One of the most original, subscription startups to come out of Southern California's tech accelerator boom emerged last week, looking to disrupt not just another retail sector or e-commerce category, but something else entirely: the airline industry. What's the idea behind SurfAir? We shuttle primarily between Palo Alto and Los Angeles. MORE >>

Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering. One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about? MORE >>

Liquid Audio was at the forefront of the digital music scene, and we built the first, software infrastructure for legal distribution and commerce of music. We successfully built up that firm, and in late 2006 we sold it to Tandberg Television. What is Aggregage? That is starting to show itself in the B2B space. Robert Flynn: Yes. MORE >>

gid=1801653 , www.centurycitycc.org Self-description: "EPEC works with the Los Angeles community, via the Century City Chamber of Commerce, to facilitate business relationships through quarterly networking events drawing hundreds of people aimed at the same goal." Weekly updates to the main SoCal Networking Event Organizations list. MORE >>

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund.  Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post).  Greycroft is an early-stage VC.  MORE >>