Approom

Codecademy in real life. For mobile
Approom is a mobile software school that uses hands-on, project based learning to teach passionate people how to code, design and ship mobile apps.

Kick & Push

Threadless meets Kickstarter, but with an authentic focus and brand within Action Sports.
Empower Expression. Influential Brand + Social Product Validation for Action Sports Kick & Push empowers artists to bring their creations to their audience, in a way that helps them build a community and sustain their business. It's sort of like Threadless meets ...

Slate Studio

Helping startups build quality product
Slate Studio is a Los Angeles UX, design and Ruby on Rails dev shop. We partner with startups and technology companies to build great product. Our collaborators include Machinima, CrowdFunder, LaunchRoch, Summit Series, Standard Treasury and other up and coming ...

Presequel

Boutique design studio
Presequel is a boutique design studio located in the Greater Los Angeles Area. We provide user experience design strategy, competitive audits, task flows, site maps, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, visual design, consultation, branding, art ...

Combatant Gentlemen

Menswear - For the well-equipped
Combat Gent, an e-commerce menswear startup offering corporate essentials, and then some, will maintain a price that is affordable for men of all kinds. ($3-$300). We have worked long and hard in development of our e-merchandising software that will be featured ...

Near Future Laboratory

Clarify The Present, Design The Future
We explore futures, chart the unexpected, and transform opportunities into new and tangible forms.

Lavuane Medgers

Haute Couture for American Women
Lavuane Medgers , is an eclectic brand inspired by the inter fusion of European Excess and American Modesty. As a designer i find it necessary to preserve the Couture culture and at the same time redefine it for the women of America. Couture to me means "Of great ...

Bruno Serge

Don't BS - Design!
Once Mr. Serge is done with you, your terrible brand will look like it's worth investing in. Bruno Serge's creative services whip slacker businesses into shape, so you can stop worrying about the BS, and focus on product and pitch quality.

Filter Foundry

NKdsgn

Creative Design Services
Architecture + Art + Motion + Print + Web + Graphics

Brilliant Bicycle Co.

Simple, beautiful bikes delivered to your door.
At Brilliant Bicycle Co., we're rethinking the everyday bicycle — no middlemen taking cuts and physical stores filled with over-engineered gear at astronomical prices. Just simple, beautiful bicycles delivered to your home. Our mission as an e-commerce lifestyle ...

Real | Los Angeles

Creative workshops kids and adults
Creative workshops, office space and conference room rentals, coffeebar and bookstore, targeted towards students, creative professionals and families and donating a percentage of profits to rejuvenate the arts in education.

The Noun Project

Creating, sharing & celebrating a global visual language that everyone can understand
The Noun Project is a platform where the world’s visual language can be shared. Our community of designers from around the world is building an ever expanding collection of images that help people visually communicate and tell stories in fun, powerful, and memorable ...

AdScience

Advertising, Branding, Marketing Agency
Over 300 website designs and builds, including Microsoft PocketPC, Microsoft AutoPC, Microsoft MobileDevices, FujitsuPC, Synchrologic, IPWireless, ThinkOutside, Centurion Wireless, MobileAirwaves, MobileTrax, AdStar, Air2Web, Panda Software, Harmonic Lightwaves, ...

Lumi

Your logo on anything.
Lumi helps put your logo on anything. By applying the logo yourself, you can customize fashion, furniture, packaging, vehicles, walls... Nearly any object or surface. Our unique software and simple printing process makes last-mile customization accessible to anyone. Users ...

easydeck

Educated Presentation Builder

Capital Ideas Advertising

The innovative L.A. ad agency, design studio & creative services, aka CIA or The Agency

EmblemObjects

3d printing for everyone.
EmblemObjects.com brings digital manufacture to everyone, our workflow makes 3d personalization as easy as uploading an image.

Gelcomm

Gelcomm: we are a Youth and Family Brand Design Firm
Gelcomm: we inspire brands to build lasting and loyal relationships with youth and family on shelf and the cloud. We are experts in Consumer Package Goods and brand integration.  For over two decades we have helped a variety of clients find their voice amongst ...

LA Game Space

Nonprofit for experimental games
LA/GS is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit organization for exploring and expanding the potential of videogames as a creative medium.

HAUS

Google, MTV and Tech Crunch know who we are
Today we count 30 multi-cultured and clicker-happy individuals coming together in the belief that synergy will take our individual crafts to the next level. It's a bond that has grown stronger over many years of creating brand experiences in forms of responsive ...

Creative Allies

Social e-commerce platform revolutionizing how branded merchandise is designed and sold.
Social e-commerce platform revolutionizing the way merchandise is designed and sold. Leveraging music industry relationships and fan audience data, built an online community of over 40,000 designers and completed hundreds of design contests via technology apps ...

HackUCLA

Showcasing UCLA's top coding and design talent to startups through hack competitions.

Milestones

Idea collaboration platform.
Milestones is a subscription-based platform that consolidates visual and textual communication so that individuals and teams can focus on their ideas on a single platform. It is like having your own personal maps interface but for the ideas in your brain. An infinite ...

Wear It OUT

Design House & Apparel
Design Goods & Apparel

BLUECANVAS

facebook for Artists
Bluecanvas can be described in 3 ways: Social Network for Artists, Nationally distributed quarterly Art Magazine (featuring artists from the magazine), and an online shop of Art Prints, Framed Prints, Canvas Wraps and mobile device skins.

Fillainy.

Digital agency, marketing & design.
Fillainy is a digital agency for the non-digital world. We build well-designed and resonating online presences for our favorite hand-crafted businesses. We'll get along famously if we can enjoy sharing a plate of cookies.

Infowit.com

Web-based project management software for creative agencies

Kreate Inventors firm

inventor firm
would like to start a firm for inventors where designers invent new consumer products to be sold to larger companies.

ktgfashionhouse

Fine Art Fashion
KTG garments are locally sourced natural & synthetic fibers handcrafted in the USA. Women and Menswear blending couture as well as street wear creating one unique design approach akin to sculpture. No zippers, buttons, hook & eye or any other western fastening ...

The Pixel Awards

Website award competition established in 2006.
The Pixel Awards were acquired by Hofvet LLC in February 2014. Established in 2006, The Pixel Awards take a fresh look at the best on the web. We are the cutting-edge website award, annually honoring compelling sites that have shown excellence in web design and ...

Xtensio

Visualize your business profile in under 15 minutes
Xtensio is the best startup tool to visualize your business profile. Create an overview of your product or services for investor presentations, crowdfunding campaigns, or stakeholder communications. With DIY graphics specially designed for entrepreneurs, Xtensio ...

Blank You Very Much

Brand marketing through curated crowdsourcing
Blank You Very Much is a marketing platform that connects brands directly with consumers and drives deep engagement through the co-creation of brand-related content. By combining the power of crowdsourcing, world-class design and the cache of established brands ...

Helena Quinn

Fat day or frizzy hair, the right coat can always put a smile on your face.
Fat day or frizzy hair, the right coat can always put a smile on your face. Helena Quinn is a collection of specialized women's coats and jackets, focusing on the bridge category of the fashion market. The goal is to bring a high-end design aesthetic to an accessible ...

Varoj

better shopping, easier giving
Varoj was founded on the idea that giving and getting go best together. We pair celebrities, craftspeople, artists, designers, and brands with good causes, infusing a meaningful charitable donation into the retail price of their products.

ktgfashionhouse

Fine Art Fashion
KTG garments are locally sourced natural & synthetic fibers handcrafted in the USA. Women and Menswear blending couture as well as street wear creating one unique design approach akin to sculpture. No zippers, buttons, hook & eye or any other western fastening ...

Kreate Inventors Firm

With Kreate your dreams do come true
I want to start a firm for inventors

HoneyMelts / Meltpax

1/2 TABLESPOON SIZE EDIBLE WATER SOLUBLE HONEY POUCHES
There is no one company that really is the household name for honey today. HoneyMelts looks to change that. With traditional serving methods, honey tends to end up in places where it isn't really wanted, such as finers, table tops, countertops, and even caked ...

S.E.E.D.

An AirBnB for inventors
S.E.E.D. (Science, Engineering, Education & Design) is a live-in, temporary rental situation where professionals from around the world can stay in a home that is also a workspace. Like AirBnB, people can rent a room and collaborate with residents and other traveling ...

Cient

Marketplace to learn design interactively
Cient is an online learning marketplace completely powered by users. The platform allows anyone with expertise in arts and design to give online live lessons. Broad, open for all, and yet, extremely reliable, Cient is a new tool to disseminate creativity and ...