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AUGUST 20, 2010

in grant funding, from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service. The funding comes from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. WildBlue said the funding will go to activate new subscribers on its satellite broadband services. ViaSat said the firm co-applied with DIRECTV and DISH on the grant.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Talk about the new firm and the new fund? Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009.

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MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen. OTHER DEALS.

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MARCH 4, 2011

CBS said that Clicker Media will become part of CBS Interactive'roster of properties. The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009. Clicker was venture backed by Benchmark Capital, JAFCO, Redpoint Ventures, and Blake Krikorian, and had raised around $21M in funding.

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JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0,

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APRIL 20, 2009

PwC found the largest funding deals were for San Diego's Mpex Pharmaceuticals, with $27.5M The largest deal for Los Angeles was $15M in a funding for Buzz Media. Tags: 2009 county orange diego angeles california southern capital venture. in 54 venture capital deals, with Los Angeles reporting $115.6M in 67 deals.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Sam Altman: PartyEarth is a global media and entertainment company. Sam Altman: We launched in November of 2009. We launched in November of 2009, an dit's been an amazing experience to date. Can you talk about your recent funding round? What is PartyEarth? Now, we also have six cities within the U.S.,

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MAY 18, 2010

We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009. Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app. All of 2009 was figuring out what people want. Al Eisaian: It's been angel funded so far. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010. Scot Richardson: We've done two rounds of funding, both angel rounds. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Why the new funding round now? Everyone knows this.

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment.

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APRIL 16, 2010

After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable. Finally, how are you funding this business? We rode the recession wave, as all people became bargain hunters. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. If you look at media, and not just radio, advertisers want to get value. At the same time, media--or what we called media--which now includes traditional media, online media, mobile, product placement, etc.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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JUNE 27, 2011

In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. That is the big day for Payoff.com, and we will be going to push out on every front to get media exposure and attention to what we're doing. That's part of the premise.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. How long have you been at the firm now?

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MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. Talk a bit about your recent funding. Where did you get the funding?

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MARCH 1, 2012

Shortly after that, the CEO of NBCi and myself started a venture fund, invested in a handful of companies, had a couple of good exits, and then I went on to become part of the founding team at ZeroDegrees, the social networking platform focused on the jobs space. We moved back down to Southern California, and never looked back.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Mark Suster: First of all, the good news, is GRP has a $200 million fund, which we've only done three investments on. We're really excited about 2009. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. We're in a unique position, because we just got our fund last year.

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JUNE 18, 2009

I recently opened up a company, Champion Media, providing entertainment branding, marketing, and public relations for Gen Y brands. It was funded by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, Paul Allen, and some other really big names. Gregg Champion: I had been a vice president of development at ManiaTV, a Gen-Y content site.

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MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. We also have panel discussions on clean tech, life sciences, gaming, information technology, and digital media. If you get ten companies funded and going, those ten companies might hire ten new employees, creating a total of a hundred jobs.

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APRIL 28, 2010

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008.

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