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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based FastPay , which offers up financial products specifically aimed at advertising driven businesses, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round. The company, which is led by Jed Simon, said the funding came from Oak HC/FT.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based online and mobile advertising technology developer OpenX Technologies has launched a new system it says helps publishers forecast their traffic and manage their advertising inventory. openx advertising serving forecasting publisher publishing server software' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net said today that it has sold its DomainSponsor domain monetization business. domainsponsor oversee merger acquisition domain domainer name monetization rook advertising' Financial terms of the sale were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX says this morning that it has been selected by Townhall Media , to help supply "header bidding" for Townnhall's mobile and web properties. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based Frequency , the video publishing software provider headed by Blair Harrison, has launched a new product, saying at NAB that it has launched Frequency Sync, which helps users publish their videos across the company''s range of video applications. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

The accelerator is among a number that have emerged in Los Angeles in the past year or so; StartEngine specifically has been focusing on startups targeting consumers, small to medium sized businesses, and web infrastructure. StartEngine's founders are Howard Marks, who co-founded Activision, and investor Paul Kessler. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Launchpad LA , the Los Angeles startup accelerator program which is run by Sam Teller, and was founded by venture capitalist Mark Suster, is gearing up for another class, to start next month. Interested in getting some help in getting your startup off the ground and funded? READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based Total Immersion , the developer of augmented reality software and technology, announced this morning that it has raised $5.5M in a funding round. The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included prior investors Partech, iSource, and Elaia Partners. Total Immerson is headed by Bruno Uzzan. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Paperlinks , the developer of iPhone applications focused on QR codes and headed by Hamilton Chan, is announcing today that it has launched a new product to help businesses connect with customers. Paperlinks is the publisher of the identically named iPhone application. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

She is a savvy social maven and agency veteran with NPO experience, has a deep background in interactive advertising, relationship marketing, web and mobile applications, and startups. She advises early and later stage businesses in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based Total Immersion , the developer of augmented reality software run by Bruno Uzzan, said this week that both the U.S. Army is using Total Immersion for an augmented reality entertainment game which allows users to race against MRAP and Stryker armored vehicles via the web and at certain NASCAR events. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Woodland Hills-based Gumiyo , which develops tools for enabling mobile web sites, has scored a new customer. According to accounting and advisory firm CNM LLP, it has partnered with Gumiyo to deliver collateral, advertisements, business cards, and other media via SMS from its web sites. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Created by founder Toby Daniels , Social Media Week Los Angeles will focus this series of discussions around the theme of “Empowering Change Through Collaboration.” Monday: Los Angeles – The Social City. Why Los Angeles Is The Next Silicon Valley. A City of Angels: How Social Media is Bringing LA Closer to Utopia.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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JUNE 28, 2010

I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. Rubicon Project.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Total round was $2.5

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JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. The rest of the model will include things like customized marketing and advertising in a more focused way, all about entertainment. I love that. That''s not true now.

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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. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. What is Burstly?

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. Millions, billions, trillions? Photos…the final frontier.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. It’s about defining your data across the Web and now mobile.”. It’s been about data.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. It looks like you're using a mobile-first approach to getting your technology out there?

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JANUARY 19, 2015

40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I founded NowLive a year ago, dedicated to producing and streaming live, professional events for the web and mobile, and anchored interactive. Sara Bordo: I started working on the brand side at Estee Lauder in New York, and DDB in Chicago doing advertising. Additionally, they are syndicated widely across the web.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

SGN is the social and mobile gaming developer headed by former MySpace founder Chris Dewolfe. Josh Yguado: We're the leading developer and publisher of cross-platform, social and mobile games. We're growing very quickly, and have around 100 employees, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Buenos Aires.

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JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Customized content. Stage and settle debate. Watch video metrics, track performance.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angels. For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Social mobile web. Startup accelerator.

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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. So, why not try to leverage the curation of those audio platforms on the web, and combine it with the video? We want to be able to provide curated video channels across both online and mobile platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood. This one-day conference has been created and produced by David Beebe Projects led by Emmy winning Digital Entertainment Executive and Producer, David Beebe himself. Same with CreatorUp.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg.

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MARCH 27, 2009

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APRIL 24, 2009

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