Silicon Beach Invades SXSW Interactive

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 29, 2012

Think Los Angeles equals Hollywood? Think again. Head west and you’ll hit Silicon Beach, a burgeoning mecca of tech talent and innovation. Entertainment takes a back seat to an area filled with start-ups building solutions for gaming, mobile communications and discovery, content, social enterprise and more.

Come out and meet members of the Silicon Beach tech community and see demos from a sampling of the kinds of companies that’s drawing entrepreneurs, engineers, and investments from across the U.S.

When: Sunday, March 11th from noon to 5pm

Where: Valhalla at 710 Red River St.

Presenting companies include:

BetterWorks: For leading companies who want to be known as a great place to work, BetterWorks delivers a cloud-based employee rewards and recognition product suite that includes a local perks platform, food ordering, spot bonuses, and social tools for recognition.

Chromatik: Chromatik is redefining how people practice, perform, and teach music -- built as a learning platform for true musicians, Chromatik provides all the tools needed to play music and collaborate with educators via mobile and web applications.

Factual: Factual is aiming to build the data layer for the web via large scale data aggregation and community exchange.

Game Salad: GameSalad is a design platform, enabling everyone to create powerful cross-platform games with unparalleled speed and ease.

Giant Media: Giant Media is a social media marketing agency focusing on content distribution and blog outreach.

Hipswap: Currently in stealth mode. Launching at SXSW.

Look.io: Look.IO is changing the way companies communicate with their customers in real-time by overlaying live chat support into any mobile app.

Pose: Pose is a global style discovery platform.

Sparqlight: Sparqlight, the Enterprise Social Workflow application, eliminates outdated, unorganized collaboration methods like email threads and endless meetings and allows you to experience the pure joy of simply getting work done.

textPlus: textPlus is the leading provider of free mobile communications, including free texting and calling worldwide.

Viddy: Viddy is a simple way for anyone to capture, beautify, and share amazing videos with the world. 

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