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APRIL 23, 2018

Last week, the Los Angeles-based startup led by Trevor McFedries , outed itself as the collective consciousness behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela and her less well known contemporaries Blawko22 and BermudaisBae in a choreographed melodrama worthy of Los Angeles’ best reality television. It worked. .

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JANUARY 18, 2011

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I’m also on record as saying I invest in lines & not dots.

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APRIL 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of predictive analytics software for the marketing industry, has raised a big, $38M funding round, the firm said Monday. MarketShare, which is co-led by Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, said the financing will go towards its technology platform and accelerate growth in markets worldwide.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. The company said it will introduce ads “over the coming weeks” in order to “cover our expenses” of running the platform. Securities and Exchange Commission. .

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Vadio , the developer of a platform which helps match music videos and ads with streaming music , said Thursday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round, which included Mucker Capital, Amplify.LA, as well as other LA investors. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2014

Vadio--which has offices in Los Angeles but is headquartered in Portland--is backed by Amplify.LA, and is part of the startup accelerator''s Fund I investments. The company says it can power any streaming audio platform, and provides synchronized video content to audio streams, and also enables video advertising.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Fans of Los Angeles subscription razor firm Dollar Shave Club might have noticed a lot of the firm recently on television. Convertro said it has been working with Media Design Group , a direct response TV advertising agency, to help measure the efficacy of broadcast marketing.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Today, with the help of the aptly named JOBS act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act) and companies like SeedInvest , it has never been easier for companies to gain exposure and enter the investment solicitation process. The investment environment at large in light of the JOBS Act. Total investment interest in startups on SeedInvest?

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MARCH 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly announced Tuesday afternoon that the firm has raised $1.8M Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. As part of the investment, Burstly said that it is opening up access to its advertising tools and exiting beta for its product. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile ad management firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has added SoftBank Capital and Founder Collective to its Series A funding round. Size of the additional investment was not disclosed. investment from Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners. Burstly recently announced a $1.8M

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based Pagewoo , the mobile advertising startup founded by Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly, has quietly scored a round of funding, which was disclosed by the Tech Coast Angels this morning. Financial details of the angel funding round, which closed earlier this year, have not been announced. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Over the past three years the Los Angeles-based startup Maple Media has amassed a portfolio of roughly thirty companies and one hundred apps in its quest to become the IAC of app store businesses. Maple Media raised its original capital from Shamrock Capital, the investment firm managing money for the Disney family.

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APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Clark Landry: GraphEffect is a company that helps other companies advertise effectively on Facebook. from a group of VCs and angels.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. You must invest in technology. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based ClickTripz (www.clicktripz.com), is a startup developing ad solutions for travel publishers, and thought we''d learn more, so we spoke with Ross Weber , co-founder and CEO of ClickTripz, to hear more about the company. Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2014

Vadio came out of LA''s Amplify startup accelerator, and now has operations both in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. We tried to figure out why people would go to an audio platform, which might be a iHeartradio, Pandora, or Spotify, and why people would go to platforms like YouTube for music. What were you doing before Vadio?

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MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Jeff Bezos readily admits that his first career in a Wall Street-based investment banking firm gave him some keen insights into business realities, before a fear of regret and a personal passion led him to create Amazon, now the largest ecommerce site in the world. Strategic planning is a required ongoing investment.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project (www.rubiconproject.com) recently had its IPO, making it one of the big success stories of Southern California''s technology startup world. When I moved back down to Los Angeles, and started Rubicon Project here, we started hosting events, Thursdays In The Mix.

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JULY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based Spot Runner , which operates an online service to help businesses buy and sell TV and video advertising, said late Friday that it has promoted Gus Warren to General Manager of the firm's Malibu Media Platform unit. Tags: spot runner executive television advertising video. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. We knew he had to be an investment partner.

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JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Call tracking isn’t new, but the way that we’ve built it into our platform is. Who do you view as your biggest competition? You’re right.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Last week, we ran into Deena Varshavskaya , the founder of Los Angeles-based Wanelo (www.wanelo.com), a social shopping site focused on allowing women to share and follow others as they shop online. Deena Varshavskaya: Wanelo--from Want-Need-Love-- is a community platform for shopping. What is Wanelo? Women, really. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. They battled it out with FullScreen who was also very successful. I looked at a bunch of models.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Nick Higgins: Adconion was founded six years ago as an advertising network. We started internationally, and built out our international platform first, and rolled it back into the U.S. Joost and our network serves as a platform for us to syndicate our content, using both the Joost player and the ad network combined.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com) has figured out one way--which is to connect those mobile users with ads from app developers, who have the opposite problem of trying to boost their user base. All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms. They''re even one of our advertisers right now.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s a large part of why he decided to create LawMaker.io , which bills itself as a revolutionary platform that gives those in the U.S. Touting itself as a “free lobby for the lobbyless,” Thakkar said its a platform that could very much change the face of U.S. ” Lawmaker.io We built LawMaker to change this.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , which is developing an in-stream, advertising platform for Twitter, has raised $500,000 in a funding round. Suster said that the seed investment for Ad.ly The round came from GRP Partners. GRP's Mark Suster sits on the firm's board.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Burstly (www.burstly.com) announced that it had raised $1.8M in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. Our space is pretty young.

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MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And that’s why the online video space and YouTube ecosystem has taken one more leap toward its rightful place as next generation video platform.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform.

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