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Steamboat Ventures Backs Elemental Technologies

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Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of the Walt Disney Company, has backed a firm developing massively parallel video processing technology, Elemental Technologies. Other investors in the round included General Catalyst and Voyager Capital.

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GameSalad Improves Support Tools

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Los Angeles-based and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software to easily create iPhone and other iOS platform games, announced earlier this week that it has improved its overall communications and support tools for its users. GameSalad also has improved its contact forms and customer support and bug handling. READ MORE>>.

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Passenger Gains $7.5M More

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Los Angeles-based Passenger , a developer of private social networking sites for brands, said today that it has raised an additional $7.5M The round came from Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures, all existing investors in the firm. in an investment. READ MORE>>.

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Passenger Self-Service Community Software

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Los Angeles-based Passenger , a developer of software used by brands to run online communities for their customers, announced today that it has released a new version of its platform. Previously, Passenger provided full-service development of those communities. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. OpenCandy.

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Passenger Wins Microsoft

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Los Angeles-based Passenger , which develops private, online communities for brands to help them gain insight into their customers, said today that Microsoft Corp. The firm is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Gendai Games Raises Funding

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Los Angeles- and Austin-based Gendai Games , a publisher of iPhone game development software, has raised a round of funding, according to the firm. The round was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included investments from Steamboat Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. READ MORE>>.

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