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MediaTrust Gets $3M

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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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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Burstly is venture backed by Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank Capital.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah, thanks for the interview.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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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. In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. We've scaled to revenue very quickly, and we're running a really capital efficient business. For those who haven't heard yet, tell us about DocStore and what it is all about?