SAM Preccelerator Announces Seventh Class of Companies

The Preccelerator® Program, a Santa Monica, CA based accelerator program for early stage startup companies in the digital media and technology space, announced today that it has added its seventh class of companies featuring four innovative startups.

In 2012 Stubbs Alderton & Markiles launched the first-of-its kind Preccelerator® Program to provide select start-ups with co-working space, mentorship, sophisticated legal services, a full curriculum, user testing sessions, and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping grow a founder’s idea from business concept to a funded company. The Preccelerator has 6 month terms, and adds new companies every 3 months for overlapping terms. Over the past five years, 22 companies have graduated the Program, of which 18 have received funding totaling over $9M.

Preccelerator® Program Class 7 companies include:

nēdl uses proprietary Speech Recognition to let you search within 100,000+ live news, sports, talk, and music broadcast streams to find what you want and listen to the stream or add your unique voice to the global real-time database for instant discovery. Visit www.findnedl.com

Emerging Visual Realities (EVRealities) delivers 360^o Video/Virtual Reality content directly to you. Current events and topics that turn our world – captured in VR – are delivered directly to your editorial and content team for licensing. EVRealities’ global creator community streamlines VR content creation and discovery for your editorial team to develop compelling VR stories for daily publication. An EVRealities membership provides full access to our WebVR gallery, delivery of fresh content, and licensing packages. WebVR previews allows your distributed teams to go beyond the thumbnail and experience the emotional composition of content from anywhere in the world, with or without a headset. Visit www.evrealities.com

LineForLine is a SaaS platform for music promotion that gives artists the ability to share parts of their songs as lyric video clips. These audiovisual snippets of lyrics with sound are intended to be shared as a form of music discovery and promotion. With a growing demand for visual content, the LineForLine team believes these clips are the best way to accomplish their mission of helping people listen and connect to the message of an artist’s music. Visit www.lineforline.com

Ca$het – CA$Het is a multi-services platform (MSP) that allows users to identify, curate, and monetize products in movies and TV shows. We believe that the entertainment industry creates tremendous value by associating characters and products on screen. The emotional impact created when actors and products interact has been impossible to monetize due to a lack of a suitable mechanism and marketplace. We aim to change that through our platform. CA$Het provides a mechanism to quickly and accurately identify on screen products while simultaneously creating the marketplace where they can be purchased. (Coming Soon!)

For more information about the Preccelerator® Program, visit www.preccelerator.com

About Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is a Southern California based business law firm with robust corporate, public securities, mergers and acquisitions, entertainment, intellectual property, brand protection and business litigation practice groups focusing on the representation of, among others, venture backed emerging growth companies, middle market public companies, large technology companies, entertainment and digital media companies, investors, venture capital funds, investment bankers and underwriters. The firm’s clients represent a broad range of industries with a concentration in the technology, entertainment, videogame, apparel and medical device sectors. The firm’s mission is to provide technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly-responsive and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business perspective. These principles are the hallmarks of the firm. For more information, visit http://stubbsalderton.com.

About the Preccelerator® Program

The Preccelerator® is a novel platform offered to select start-up companies out of the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP Santa Monica office that provides interim office space, sophisticated legal services, education, networking, mentorship and $250,000 in usable perks from Google Cloud for Startups, Amazon Web Services, and HubSpot among others, with the objective of helping grow a founder’s idea from business concept to funded startup. The program also retains more than 50 active strategic mentors providing free office hours and discounted services, and provides over 50+ educational workshops and networking events each year. The Program expanded in 2017 to accept a greater number of companies in more formalized classes, depending upon where the companies are in their evolutionary growth, expand benefits to accepted companies, and will look to make strategic investments backed by strategic angel investors. To apply to the Preccelerator, visit www.preccelerator.com/application.

Contact:

Heidi Hubbeling
Chief Operating Officer, Preccelerator® Program
hhubbeling@stubbsalderton.com
310-746-9803

Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree Joins zipLogix™

Congratulations to Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree for their new partnership with zipLogix, a software app for electronic real estate forms and transaction management. This new partnership integrates RentSpree’s application process with zipForm® Plus to streamline the rental application process for real estate agents and tenants. RentSpree’s Online Rental Application gives you direct access to applicant’s current and previous employment information along with salary, reference information, and additional sources of income.

“This alliance will effectively create a standardized rental application process for all real estate professionals,” said Michael Lucarelli, co-founder and COO of RentSpree. “Together with zipLogix™, we’ll be able to reduce exposure for rental litigation by creating a paper trail of due diligence and an outline for best practices.”

To read the full press release on visit here.

Check out RentSpree below:

For more about the Preccelerator® Program or to apply, contact Heidi Hubbeling, COO at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@stubbsalderton.com

SAM Preccelerator® Featured in Accelerator Alley at TechDay LA-September 14th!

SAM Preccelerator encourages you to attend TechDay LA & visit our booth in Accelerator Alley

TechDay brings together the entire tech community, industry leaders, new startups, investors, and tons of press.

TechDay LA is returning for its third year as LA’s largest startup event on September 14th in Downtown LA. Get to know over 300 startups who are pushing the boundaries of innovation and changing the world as we know it! Use this as your opportunity to find your next job, connect with the startups you already use, or find new products to integrate into your everyday life. The best part is, it’s totally free to attend!

TechDay Los Angeles,
September 14th, 2017
10am-5pm
The REEF, 1933 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90007

#TechDay #TakeOnTechDay

About the Preccelerator® Program
The Preccelerator® is a novel platform offered to select start-up companies out of the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP Santa Monica office that provides interim office space, sophisticated legal services, education, networking, mentorship and $250,000 in usable perks from Google Cloud for Startups, Amazon Web Services, and HubSpot among others, with the objective of helping grow a founder’s idea from business concept to funded startup. The program also retains more than 50 active strategic mentors providing free office hours and discounted services, and provides over 50+ educational workshops and networking events each year. The Program expanded in 2017 to accept a greater number of companies in more formalized classes, depending upon where the companies are in their evolutionary growth, expand benefits to accepted companies, and will look to make strategic investments backed by strategic angel investors. To apply to the Preccelerator®, visit www.preccelerator.com/application. The next class of companies begins Nov. 1, 2017.

For more about the Preccelerator® Program or to apply, contact Heidi Hubbeling, COO at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@stubbsalderton.com

SAM Joint Venture FlashFunders Acquired by Boustead & Co.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ joint venture FlashFunders announced this week that it has been acquired by Boustead & Company Limited, an investment banking firm that advises clients on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, capital raises and restructuring assignments in a wide array of industries, geographies and transactions.

FlashFunders (member FINRA/SIPC) was started by Europlay Capital Advisors, law firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, and co-founders Vincent Bradley and Brian Park, and was formed to help startups raise capital efficiently while also opening up access to startup investing for accredited investors.

“FlashFunders’ platform is built with the technology and regulatory infrastructure to facilitate any type of distributed securities offering. Combined with the Boustead team’s expertise, the FlashFunders platform takes traditional capital raising practices and leverages powerful software to market and sell securities on the web to investors literally across the globe,” said FlashFunders’ President and Co-Founder Brian Park.

To read the full press release visit here.

About FlashFunders
FlashFunders is an online platform that enables companies to publicly raise capital from everyone, including accredited investors, non-accredited investors, and international investors. They has built the technology and regulatory infrastructure to facilitate any type of distributed securities offering including Reg A+, Reg D, and Reg CF. As a FINRA registered Broker-Dealer, Clearing Firm, Funding Portal and Transfer Agent, FlashFunders and its subsidiaries provide an end-to-end resource for companies raising capital. www.flashfunders.com

About Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is a Southern California based business law firm with robust corporate, public securities, mergers and acquisitions, entertainment, intellectual property, brand protection and business litigation practice groups focusing on the representation of, among others, venture backed emerging growth companies, middle market public companies, large technology companies, entertainment and digital media companies, investors, venture capital funds, investment bankers and underwriters. The firm’s clients represent a broad range of industries with a concentration in the technology, entertainment, video games, apparel and medical device sectors. The firm’s mission is to provide technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly-responsive and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business perspective. These principles are the hallmarks of the firm. For more information, visit https://stubbsalderton.com.

Preccelerator® Program Announces Demo Day for Its Sixth Class of Companies and Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Los Angeles Digital Media Tech Accelerator, SAM Preccelerator®, Gears Up for Its Sixth Demo Day and Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Santa Monica- August 23, 2017 The Preccelerator® Program, a Santa Monica, CA based accelerator program for early stage startup companies in the digital media and technology sector, announced today that it will be holding its Class 6 Demo Day on Sept. 13, 2017 where four promising startups will present their ideas to the investment and entrepreneurial community.

In addition, the evening will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Preccelerator® Program that was founded in 2012. A party on the patio will be held immediately after the Demo Day presentations. To register, click here. Since 2012, the Preccelerator has fostered the growth of 32 companies: 10 which are current, 22 that have graduated, with 18 receiving funding totaling over $9M.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles launched the first-of-its kind Preccelerator® Program to provide select start-ups with co-working space, mentorship, customized curriculum, sophisticated legal services, user testing sessions, and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping grow a founder’s idea from business concept to a funded company. The Program provides these benefits to as many as 10 promising young startups in separate growth tracks.

The Preccelerator® Program demo day presenting companies include:

Animate Objects – Animate Objects (AO), an augmented reality and virtual reality development company, is excited to announce the launch of ARGO, the gamiﬁed Augmented Reality (AR) location platform. ARGO adds AR enhanced infotainment, commerce, and analytics that drive engagement and commerce at “Destination Venues”-like theme parks, resort, shopping malls, as well as in-the-wild. Guests are engaged and incentivized while site operators use ARGO’s real-time dashboard to manage, monitor and analyze their properties and visitors.

RentSpree – Most apartment searches involve numerous resources, multiple applications, and too many added fees. Rather than spending massive amounts of time and money applying for individual Los Angeles apartment rentals with separate companies, they’ve created a streamlined system. Simply fill out one application, pay an inexpensive application fee, and receive a soft credit check, sparing you unnecessary damage to your budget and credit score. Best of all, their one-stop application allows you to spend more time exploring your favorite listings, and gives our renters a distinct advantage in a competitive market.

Tapp That App – Tapp That App is a new social, app discovery platform that allows you to see the favorite apps of people you follow on Twitter. From family and friends to professionals and celebrities, you’ll be able to see which apps they love most. But more importantly, you’ll be able to share the apps that you love with your followers and the world. Beyond star ratings, Tapp That App lets you find the apps that matter to the people who matter to you.

Swoppit – With recycled fashion now top of mind, Swoppit offers Generation Z women 15-24 the perfect social marketplace. Here, they swap fashion with friends. Swoppit provides Gen-Zers a terrific way to both expand their community and gain access to a far wider selection of style. It’s an easy, fun experience that doesn’t pollute the market. For Gen-Zers, looks count, opinions matter and Swoppit offers them the chance to refresh their closet whenever they like. Swoppit has been founded by a 16-year-old Gen-Zer that understands the market and is driven to make it a success.

For more information about the Preccelerator® Program, visit www.preccelerator.com.

Contact:

Heidi Hubbeling
Chief Operating Officer, Preccelerator® Program
hhubbeling@stubbsalderton.com
310-746-9803

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP Expands Leading Mergers & Acquisitions Practice With the Addition of New Partner Marc Kenny

LOS ANGELES, August 7, 2017 (Newswire.com) – Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP, Southern California’s leading business law firm, has announced that Marc Kenny has joined the firm as a partner in its Mergers & Acquisitions practice group.

“We are very fortunate to have a lawyer of Marc’s caliber joining us. The breadth of experience that Marc brings to us in private equity and M&A transactions garnered from his years of experience working here in Los Angeles, in Silicon Valley and in London, strengthen our already diverse and robust capabilities in the Firm’s M&A Practice group. His experience in digital media, technology and entertainment are a natural fit in the Stubbs Alderton platform, and with someone like Marc joining our existing team, we couldn’t be more excited about our future,” said Scott Alderton, Managing Partner of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP.

Mr. Kenny advises clients in a broad range of domestic and cross-border private equity, M&A, venture capital, and corporate finance transactions with a particular emphasis on the digital media, communications, technology, entertainment, health care, and energy industries. Prior to joining Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Mr. Kenny was a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Los Angeles office.

Marc Kenny stated, “The Firm has built a remarkably talented and entrepreneurial bench in Southern California over the past 15 years with an industry focus and innovative mission that perfectly aligns with my ongoing commitment to clients – to effectively and efficiently provide thoughtful, pragmatic, and expert advice to clients participating in a variety of middle market transactions. I’m thrilled to join the Stubbs Alderton team and look forward to being part of the Firm’s bright future.”

To read Marc Kenny’s full bio, click here.

About the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles M&A Practice

The Firm’s Mergers & Acquisition Group advises clients in connection with a full range of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, both public and private, domestic and international. The Firm’s clients include a wide variety of middle market companies, as well as entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, financial advisors, special committees, strategic buyers, investment groups and private equity firms. The Firm has handled transactions ranging in size from a few hundred thousand dollars to over a billion dollars.

The Firm has executed transactions across a wide range of industries including digital communication and media, Internet, software, SaaS and other technology-based companies, as well as traditional aerospace, apparel, financial, life sciences, direct marketing, entertainment, transportation, consumer product and luxury brand companies, among many others.

For more information about the Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Stubbs Alderton, click here.

About Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is a business law firm with robust corporate, public securities, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and business litigation practice groups focusing on the representation of venture-backed emerging growth companies, middle market public companies, large technology and internet companies, entertainment, video games and digital media companies, investors, venture capital funds, investment bankers and underwriters. The Firm’s clients represent the full spectrum of Southern California business with a concentration in the technology, entertainment, video games, apparel, consumer and medical device sectors. The Firm’s mission is to provide technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly-responsive and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business perspective. These principles are the hallmarks of the Firm. For more information, please visit www.stubbsalderton.com.

Contact:

Heidi Hubbeling
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
(310) 746-9803
hhubbeling@stubbsalderton.com

You’re Invited to Preccelerator® Program Class 6 Demo Day + 5-Year Anniversary Party!

The Deal

Clear your calendar – It’s going down! The Preccelerator® Program Class 6 Demo Day kicks off on September 13th @ 5:30pm, and you’re invited to take part in the festivities. SAM Preccelerator® Program is our meeting spot to showcase the Preccelerator®’s current class of all-star companies to investors and the start-up community. Followed by an endless summer party and networking on our outdoor patio to celebrate the Preccelerator’s 5-year anniversary!

Appetizers and drinks on us!

The Location

1453 3rd Street Promenade, Suite 300
Santa Monica, 90401 CA

The SAM Preccelerator® is located in the heart of Silicon Beach. Off of 3rd Street Promenade, it has the ease of parking at both the Santa Monica Main Place Mall and Parking Structure #5 on the corner of 4th Street and Broadway.

The Participants

Tapp That App is passionate about finding great apps, but they know it can be difficult. So they’ve set out to solve the problem of mobile app discovery by combining social networks with app marketplaces. By doing so they allow users to satisfy their curiosity and developers to take part in one of the most powerful purchase motivators around: seeing the apps their friends and influencers are using.

Swoppit – With recycled fashion now white hot, Swoppit offers Generation Z women 15-24 the perfect social marketplace. Here, they swap fashion with friends. Swoppit provides Gen Zers a terrific way to both expand their community and gain access to a far wider
selection of style. It’s an easy, fun experience that doesn’t pollute the market. For Gen Zers, looks count, opinions matter and Swoppit offers them the chance to refresh their closet whenever they like.

Animate Objects is an augmented reality and virtual reality development company, is excited to announce the launch of ARGO, the gamiﬁed Augmented Reality (AR) location platform. ARGO adds AR enhanced infotainment, commerce, and analytics that drive engagement and commerce at “Destination Venues” like theme parks, resort, shopping malls, as well as in-the-wild. Guests are engaged and incentivized while site operators use ARGO’s real-time dashboard to manage, monitor and analyze their properties and visitors.

The Lineup

5:30pm-Registration & Networking

6:00pm-Opening Remarks
Heidi Hubbeling, Chief Operating Officer- Preccelerator Program

6:15pm-Preccelerator Demos: 8 minute presentations / 5 minute Q&A

7:30pm-Networking + Preccelerator Anniversary Party on the Patio

We hope to see you there!

Preccelerator Program COO Heidi Hubbeling Featured in CREATV Media Digital Media Update

SAM Preccelerator Program COO Heidi Hubbeling was featured this week on CREATV Media’s Digital Media Update blog in a “5 Question with…” series. The series focuses on exclusive interviews with key players in the overall media and tech ecosystem.

To read the full interview visit here.

Heidi Hubbeling is the Chief Operating Officer of the Preccelerator Program and Director of Marketing for top Southern California business law firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles. Heidi’s experience in professional services marketing, relationship building, business development strategy and entrepreneurship spans more than 15 years.

About the Preccelerator® Program
The Preccelerator is a novel platform offered to select start-up companies out of the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP Santa Monica office that provides interim office space, sophisticated legal services, education, networking, mentorship and $250,000 in usable perks from Google Cloud for Startups, Amazon Web Services, and HubSpot among others, with the objective of helping grow a founder’s idea from business concept to funded startup. The program also retains more than 50 active strategic mentors providing free office hours and discounted services, and provides over 50+ educational workshops and networking events each year. The Program expanded in 2017 to accept a greater number of companies in more formalized classes, depending upon where the companies are in their evolutionary growth, expand benefits to accepted companies, and will look to make strategic investments backed by strategic angel investors.

For more about the Preccelerator® Program or to apply, contact Heidi Hubbeling, COO at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@stubbsalderton.com

SAM Encourages You to Attend “ProgressWorks Opportunity Expo”

The ProgressWorks Opportunity Expo at the Disneyland® Resort:

Friday, August 18th from 8:00 am right until after dinner at 11:00 pm.
A VIP Reception on Thursday, August 17th from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm for Exhibitors, Sponsors and and Speakers only.

Use code “VIP99”

for $99 off any ticket!

The ProgressWorks Opportunity Expo at the Disneyland® Resort brings together capital sources, investors, public companies, private companies, start-ups, executives, professionals, employers, job seekers, and resource providers together in exhibit hall space at the Disneyland® Resort.

The Expo is a vacation destination event, with special ProgressWorks discounted hotel rooms, park tickets, and more. Attend or exhibit at The ProgressWorks Opportunity Expo and find new opportunities while enjoying a mini vacation at the world famous Disneyland® Resort.

ProgressWorks is a nonprofit corporation with the mission of facilitating job creation and retention- endeavoring to make an impact across the nation one job at a time. ProgressWorks’ vision is to impact the growth of employment through targeted investment, strategic partnering, and resources that reduce the challenges small businesses face when seeking job creation capital.

Why attend?

Meet with a like-minded peer group of executives and leaders that are disrupting & transforming the industry.
Make valuable connections with a dynamic range of companies, service providers, C-level executives, small business owners, and investors.
See innovative CEOs pitch their startups through ProgressWorks PitchFest Company Presentations.
Learn from industry experts on current hot topics during keynotes and panel sessions.
Visit over 75+ companies in the Innovation Showcase, including startups, public companies, and nonprofits.
Explore new opportunities and showcase your individual skills and talents to companies seeking new talent.
Babel Ventures will be participating in the program and as a PitchFest judge.

PITCHFEST

Showcase inspiring and innovative Public, Growth and Startup Companies.

3-Minute Pitch Contest; 2 Minute Critique.
All pitches will be video recorded and given to the company.
Companies compete from three pools: Startup, Growth, Public.
Each category $10k cash prize for the winner.
Additional prizes for 2nd, 3rd place.
Pitch and meet investors from across the US.

For more information or to apply for the PitchFest click here.

SAM Partner Michael Sherman Representing Danny Wimmer in Litigation Battle

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Partner Michael Sherman is lead counsel to Danny Wimmer Presents in a legal battle against his former law firm disputing their 14.3 percent membership claim to his company DWP. Danny Wimmer Presents is a music festival production and promotion company that is headquartered in Los Angeles.

To read the full article on Pollstar click here.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles attorneys representing Danny Wimmer Presents are Michael A. Sherman and David Harris.

Michael Sherman is an accomplished trial lawyer in high-stakes, “bet-the-company” litigation, and has represented both large and early-stage companies as well as entrepreneurs in all facets of business and complex commercial litigation. He has evenly split his litigation practice on both the plaintiff and defense side of cases, has first-chaired numerous trials in complex matters in industries as varied as energy, securities, healthcare, environmental, consumer products, technology, project development/finance, advertising, real estate and apparel, and is highly skilled in class actions and unfair competition law.

For more information on our Business Litigation Practice, contact Michael A. Sherman at msherman@stubbsalderton.com.