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🌴 New Event! Cathie Wood Keynotes "Future of Hollywood" + VIP mansion after-party

Nov 14, 2024

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🌴 New Event! Cathie Wood Keynotes "Future of Hollywood" + VIP mansion after-party

#035: Limited seats for Nov. 19th to hear Cathie Wood, CEO of $60B ARK Invest & legendary tech investor! Mediatech Vision Day, a half-day summit to talk AI, crypto, and disruption in Hollywood (AI, crypto). VIP after-party at famous mansion.

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🌴 NVIDIA-backed Twelve Labs joins our AI Chat

Aug 19, 2025

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🌴 NVIDIA-backed Twelve Labs joins our AI Chat

#054: A fireside chat with Twelve Labs, which has raised $107M from NVIDIA, NEA, & Index to change video search & multi-modal agents

Emerging LA

Aug 15, 2025

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🌴 Runway AI Film Festival at IMAX

#053: AI film screening at IMAX movie theaters, hear our moderated panel with Twelve Labs on video AI at the KINN

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🌴 Kleiner Perkins-backed Fizz joins our Founder Chat Q&A

May 14, 2025

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🌴 Kleiner Perkins-backed Fizz joins our Founder Chat Q&A

#050: Signup to listen or get the recording of Founder Chat with Fizz, the Gen Z fintech raised $14M from KP & Y Combinator to build the Chime for college students

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🌴 New Events: VC Chats college series kickoff at UCLA (tonight!)

Dec 3, 2024

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🌴 New Events: VC Chats college series kickoff at UCLA (tonight!)

#036: Inspiring the Emerging VCs at UCLA, The Game Awards day-after-party for AI Media Power Players, Emerging MX launches in Mexico City, 2025 NASA space tour

Brandon Hoffman, +1

Mar 21, 2025

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🌴 Emerging OC: Innovation and Talent

#046: VC Chat at Cal State Fullerton, Wharton Media & Entertainment, calling for community leads + more events from our friends

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🌴 Founder chat with Ash, raised $10M Series A to bring healthcare testing to all

#063: Sign up to listen to or get the recording of Founder Chat with Ash, a diagnostics platform helping organizations offer fast, accessible at-home testing.

Brandon Hoffman, +1

🌴 Founder chat with Sync, using AI to change the future of global storytelling

Nov 11, 2025

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🌴 Founder chat with Sync, using AI to change the future of global storytelling

#062: Sign up to listen to or get the recording of Founder Chat with Sync Labs, an AI lip-sync platform letting creators and teams dub any video into any language with studio-grade precision.

Brandon Hoffman, +1

Nov 10, 2025

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10 min read

🌴 2025 LA Tech Week Recap!

#061: Sharing our top moments from the +1,500 events hosted at LA Tech Week: AI, media, deeptech, & health

Emerging LA

🌴 Founder chat with Kindo, raised $28M to build AI cybersecurity

Nov 5, 2025

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🌴 Founder chat with Kindo, raised $28M to build AI cybersecurity

#060: Join virtually to listen to our live Q&A

Brandon Hoffman, +1

Oct 14, 2025

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10 min read

🌴 LA Tech Week is here!

#059: Sharing our top events to attend out of the 1,500 being hosted across Los Angeles, covering a wide range of topics: AI, media, wellness, deeptech, & health

Brandon Hoffman