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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based VIRURL , which is headed by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, said today that it has launched a new widget aimed at web publishers. The firm said its new "Slideout" widget helps provide unobtrusive advertising to help publishers monetize site visitors. Diaz-Mitoma is the former founder of Titan Gaming. 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 The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included prior investors Partech, iSource, and Elaia Partners. in a funding round. Total Immerson is headed by Bruno Uzzan. 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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JUNE 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based HitFix , an online web site focused on entertainment news and information, has raised $1.6M in a new funding round, according to investor the Tech Coast Angels. The Tech Coast Angels said that HitFix gets around one million monthly unique users, and is advertising-driven. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Los Angeles- and San Francisco-based RealGravity , a newly launched firm focused on online video distribution and syndication, announced today that it has raised $3.2M The Series A round was led by Kohlberg Ventures, and also included Peter Boboff of Kicklabs and Transmedia Capital. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

The founders Los Angeles-based GumGum , a startup which offers ad-supported, celebrity and entertainment photos for blogs and other web sites, has diverged into the online ad business, saying this week that it has launched a separate, advertising service called Bedrock. Tags: bedrock gumgum online advertising.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based GumGum , which helps web publishers license celebrity and other photos, has rolled out a new Image Toolbar feature for the firm's service, the firm said today. GumGum is one of this year's class of Launchpad LA members, and is backed by GRP Partners, First Round Capital, and others. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Impact Radius , a firm which is developing a service to link performance advertising to TV, radio, print, and online channels, has raised $1.0M The firm's web site indicates it is launching in January of next year. Tags: impact radius venture capital. 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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AUGUST 31, 2011

Chris explained the importance of community and the upcoming launch of LA Startup Foundation that’s aimed to bring together and foster entrepreneurship and facilitate outreach into the various parts of Los Angeles, creating jobs — not take jobs away.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Los Angeles-based Shopit, a developer of online shopping widget software, said today that it has raised $2.5M ShopIt said that the round is the first tranche of a $7M capital raise planned for the firm. in a Series B funding. The funding came from Toronto, Canada-based Emerson Ventures and Propulsion Ventures. READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which operates an online advertising optimization service, is announcing this morning that the firm has raised $13M more in a combination of equity and debt. Tags: capital venture project rubicon. According to Rubicon, the follow on funding round brings its total raised to $33M.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Advertisers. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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MAY 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based MashOn , a firm providing web-based personalization and brand marketing services, has raised $620,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. MashOn develops web software, e-commerce tools, plus digital agency to clients; the firm says its has a team of 25 professionals.

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JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month.

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MAY 24, 2011

Southern California--and particularly, Los Angeles--has always been a center of the music business, which makes it unsurprising that there are many, music-focused startups which end up starting here. I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. That's now what we're advertising.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

However, in a very unusual move, the City of Los Angeles has tapped a true technology veteran and insider, well known to those here in the industry-- Peter Marx , most recently at Qualcomm--to head up the city''s efforts to both adopt technology and improve the city''s relationship with its growing technology companies.

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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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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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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Farb talks about how he did that.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

That's the story behind Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com), which saw a great exit last week as it was acquired by content management software developer Lakana. The startup was co-founded by Keith Bonnici, Omar Nicola, and Jake Moilanen, and was venture backed by TenOne Ten Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and local angels.

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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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OCTOBER 8, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. NAME David Sacks.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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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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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Total Immersion recently moved its headquarters here to the Los Angeles area, and we caught up with Bruno to learn more about the firm, its technology, and why it moved here to LA. Now, it can be downloaded from the web as a DirectX version. in the Bay Area, but decided recently to move into the Los Angeles area.

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► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? Those points add up to a Visa gift card.

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MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. This is my third company. How is the firm funded?

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. My background, is I'm from Los Angeles.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Leveraging mobile application and online platform. Event Details.

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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: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy.

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