Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

As you may know we co-lead the first round of financing of Maker Studios, the largest overall producer for online video content, along with Greycroft Partners. My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2016

more, according to a regulatory filing from the company, in the form of debt funding. No details on the new funding for the company have yet been announced. Los Angeles-based Jukin Media has just raised $2.5M READ MORE>>.

Media 124

Media Bertelsmann Content Web 124

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com. Coolspotters is a web site which highlights which products celebrities are buying and wearing.

Sites 133

Sites Steamboat Ventures Invest Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Last week, Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced one of the biggest investments in the region in the last few years--a $103M, growth equity investment in the company, which came from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity. To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week.

Funding 164

Funding Calabasas Course Platform 164

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Last week, Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced one of the biggest investments in the region in the last few years--a $103M, growth equity investment in the company, which came from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity. To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week.

Funding 164

Funding Calabasas Course Platform 164

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based startup StageIt , which operates an online web platform which lets musicians interact with their fans through live broadcasts from their laptop, has raised a round of funding. The funding came from DEV (Digital Entertainment Ventures), a newly launched New York investment firm headed by Alan McGlade and Michael Yang.

Funding 169

Funding Help Entertainment Web 169

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general.

Content 231

Content Platform Sites Web 231

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The $750,000 funding round also included prior investor DFJ Frontier. As part of the funding, Oleg Tscheltzoff, the co-founder and CEO of Fotolia, has joined AudioMicro's board of directors. Fotolia is an online microstock photography website, which allows users to license photos for their projects. READ MORE>>.

Sites 167

Sites Funding Incubator Web 167

socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. However, I really like algorithmic content recommendation, using machine learning and other crazy geek tech stuff to help provide information to consumers. What is Kixer?

Mobile 124

Mobile Web Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 124

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5 Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

Startup 210

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2015

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , which is led by Eric Robison, has raised a huge, $186M funding round, led by TPG. According to lynda.com, the round also included investments by existing investors Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity, and Meritech. As part of the funding, TPG''s David Trujillo will join the company''s board of directors.

Education 100

Education Equity Content Web 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Develop viral content. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. That’s a double death wish.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2011

San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has boosted an Internet web site publisher known for its humorous, captioned pictures of cats and use of Internet memes, Cheezburger. Avalon's Levandov is also on the board and led the venture firm's investment in hot Internet social gaming firm Zynga.

Avalon 160

Avalon Sites Funding San Diego 160

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based web content management software developer CrownPeak has raised $50M in a funding round, and merged with UK-based ActiveStandards , according to the two companies. The investment round came from K1. The company said it will use the funding to re-launch the company and for future product enhancements.

Company 100

Company Companies Los Angeles Software Development 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed.

Seed Funding 100

Seed Funding Funding Hollywood Web 100

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2011

Howard Lindzon , the CEO of San Diego-based StockTwits , has made another angel investment, this time in Embed.ly , a developer of tools that make it easier for web sites to embed content from other web sites.

San Diego 140

San Diego Web Sites Tool 140

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better. The two things that are mostly lacking from people's investment experience are the lack of a wide network of people to refine investment ideas with, and the best available content about companies they are considering investing in.

Social Network 239

Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has upped its investment in social games firm PlayFirst , which is based in San Francisco. According to PlayFirst, Rustic Canyon, Mayfield Fund, Trinity Partners, and DCM--all current investors in the game developer--have invested $5.2M

Rustic Canyon 145

Rustic Canyon Santa Monica Venture Capital Equity 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M. READ MORE>>.

Seed Funding 150

Seed Funding Venture Capital Content Web 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Yet according to the latest data from Gust (formerly AngelSoft), only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Line up an experienced team.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Luck has it, I'm also a small investor though an investment in BetaWorks. It's fun, I guess.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the firm developing online video programming guides for the Internet, said today that it has raised $11M more in a Series B investment round. The new funding was led by JAFCO Ventures, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. Series A funding round, in September.

Redpoint 145

Redpoint Guide Venture Capital Web 145

socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2012

There's a lot of startups being built in Los Angeles around content, and it appears the consensus is that you indeed, can create a big business around video for the web. Calacanis said that it didn't make sense to invested in a business which had "limited upside." READ MORE>>.

Networking 171

Networking Venture Capital Los Angeles Web 171

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

For Scott Ferreira , the founder of MySocialCloud.com (www.mysocialcloud.com), it was an investment from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. After that weekend in Miami, he introduced us to his friend Jerry Murdock, who has invested in lots of tech companies. First off, what is MySocialCloud? Both have been great mentors ever since.

Startup 239

Startup CTO Coach Content Web 239

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2010

San Clemente-based Poptent , a firm which operates an online site which allows brands to source crowd-generated commercials, web videos, and other video content from users, has raised at least $3.0M in a recent funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. According to the filing, the firm has raised $3.0M

Hollywood 124

Hollywood Equity Venture Capital Content 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). How many of these lead generation techniques are funded in your business plan? Display advertising.

Customer 146

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 146

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Founded by Alessandro Petrucciani from Italy, Alex Napetschnig from Austria,Baris Tamer from Turkey, Emiliano Saurin from Argentina and Roland Heuger from Germany, Klash App recently closed its first ever investment round and revamped its iOS App which is now online. It is now easier than ever to create fun and daring content.

Invest 68

Invest Slides Ideas Mobile 68

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Yet according to the latest data from AngelSoft , only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Line up an experienced team.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. I joined about a year ago--a bunch of us did--and looked at where Sidebar was as it was gearing up for a full consumer launch of its personalized content portal. How is the company funded?

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Summary: Openfilm has its own warchest of film financing dollars as part of its online movie competition site, saying in April that it would invest $1M into independent filmmakers who are selected through the online community. Tags: online film content hollywood writer filmmaker competition amazon filmaka openfilm poptent.

Sites 217

Sites Hollywood Summary USC 217

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. It looks like you now have a search engine, a browser, and now a content studio? Give us an overview on KidZui.

Content 165

Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Apture said this morning that Clearstone was the lead investor in a $4.1M, Series A investment in the firm, which develops tools which allows publishers to add multimedia to their articles and web pages. David Stern and Sumant Mandal of Clearstone have joined Apture's board along with the funding.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Santa Monica Blogging Content 100

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn, thanks for the time. What's the story behind the acquisition?

San Diego 145

San Diego IP Acquisition Web 145

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.

Beverly Hills 100

Beverly Hills Incubator Venture Capital Sites 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content. For that reason, more and more content is going online. However, as these are relatively niche focuses, it's difficult for those content providers--often times bloggers--to build an audience.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162