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JANUARY 27, 2020

Culver City-based Encantos , a developer of family entertainment and education titles, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company announced this morning.

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JULY 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based Harper Wilde , an online bra startup, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company said this week. Harper Wilde was founded by Jenna Kerner and Jane Fisher, and has its offices in Culver City. Harper Wilde develops "no frill" everyday bras, offering up free in-home try-ons and free returns.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Getaround , the developer of a peer-to-peer car sharing service, said it has officially launched in the greater Los Angeles area. As part of the expansion to Los Angeles, Getaround has opened up an office in Culver City, where it says it already has hired over a dozen full time and part time employees for the company.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Culver City-based Encantos , the venture-backed developer of family entertainment education brands which raised $2M in January , says it has launched a new program which links the company with educators, the companys said today. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

NextSpace , the co-working space developer which has locations in Culver City and Venice, announced this morning that it has raised $825,000 more in a funding round, to go towards expansion in Northern California.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

employees, with its largest office in Culver City. TikTok has 1500 U.S. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Los Angeles-based Prime Focus Technologies , a developer of ERP software for the media industry, says it has received its first round of funding from private equity investor Ambit Pragma. The company has a significant presence in India, with headquarters here in Culver City. Size of the investment was not announced.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

What's the best way to encourage development of the technology industry in Los Angeles?

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Culver City-based Seismic Games announced on Thursday that it has acquired fellow, Los Angeles game development company Grue Games. Seismic says is now has over 50 employees in Los Angeles in two different offices. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Culver City-based Indi Molecular , a developer of synthetic replacements for antibodies, announced Tuesday that it has raised $300,000 more in its seed funding, bringing the total raised in the round to $1.8M. The new funding was led by InterWest Partners, and also included several un-named, angel investors. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango said Friday that it has acquired M-GO , the on-demand, movie release service which is a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. Fandango, which itself is a unit of NBCUniversal, said the acquisition will help it in the development of new moviegoing products and services.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Culver City- and Seattle-based Indi Molecular , a startup developing a synthetic replacement for antibodies, has raised $1.5M The funding was led by InterWest Partners, and also included a number of un-named angel investors. in a seed funding round.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Mobile taxi summoning app developer Flywheel is expanding its coverage area in Los Angeles today, saying that it will now provide coverage in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Culver City as well as the Westside and the South Bay. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2014

According to the report, there was $472.15M invested in Los Angeles, $222.4M The biggest investments for the quarter were for Culver City-based NantHealth , the digital health venture of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, which raised $135M in a funding; El Segundo-based Prodege (aka Swagbucks), which raised $60.1M

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JUNE 19, 2014

Culver City-based MiTu , a developer of digital content for the Latino market, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. According to the company, the funding will go to build out its production facilities in Los Angeles and Mexico City, and expand its engineering and sales teams. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based web hosting firm Media Temple said today along with web analytics firm Webtrends , that Media Temple Ventures, its investment arm, has sold real time analytics firm Reinvigorate to WebTrends. Culver City-based Reinvigorate is a developer of web visitors tracking and anaytics software.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Two, Southern California startups -- whole home music system developer Sonos , and streaming music service Beats Music -- made their Super Bowl commercial debuts yesterday, an unusual occasion for the startup community here.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based audio enhancement and processing software developer DTS said this morning that it is in a partnership with Culver City-based M-GO , the provider of video-on-demand and streaming movie services. According to DTS, M-GO will use it DTS-HD multi-channel surround sound as part of its video on demand service.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Culver City-based Cognition Technologies , the developer of natural language processing technology software, has raised $200,000, as part of an ongoing $500,000 funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. No details on the funding have been announced. Source of the new funding was not disclosed.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

The Tech Coast Angels , the largest angel investment group in Southern California, is part of a syndicate funding Pittsburgh-based Cognition Therapeutics , a drug discovery firm focused on Alzheimer's. in a Series A funding, led by Golden Seeds and including the Tech Coast Angels. According to Cognition, it raised $2.5M

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

The funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, and also included Michael Ovitz and Ron Conway's SV Angel fund. Factual is the latest startup of Gil Elbaz, who co-founded Applied Semantics, the firm which developed Google's AdSense product. Factual previously had raised $2M in angel funding. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company?

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Culver City-based Enplug (www.enplug.com) is looking to change those one way digital displays into social, interactive content. I met with david after he flew up to meet me from Los Angeles. So, I took a U-haul to Los Angeles after I graduated. That means third party developers can create apps on top of our platform.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

If you're a mobile app developer, who do you keep your users engaged and returning to use your app every day? Culver City-based Lootsie (www.lootsie.com) has createe a product which ties together those loyalty reward programs with the advertising and marketing efforts of brands, to help both those mobile developers and marketers.

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JULY 26, 2022

Four years and hundreds of long lines later, the truck is still there, but the company is taking on what co-founder Nile Dreiling calls “a stale $40 billion donut industry ” by expanding its presence into brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles after raising $9 million in financing. The fun part?

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MAY 7, 2013

And we are unbelievably proud to see the company grow from small, crappy offices above a taco shop in Venice to a production home in Culver City with 70,000 square feet and more than 50,000 individual content contributors. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' But they built the company into what it is today.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. That''s why creative people seek out Los Angeles.

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MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The remaining members came as personal referrals – Alex Ross, Zach’s roommate (also a programmer) signed up a day later to become their lead developer. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The remaining members came as personal referrals – Alex Ross, Zach’s roommate (also a programmer) signed up a day later to become their lead developer. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. 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. » More.

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