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MARCH 25, 2021

Los Angeles- and Palo Alto-based MaC Venture Capital has launched a new, $103M seed stage investment fund today, saying it plans to invest in technology startups across the fintech, e-commerce and marketplaces, interactive media, connectivity, enterprise SaaS, space and aerospace, logistics, and other sectors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A common pain of startups after an exhilarating first surge of early adopters is a long and frustrating plateau of slow growth, where it seems like nothing you do will get your business to profitability. This starts with multiple messages from the top that growth is now the highest job priority, and key to survival. Marty Zwilling.

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JULY 16, 2014

For the last few years, startup accelerator MuckerLab has been helping very early stage companies define and grow their businesses, using the accelerator model and small investments to get companies to the next stage. Talk about the shift from MuckerLab to Mucker Capital? I hadn''t worked or lived in LA, in the ecosystem.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media , a new startup led by startup veterans Clark Landry and Michael Ritter, said late Thursday evening that it has launched a new venture which will acquire and roll up mobile apps. Ritter, who serves as CEO of Maple Media, was previously in business development at Jam City and Mindjolt.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

America’s favorite reality star is leveling up her repertoire and levering up businesses. A longtime friend of the Kardashians, Sammons apparently approached Kardashian and her mom-ager, Kris Jenner, with the idea to start the business. Serena Williams’ next act in venture capital is essential in this moment.

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JULY 8, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based 3L Capital , a new venture capital investment fund co-founded by former Demand Media CEO Shawn Colo, has raised $217M in a new investment round, the firm said today. Colo co-founded the firm with Dave Leyrer (Nexus Group, Boulevard Capital Management) and Kerry Kellogg (RSE Ventures).

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. All of the major internet-age media companies had their own mobile strategies. ” . .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. The wealth of online education offerings is a great start, but is not enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it. Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Here, we have Greg Martin, Founder and Managing Partner of Archer Venture Capital (www.archervc.com). 2020 was a crash course in leadership and we saw many great entrepreneurs step up and rise to the challenge. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? Contact our editors for details.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Over the past three years the Los Angeles-based startup Maple Media has amassed a portfolio of roughly thirty companies and one hundred apps in its quest to become the IAC of app store businesses. Maple Media raised its original capital from Shamrock Capital, the investment firm managing money for the Disney family.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

With over 305 million start-ups being created every year globally, standing out from the crowd is a huge challenge. We've scoured the startup scene to find out which budding businesses have made big waves in 2022 — and whose growth is showing no signs of slowing down. Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2022

Sometimes the hesitation I see is not just the qualms of starting and growing a business, but an actual inability to think big, chase dreams, or build a support community around you. Good brainstorming requires you to assemble a half-dozen of the right people who are not afraid to speak up and participate. No idea should go unspoken.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a big, $32M funding round for ActionIQ , a startup which provides personalization software to enterprise customers. As part of the funding, March Capital's Meredith Finn, a Partner at the firm, will join ActionIQ's board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. When it comes to social media for your business, expect a high learning curve, but rest assured it’s not rocket science. Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital , the venture capital investment firm led by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, has raised its first official fund, a $19M seed stage venture fund. Moonshots said the new fund will focus on seed stage deals, holding reserve capital for follow-on pro rata.

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JUNE 12, 2018

Los Angeles-based PR0HBTD , a startup which says it is developing a "cannabis lifestyle media and brand platform", announced this week that it has raised a Series A investment round worth $8M, bringing its total raised to $12M. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A new, Burbank-based startup, Loop Media , said on Thursday afternoon that it has launched a new "short-form" streaming media service, which it says will feature music videos, film trailers, game trailers and TV clips.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Managing Directors: Jeff Stibel, Kobe Bryant Investment interests: Focus on the convergence of technology, media and data (TMD), as well as in industries such as sports and wellness. Core Innovation Capital. Managing Director: Arjan Schutte, Kathleen Utecht Investment interests: Fintech startups. Moonshots Capital.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Mammoth Media , a startup that says it is developing mobile-first media, has raised $13M in a Series A funding round, the company disclosed on Tuesday. The company, co-founded by CEO Benoit Vatere, and incubated at venture studio Science Inc.,

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Combine that with the growing startup community here, and you end up with at. We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California. Miso Media. The firm has the backing of both Intel Capital and Liberty Global. Music Prodigy. Comment below.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital announced on Friday that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, RBmedia , to another private equity company, KKR. Shamrock is an active investor in local technology startups, including Appetize, Maple Media, Wpromote, and others. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Del Mar-based ScoreStream , the crowdsourced local sports startup led by Derrick Oien, said last week that it has added new funding from Intel Capital. Oien is a serial entrepreneur and previously headed up Chumby. Details on the size of that funding round were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 2, 2022

Shein has shown the world how combining social media marketing, data analytics, and China’s well-oiled supply chain has created a $100 billion fast fashion behemoth. Cider has racked up roughly 7.4 But keep in mind Cider was only founded in 2020 while Shein started out over a decade ago. Data: Data.ai.

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MARCH 26, 2013

Add another startup accelerator to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators: this time, from the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. The startup accelerator is behind headed by Ashish Soni. Last a pilot middle school at the L.A.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). think there ended up with mult-hundreds ofmillions given to BrightSource. Lots has changed since 2009.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Digital avatar startup Genies , known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.”

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. The post What Is xAI?

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MARCH 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based Pluto.TV , a new company led by startup veteran Nick Grouf, said Monday that it has launched a brand new, video platform which will curate streams of video content around music, sports, news, entertainment, and many other areas. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media , a new startup led by startup veteran Clark Landry, along with Jam City veteran Michael Ritter, has raised $30M in a funding round from Shamrock Capital, the company announced this morning. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles-based HAAWK , a new startup focused on rights management, copyright enforcement, and content monetization, has raised $2.5M The funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners, Wavemaker Partners, Frontier Venture Capital, and Apex Ventures. in a seed financing round, according to the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. It’s no fun for either side.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. In this case the barrier would be reduced access to capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that all new businesses must start with a great idea. I believe the best entrepreneurs start by finding a large opportunity, and only then use good ideas to capitalize on that opportunity. I have to disagree. Take a broad-appeal product into a niche.

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