socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Studio City-based FilmTrack , which develops rights and content management software for the entertainment industry, has raised $10M in a debt funding round, the company said this week. The funding comes fom Wellington Financial and Silicon Valley Bank.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2016

Vemba, which is based in Toronto but has offices in Los Angeles, said it raised $5M in a Series A funding, which was led by Upfront Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), along with the Enterprise Fund at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Upfront investment was led by Mark Suster. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2013

Hollywood-based Quarterly Co. , the startup which delivers a curated set of gifts, via subscription, to customers every quarter, is expanding into the food, health, and fitness category. allows customers to sign up for special gift deliveries curated by various influencers and bloggers. Quarterly Co.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Traditional venture capitalists may have made it rain on expensive Hollywood studios that were promising virtual reality would be the future of entertainment and social networking (given coronavirus fears, it may yet be), but Talespin and others like it are focused on much more mundane goals.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

in a funding round. The company also provides an ad server and content management system for its customers, which include NBC Universal Sports, Howcast, Vibe.com, the Tribune Company, and others. socalTECH had uncovered the funding via regulatory filings earlier in the week. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2010

West Hollywood-based Geni.com , the online genealogy and family tree site, said Monday afternoon that it has rolled out a new product--one that takes the family tree from the service, and turns it into a paper poster. Geni said it also allows users to customize "almost every aspect" of the posters before printing. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The financiers funding the company’s plans are a mix of Silicon Valley venture capital firms and members of Hollywood’s elite, which is only fitting for a company whose headquarters are in Los Angeles, but whose business takes it to the far flung research centers and launch facilities which support the U.S. space industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99 Why they raised so much initial funding As I said in the interview, we at Upfront come from the land of small first rounds of financing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2014

Who are your customers? Mauhan Zonozzy: Our end user is the consumer, but our customers are media companies. In short, we provide a toolset that allows customers to create clips not just for video sites, but for sites like Instagram and Vine, and put that in the hands of consumers. How are you financed and backed? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2018

UK-based augmented reality technology developer Blippar , which had been backed by Qualcomm Ventures, has gone into administration in the UK--their equivalent of bankruptcy--after failing to obtain new funding for the company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

After doing the work for an internal event for them, that led to external, customer-facing launch events around the country. Since then, we have had our chargers on movie studio sets for actors and crew to use for major Hollywood movies, and have also supplied charging equipment for motorcycle companies. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

After doing the work for an internal event for them, that led to external, customer-facing launch events around the country. Since then, we have had our chargers on movie studio sets for actors and crew to use for major Hollywood movies, and have also supplied charging equipment for motorcycle companies. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. At a big Hollywood fund raiser this past weekend a well-known entrepreneur pulled me aside to thank me for hiring Hamet. A brand is a marathon, not a sprint.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

I had also built desktop analytics software for customers, such as banks. Why get some funding and make this into a separate company? Jason Ahmad: One thing I''d add, is we''re really lucky to have a broad and immediate customer base. Jason Ahmad: My background has been pretty startup heavy. Jason Ahmad: That''s a unique story.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. The New Hollywood: Building Celebrity Brands Online EQAL, Cambio, Digital LA. Funding: The New Indie: BONA FIDE film. Strategy to Get Your First 100 Paying Customers (bigMETHOD, Mixergy, Appsumo, Zaarly). 7 Reasons the Cloud Makes Your Video Work Better.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. Talk a bit about your recent funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2011

According to Thought Equity Motion, the funding will go towards technology, cloud storage, and ability to service global customers. Los Angeles-based private equity firm Shamrock Capital has invested $25M in Thought Equity Motion , a provider of video footage licensing services, Thought Equity Motion said today.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

What's the story behind the site and how you got into tracking Hollywood numbers? Those are people trying to get their business plans funded, funding for movies or shows, and want to be able to show they can provide a return on investment. Bruce Nash: I had a tech background, originally, but I've always been a fan of the movies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The deal is being funded by capital from Macquarie Capital and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. Wasserstein & Co. is the majority owner of Encompass.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. We're in talks with a couple of agencies where we will provide an independent rating system, where they will go through the content, and we'll pay them to do that as part of our funding, and rate each script.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

In the product world, you build a product, craft a marketing strategy, and acquire a user or customer. Finally, how are you funding the company? Anne Kavanaugh: We self funded the company until June, and we partook in an accelerate program with Quake Capital, a New York fund. What part of your operations are in LA?

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2009

Eric Golden, the firm's President and CEO, told us more about the company and its technology, and its fascinating beginnings from Hollywood's Steadicam. We understand the firm is venture funded? Tags: steadicam hollywood golden eric interview hardware weightless mechanical startup equipois. Tell us about your technology?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

In the product world, you build a product, craft a marketing strategy, and acquire a user or customer. Finally, how are you funding the company? Anne Kavanagh: We self funded the company until June, and we partook in an accelerate program with Quake Capital, a New York fund. What part of your operations are in LA?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

The best-performing ads are often custom, high-impact rich media ads that integrate seamlessly into a publisher’s content with interactivity, video and other features. The company is privately held and has received no venture funding to date.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. From day one we focused on customers. Since then we’ve iterated on trying to provide our customers what they wanted next.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

For example, if you know the show Entourage, we've got Vinny Chase's house, to post and beam modern castles in the Hollywood Hills.What's amazing, is you rent Vinny Chase's Spanish mansion for only $2000 to $3000 a day for an event. At this point, they have a product, and released a women's line, and are scaling their customer base.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. How is the company funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

It had the graphics of a highly produced Hollywood-like video with the voice-over of the cheesiest television commercial presenter you could imagine. We weren’t able to have a discussion about who his target customer base was, why they would use his products and why advertisers would pay for that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. The “what” Troy Carter does also led him to be an early investor in Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Warby Parker and several other great startups of the last era.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Davis detailed advantages and challenges along the way, from building community on social channels, empowering customers as brand ambassadors by delivering great experiences, to dealing with port strikes and maintaining a strong company culture as they have scaled to nearly 300 full-time employees.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. So tell us about this new funding round?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. That's one thing we're working on with customers--how to make faces look good, and how to make the engines better, so we can drive quality. Tell us a bit about the latest funding round?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This San Francisco startup has amassed an impressive portfolio of innovative products that have the potential to disrupt content distribution in Hollywood and everywhere else. is shopping around for Series A funding and they are making the rounds at conferences and panels on the future of television discussing their remarkable new technology.

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