Digital LA – SXSW Pitch selects three LA firms to take part in Austin

Congrats three LA firms chosen to take part at SXSW Pitch on March 11-12 in Austin. The startups are among the many roughly 100 chosen from hundreds of candidates to take part on the annual startup pitch competitors throughout SXSW Interactive in Austin.

The complete record of SXSWP Pitch finalists and alternates throughout all classes is listed on this announcement. 

The three LA firms are in three of the seven SXSW Pitch classes: hOS is fnalist within the Metaverse and Web3; Podopolo is an alternate in Leisure, Media and Content material; and LeadrPro is an alternate within the Way forward for Work.

hOS Headoffice.area lets retailers and different firms simply create metaverses by way of its easy-to-use platform. The LA-based firm was based by award-winning sport builders and XR engineers. hOS is changing into the Metaverse OS of selection for Fortune 500 firms, world manufacturers, and Moonvalley, a metaverse metropolis.

Podopolo makes use of AI-powered discovery for podcasting, so you possibly can simply discover associated podcasts you’d be fascinating. Podopolo additionally aggregates shared curiosity communities, and gives podcast hosts a number of methods to extend their attain and income. The Santa Monica based mostly startup additionally lets adversities attain podcast listeners. Podopolo was lately featured in Forbes journal.

LeadrPro lets software program builders recruit and pay candidates to do paid demos of their software program. Demoers can money out instantly utilizing Venmo, Zelle, CashApp, Paypal, or Amazon present card, or let their payouts accumulate. Based by CEO Chris Sheng, a development advertising skilled who has labored with 100+ firms on go-to-market and development methods.

There are a number of LA Advisory Board members for SXSW Pitch as effectively, together with our founder Kevin Winston of Digital LA, Gregg Katano of Hologate, and extra.

SXSW Pitch finalists by class are as follows: