 2045 Ventures

4:00 PM

• Los Angeles Tech Community Beach Walk : See Details Here

WeAreLATech

• Investor Showcase Happy Hour : See Details Here

Amplify, Wonder Ventures, Fenwick, Stifel, CDW

• Funding the Future of Mental Health Fireside Chat + Mixer (Invite Only)

Silicon Valley Bank, Milken Institute, GreyMatter Capital

• Demo Day & Drinks : See Details Here

Olympian Motors

• Hedra Happy Hour: Network + Create with Us : See Details Here

Hedra

4:30 PM

• Mediatech AI Mixer & Panel : See Details Here

Emerging LA, Sunset Ventures, Fidelity Private Shares

5:00 PM

• Investing in Identity: Underrepresented Founders' Consumer Brands : See Details Here

XRC Ventures, Black Women Talk Tech

• Pizza with Palm Drive Capital and Deel : See Details Here

Palm Drive Capital, Deel

• NGVP Happy Hour : See Details Here

NextGen Venture Partners

• 150+ Founders x Investors Dynamic Network : See Details Here

MELT

• Dinner with Squad.App : See Details Here

Squad.App

• Navigating Challenges: AI Solutions for CEOs (Invite Only)

Tripsider, Ferla

• Santa Monica Startup Social : See Details Here

LAstartups, Startup Coil, Expert Dojo

5:15 PM

• Tech Networking Happy Hour : See Details Here

So Cal Tech, WeAreLATech

5:30 PM

• FEMTECH Innovation & Beauty: Shaping the Future of Women's Health and Wellness : See Details Here

Plantologist

• in·flu·ence / An Investor x Celebrity Affair : See Details Here

StartupStarter, Hollo.AI, 1500 or Nothing

• Recruiters @ Beachfront Rooftop @ Sunset : See Details Here

Clutch Talent

• Marketplace Chat : See Details Here

Everything Marketplaces

6:00 PM

• Snark Tank/Money is Funny Tech Pitch Roast Comedy Show : See Details Here

Tech Pitch Roast Comedy LLC

• BIPOC Founder + Investor Mixer : See Details Here

Black Tech Meetup

• USC Alumni Entrepreneurs Network Meetup : See Details Here

USC Alumni Entrepreneurs Network

• Private Dinner for Tech Founders : See Details Here

Ince Capital

• A.I. Art Creation X Cocktail Mixer : See Details Here

Dreaming in Digital A.I.

• Israeli Startup Network Meetup (Invite Only)

Fusion VC, Fenwick

• Fanfix Tech Week (Invite Only)

Fanfix

• The Kickback (Invite Only)

The Wealth Salons, DVRGNT Ventures, HubSpot, BLCK VC, Cooley, Fabric VC, Canadian Consulate of LA

• Private Dinner for Tech Founders : See Details Here

INCE Capital

• This Week In Fintech LA Happy Hour : See Details Here

This Week In Fintech

• Human + Tech: An Experience by Share : See Details Here

Share Ventures, Jack Taylor PR

6:30 PM

• AI Audio in Entertainment : See Details Here

ElevenLabs

• Hack Your Mind : See Details Here

PowerYou AI

• Getting Personal With AI : See Details Here

Higgsfield AI

• Disrupting the Digital Landscape : See Details Here

Legendary Ventures, Hustle Fund

7:00 PM

• AI Founders Dinner : See Details Here

Emerging LA, Sunset Ventures, Fidelity Private Shares

• Labor Marketplace Dinner : See Details Here

Zeal

8:00 PM

• Litquidity Ventures Mixer : See Details Here

Litquidity Ventures

VAN NUYS

8:00 AM

• Cars & Coffee: VCs and Founders : See Details Here

Pacer.co

VENICE

9:00 AM

• Then & Now; The Food & Ag Tech Ecosystem in LA 2010-present : See Details Here

Supply Change Capital

• AI x Cybersecurity Coffee Chat : See Details Here

Arc, Humans Anonymous, Kindo

10:00 AM

• Web3 VC Breakfast Social : See Details Here

Wave Digital Assets

12:00 PM

• Building in Applied Tech with Lux and Varda : See Details Here

JP Morgan, Lux Capital, Camber Road, Varda

1:00 PM

• Taco Thursday @ The Rooftop : See Details Here

The Redline Apart Hotel

2:00 PM

• Mario Kart Invitational : See Details Here

Everybody Ventures, TriNet

• Building AI in LA : See Details Here

Mercato, Silicon Valley Bank

4:30 PM

• LGBTQ Networking and Soirée : See Details Here

West of Lincoln

5:00 PM

• Rooftop Sunset Mix & Mingle : See Details Here

The Redline Venice Apart Hotel

• sip & sea happy hour : See Details Here

Kyte

5:30 PM

• Investing & Creating Exponential Tech : See Details Here

XPRIZE, the Female Funders Club, Abundance360

6:00 PM

• IC to CEO - Founding a company as an engineer : See Details Here

Graphite.dev

• Marketing Innovation : See Details Here

Brandy

• Cybersecurity Happy Hour : See Details Here

AI LA

• Intro X a16z Dinner : See Details Here

Intro, a16z

7:00 PM

• The Future of Dating: Panel & Mingle : See Details Here

Date Week, Paloma

VIRTUAL

11:00 AM

• SaaSy Influencer Marketing ft. Co-Founder @ClickUp : See Details Here

SaaSfluencer

• Virtual Event: The Election’s Impact on Tech : See Details Here

APCO

• The Immersive Creator Economy : See Details Here

BLCK UNICRN

1:00 PM

• State of AI Venture Landscape & Investment Opportunities 2024 : See Details Here

Untapped Ventures

• The Future of Strategy Research: Tech-Enabled Services : See Details Here

Wonder

2:00 PM

• State of AI for Growth: Separate the Signal from the Noise : See Details Here

Azarian Growth Agency

WEST HOLLYWOOD

4:00 PM

• Storytelling for Scale: Insights from Industry Titans : See Details Here

Cake Equity

6:30 PM

• The Architects of Entertainment Dinner : See Details Here

A16z

• Retail Therapy with STYLD & Threads of Tech : See Details Here

Styld

7:00 PM

• Startup Soirée, an Event for Founders And Funders : See Details Here

Bulletpitch, Pluto LA

• Science Fiction Meets Science Fact: Advanced Manufacturing (Invite Only)

ACME Capital, Calibrate VC, Techstars Space, Advaita Capital

WESTLAKE VILLAGE

4:00 PM

• Life Science Networking : See Details Here

Trinet

WESTSIDE

11:00 AM

• Latina Founders/Business Owners Hike : See Details Here

A La Mode Branding

• Arizona's Startup & Investor Ecosystem : See Details Here

Arizona Commerce Authority

2:00 PM

• The $10M Mistake : See Details Here

UCLA Technology Development Group, CNSI at UCLA

5:30 PM

• DefenseTech Guild: LA Happy Hour : See Details Here

Pryzm

• Sunset Soirée (Invite Only)

Greycroft, Sound

6:00 PM

• Women Founders & Funders HH : See Details Here

Graham & Walker

For updates or more event information, visit the official Tech Week calendar.

Enjoy LA Tech Week 2024!

In light of last week’s article, we want to highlight some additional schools that have a significant impact on LA’s tech landscape. If we’ve missed any schools or founders worth including let us know!

Image Source: LMU

Image Source: CSULB

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)

CSULB plays a significant role in developing Long Beach's entrepreneurial ecosystem through various programs and resources. The Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (IIE) at CSULB serves as a central hub, offering initiatives like monthly Innovation Hours, a social justice entrepreneurship program, and the annual Sunstone Innovation Challenge with $50,000 in prizes. CSULB fosters innovation and entrepreneurship through:

• College of Business: Hosts the Apostle Enterprise Lab, a two-course entrepreneurship program open to all CSULB students, which includes participation in business ideation and innovation challenges.
• Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Collaborates with local organizations on initiatives like Launch Long Beach, Accelerate Uptown, and Black Business Strategies to support underrepresented entrepreneurs.
• Partnerships with Downtown Long Beach Alliance: provides programming and mentoring to foster innovation and entrepreneurship among students, faculty, staff, and the community.

Companies Founded by CSULB Alumni: Oculus VR and Anduril by Palmer Luckey (technically not an alumni because he dropped out before graduating), Dreamworks Animation by Steven Spielberg

Image Source: Claremont McKenna College

The Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges serve as a significant source of talent for Los Angeles' tech and venture capital workforce, leveraging their strong academic programs and entrepreneurial resources. Harvey Mudd College, renowned for its exceptional engineering program, contributes a substantial number of highly skilled graduates to the tech sector. The consortium's collaborative approach to fostering innovation is exemplified by initiatives like:

• The HIVE: This hub enhances students' creative problem-solving skills through collaborative and interdisciplinary experiences.
• Claremont McKenna College's Silicon Valley Program: Offers students an immersive off-campus study experience that integrates internships, coursework, and networking opportunities in the heart of the tech industry, preparing them for careers in innovation and venture capital..
• The Makerspace at Harvey Mudd College: An 8,000 SF student-run facility that allows students to prototype and develop innovative ideas, fostering a hands-on approach.

Companies Founded by Claremont Alumni: TechCrunch by Michael Arrington (CMC), KKR by Henry Kravis (CMC) & George Roberts (CMC), Sun Basket by Adam Zbar (Pomona), GitHub by Tom Preston-Werner (technically not an alumni because he dropped out before graduating from Harvey Mudd)

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