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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based Anthem Venture Partners has scored two exits in the last week, as Los Angeles-based Demand Media hit a homerun with its IPO Wednesday, and San Diego-based Plixi was acquired by Lockerz Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2014

Big Frame had been venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Daher Capital, DFJ Frontier, LaunchPad LA, New World Ventures, The Media Farm and Social Starts, and angels Diego Berdakin, Dave Goldberg, Peter Gotcher, Clark Landry, Adam Lilling and Dan Murray. The company had a $3.0M Series A funding back in 2012. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Focus Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and others. The firm is now run by Caroline Little, the CEO of Guardian Media North America. Tags: techcrunch blog empire southern california buzzmedia mail media paidcontent contentnext. corp.mail.com).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Demand Media, the internet publishing firm which is in the midst of an IPO effort, is the brainchild of Richard Rosenblatt, who was at the reins of Intermix, the parent firm of MySpace, and brokered the sale of MySpace to News Corporation. www.demandmedia.com).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzznet , the venture-backed operator of a network of entertainment-focused social media sites, is making the rounds with a new feature on its Celebuzz celebrity web site this week. The firm rolled out a "zoom" feature that allows users on the site to magnify celebrity photos on the site.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I think everybody heard about this acquisition. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. M&A Discussion. Atebits dba Tweetie (acquired by Twitter). Twitter bough their most used iPhone client.

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