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AUGUST 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based AdtoApp , a developer of programmatic ad tools for publishers, has raised $6M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding came from Run Capital. The company also has a large suite of tools to deal with global advertisement demand. READ MORE>>.

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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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AUGUST 26, 2019

Los Angeles-based Podcorn , a new startup founded by former Famebit founders Agnez Kozera and David Kierzkowski, has raised $2.2M in a seed funding round for a new, podcast advertising venture, the company said on Monday.

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JULY 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based Kixer , which was founded by Keith Bonnici, Jake Moilanen, and Omar Nicola, has raised $1M in a seed funding, for the company''s native advertising platform. Kixer develops a native advertising platform which helps mobile app developers reach users via online publishers. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based media measurement and optimization software developer VideoAmp has raised $275M in funding, giving it a $1.4 The funding included The Spruce House Partnership, D1 Capital Partners, Tiger Global, EPIQ Capital Group and Ankona Capital Partners. billion valuation, the company said onn Thursday.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising startup PaeDae announced this morning that it has tied into Intel''s appMobi effort, which will allow Intel developers to integrate with its advertising platform. paedae appmobi intel advertising mobile development cross platform software network' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2013

Los Angeles-based social, celebrity advertising startup Adly confirmed the company''s recent $2M funding round today, officially announcing the funding from GRP Partners and Siemer Ventures. adly venture capital funding social celebrity advertising' The firm disclosed the funding last week. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based FastPay , the provider of financing products for ad and media driven companies which is led by Jed Simon, has backed mobile and video advertising products firm Altitude Digital with $30M in financing, Altitude said Thursday. Terms of the financing were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based PaeDae said this morning that it has raised $11.6M in a venture capital funding, in a combination of both equity and debt. The startup said the funding came from Ed Ojdana, 3G Capital, Grind Games, Silicon Valley Bank, as well as other strategic and angel investors. PaeDae is led by Rob Emrich.

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MAY 12, 2014

Online advertising technology provider Adform announced today that it has raised $5.5M operations in Los Angeles, where it set up offices in February--said the funding came from Via Venture Partners. In particular, Adform said the finacning will go to bolster sales efforts out of its Los Angeles and New York City offices.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based Internet advertising firm Social Reality , which develops software for automating real time bidding (RTB) advertising, is moving to the NASDAQ Capital Market this morning. Social Reality said its Class A common stock will begin trading as SRAX. Social Reality is led by Christopher Miglino.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Internet advertising technology developer Social Reality announced late Friday that it has named Derek J. Ferguson has previously served at Victory Park Capital Advisors LLC, Maxim Partners, J.P. Morgan Securities, Thoma Cressey Equity Partners and Wynnchurch Capital. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

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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JUNE 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based GumGum , which provides an in-image advertising platform for publishers, said Friday that it has added Ryan Schinman, CEO of Platinum Rye Entertainment, to its advisory board. GumGum is venture backed by NEA, GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures), First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising technology firm Gradient X , which is led by Brian Baumgart, has been acquired by digital advertising firm Amobee , Amobee announed this morning. According to Amobee, the acquisition adds new, real-time bidding functionality and support for video and HTML5 to its platform.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Pluto TV , which offers up free streaming television to users through devices such as Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Chromecast, has been acquired by Viacom in a deal worth $340M in cash, according to Viacom. million of those using connected TVs.

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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.

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MAY 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based Greentoe.com , which operates an online marketplace which lets people name their own price for electronics and other items, has raised a round of angel funding, the firm said today. greentoe venture capital angel ecommerce retail retailer seed' Size of the funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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. The funding was led by FTV Capital, and also included Elevation Partners and others. The firm said it was advised by LUMA Partners in the deal. 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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JANUARY 31, 2013

Glow Digital Media , a developer of a Facebook advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $1.3M headquarters in Los Angeles. The company said it helps direct response advertisers build and manage their Facebook advertising campaigns. in a seed funding round, and set up its U.S.

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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. Burstly is developing a free ad management platform for the mobile phone market, and specifically the iPhone and Android operating systems.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly announced Tuesday afternoon that the firm has raised $1.8M Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. in a venture funding. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 17, 2016

Los Angeles-based Lucid Sight , a developer of an ad-supported, virtual reality game development platform, said today that it has raised $3.5M The funding came from Rana Capital Partners and Salem Partners. in a Series A funding. The company is led by Randy Saaf. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based MediaTrust , which develops an online advertising and marketing platform, announced Thursday that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. The funding will go towards its Performance Exchange (MPTX) product, a real-time, CPC advertising exchange. MediaTurst is headed by Peter Bordes.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ebyline said today that it has launched a new online marketplace targeted at news publishers and professional journalists, which helps publishers manage freelance writers. The firm said it is backed by un-named Los Angeles angel investors, and was founded by former Los Angeles Times journalists.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based Tongal , an online platform which helps brands crowdsource video for their advertising, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Insight Venture Partners.

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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.

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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. It''s a way to raise capital, and it''s not an exit, and not a liquidity event. I think that has changed.

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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.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: Saban Ventures kicked off early this year.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. Los Angeles' I’ve known Hamet for 5 years.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising.

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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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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. venture capital twitter. The round came from GRP Partners. GRP's Mark Suster sits on the firm's board. Suster said that the seed investment for Ad.ly is lead by Sean Rad.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising.

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