Hollywood-based io/LA , the high tech and creative incubator and coworking space, has shut down, the first loss of one of Southern California's new crop of high tech gathering spaces. number of companies which were located in io/LA have now moved to coworking space CrossCampus in Santa Monica, according to those companies. MORE >>

That seemed to be the mood running through the cloud at the more-than-sellout crowd at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica Thursday at the first LA Demo Day , organized by Docstoc's Jason Nazar. entrepreneur startup incubator demo angelesAre the good times for startups back? READ MORE>>. MORE >>

The first annual Silicon Beach Fest will kick-off in Santa Monica, CA on June 21-23rd, 2012.  A variety of exciting activities and panels are scheduled to occur throughout the beach neighborhoods of Santa Monica and Venice, with the hub of activity happening at Cross Campus.  ( Map ). For more information, visit [link]. MORE >>

moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space. MORE >>

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. Standing room only crowd at StartEngine). MORE >>