socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2009

and will rename itself Buzz Media. According to the company, the funding round was led by Focus Ventures, and also included Anthem Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures. Buzz Media said it now has more than 40 million people visiting its web sites every month. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Focus Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and others. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. The firm is now run by Caroline Little, the CEO of Guardian Media North America. corp.mail.com). ContentNext. www.contentnext.com). Let us know!

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Southern California Blogging Buzznet News 113

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett. Trails.com offers trail guides, topographic maps, travel gear, professional trail guides and reviews and more--and happens to be owned by Demand Media , the online media empire run by Richard Rosenblatt.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Venture backers : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners. www.demandmedia.com). Generation Partners. www.cocodot.com). Let us know!

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Startup Tech Coast Angels Demand News 178

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; The firm is backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Capital One Auto Finance, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Both Sides of the Table

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. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. billion in 818 deals, down from $7.3 READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

The event includes keynotes from Shawn Colo, co-founder of Demand Media, one of the hottest IPOs of this year, Zorik Gordon, co-founder and CEO of ReachLocal, one of the hottest IPOs of 2010. Meet up-and-coming entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that could change the world.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. In San Fran you find more recently established VCs like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle, Kii Capital and others.

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