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Four Companies Where Hollywood Is Intersecting With Technology

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Despite a perpetual belief that the presence of both high tech companies and Hollywood should be spawning out hundreds of entertainment and technology related startups, it actually happens much less than one might think. What do industrial equipment and tooling have to do with Hollywood and technology?

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Oncam Raises $7M For Group Video Calling App For Celebrities

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Los Angeles-based Oncam , a new startup developing group video calling apps, has raised $7M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Tonn Investments, and also included un-named high net worth individuals and firms.

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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

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In addition to the lack of go-to-market assistance provided by celebrity investors, VCs discourage the involvement of celebrities because such investments often come with egregious demands for Hollywood-style "sweeteners," such as "advisor options," which reduce the cost of the celebrity''s investment while diluting the other investors.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

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What Hollywood hasn’t been able to deliver in film or television has seen generational break-out successes like Lin Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” or the astounding success of Despacito , now the all-time most viewed video on YouTube approaching 4 billion views. workers who are paying taxes into economy that fund their retirement plans.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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How is the company funded and backed? The net of it, is we're really in the big data business, and we're taking what was formerly a totally monolithic piece--a single DVD, or video game, or sports game--and converting that into something that is consumable in the social web.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. How is the company funded? We're already producing videos on a weekly basis, and hope to produce hundreds, if not thousands, a month.