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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.

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.

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@100.26.91.60

Preccelerator® Program Company Napkin Finance is Now in Spanish!

Preccelerator Program Company Napkin Finance is proud to announce that its site is now available in Spanish.

“Our new Spanish site is designed to help empower Spanish-speakers to take control of their finances through the Napkin Finance platform.” – Tina Hay, Founder

Readers can browse by topic, including everything from investing to insurance, or by life events, such as buying a home, getting married, or planning for retirement. In partnership with Michelle Obama, their Reach Higher course has also been translated into Spanish, providing information on how to seize opportunities for financial aid.

Visit their new site here.

About Napkin Finance
Napkin Finance is a multimedia company that grew out of a need for a better way to learn and understand finance. The Napkins were inspired by challenges the founders faced as visual learners in a world of numbers and text. Starting from one sketch on compound interest, Napkin Finance was born. The platform has now grown into an extensive library with content across a wide range of topics. Today, they are thrilled to be launching their Spanish site.

Check out Napkin Finance below:

For more about the Preccelerator® Program or to apply, contact Heidi Hubbeling, COO at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@100.26.91.60

Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree Partners with BHGLAAR

Congratulations to Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree for their new partnership with The Beverly Hills and Greater Los Angeles Association of REALTORS® (BHGLAAR.) This new partnership will allow all 9,700 members of BHGLAAR access to RentSpree’s online platform that makes it easy to for agents to collect completed application profiles on prospective applicants.

RentSpree is a Los Angeles-based real estate tech startup that created a proprietary platform allowing agents and brokers to easily collect rental applications and screen tenants. The award-winning tool automates the lease application process for agents by providing a 24/7, one-stop system for screening applicants.

To read the full post on BHGLAAR’s site 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@100.26.91.60

Preccelerator Program Company RentSpree Teams Up with Mississippi REALTORS®

Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree announced this week their new partnership with Mississippi REALTORS®. RentSpree’s service simplifies the leasing process and is available at no charge to REALTORS® as a member benefit.

To read the full press release visit here.

About RentSpree:
RentSpree is a Los Angeles-based real estate tech startup company that has created a proprietary platform allowing agents and brokers to easily collect rental applications and screen tenants. The award-winning tool optimizes the time intensive chore for renters applying for multiple properties and automates the process for agents who need to screen applicants.

Check out RentSpree below:

For more about the Preccelerator® Program or to apply, contact Heidi Hubbeling, COO at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@100.26.91.60

Preccelerator Program Company Tapp That App Featured on StartupSac PodCast

Preccelerator Program company Tapp That App founder Charlie Hinojosa was featured on StartupSac‘s podcast to discuss how his company is addressing the mobile app discovery market. Startup Sac is a featured news and podcast platform for Sacramento, CA startups.

About Tapp That App
At Tapp That App they’re 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. Visit www.tappthatapp.io

To learn more about the Preccelerator Program, contact Heidi Hubbeling at hhubbeling@100.26.91.60 or visit www.preccelerator.com

Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree added to CRMLS Marketplace

Congratulations to Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree on being added to CRMLS’s Marketplace. RentSpree is an integrated MLS tool that allows agents to automate and streamline the tenant verification process. Within minutes, agents have access to a completed rental application, full credit report and score, and criminal background check along with a national eviction report.

The California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS) works to connect real estate professionals throughout the state of California. Through powerful best-in-class MLS tools, CRMLS provides real estate professionals with authority and high visibility in a constantly evolving, highly-competitive industry.

To read the full press release 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@100.26.91.60

Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree Wins “Best of LA 2017” Award

Congratulations to Preccelerator® Program Company RentSpree on winning the “Best of LA 2017” Award for Best Real Estate Tech Startup. The Best of Los Angeles Awards celebrate, “the most buzz-worthy people, places, and things” across Los Angeles. RentSpree is a tool that automates and streamlines the process of applying to rental properties for both renters and real estate agents.

About
The RentSpree team consists of three Graziadio alumni who graduated last year from the full-time MBA program. The company was founded in March 2016 and is part of the Stubbs Alderton and Markiles Preccelerator Program. Their vision is for renters to be able to seamlessly apply and be accepted to any property all from the comfort of their own homes. This is an apartment listing website that allows renters to submit multiple applications and non-damaging Transunion credit reports.

Check out RentSpree below:

For more about the Preccelerator® Program or to apply, contact Heidi Hubbeling, COO at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@100.26.91.60

Preccelerator Program Presents: Startup Superhero Series with Michael Schneider, Founder of Service and Mobile Roadie

What is a Startup Superhero? Join us as Michael Schneider, founder of Service and Mobile Roadie, is interviewed by Matt Swider, Senior Mobile Editor of TechRadar, on the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, stories from his time with Mobile Roadie, one of the world’s most successful mobile app platforms, and his adventure into founding Service, a platform that compensates travelers for delayed or canceled flights.

When:

Thursday, June 29, 2017
5:30-6:15pm – Networking
6:15-7:30pm – Fireside Chat with Michael Schneider

Where:

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

Who:

Michael Schneider, CEO & Founder – Service

Startup

Michael Schneider is the founder and CEO of Service, a company that gets travelers compensation anytime their flight is delayed or cancelled. The idea for Service was born when Schneider realized that in today’s digital world customers can get almost anything, from a car, food, or a place to stay, on-demand, yet they are still required to waste an irreplaceable asset – their time – dealing with customer service issues. Schneider started small – he tracked down people complaining of flight disruptions on Twitter and offered to help get them compensation. Today, Service handles thousands of claims per month, and is saving the average frequent traveler over $600/year. Prior to Service, Schneider was the co-founder and CEO of Mobile Roadie, one of the world’s most successful mobile app platforms, with clients such as Disney, the World Economic Forum, Madonna and the Rolling Stones. Schneider is active in the Los Angeles tech community, having served on the board of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization, advising the Southern California Entrepreneurship Academy and speaking regularly at his alma mater – the University of Southern California
Fast Facts
● At the age of 15, Schneider founded Video Game Central, where he sold new and used video games online at the advent of the digital age
● A serial entrepreneur, Schneider has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Los Angeles County SBA “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” award, and was named one of the “Top 20 in their 20s” by the Los Angeles Business Journal

Moderator

Matt Swider, Senior Mobile Editor – TechRadar

Startup

Matt Swider is the Senior Mobile Editor of TechRadar.com, covering smartphones, wearables and car tech. He began writing about gadgets when we started his own video game news and reviews website at 14 back in 1999. He holds a Journalism degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is a 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 the full spectrum of Southern California business with a concentration in the technology, entertainment, videogame, apparel and medical device sectors. Our 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 our Firm. For more information, visit www.stubbsalderton.com.

We love tech! We’re unashamedly geeky about it. So we’ll tell you what we think in a fair, unbiased way. That’s what we’re about. We’re able to promise this because TechRadar is the largest UK-based consumer technology news and reviews site (and now rapidly growing in the US and Australia), our editorial independence backed by the weight of technology publisher Future plus objective test data from the TechRadar Labs. Our experienced writers who operate from our offices in London, Bath, San Francisco, New York and Sydney operate under Future’s 20 year old policy of a cast-iron guarantee of editorial independence.

TechRadar will tell you about the coolest new stuff. We’ll work hard to bring you original quotes and exclusive access. We’ll review it more thoroughly and carefully than anyone else. We’ll explain how it works and why you buy it (or not). Then it’s up to you. Add your own comments and opinions. Review gear for yourself. There’s no monopoly on the truth here – tell us what you think. Visit www.techradar.com

In Case You Missed It! Preccelerator Demo Day Class 5 Pitch Video

What an exciting evening it was! 4 talented entrepreneurs gave their 5 minute pitches to a crowd of over 100 people at the May 18, 2017 Preccelerator Demo Day. The evening was topped off by the motivating presentation on “Fearless Media” by SAM CREATV Ventures Partner Peter Csathy. In case you missed it, check out the video!

About the Preccelerator Program
The Preccelerator® Program is a platform offered to select start-up companies out of the Santa Monica office of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP that provides interim office space, sophisticated legal services, mentorship and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping you grow your idea from business concept to funded startup. The Preccelerator® Program provides these benefits to as many as 10 promising young startups in separate growth tracks.

For more information about the Preccelerator, contact Heidi Hubbeling, COO at hhubbeling@100.26.91.60.