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AUGUST 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based vehicle subscription startup Fair , led by longtime automobile and startup veteran Scott Painter, is boosting its executive team, saying on Monday that it has added three new executives to its team.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Santa Monica-based Sixgill , a developer of Internet-of-Things, sensor software, has raised $27.9M The funding was led by DRW Venture Capital, and also included Mobile Financial Partners. in a Series B funding round, the company said last week. Sixgill was formerly known as Zos Communications.

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MAY 1, 2014

Santa Monica-based movie and entertainment company Lionsgate said late Wednesday that it is expanding into a new line of business, and has launched a new, interactive and game arm. He also had been at Creative Artists Agency, Walt Disney, and Bellrock Media. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2014

Santa Monica-based entertainment company Lionsgate has made an investment in a Finnish game developer, Next Games , as part of a strategic partnership, the studio said this morning. lionsgate finnish game developer nextgames venture capital strategic investment hollywood content walkingdead videogame mobile rovio'

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JUNE 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based Heal , an on-demand startup offering up access to house calls from doctors via smartphone, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company announced this morning.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Monica has just gotten yet another boost in its bid to become the capital of Silicon Beach, as Microsoft said this week that it is opening up a new, 125-person strong entertainment studio in the city as part of an effort to create interactive content for the Xbox.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

Santa Monica- and Helskini-based mobile games and entertainment startup Seriously said this morning that it has launched its popular Best Fiends mobile game onto the Amazon Appstore. Seriously is venture backed by Upfront Ventures, Sunstone Ventures, and Daher Capital, and is led by former Rovio executive Andrew Stalbow.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. One example is Santa Monica-based hardware company, Ring, who transitioned to a hybrid business model that now includes recurring revenue. In the interest of full disclosure, Headspace is a client of SVB Santa Monica.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

Santa Monica-based mobile entertainment startup Seriously has tapped a 20th Century Fox veteran to head up its business development efforts, and a former Rovio exec for product development efforts, the company said Thursday. Seriously is venture backed by Upfront Ventures, Sunstone Capital, and Daher Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Santa Monica-based Super League , a startup which is running Minecraft tournaments at movie theaters, said today that it has raised a Series B funding round. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. The funding came from Cinemark Theatres, Softbank, and overseas investors, along with Quadrant Management.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

This time, the event is being held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, rather than Santa Monica, where the event had been held in prior years. Entertainment, Rick Stollmeyer of MINDBODY, Mahi de Silva of Opera Mediaworks, and Andy Cohen of Citrix Systems.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based FamilyFinds.com , the new daily promotions site headed by former LowerMyBills.com founder Matt Coffin, said today that it has raised $5.75M in a funding round, and has officially entered the online daily deal space. The funding had been uncovered by socalTECH back in October. FamilyFinds.com was formerly dailyD.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. The firm has the backing of both Intel Capital and Liberty Global. Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Parking for employees at Los Angeles area companies is at a premium, particularly in areas like Venice, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica--all neighborhoods where the density of technology companies have far exceeded the allotted parking of properties, many of which were built for much lower density corporate, creative, and entertainment businesses.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Funds like First Round Capital, True Ventures, Foundry Group, HomeBrew, USV and many others are still run by the founders and are still on the mission they started.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The LA-based accelerator is powered by Techstars and is looking for “technology-based companies focused on transformative media and entertainment experiences.” Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Anthem Ventures is the lead investor in an avatar-focused, social networking site called Meez. The deal also included the merger of Meez with another avatar firm called Pulse Entertainment. Tags: ventures avatar social anthem venture capital networking.

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JULY 16, 2013

It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. I thought, it''s great what is going on in Santa Monica, but it''s very hard to be part of the same community, given how far apart the cities are. So, I thought I''d see if there was an interest here to active a community in town.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

BUZZMEDIA has a network of music and entertainment news related blogs, including Buzznet, Celebuzz, Absolute Punk, GoFugYourself, JustJared, Stereogum, TheSuperficial, WWTDD, SocialiteLife, and Idolator. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. www.buzzmedia.com). ContentNext. www.contentnext.com).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The magazine turned its attention this month towards the Los Angeles innovation and technology economy in a section guest edited by StartEngine co-founder Howard Marks , including a reception held Wednesday evening at the Viceroy in Santa Monica. Big disclaimer: the author and editor was one of the honorees at the event).

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. My interests are eclectic and range from SpaceX and innovations in aerospace, transportation, robotics, autonomous vehicles, to esports, the future of work, and the future of entertainment.

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/).

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OCTOBER 2, 2008

Santa Monica-based GumGum said Wednesday that the firm has inked a partnership with Glam Media and Splash News. According to GumGum, it will provide Glam's publishing network with free access to entertainment from Splash News, which is a major provider of celebrity and paparazzi photos. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. Surprisingly, Media and Entertainment only saw $18.1M in investments.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site run by Scott Painter, said today that it has named Stephen Hansen as the firm's new President and COO. Hansen was most recently CEO and Chairman of WePlay, and also has served at Avamar Technologies and was Chief Operating Officer of GeoCities.

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MARCH 23, 2011

Jason Nazar is CEO and founder of Santa Monica-based document sharing firm DocStoc , and recently put together his thoughts on the challenges, and opportunities, facing startups in Los Angeles. Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry.

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APRIL 12, 2011

As you k now, there is so much cool stuff happening in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica. Los Angeles is the creative capital of the world, and we're where the next opportunity is--the connected consumer. That's a byproduct of the entertainment industry. That's why we're called the creative capital of the world.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Finally, Jeff Cohn, a venture capital consultant, tell us 10 Ways President Obama Can Help Create Jobs. Turning to venture capital, it looks like Southern California venture capitalists are mostly missing from the Forbes Midas List this year.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

In between that, I was formerly at the private equity firm Clearlake Capital, out of Santa Monica, which manages 8 billion in private equity investments. Indi stands for individual. The big new brand is the individual, which was the genesis of the name.

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APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. Think about venture capital. Also East of the 405?

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JULY 24, 2012

And a fourth partner – Jennifer Massey – will join from an entertainment background. At GRP Partners we’re all in on Los Angeles having written about $35 million in early-stage venture capital investments in this market alone in the past six months. And he’ll be heading the Business & Technology Group.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

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MAY 16, 2013

He also went over the common misconceptions people have, dispelling the belief that Silicon Valley is the only place where you can get access to capital. Sam taught a second rendition of the class in February and over 700 people signed up. Michael Carney , a tech reporter for Pandodaily , taught how to craft a compelling press release.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem. GumGum HQ, is tucked away on 4 th Street in Santa Monica in a hipster building (that holds other notable startups), and like its young founder, Ophir Tanz , feels warm and inviting.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

For the first half of our show, we actually set up a store front on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and put their product in a retail setting, and let consumers and investors run through the gamut, allowing them to interact in real time, and get feedback on their packaging and products, and even recommend it to their friends.

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