socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Beverly Hills-based OVGuide.com , an online site focused on video discovery and search, disclosed today that the firm has received $5M in funding from Baroda Ventures LLC, the investment firm of former GeoCities founder David Bohnett. According to OVGuide, the new funding will go towards further developing its search engine.

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Beverly Hills Incubator Venture Capital Sites 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses. What is BloomNation?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. Kevin Winston: Digital LA's biggest news of 2016 was celebrating our fifth annual Silicon Beach Fest, with more than 2,000 attendees at the Marina del Rey Hotel.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. Google chose Playa Vista to establish YouTube Space LA , its flagship center for content creation. But the tech culture of Los Angeles is shifting real estate’s center of gravity. YouTube is joined by the SoCal outpost for Facebook.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

They were a group of really great young guys out of Beverly Hills, who understand how to build a brand, and figured out how to do it very quickly, and manufacture for a very low price. One of those sectors are marketplaces, the other is content and e-commerce. Michael Jones: I think it's multi-fold. We like those sectors.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2010

Now producers of all stripes expect to deliver their content to a multitude of platforms. And all parties--networks,independents and brands--expect “user-generated” content to be included in a program’s overall experience. Panel: Hardie Tankersley, VP Online Content, Fox. Digital is a done deal.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. In the end, he sold an $8 million home in the Hollywood Hills to the entrepreneur. Subscriber Content Read Preview.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And also why today Mitu attracted $27 million in funding from AwesomenessTV (DreamWorks/Hearst), WPP, Verizon and Upfront Ventures. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, Short form.

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