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AUGUST 11, 2016

Venice, California-based OpenMail has completed its deal to acquire online search engine site Infospace , from owner Blucora. OpenMail is led by former Demand Media executive Chuck Ursini, and is developing data warehousing products in the marketing analytics and targeting area. Infospace has been around since 1996.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Los Angeles- and Sydney, Australia-based Clapit , a startup developing a social media crowdsourcing app, said it has raised AU$2.57M ($1.94M US), to bring its mobile app to market. operations in Los Angeles, says it has created a social media app which crowdsources video, music, images, and rich media. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Venice, California-based Wevr has raised $25M in a funding round, for the company's virtual reality studio efforts, the company announced Friday. WEVR is led by VR content veteran Neville Spiteri. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Venice-based Fuisz , a developer of software to automatically identify objects and people in any video, has just partnered with AwesomenessTV , the company said Thursday. fuisz media awesomeness product software link video youtube' Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Venice Beach-based Bitium , a new startup out of LA''s Amplify accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M Bitium said it is developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) operating system, offering up everything from authentication and authorization of cloud-based software to features like consolidated messaging for apps.

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SaaS Seed Funding Venice Venture Capital 208

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Tapiture, which is based in Venice, announced this morning that it has raised $825,000 in a new funding round, which will help it accelerate its existing traction, launch its e-commerce solution, and help drive development of new mobile apps. Tapiture is led by John Ellis, and was founded by John and Leo Resig of Resignation Media.

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Commerce Venice Sites Mobile 194

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MARCH 9, 2011

Venice, California-based Topspin Media , the venture backed developer of music marketing software and applications, has released its venue ticketing software to the Apple App store. The app allows music venues to scan paper and smart-phone tickets sold through Topspin's software using their iPhone. READ MORE>>.

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Redpoint Venice Yahoo Software 140

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Venice, California-based anonymous messaging app developer Whisper said Tuesday that it has named Shelby Huston Haro as the company's Vice President of Sales. Haro is from the entertainment industry, and has served at Maverik Digital, GetGlu, Penske Media Corp, along with Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube. Plus, they''ve invested in Los Angeles. But, that was a signal to us.

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Hollywood Help Media Content 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors. hours of TV / day. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes.

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APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. They’re not new. They’re not novel.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I also lead our media and entertainment vertical practice. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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JANUARY 8, 2009

Venice, California-based JibJab, the online comedy site known for their politically-oriented, musical animations, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M James Lassiter of Overbrook Entertainment will join the firm's board as part of the funding, with Guy Primus, Overbrook's Head of Interactive Media joining JibJab's advisory board.

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Venice Entertainment Content Venture Capital 113

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media.

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Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

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MARCH 19, 2009

Venice, California-based Topspin , a developer of software focused on helping musicians market and distribute their work, launched an upgrade to its product Wednesday at the SXSW festival. Tags: marketing content topspin artists sxsw music media. The company's founder is Peter Gotcher, who created DigiDesign and its audio tools.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Snap, Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat, has reportedly acquired Israeli startup Cimagine Media. Cimaging Media develops augmented reality technology. The deal is reportedly worth between $30M and $40M. The acquisition was first reported by a local Israeli financial daily. Cimagine was founded in 2012.

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Snapchat Media Report Venice 113

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. big requirements for development, release, and QA engineers. (Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). The now-public. LiveNation.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Social Media: Snapchat. Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. One of our teachers was teaching new media and it was really inspiring. He’s the most talented developer we have ever seen.

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Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities. Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry.

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Startup Web Development Design Education 70

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

However, TechZulu will be doing an official pre-event on Tuesday June 17th with our #TZTechCrawl in Venice. Its that time of the year again! Silicon Beach Fest will kicks off next week from June 18 – 21. For those who may be wondering with Silicon Beach Fest is (and you should know by know!).

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

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MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. So it's going to be a sales team, a business development team, and helping our relationships with YouTube and Facebook. We really help them understand what their audience is all about. We have over 4 million fans on Facebook in the U.S.,

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And it is one of the reasons that NYC is developing a vibrant technology community. It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. I’m sure there’s a lot of truth to that. Many “tech companies” now have green screens. And make-up artists.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

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JUNE 19, 2020

politics, after Culver City-based Jukin Media issued a takedown request for a misleading, manipulated video that has been retweeted by Donald Trump. Another, Southern California technology company has ended up in the middle of increasingly divided U.S.

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Culver City Media Southern California Software Review 124

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. VENICE RISING. Venice: 13% | L.A. Loading… Real Estate.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44