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[Elevator Labs] is a Los Angeles, CA-based invention company that brings ideas from vision to value. Beginning with new business concepts, the Elevator Labs leadership team funds and builds those concepts into a fully functioning, revenue generating businesses. Founded in August 2011, the Elevator Labs team is a diverse group of executives from the media and technology industries; its two principal founders, Zack Zalon and Brendon Cassidy, are the former business and technology heads of Virgin Digital, Richard Branson’s interactive entertainment arm. Elevator’s portfolio companies are linked by three central drivers: end-user impact, revenue potential and problem-solving innovation. Elevator Labs is a privately held company and is backed by KGC Capital. It raised $20M in initial funding on August 11, 2011.

Hello Music
Hello Music is the leading online marketplace dedicated to helping all musicians gain access to the same opportunities usually reserved for top-tier signed artists. Hello Music’s membership community enjoys exclusive access to instruments and music gear, pre-booked blocks of recording studio time, unique content distribution opportunities, and other exclusive music industry offerings.

Wilshire Media Group
Wilshire Media Group is an interactive product agency that helps brands create a dramatic impact online. Founded in 2006, Wilshire has empowered its clients to add over $500 million of measured incremental revenue by designing and developing new interactive products and services that meaningfully connect with consumers.

Fat Cloud
Fat Cloud is a next-generation technology platform that supercharges Microsoft .NET. For the first time, developers and administrators have access to powerful tools that simplify the creation and management of high-scale, high-performance .NET applications and the infrastructure that supports them.

Zack Zalon
Zack Zalon is co-founder and Managing Partner of Elevator Labs. He is co-founder and Chairman of Wilshire Media Group, the interactive product agency, working with some of today’s most recognized brands to develop consumer-focused interactive products. Prior to Wilshire, Zalon held roles as the President of Virgin Digital and President of The Factory Network, and has focused the last 16 years exclusively on interactive media, assisting countless Fortune 500 companies to build profitable digital businesses.

Brendon Cassidy
Brendon Cassidy is co-founder and Managing Partner of Elevator Labs, responsible for guiding the efficiency and methodology practices that accelerate the success of Elevator’s portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, Cassidy was Chief Technology Officer for Virgin Digital, co-creating the Radio Free Virgin service. He is additionally the co-founder of Wilshire Media Group and Hello Music, and has worked at the intersection of technology and media for more than 20 years.

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