Afterparty Snags $3M For NFT Creation Platform
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Los Angeles-based Afterparty, which is developing an platform which the company says helps creators launch their own NFTs, says it has raised $3M in a seed funding round.
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March Capital Backs Video Game Developer Wavedash Games
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MAY 2, 2017
Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in video game developer Wavedash Games , which announced a $6M Series A funding round on Tuesday morning. The funding round also included Lowercase Capital, Advancit Capital, CourtsideVC, Machine Shop Ventures, Luma Labs, and Cherrytree VC.
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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. TGIF, am I right? You can sign up here. GitHub to sunset master/slave terminology .
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Cloudbreak Health Finds $10M For Telemedicine Platform
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FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Los Angeles-based Cloudbreak Health , which develops a platform used for telemedicine efforts, has raised $10M in an investment round, the company announced this morning. According to the company, the funding came from Columbia Partners Private Capital.
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AvantStay, a platform for kitting out — and then renting out — high-end vacation rental homes, raises $160M
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 15, 2021
AvantStay — which has built a platform where it decorates and then lists properties owned by others for people to rent out for vacations or other short-term stays — has raised $160 million in a Series B round of funding. Los Angeles-based AvantStay has been around since 2017 and had only raised $25 million in the last four years.
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Pragma is a back-end toolkit for gaming companies, so game developers can focus on games
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 11, 2020
These days, most of the games developed need to be social, multi-platform and extensible, but there are only a few developers with the expertise to bring those toolsets to the profusion of new games that crop up every year. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks.
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LA's Arrowroot Capital Leads $45M Funding In mParticle
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MARCH 10, 2020
Los Angeles-based investor Arrowroot Capital is the lead investor in a $45M funding round in New York-based mParticle , a developer of a platform used to manage customer data. The funding--a Series D--brings the total investment in mParticle to more than $120M.
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Stem Snags $8M For Creative Payments Platform
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JUNE 7, 2017
Los Angeles-based Stem , which is developing a platform to simplify payments for musicians and other content creators, announced Wednesday morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding. The company says it has now raised $12.5M Stem was co-founded by Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith.
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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 2, 2021
Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. “ 2020 was a blowout year… People needed an interactive streaming platform that they could spin up quickly that they could launch on their website.”
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Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platform
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 26, 2018
Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.
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March Capital Leads Funding Round In Knock Knock Games
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AUGUST 29, 2019
Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a new, Series A $4M funding round for a new, video game developer called Knock Knock Games , according to the company on Thursday. As part of the funding, March Capital's Gregory Milken joins Knock Knock's board of directors.
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Immersv Launches Virtual Reality Ad Platform
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MARCH 10, 2016
Los Angeles-based Immersv is launching a brand new, ad platform aimed at virtual reality content, the company is announcing today. Immersv is led by co-founder and CEO Mihir Shah. READ MORE>>.
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India’s Haptik acqui-hires Los Angeles startup Convrg in international expansion push
TechCrunch LA
JULY 23, 2019
Mumbai-based Haptik, which operates a conversational AI platform , has already won several high profile clients in India. Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,
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Scopely raises $340 million at a $3.3 billion valuation as gaming grabs investors’ interest
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 28, 2020
In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. ” In terms of capitalization, no other mobile gaming studio comes close.
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252 Science 37 Raises $31M For Clinical Trial Platform
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OCTOBER 18, 2016
Los Angeles-based Science 37 , a startup developing a technology platform aimed at enabling clinical trials, said this morning that it has raised $31M in a Series B financing round. The funding was led by Redmile Group, and also included Lux Capital, dRx Capital, and Sanofi Genzyme BioVentures.
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StartEngine Adds Second Company To Crowdfunding Platform
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JANUARY 21, 2016
Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which recently pivoted into equity crowdfunding, said Thursday that it has added a second company to its platform with SEC qualification. XTI is the second company on StartEngine's equity crowdfunding site; the other company is Elio Motors, which StartEngine says has so far raised $16M on its platform.
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Shamrock Capital Backs Pixellot In $30M Funding
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. Pixellot has now raised more than $40M in funding. READ MORE>>.
Croquet Connects With $2.7M For AR App, Game Development Tools
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FEBRUARY 18, 2020
A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Croquet Corporation has raised $2.7M in a seed funding round, to go towards its development of tools to power apps and games for 5G and augmented reality (AR), the company said on Tuesday. The company is targeting its tools for use by multi-player gamed developers. in the seed funding.
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Core Innovation Capital Backs On-Demand, Life Insurance Startup Bestow
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AUGUST 31, 2017
Los Angeles-based fintech investor Core Innovation Capital has backed a new startup, Bestow , which is developing an algorithm-driven, on-demand, life insurance platform. yesterday, in a round led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Core Innovation Capital, Morpheus Ventures, and 8VC. READ MORE>>.
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March Capital Leads $10M Investment In Branch Messenger
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AUGUST 2, 2017
Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , along with another local investor, Crosscut Ventures , have both made investments in a new Techstars company, Branch Messenger , Branch announced this morning. Series A funding round led by March Capital Partners, and which also included CrossCut, Techstars Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, and others.
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Mythical Games raises $75M to build an NFT game engine
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 9, 2021
Mythical Games , an NFT games startup based out of Los Angeles, has banked a $75 million raise from new and existing investors betting on the startup’s aim to expand the ambitions of their first title and locate a substantial platform opportunity amid helping developers build blockchain-based gaming experiences.
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Greycroft Backs FrankieOne
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NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Los Angeles-based venture investor Greycroft Ventures is backing a Melbourne, Australia-based startup, FrankieOne. According to FrankieOne, it has raised $15.4M (US) in its Series A+ round, which was led by Greycroft and AirTree Ventures, and also included Reinventure, Tidal Ventures, Apex Capital Partners, Binance Labs and Kraken Ventures.
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113 Untapped Ventures Launches Early Stage VC Fund
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JANUARY 20, 2022
Los Angeles-based Untapped Ventures said on Wednesday that it has launched a new, early-stage venture capital fund, which it says invests in companies that "help people live the best version of themselves, personally and professionally." The venture capital fund is led by Founding General Partner George Bandarian.
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113 VideoAmp Takes $275M For Media Measurement, Now Worth $1.4 Billion
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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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Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles’ growing robotics hub
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 19, 2018
million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Gross and Barnehama met through a mutual friend in the robotics industry in Los Angeles, the chief executive of Embodied, Paolo Pirjanian, Barnehama wrote in an email.
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TheWaveVR Raises $2.5M For VR Live Music Platform
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AUGUST 5, 2016
Los Angeles- and Austin-based TheWaveVR announced this morning that it has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, for its efforts to develop a virtual reality experience specifically for experiencing live music.
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100 Welcome Tech Finds $35M For Financial Inclusion
socalTECH
APRIL 21, 2021
Los Angeles-based Welcome Tech, which is developing a financial inclusion platform aimed at the multigenerational, immigrant community, said this week that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding round. According to the company, it is developing financial services, including a debit card and bilingual mobile app.
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Brainbase Gets Win With Nissan
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JANUARY 4, 2022
Los Angeles-based Brainbase, which develops software to help licensing teams manage partnerships and contracts, said it has inked a deal with Nissan Motor Corporation. According to Brianbase, Nissan will unify its global licensing operations on Brainbase's platform. Financial details of the win were not announced.
LA-based Boulevard raises $27 million for its spa management software
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Boulevard , a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. The two spent months pounding the pavement in Los Angeles pretending to be college students doing research on the industry. million in funding.
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Matters Labs Gets $2M
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JANUARY 27, 2022
Matters Lab, with operations in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Taipei, says it has raised $2M in what it calls a "Pre-A" fundraising round. The funding came from Longling Capital, Protocol Labs, Mask Network, Crust network, Infinity Labs, Assembly Partners, and Incuba Alpha.
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GoSite Gets $16M
socalTECH
AUGUST 10, 2020
San Diego-based GoSite , which develops an online platform to help small businesses put up online and mobile websites, has raised $16M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Longley Capital, and also included Stage 2 Capital, Ankona Capital, Serra Ventures and SaaS Ventures, and angels.
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Consolidation is coming to gaming, and Jam City raises $145 million to capitalize on it
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 16, 2019
A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. The Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game which launched last year , became the company’s fastest title to hit $100 million in revenue.
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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 21, 2023
Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Solicit venture capital investors. Apply to local angel investor groups. Join a startup incubator or accelerator.
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UTA Ventures Names Clinton Foy As General Partner
socalTECH
APRIL 15, 2021
Los Angeles-based talent and entertainment giant UTA said this week that Clinton Foy will join the company's venture capital arm, UTA Ventures, as General Partner. Foy is a longtime fixture in the Los Angeles startup world, having most recently served as General Partner and Managing Director at Crosscut Ventures.
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113 Together Gets $2M For Community Living
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Los Angeles-based Together, a startup which enables community acquisition of property, has raised $2M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The funding came from Caffeinated Capital, Eric Wu, CEO of Opendoor, Balaji Srinivasan, Homebrew, Form Capital, Bobby Lo, and several other angels.
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113 Vadio Gets Backing From Mucker Capital, Amplify, Others In $2M Funding
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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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Manufacturing startup Divergent 3D reduces staff by one-third
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 24, 2020
Divergent, the Los Angeles-based startup aiming to revolutionize vehicle manufacturing, has cut about one-third of its staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended startups and major corporations alike. The platform is an end-to-end digital production system that uses high-speed 3D printers to make complex parts out of metal alloys.
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LA’s Replicated looks to increase R&D and hiring for its operations management software after raising $25 million
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.
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BiasSync Names Former Investment Banker As Chief Revenue Officer
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NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Los Angeles-based BiasSync, which provides a service to help companies assess, measure and manage unconscious bias in the work environment, says it has named Robert Jordan as its Chief Revenue Officer. Jordan was previously Founder and CEO of investment banking firm Tribeca Capital Partners.
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113 Flip Finds $28M For Beauty Shopping App
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AUGUST 30, 2021
Los Angeles-based Flip, which develops an app that lets people shop for beauty products through video reviews, content, a community, and more, has raised $28M in a Series A funding, the company said on Monday. Noor Agha is the founder and CEO of FLIP.
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Flip Finds $28 For Beauty Shopping App
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AUGUST 30, 2021
Los Angeles-based Flip, which develops an app that lets people shop for beauty products through video reviews, content, a community, and more, has raised $28M in a Series A funding, the company said on Monday. Noor Agha is the founder and CEO of FLIP.
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Artie Takes $10M For Mobile Games
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FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Los Angeles-based Artie, a new startup developing mobile games which can be played inside social media, video, and messaging platforms, said this week that it has raised $10M in a seed funding round. The company's founders are Ryan Horrigann and Armando Kirwin.
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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.
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334 Phunware Gets $26.25M For Mobile App Platform
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MARCH 20, 2014
Phunware , a developer of mobile advertising, application, analytics, and other tools for brands which has operations in both Newport Beach and San Diego, said this week that it has raised $26.25M in a Series E funding. phunware venture capital mobile advertising analytics software' The company is headquartered in Austin. READ MORE>>.
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