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MAY 22, 2018

Culver City-based Openpath , a new startup founded by Alex Kazerani and James Segil, the founders of Edgecast, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Upfront Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Fika Ventures.

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Image courtesy Bigstock. READ MORE>>.

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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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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. lifescience capital venture startup biology synthetic molecular indi indidx' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.

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JANUARY 28, 2015

Culver City-based Loosie , a startup developing loyalty and rewards software for mobile apps, said this morning that it has raised $3.5M The funding came from tim Kendall (Pinterest, Facebook), Michael Liou (Anvil Capital), Anthony Saleh, and Brad Schwartz (SLP Ventures). The startup is led by Marc Mitchell.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Culver City-based ALL DEF DIGITAL , a startup which says it will be delivering comedy, music, news, poetry and innovative artistry to consumers, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company said late Wednesday. add52 youtube video music capital venture hollywood content alldefdigital' 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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MARCH 22, 2017

Culver City-based Pocketwatch , a startup media brand focused on creating and acquiring content for kids, has raised $6M in a Series A funding round. The company will use the funding to build out media channels on YouTube and elsewhere, plus develop its own franchises and attract "creator partners". READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Two Southern California startups, Ortiva Wireless and Fonality , are among 18 companies which Intel said it has funded, to the tune of $77M in total venture investments. Exact investments in Ortiva, a developer of mobile video management and optimization products, and PBX software maker Fonality, were not announced by Intel.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. Factual is the latest startup of Gil Elbaz, who co-founded Applied Semantics, the firm which developed Google's AdSense product.

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JULY 26, 2022

Holey Grail Donuts started selling its hand-fried, made-to-order taro donuts on Sunday mornings out of a little red burger trailer in Kauai in 2018. Dreiling, who was previously doing ecological engineering in Oregon, teamed up with his sister, Hana Dreiling, a private chef in Kauai, Hawaii, to start Holey Grail Donuts.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 than in other parts of the city. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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