Best Startup - California
At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 75 Audio companies in Los Angeles, California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Audio Companies & Startups (Los Angeles, California)
Racket.com
Let’s make a racket.
Founder(s): Austin Smith, Stu Smith
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Internet Radio, Podcast, Social Media
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TTYL
TTYL is an audio social network built to help friends and family keep in touch with each other when they are physically apart.
Founder(s): Alex Ma, Austen Ma
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, iOS, Mobile Apps, Social Media
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Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart is an audio-first dating app aiming to bring back some intimacy to the process of finding the right person for next foray.
Founder(s): Joshua Ogundu
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Audio, Dating, Software
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Vurbl
Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user generated audio.
Founder(s): Audra Gold, Baron Ginnetti, Jerry Boonstra, Theresa Tran
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Music Streaming, Software
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Qcode
Qcode is an audio production studio.
Founder(s): Rob Herting
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Digital Entertainment, Music
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EngineEars
EngineEars operates as a marketplace for audio engineers.
Founder(s): Derek Ali
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Marketplace
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Fender Digital
Fender Digital Products is a maker of apps, websites, platforms and tools to compliment the guitars, amps.
Founder(s): Leo Fender
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Audio, Digital Entertainment
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JBL
JBL designs and builds audio equipment for consumers, the entertainment industry and the automotive industry.
Founder(s): James Bullough Lansing
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Software
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Powerhouse Capital
Powerhouse Capital, LA based venture fund dedicated to investment opportunities in technology, media, entertainment & interactive gaming.
Founder(s): Ian Doody, Salim Mitha
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Events, Gaming, Media and Entertainment, Music, Ticketing, Video, Video Games
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zpod.app
The Zpod App is an audio story-finding and listening application.
Founder(s): Sina Yeganeh
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audiobooks, E-Commerce Platforms, E-Learning, Education, Podcast, Software
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MUMO
MUMO is a social network that creates intimate connections through music.
Founder(s): Jean-Marc Touch, Ryan Britt
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Music Streaming
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Delair Studios
The best immersive sound for entertainment.
Founder(s): Pierre Vincent
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Media and Entertainment, Music
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YourListen.com
YourListen.com is a social music and audio platform allowing users to upload, listen, discover and share content without limits.
Founder(s): Scotty Goodman
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, Music, Performing Arts
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Repost Network
Repost Network operates as a soundCloud focused music distributor allowing creators to make a living through their audiences online.
Founder(s): Jeff Ponchick, Joey Mason
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Audio, Music
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Sonoro
Sonoro is a global media company developing highly-immersive podcasts in English, Spanish and Spanglish.
Founder(s): Camila Victoriano, Gerónimo Ávila, Joshua Weinstein
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, Podcast
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TAO Network
The TAO Network, a blockchain-based content distribution platform for the music industry
Founder(s): Bryce Weiner, Dale Everingham
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Blockchain, Music
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Stereo
Where spontaneous conversations happen. Let’s Talk.
Founder(s): Andrey Andreev, Arthur Nugumanov, Rosette Pambakian
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Audio, Consumer Applications, Social Network
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Easy Tempo
Easy Tempo is a music company that composes, produces and arranges music for records, films and commercial environments.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, Music
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oNoise
oNoise is a community of creative professionals including musicians, engineers, vocal-artists, recording businesses and more.
Founder(s): Julian Melo, Sam Estrin
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, E-Commerce, Employment, Enterprise Software, Music, Telecommunications
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eMastered
Intelligent online mastering for audio for musicians and video creators. Made by Grammy Winning engineers.
Founder(s): Collin McLoughlin, Smith Carlson
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, Music
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fuse.ar
fuse.ar is a mobile platform using AR and user generated content to provide brands with unlimited organic reach.
Founder(s): Liat Sade-Sternberg
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Augmented Reality, Brand Marketing, Machine Learning, Social Media, Software, Video
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Qencode
High speed, secure and robust cloud media transcoding platform designed to be the lowest cost solution on the market.
Founder(s): Murad Mordukhay
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Video on Demand
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Global Music Rights
Global Music Rights is a music rights management company that focused on licensing, surveying and distributing public performance royalties.
Founder(s): veteran Irving Azoff
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Public Relations
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Pod People
Pod People is the only on-demand workforce for audio production, with a vast network of hand-picked audio professionals across the globe.
Founder(s): Rachael King
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Audiobooks, Human Resources, Media and Entertainment, Podcast, Staffing Agency
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Midroll Media, LLC
Midroll Media is a digital media company that provides a 360-degree suite of production, distribution, & monetization services for podcasts.
Founder(s): Jeff Ullrich, Scott Aukerman
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Audio, Content, Content Creators, Content Syndication, Digital Entertainment, Digital Media, Mobile, Podcast
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DocuSpeak
DocuSpeak is a service-based company helping individuals convert their documents into audio recordings.
Founder(s): Arun Sood
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Music Streaming
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Podium Publishing
Podium Publishing is an audiobook publisher of sci-fi, fantasy, and romance with 1,000+ titles produced to date.
Founder(s): Greg Lawrence, James Tonn
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audiobooks, Publishing
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SmashHaus
SmashHaus is SAAS Web 3.0 connecting a global content creator community with media companies seeking audio, video, and image-based assets.
Founder(s): Dylan Berry
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Digital Media, Music
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Earwolf
Earwolf, a Midroll Media property, is a pioneering podcast network that creates & produces original, on-demand audio comedy content.
Founder(s): Jeff Ullrich, Scott Aukerman
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Content, Content Creators, Content Syndication, Digital Media, Events, Mobile, Podcast
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Ingenuity Studios
Ingenuity Studios expertise in offering visual effects on films, features, music videos, reels, graphics and advertising videos.
Founder(s): David Lebensfeld
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Audio, Film, Music, Video Advertising, Video Editing
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Audyssey Laboratories
Audyssey research audio technologies that correct acoustical problems to improve the sound quality of any device or listening environment.
Founder(s): Chris Kyriakakis, Phil Hilmes, Sunil Bharitkar
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Automotive, Electronics, Hardware, Software, Theatre
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G’Audio Lab, Inc.
G’Audio Lab is a VR audio company providing the most immersive and interactive post-production and rendering solutions.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Digital Entertainment, Virtual Reality
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MetaPop Inc.
The only platform in the world dedicated to remixes, their creators and rights holders.
Founder(s): Matthew Adell, Michael Mukhin
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Enterprise Software, Music
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ZippyTune
ZippyTune is a music network website enabling users to download, upload and share music over the internet.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Apps, Audio, Mobile Apps, Music
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Movo
Movo offers online selling of audio, video and photography equipment for filmmakers, photographers, vloggers, podcasters & creators.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Photography, Video
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Aiir
The complete platform for audio content creators.
Founder(s): Gav Richards, Ricki Lee
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Android, Audio, iOS, Mobile, SMS
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The Loop Loft
The Loop Loft records the best musicians on the planet to create the highest quality loops and samples available anywhere.
Founder(s): Ryan Gruss
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Product Design
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Clammr
Clammr is a mobile application for audio containing personalized streams of expandable 24-second highlights.
Founder(s): David Silverman, Kenneth Ito, Oren Goldfinger, Parviz Parvizi
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Social
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Levels Audio
Levels Audio provides music, audio post-production, and entertainment services.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, Music
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Epic Production Technologies
Epic Production Technologies provides lighting, rigging, audio, and staging equipment for rentals and production.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: 3D Technology, Audio, Gaming
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Exverus Media
Exverus Media specializes in digital media, social media, e-commerce, audio, programmatic video, sales and media modeling.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Audio, Brand Marketing, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Social Media
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Revery Media
Revery Media is a development and production studio that develops and produces narrative content for smart speakers.
Founder(s): Fred Graver, Justin Schaefer
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Film, Media and Entertainment, TV
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TrackTrack.it
TrackTrack.it is a file sending platform for musicians, and music professionals.
Founder(s): Phil McCarty, T.D. Ruth
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Software
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Massive Audio
Massive Audio has been an industry leader in high performance audio products.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing
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Solutionz
Solutionz is an IT company that specializes in providing audiovisual solutions.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Information Services, Information Technology, Software, Video Conferencing
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Spkr
Spkr. is a online platform that promotes and evangelizes creators by delivering great content to consumers when, where and how they want it.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Audio
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Auby
Auby is an audio discovery service enabling everyone to learn on the go
Founder(s): Christine Lu Hong
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Podcast, Software
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Kali Audio
Kali Audio is a manufacturer and distributor of loudspeakers and amplification products for the professional audio market.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Manufacturing, Music
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Bell Sound Studios
Bell Sound Studios is a full-service audio/visual production and post-production facility.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Film Production, Media and Entertainment, Music, Video
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Open The Portal
A commercial and creative stop motion animation studio from Los Angeles.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio
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Wolfpop
Wolfpop is the pop culture, podcast network of parent company Midroll Media that features host-driven programs from world-class talent.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Content, Content Creators, Content Syndication, Digital Entertainment, Digital Media, Mobile, Podcast
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CineVizion
CineVizion is a part of the entertainment industry that provides screening and theatre services including 3D, DTSX & Dolby atmos facilities.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, Theatre
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Haustech
Haustech deals with audio-video automation systems integration that covers music, lighting, entertainment and surveillance.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Lighting, Media and Entertainment, Music, Video
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SoundStrokes Art
SoundStrokes Art is an e-commerce platform that enables its users to purchase personalized canvas paintings based on their favorite sounds.
Founder(s): Adrienne Trewolla, Daniela Luzi Tudor
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Art, Audio, Data Visualization, E-Commerce
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Associates In Media Engineering
Associates In Media Engineering offers engineering, design & media finishing solutions for audio-visual systems in the entertainment sector.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Design, Video
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Prometheus Entertainment
Prometheus Entertainment is a leader in supplying critically acclaimed, highly-rated programming to the cable marketplace.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, Video
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Force Field
Force Field provides an entire range of event production services across many different industries.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Event Management, Hospitality, Video
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JBI Studios
JBI Studios is a full-service audio, video, and multimedia production company that specialises in a number of different languages.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Broadcasting, Media and Entertainment, Translation Service, Video
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Positive Feedback
Positive Feedback is a creative forum for the Audio Arts and online publication.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Communities, Online Forums, Publishing
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Reason One Productions, Inc.
Corporate & non-profit event producers that specialize in technical production. R1 focuses on definable goals to achieve greater success
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Brand Marketing, Event Management, Events, Video
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Empty Sea Audio
Empty Sea Audio is a creative audio facility that delivers post-production sound and music services.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Music Label
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Sound Revolver
Sound Revolver is an audio and music design firm that offers production, original music, audio supervision and advertising.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Audio, Music, TV Production
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Audio Impressions
Audio Impressions creates high definition sample libraries backed by music technology for composers working under deadlines.
Founder(s): Chris Stone
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music
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Sound Design Corporation
Sound Design Corporation provides live and post-production audio facilities for television, video games and internet-based content.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Media and Entertainment, TV Production
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Angry Mob Music
Angry Mob Music is an independent music publisher, songwriters, composers, and producer.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Internet, Music, Music Streaming
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AIX Records
AIX Records is an online store that provides a wide range of high definition audio and music album products.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, E-Commerce, Music, Sales
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Alkimee
A Luxury Brand & Social Venture
Founder(s): Aiyanna Greene
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Fashion, Jewelry, Lifestyle, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Impact
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Goodhertz
Goodhertz is an audio software company based in Los Angeles.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Information Technology, Software
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Impact Record Pool
Impact Record Pool offers a weekly Digital MP3 service called “THE ILL NETWORK”.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Internet, Music
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Vagrant Records
Vagrant Records is a record label company that offers an extended range of music records of different artists.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Music, Music Label, Music Streaming
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Ground Control
Ground Control is an interactive audio company.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Digital Entertainment
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Astro
Astro is an online store that sells professional audio, video, and lighting equipment.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, E-Commerce, Lighting, Video
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1 Plus One Management
1 Plus One Management focuses on video production, audio production and printing services for advertising, community outreach and marketing.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Audio, Printing, Video
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Infernal Love
Infernal Love is a nonpareil collective of alternative audio technologies.
Founder(s): Eros Marcello
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, DSP, Film Production, Music, Software
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PeerDeal
PeerDeal is a provider of online marketplace for user generated content (UGC) producers and media buyers.
Founder(s): Edrolfo Leones
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Content, Marketplace, Photography, Video
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